For the first time in years, Peloton is opening a new retail location in the United States. Customers will be able to connect with Peloton in-person at their new showroom in Nashville, Tennessee beginning November 1, 2024. The store’s webpage is now live.

This may technically be the reopening of a location – as Peloton previously had a showroom in Nashville’s Mall at Green Hills that they closed. However, at this time it’s not known if this is the same exact unit they previously had in the mall, or they’ve shifted within the mall.

The Nashville showroom originally opened in November 2018 with a special visit from Peloton instructors Jennifer Jacobs and Chase Tucker, both of whom have since departed the company.

However, like many other locations, the Nashville showroom was closed as part of Peloton’s restructuring and cost-saving measures during the company’s global downsizing that began in 2022. That wave of closures saw dozens of Peloton’s retail spaces shutter, with the Nashville showroom at Green Hills being one of them.

Now, in a move that signals a potential shift in strategy, Peloton is bringing the Nashville showroom back to life, re-establishing its presence in the Mall at Green Hills. The decision to reopen this specific location is notable, as it’s the first time Peloton has revived one of its closed showrooms after years of scaling back on brick-and-mortar stores.

The re-opening of a Nashville showroom suggests Peloton is still continuing to search for balance between its in-person and digital retail experiences. It will be interesting to see how this move influences Peloton’s broader retail strategy, especially considering how many showrooms were shuttered in recent years.

For those interested in visiting Peloton’s returning Nashville showroom, check out the webpage to view store hours and book an appointment.

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Sherrie Stynchula says she's offered aid in disaster zones before, going wherever the Lord leads her.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Sherrie Stynchula lives in Nashville and works in the healthcare industry.

Stynchula said she was called by the Lord to drive from Nashville to communities affected by Hurricane Helene in East Tennessee, which she's done several times since Helene hit.

She said her calling is helping those in need through her Christian faith. That led her to found Team Jesus on the Streets, a street ministry engaging Nashville's residents with conversation, prayer and free Bibles.

When she spoke with WBIR, she said her efforts begin and end with that.

"First of all, I want to give glory to Jesus Christ our lord and savior, and thanks to him for using me to do what I do, because I couldn't do anything without him," she said.

She filled her car with bulk cleaning supplies, hygiene products, bibles, and 30 large zip lock bags she calls "Blessing Bags," then drove to Newport on Oct. 5.

Stynchula said she spoke to a woman at a gas station outside of town about where to set up, then found her way to downtown. She opened her trunk, laid out some of her supplies on the ground, and began to offer aid and conversation to anyone who stopped.

She said she was committed to her cause, but the stories she heard were heartbreaking.

"I heard so many stories -- people lost friends, lost loved ones, lost their homes," she said.

Stynchula said that hasn't deterred her. People took all of her Blessing Bags, and much of her other supplies, in Newport. After spending the night in Knoxville, she returned home to regroup.

She said she has visited Erwin, Johnson City and Greeneville over the past week. she took more supplies and tried to help in any way she could, which led her to volunteer at several churches. While the scenes and stories of Helene's destruction weighed on her, she returned home with a strong sense of community.

"That's what I got from it. Everybody coming together and loving on each other, and loving on people, no matter where they lived, or where they came from, or what's going on," she said.

She said she began visiting disaster zones in Florida while she lived there in 2019.

Stynchula said she plans to continue visiting East Tennessee, expand her efforts into North Carolina if possible, and, if called, will visit areas affected by Hurricane Milton.

Tennessee’s corrections chief says the department is expected to unveil a new process for executing inmates by the end of the year

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s corrections chief said Wednesday that the department expects to unveil a new process for executing inmates by the end of the year, signaling a possible end to a yearslong pause due to findings that several inmates were put to death without the proper testing of lethal injection drugs.

“We should have our protocols in place by the end of this calendar year or at the first week or two of January,” Commissioner Frank Strada told lawmakers during a correction hearing. “We’ve been working with the attorney general’s office on writing those protocols to make sure that they’re sound.”

Strada didn’t reveal any details about the new process, only acknowledging that the effort had taken a long time because of the many lawyers working on the issue to ensure it was “tight and right and within the law.”

The commissioner’s comments are the first public estimate of when the state may once again resume executing death row inmates since they were halted in early 2022.

Back then, Republican Gov. Bill Lee put a hold on executions after acknowledging the state had failed to ensure its lethal injection drugs were properly tested. The oversight forced Lee in April to abruptly halt the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to have been put to death.

