The AM/DM podcast: A liquor store without liquor
The exterior of The Station in East Memphis Oct. 3, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The Station is open, but the East Memphis liquor store isn’t serving everything it wanted to.
The Station has been at the center of a controversy ever since it got a license from the Memphis Alcohol Commission. In doing so, the body signed off on The Station meeting a requirement that it was 1,500 feet away from a church or school — in this case that it was far enough away from Woodland Presbyterian.
But questions arose over whether The Station actually met that distance requirement and if the Memphis Alcohol Commission meeting was even legal.
And in the latest, the owner of The Station is firing back.
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AM/DMMary Cashiola
Mary Cashiola has been a Memphis journalist for nearly two decades, beginning her career covering city government and local neighborhoods at the Memphis Flyer before being hired by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.
Before joining The Daily Memphian, she was the managing editor of the Memphis Business Journal, which was named one of the top 10 Best Designed Newspapers in the world by the Society of News Design while she was there.
She also has a background in advertising, with a focus on higher education and the hospitality industry.
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