The fourth annual Town of Nolensville sponsored and coordinated "4th of July Celebration" was by any stretch of the imagination a HUGE success. People poured in from all over to listen to some great music, eat, socialize with others, and then watch the great fireworks display. I'll get more story in tomorrow morning (July 5th), but wanted to get some video clips on before going to bed. Thank you, Town of Nolensville, and especially to the sponsors and the awesome Events Planning Committee, as well as all those who volunteered to make this event such a wonderful time for all.

See the full article for video of the fireworks display.

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written by Lynda , July 21, 2010

You can tell you're a long timer John.
So am I, and proud of it.
We moved here before "city water", fire department, retail,
subdivisions and many paved roads.
I liked Nolensville better then, but appreciate many of the changes.
Everyone seems to be proud to be a Nolensvillian no matter how long or short a time they've lived here.

We've discussed the old days several times for new readers, but those were before the days of the internet so we can't pull up those old records. I have kept a lot but have no time to post it all. Check out this site's archives if you have a while to read.

Maybe you should help write a history of Nolensville?
Join the Historical Society.
Maybe you should run for Alderman?

New residents being eager to learn is the main reason the Nolensville Historical Society works so hard preserving and educating and publishing historical journals each year, and saving a historic school house many wanted torn down for a parking lot.

For a long time Nolensville was Shangri La, but now we think in terms of trauma after trauma.

There was a 12 year, very expensive legal battle to keep a rock quarry and stinky asphalt plant from building where Kroger is now. Beginning in 1989 or thereabouts. That really galvanized our community to join with others (South Nashville, Brentwood, Cane Ridge, Antioch) to refuse bad decisions by government.
In that case it was Metro Nashville. The meetings at Concord Church (where Walgreens is now) were huge! Friends and strangers worked hard to preserve our way of life.

Before that we pitched in to help in times of flood, fires and tornados. I don't know where we would be without the selfless dedication of the Jaycees who organized and grew an all volunteer fire department for 37 years.

Local leaders heard Metro was finally bringing sewers to our area and alerted everyone by phone and word of mouth in the late '80s. Nashville had no other direction to grow in. With sewers, development was a given
even if we did like things just like they were.
Brentwood and Franklin were annexing acreage right and left. A new
term was born--Brentwood East. We incorporated to keep from losing our identity to Brentwood, a much, much younger but very formidable, agressive town with rules we detested that our present goverment lusts after.

Only incorporation could stop the annexation so we did in 1996.
Vice Mayor Dugger and Alderman Felts were part of that committee of volunteers and have worked tirelessly before and since.
Our goal was to have local decisions decided by local people who understood what Nolensville was all about.

We had that at first, but gradually people who "got it" were taken off the town boards by the mayor as they disagreed with him and were replaced by people who just moved here from other states.
There's nothing wrong with the people, but moving in and immediately being appointed to a government position without any knowledge of the area...is that wise? It is if you want those people to believe and vote the way they are told to keep their position. Passing over and removing anyone with any knowledge of the past, is that wise? Apparantly our 2 mayors think so. The boards talk about "small town quaint" but seem to have no idea what that is. Allowing the destruction of historic buildings to gain new matchy, matchy consturction, even on what they call "critical lots" and in the floodplain, to gain the huge fees to finance their big dreams, drives everything they do.

In 2006 we had had enough of government not listening and demanded change. We got it alright; but not the change we envisioned or that was promised.

If the present mayor had not been so hell bent to have her way that OUR town hall was going in the back side of Tisano's strip mall at any price, he would have remodeled it as he had planned. We would have had a
better looking, probably fully rented, vibrant business area and Tisano would have been happy instead of losing his shirt and the deteriating struggling property going back to Ken Kelley with few tenants.

There have been many horrendous government decisions made that residents know NOTHING about until they get
slapped with the rules for doing common sense things we've always done before.

I wouldn't agree with a lot of people that our incorporation is a failure. We had no choice, but thankfully, every 2 years we do have a choice.
Maybe this time someone better will run for office; I know several seriously considering it.
They'd better get on the ball deciding. The deadline to file is Aug. 19th.

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written by John , July 21, 2010

There are so many new residents to Nolensville that I doubt many know the battle’s that have been fought to make this town what it is today. It was not that long ago we had legal battles and petitions against a local a rock quarry and car wash. Sonic coming to town was big news as was the sewer line that seemed to take forever to get here. There was a great debate that divided many residents over letting development in for growth or keeps the town small. Maybe the selfless website host will post some of the old articles and explain the old battles that built this town

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written by Lynda , July 08, 2010

For new residents, for years when Stonebrook (now Greystone) was Nolensville's only subdivision, they held a fireworks show around their pool. It grew in attendance with people walking blocks to it because of the lack of parking.

Four years ago Vice Mayor Dugger suggested making it a town government sponsored event and moving it to the park so EVERYONE could enjoy it. A Town Events Committee was formed with Suzie Lindsay as chairman.

The rest is history.

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