The Organizations Supporting Nashville's Unhoused Community | Cover Story
Talking to outreach specialists at nonprofits City Road Chapel, Open Table Nashville and The Beat about the city’s housing crisis
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Talking to outreach specialists at nonprofits City Road Chapel, Open Table Nashville and The Beat about the city’s housing crisis
A passerby saw an urn in a dumpster and wanted to do what they thought was the right thing by scattering them.
PANAMA CITY — Some area funeral homes have seen their workloads spike in the past year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but plenty of cemetery plots are still available. While Panama City-owned cemeteries — Hillside Cemetery, Greenwood Cemetery, Oakland Cemetery and Millville Cemetery — are out of plots, those were bought years if not decades ago, officials said. Instead, the spike in deaths caused by the virus still can be handled by the several privately-owned cemeteries in the area, they said. Russell Wright, owner of Russell A. Wright Sr. Mortuary, said he has had a heavier wor...