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Robertson County jobseekers take note: FedEx is hoping to add 23-hundred jobs in the Nashville area.  The shipping giant will hold five in-person hiring events tomorrow.  Details can be found at Careers.FedEx.com.  The company wants to increase staffing ahead of the holidays with positions including package handlers, drivers, warehouse workers, and other support positions.  (source press release)

The just concluded summer may be the wettest on record in the Mid-State.  The National Weather Service in Nashville says nine-tenths of an inch of rain was needed on the last day of summer to be the area’s wettest summer since 1872.  The record for wettest summer in Nashville was set in 1979.  That record is also expected to fall. (source The National Weather Service)

Tennessee is wasting hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines.  The Tennessee Department of Health says since the vaccine was rolled out to September 13th nearly 188-thousand-400 doses were tossed out.  That’s nearly four percent of the doses the state has received.  TDH says most of the doses were thrown out after expiring. (Source Tennessee Department of Health)

Voting is underway for Tennessee’s next license plate design.  The state is required to update the standard design every eight years and this one will be available in January of next year.  Residents have until just before midnight September 27th to cast their vote.  The four choices and a ballot can be found at TN-dot-gov-slash-governor-slash-rate-the-plates. (Source TN.GOV)

Today is the official start of fall in the Northern Hemisphere as temperatures start to cool and the leaves begin to change.  It’s the autumnal equinox, which ushers in the new season thanks to the orbit and tilt of the Earth.  It officially happens at 2:20 p.m. (Various Sources)