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Sumner County School Board members have recently approved $450,000 for the purchase of five additional acres near White House Middle School. In March County leaders voted to borrow $52 million in order to build two new schools – Liberty Creek Middle School for $37 million and a new intermediary school for grades 3-5 near White House Middle School for $15 million.

Delays in the U.S. supply chain are raising questions about when Christmas packages should be shipped and whether shipping companies will be able to meet demand.  Memphis-based FedEx says it will be able to meet the demand if it has enough employees.  FedEx says it’s processed 90-thousand applications since the start of the month.  The shipping giant also says infrastructure has become a problem with CEO Fred Smith praising Congress for passing the bipartisan infrastructure deal last week..

There are nearly one-thousand new coronavirus cases in Tennessee.  The Tennessee Department of Health reported the new cases, bringing the total since the outbreak began to over one-million-286-thousand.  Close to 30 additional COVID-19-related deaths were also reported, with the total number standing at nearly 17-thousand.  There are over 800 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Tennessee.

A Middle Tennessee pastor who saved his church from violence says God used him.   The pastor of Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church tackled a man who came to the altar with a gun, demanding that everyone stand up during Sunday’s service.  Pastor Ezekiel Ndikumana [[ Dee-koo-mah-duh ]] says he believes God used him to show that he’s a powerful god.  Ndikumana tackled the gunman and parishioners jumped on the man to wrestle the gun away from him. 

Monroe Carroll Juniors Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is vaccinating kids between five-to-eleven against COVID-19.  The hospital started giving the children’s dose yesterday.  The hospital says it already has over one-thousand kids scheduled to get their first shots this week.  The hospital also says it will take some walk-in patients.