Parton Describes Moving to Nashville: More to Make Move to Middle TN

Recently, CMT News profiled Nashville resident, Dolly Parton, and her initial move to Nashville.

The Knoxville native moved to Nashville after graduating from high school and met her husband on her first day in Music City at a Laundromat.  They married two years later.  Parton moved to Nashville to be a singer, but found success in songwriting prior to becoming a star.  She accepted an honorary doctorate from the University of Tennessee in May….

More people will be moving to Nashville --- according to the feedback received from a recent Housing Fair that was sponsored by the mayor.  The event featured realtors, mortgage companies and homebuilders, and had many attendees looking for (and finding) great deals.  According to Mayor Karl Dean:“People are still moving to Nashville.  Our best days are still ahead of us so, I am very optimistic about the future of this city.”

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‘The Rock’ Relocates in Knoxville

A monument known only as “The Rock” was moved to a new location on Wednesday at the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

“The Rock” has become an icon of the UT campus.  A 98-ton, dolomite boulder, became like a bulletin board in 1980, when the tradition of painting the Rock began and has announced campaigns of all sorts from slogans to messages to marriage proposals to spring break announcements.

The Rock’s new home will be across the street, 275 feet away, at Volunteer Blvd and Pat Head Summitt Street.  The Rock was relocated so that a new Student Health Center may be constructed. 

The excavation began at 8 am on Wednesday, when the Rock was lifted with large steel cables to keep it from breaking.  There was a back-up rock on reserve, in the event that the rock broke apart during the move.  Both current students and alumni showed up for the event……

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UT Police Chief Moving to Vanderbilt's Nashville Campus

The police chief for the University of Tennessee will be moving to Vanderbilt University.

August Washington, the police chief and assistant vice chancellor for UT, will move his experience from Knoxville to Nashville. Washington, 49 years old and a New Orleans native, has been the UTPD chief since 2005. He was the 2009 recipient for the Award for Administrative Excellence from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. Washington was chosen after a national search and brings over three decades of law enforcement experience to Vanderbilt. He has worked at six universities in a law enforcement capacity.

Washington, who will begin work on July 27th, will create relationships throughout the Nashville community, including with the Metro Nashville Police Department. When questioned by the Tennessean, Washington claimed, “My family and I are very excited about this opportunity”.

UT, while sad to have Washington moving on, wishes him the best and has claimed that the university will “benefit from his work for years to come”. Former Vanderbilt Police chief, Marlon Lynch, recently moved from Tennessee to a post at the University of Chicago.

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