CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – At lunch time on Thursday, what would normally be one of the busiest doors in Clarksville was blocked off by yellow tape. The entrance to Blackhorse Pub & Brewery was propped open to air out the water-soaked interior, revealing a lobby floor covered in shattered glass and debris.
But a look through the remaining windows showed less damage that what many feared: The main dining area is intact, along with the inside brewing station and the 1800s-era mirrored antique bar.
The furnishings are a different matter: “Everything in there is either wet or ruined or it’s dirty. Smoke and soot. It’s a big damn mess,” said Jeff Robinson, who owns the Blackhorse with his wife, Sherri.
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In the spring of 2020, praising front-line health-care workers was all the rage. Many of these too-often-underpaid heroes were putting in daunting hours, quarantining from their children and loved ones and, in some cases, dying from the very pandemic they were trying to stop; praising them was the least we could do. People rigged up homemade masks so that doctors and nurses could get the real thing. Little Caesars flooded hospitals with pizzas, Krispy Kreme plied them with free doughnuts, and artists celebrated the medical community on magazine covers and city walls.
The art was overwhelmingly positive, fueled by hope: Our country might be shutting down, but at least we were getting along.
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Montgomery: Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday extended a mask order until Jan. 22 as the state experiences a record-setting surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Ivey and State Health Officer Scott Harris announced the extension during a news conference at the Alabama Capitol. The order, which requires face coverings to be worn in public when interacting within 6 feet of people outside one’s household, had been scheduled to expire Friday. The Republican governor cited the rising case numbers as she announced the extension. Ivey said she has not seriously considered another lockdown. Alabama this week hit a record for the number of patients in hospitals with COVID-19 with more than 2,000 people hospitalized. The state also saw a record number of daily cases with more than 3,000 new infections being reported daily. The seven-day