Collierville
Coming in hot: Collierville opens new fire station
Collierville opened its sixth fire station Tuesday. The station is the biggest in the suburb and features the county’s first Safe Haven Baby Box.
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Abigail Warren is an award-winning reporter and covers Collierville and Germantown for The Daily Memphian. She was raised in the Memphis suburbs, attended Westminster Academy and studied journalism at the University of Memphis. She has been with The Daily Memphian since 2018.
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Collierville opened its sixth fire station Tuesday. The station is the biggest in the suburb and features the county’s first Safe Haven Baby Box.
“This is not what I want,” Mayor Maureen Fraser said. “This is not what the Board of Mayor and Aldermen wants. This is what you, the community, wants.”
The dispatch center was useful in September 2021, when a shooter opened fire in a Kroger, and more than $800,000 worth of improvements aim to keep it “resilient.”
Some said that Michael Lightman, who contributed to the real estate landscape of Memphis, had the “Midas touch.”
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Collierville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen will consider a request to deannex 55 acres in the suburb’s southeastern quadrant.
Residents on Quinn Road who were annexed into Collierville about six years ago no longer want to be part of the suburb.
A Memphis suburb has a taste for hot chicken. The Nashville-based chicken chain clears a significant hurdle for a second location near two of Shelby County’s busiest roadways.
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Memphis-area school board elections will be partisan next year.
The extension timeline is unclear since it depends on right-of-way acquisitions and funding.
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Collierville Schools got a needed approval to relocate the suburban school system’s bus lot. But some neighborhood residents are concerned about what the move means for them.
The head of school is on administrative leave as the matter is reviewed. Multiple students have been expelled.
A jury found Latoshia Daniels guilty of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment in connection with the shooting death of Brodes Perry, a former pastor at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church.
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