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The Portland Fall Festival is tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be food and craft vendors, some local area farms will also be set up selling products, an thee will be free live music during the event on Market Street.  Parking will be available in the city lot off E. McGlothlin Street, First Baptist Church parking lot and other downtown Portland parking areas. For more information regarding the Portland Fall Festival contact the Portland Chamber of Commerce.

There are nearly 16-hundred new coronavirus cases in Tennessee.  The Tennessee Department of Health reported the new cases yesterday, bringing the total since the outbreak began to over one-million-270-thousand.  Over 50 additional COVID-19-related deaths were also reported, with the total number standing at over 16-thousand.  There are about 13-hundred COVID-19 hospitalizations in Tennessee.

Wildlife experts say there’s a drawback to the weather remaining unseasonably warm so far this fall.  They say without a widespread freeze, snakes remain active, including venomous copperheads.  The CDC says up to eight-thousand people are bitten by a venomous snake in the U.S. each year.  However, only about five of those bites end up being deadly.

Austin Peay State University School of Nursing Career Fair is scheduled from 10:00am–1:00pm on Monday. Nursing students and related majors are encouraged to attend to meet recruiters sharing information about full-time, part-time, residency, and graduate school opportunities including many in Tennessee, Kentucky.  And The College of Business Career Fair, designed for Accounting, Management, Marketing, Finance, and related majors, will be from 10:00am–1:00pm on Tuesday.  The career fairs will be in the Morgan University Center Ballroom at Austin Peay