Top Acts lined up for Rivers & Spires
Clarksville, TN – The Rivers & Spires Festival (April 14th-16th, 2011) has announced more big-name acts for this year’s festival, including a Grammy nominated blues vocalist and musician as well as top Christian artists, kids entertainment and cover bands for some of the greatest acts in Rock music.
Rivers & Spires Festival, Clarksville TN
Leslie Greene and Tom Thayer Raise DOUBT at the Roxy Regional Theatre
Clarksville, TN – The search for the truth unearths deeper questions of moral certainty when John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama DOUBT begins its limited run at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Wednesday, March 23rd, at 7:00pm.
APSU BFA Student’s Senior Show Exhibits Hidden Beauty of Old Abandoned Home
Clarksville, TN – Old, abandoned houses are normally considered to be eyesores to a neighborhood. Many are torn down to be replaced by something new, but away from the city and suburban life many are left standing to crumble and decay on their own. They become overgrown and hidden by brush and weeds, only to become forgotten and passed over.
Austin Peay State University photography student Megan Melton, however, seeks to find these places and show the beauty of what they once were and are now. [Read more]
Series at APSU to feature biology prof whose work is known globally
Clarksville, TN – The next Provost Lecture Series at Austin Peay State University will feature an APSU professor whose research in hydrogen production for possible use as a biofuel in vehicles has garnered international headlines.
Dr. Sergei Markov, associate professor in the APSU Department of Biology, will speak at 3:00pm, Thursday, March 24th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. The event is free and open to the public.
The title of his talk is “How to Make Biofuels from Microbes Challenges.” [Read more]
The Weekly Market Snapshot from Frazier Allen
Market Commentary by Scott J. Brown, Ph.D., Chief Economist
Scott J. Brown Ph.D., Chief Economist Raymond James Investment Services
There were plenty of economic data reports, but the focus was primarily on Japan. Worries about trade and supply-chain disruptions, as well as escalating problems at damaged Japanese nuclear reactors, sent global equity markets sharply lower. However, the U.S. stock market rebounded broadly. G7 finance ministers and central bankers agreed to rare coordinated intervention in the currency markets to prevent the yen from strengthening. Late Thursday, the U.N. Security Council agreed to set up a no-fly zone in Libya and there were reports of U.S. arms being supplied to the opposition thru Egypt, but on Friday, Qaddafi signaled a cease-fire.
The Federal Open Market Committee left short-term interest rates unchanged and kept its conditional commitment to keep rates low for “an extended period.” The FOMC recognized that higher prices of energy and other commodities will put upward pressure on consumer price inflation in the near term, but said that it expects the impact to be “transitory.” Still, the FOMC promised to watch the underlying trend in inflation and inflation expectations closely. [Read more]
17th annual Governors Bass Tourney just around the corner
Clarksville, TN – The 17th annual Austin Peay State University Governors Bass Tournament is just around the corner.
This year’s edition will be held Saturday, May 14th, at Kentucky Lake, with registration and boat launching from Paris Landing, Tennessee, State Park. Last season’s tourney was postponed from May 8th to May 23rd, due to flood conditions that enveloped the area. Despite the two-week delay, the tourney still drew 269 boats.
Sam Lashlee and Jeff Davis won the 16th Governors Bass Tournament last year at Paris Landing State Park.
APSU Extended Ed offers spring classes
Early Registration Discount on Selected Courses
Clarksville, TN – Develop a new skill, explore a new idea, learn a new language, or seek a new career with one of the spring classes from Austin Peay State University’s Center for Extended and Distance Education. Register early and receive a 10 percent discount on selected courses.
Preregistration is required for each course. [Read more]
Veterans Outreach slated for Civic Hall
Montgomery County, TN – The Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization, in conjunction with the Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs, is hosting a daylong Veterans Outreach for veterans and their dependents from 10:00am to 3:00pm, April 15th, at William O. Beach Civic Hall in Veterans Plaza, 350 Pageant Lane, Clarksville.
Representatives from the MCVSO, TDVA, VA health care, local veterans groups and federal, state, county and community agencies will be available to provide information and enrollment opportunities for veterans and other eligible beneficiaries. [Read more]
Riverside Drive Wendy’s Re-Opens at Last
Clarksville, TN – “It’s been a long ten months,” according to Wendy’s of Clarksville Mike O’Malley speaking about the re-opening of the Riverside Drive Wendy’s location. The store was stripped of everything that wasn’t nailed down just before the rising flood waters deluged the store with 4′ of water in May 2010.
After the flood some tough choices had to be made, including the making the decision to totally rebuild, or not.
A young man ordering a Frosty is the first customer at the newly re-opened Wendy's Restaurant
Update on the Raymond C. Hand Pass pedestrian bridge closure
Clarksville, TN – The City of Clarksville temporarily closed the Raymond C. Hand Pass pedestrian bridge on the Clarksville Greenway earlier this month after heavy rains had caused sloughing of the slopes leading to both ends of the bridge.
An expected reopening date has not been identified, said Daniel Binkley, City of Clarksville Project Manager. He said Baron+Dowdle, the contractor for the Greenway Pedestrian Bridge, has retained engineers to develop a plan for repairing the failing slopes that were constructed last fall. [Read more]
