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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 Schools is hoping cell service is soon improved in the high school area. District leaders also heard an update on two sites they are purchasing.
About 600 people gathered in Germantown to honor Charlie Kirk. They were challenged to “live like Charlie.”
Both proposals submitted to Germantown were different than the suburb’s vision for an outdoor sports complex.
Time after time, proposals have stalled for the Arthur property land along Poplar Avenue. Now, a new plan is on the table, and “it’s an opportunity to give Germantown the town square it’s been looking for.”
This week, art meets booze at the Dixon and the Brooks, and weenie dogs race at the Germantown Festival.
Crews are clearing a large number of trees along Wolf River Boulevard near Germantown’s western edge, causing some of the 24,000 drivers passing the area to question what is going on with that space.
The building off of West Poplar Avenue could trade thrifting for puzzle-solving.
“It’s still small town-oriented,” Germantown Mayor Mike Palazzolo said. “Even the rides are small races for small kids. The weenie dogs are small dogs.”
“While I hate to see this house be torn down, I think it’s life expectancy was limited when it was changed to a commercial use,” Commissioner Bill Cox said. “… It’s death certificate was signed when it was changed to commercial.”
Demolition of the vacant Germantown shopping center will begin next week. As the building becomes rubble, so will the remnants of the site’s past.
In response to a Tennessee law, school leaders in Germantown and Collierville adopted rules related to students’ personal devices.
Rachel Helton is very familiar with the plans for the upcoming UT Martin facility in Germantown — because she designed them in grad school.
Updated laws change where alcohol can be sold and how many liquor stores are allowed in Collierville, but some business owners had concerns.
A new state law forced school districts to implement new policies for students’ cellphones and other personal devices.
There have been several proposals for the site over the years, but the most recent is the second by High Mountain Investments.
By bringing in new animals, expanding for the current ones and revamping spaces like the aquarium, the Memphis Zoo renovation will transform outdated exhibits. “Talk about immersive. You will be transported,” the CEO said.
A symposium will explore how, before German immigrants created the Germantown community, Scottish immigrant Frances Wright started Nashoba Plantation as an emancipation project.
The beer rules Collierville has used since 1983 are “so antiquated and so outdated and so not fair,” Alderman Nick Robbins said.
A man accused of sexually soliciting minors in a Germantown park waived his preliminary hearing in the suburb’s court.
The Parke at Houston Levee Road went before the Board of Mayor and Aldermen with some adjustments since the outline plan was approved in 2022.
“She’s been very kind, very energetic,” Collierville Mayor Maureen Fraser said. “She’s young and has a lot of great ideas.”
Music roars throughout the neighborhood. Partygoers do doughnuts in cul-de-sacs and park in yards. And when the party’s over, partygoers leave beer bottles, condoms and other debris — even car parts — scattered throughout the neighborhood.
A group of about 50 men trying to start their day with a workout last week was met by Germantown police as they were wrapping up at the suburb’s Soccerplex on CD Smith Road.
Wolf River Hospitality Group is bringing a new concept to the Germantown building where Asaderos Mexican Grill formerly operated. The restaurant company has owned the space since 2021.
A 38-year-old Germantown man was arrested after an alleged incident of sexually soliciting minors at Howard McVay Park. He entered a not guilty plea Wednesday.