Documents obtained through a public records request later showed that at least two people knew the night before that the lethal injection drugs the state planned to use hadn’t undergone some required testing.

Lee eventually requested an independent review into the state’s lethal injection procedure, which was released in December 2022.

According to the report, none of the drugs prepared for the seven inmates put to death since 2018 were tested for endotoxins. In one lethal injection that was carried out, the drug midazolam was not tested for potency either. The drugs must be tested regardless of whether an inmate chooses lethal injection or electrocution — an option allowed for inmates if they were convicted of crimes before January 1999.

The report also rebuked top Department of Correction leaders for viewing the “the lethal injection process through a tunnel-vision, result-oriented lens” and claimed the agency failed to provide staff “with the necessary guidance and counsel needed to ensure that Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol was thorough, consistent, and followed.”

The department has since switched commissioners, with Strada taking over in January 2023. Its top attorney and the inspector general were fired that month.

Kelley Henry, chief of the federal public defender’s habeas unit that represents many of Tennessee’s death row inmates, said Tennessee has previously made “multiple misrepresentations to multiple courts about its execution protocols.” She also noted that there is federal litigation challenging several aspects of the state’s current execution protocol, but that has been placed on hold through an agreement between the state and federal officials.

“The State, through the Attorney General, agreed to permit that litigation to continue at a normal pace once a new protocol is announced,” Henry said in an email on Wednesday. ”Given the history of misrepresentations made by the state, any new protocol will require thorough review.”

Henry added that she expects the state to not pursue any execution dates — as detailed in their agreed order filed with the federal court — while the federal case is still pending.

Tennessee’s current lethal injection protocol requires a three-drug series to put inmates to death: the sedative midazolam to render the inmate unconscious; vecuronium bromide to paralyze the inmate; and potassium chloride to stop the heart.

The state has repeatedly argued that midazolam renders an inmate unconscious and unable to feel pain. But the independent report showed that in 2017 state correction officials were warned by a pharmacist that midazolam “does not elicit strong analgesic effects,” meaning “the subjects may be able to feel pain from the administration of the second and third drugs.”

People who recently moved from Tennessee to Florida explain what they plan to do as Hurricane Milton approaches.

|Updated: Oct. 7, 2024 at 11:01 PM CDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Some Tennesseans stuck in the mix of Hurricane Milton evacuations break down what they have been experiencing as the storm approaches.

Some Floridians recently moved from Tennessee to areas directly in the path of Hurricane Milton and said they’re either hunkering down and staying in Florida or hitting the road and heading back to Tennessee.

Rain falling in Florida on Monday afternoon was the start of what former Tennessee resident Erich Gentry said could be his worst nightmare come to life.

“It has ramped up so fast,” Gentry said. “I knew I needed to keep an eye on it after last week’s storm. We’re just so over-saturated and trees are already trying to work themselves down.”

Gentry moved from Nashville to St. Augustine two years ago and said watching Hurricane Milton intensify was unlike anything he’d ever heard or seen before.

When asked about his evacuation plan, Gentry said, “I kind of drug my feet just a little bit, and within a matter of hours it strengthened to a category 5, even the gas station that’s just up the street from me is already out of fuel and people are going crazy.”

But crowds at gas pumps weren’t unique to St. Augustine, Jessica Beard who moved from Columbia, Tennessee to Fort Myers, Florida said she also saw busy gas stations when she and her family were headed north Monday morning.

Beard said they loaded up their car and started driving to Columbia, Tennessee at 7 a.m.

“We hit traffic coming out of Fort Myers around Sarasota,” Beard said. “It was stop and go all the way through Ocala.”

Beard said she and her family were following the progression of the storm for days. As soon as the meteorologist announced that Hurricane Milton upgraded from a category 3 storm to a category 4 and then a category 5 storm by Monday morning, Beard and her family started to panic. Beard said people started posting reports online of store shelves emptying and generators selling out.

“We’re not in the mandatory evacuation zone but, it’s just a few streets over that are, so we left, better safe than sorry,” Beard said.

Gentry said when he decided to leave, traffic was just too bad. He was worried he’d possibly run out of gas and not be able to find a station that wasn’t also out of gas.

“Unfortunately, anything heading north is pretty much already backed up,” Gentry said. “People are evacuating with their cars and things, so it seems like I may have missed the boat unfortunately.”

To prepare for the storm, Gentry said he was loading up his home with sandbags, food, and water.

“At this point, I think it’s just time to batten down the hatches and try to pray and hope for the best for myself and everyone around us,” Gentry said.

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