LeMoyne-Owen College to celebrate presidential inauguration Friday
LeMoyne-Owen College is celebrating its new president Vernell Bennett-Fairs with a series of events this week. The president’s investiture was delayed more than a year by COVID-19.
Topic: South Memphis
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May 2022
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March 2022
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Ideas for former drive-in include large park or business hub
Local leaders and members of the Westwood community met Thursday evening to discuss the future of the Southwest Twin drive-in.
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LeMoyne-Owen College celebrates 160 years
“The history of this institution is pivotal to the Black history of Memphis,” Michaela Thomas, a graduating senior who serves as the current Miss LeMoyne-Owen College, said of Memphis’ only HBCU.
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February 2022
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Robert Church, the Hooks family and Aretha: New museum to showcase South Memphis
The South City Museum and Culture Center is collaborating with the Memphis Museum of Science and History (MoSH) on the project.
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About Town: What does funding for developments in South Memphis and Soulsville really mean?
The county approved $1 million in ARPA grant funding for four community development groups in South Memphis, showing signs of growth in the area.
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January 2022
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The Soulsville Foundation to receive a $150,000 grant from ARPA funding
The grant will allow the organization to recover from the pandemic and can be used to save jobs and to fund various operations and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation.
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December 2021
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Funding for South Memphis projects takes big step forward
Neighborhoods that would receive the tax-increment financing would include Soulsville/South Bellevue, South Third/Gaston Park area, French Fort, South City and South Main/South End.
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November 2021
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Herrington: Young Dolph’s background formed his music, and his life
It can be tempting to separate the facts of the rapper’s life and the still very murky facts of his death from the music that made him a success and, in some quarters, a star. But, in life, he encouraged listeners to conflate the two.
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September 2021
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What Binghampton’s Save A Lot experiment taught us about food deserts
Neighborhood residents in North and South Memphis have endured the loss of grocers in recent years, leaving them with a yet another challenge to endure.
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Paint Memphis undaunted by vandalism to murals
Paint Memphis will spend hundreds of dollars applying an anti-graffiti coating on murals vandalized shortly after last year’s event in Uptown. Meanwhile, Paint Memphis 2021 will carry on in South Memphis with a festival on Oct. 9.
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August 2021
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About Town: Transformations teed up for two area golf courses
Two notable Memphis golf courses are in different stages of the renovation process and, once they are completed, both are likely to excite regular (and future) golfers.
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Pine Hill golf course poised for major renovation
The $5 million project not only will provide a complete makeover of the old golf course in South Memphis, but build a new golf house in a new place for easier access.
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Accelerate Memphis starts with Gaston Community Center
South Memphis resident Deandrew Thomas calls the center a sanctuary. “It’s our rock. It has played a major part of my life.”
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July 2021
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Opinion: ‘Community TIF’ plan has been inclusive
The formation of the Soulsville USA Neighborhoods Development District was not an overnight creation but was and is, a culmination of years of hard work, planning and community engagement at the grassroots level.
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June 2021
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South Memphis native to share music industry expertise at the U of M
Jeff Cohran brings experience of world tours and years in the music industry with pop star Janelle Monáe to the faculty at the University of Memphis.
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LeMoyne-Owen reopens for first time since pandemic began
LeMoyne-Owen welcomed back students — prospective or current — for the first since the campus closed last March at the COVID-19 pandemic’s beginning; a moment that brought joy and excitement to staff and faculty at Memphis’ only HBCU.
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May 2021
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Proposed South Memphis TIF district could generate $93M for improvements
Residents polled in South Memphis identified blight removal as the No. 1 issue they’d like TIF money to address, but also affordable housing, stronger local retail, and improved streets and sidewalks.
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April 2021
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Planning board sees litter, rejects apartment expansion
All the litter showing up in each case file photo was not the focus of the development issues. But Land Use Control Board members took notice and rejected a landlord’s plan to enlarge his rental property in South Memphis.
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New Alcy Elementary School a ‘long time coming’
SCS held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for the school, which opened this fall to students from the former Alcy, Magnolia and Charjean elementary schools in South Memphis.
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March 2021
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Clayborn Temple seeks community members for restorative economics council
A new council will help residents build better economic outcomes and restore neglected communities.
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Shelby County mayor suggests new way to stop pipeline project
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris believes he may have found a way to stop the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline. Or at least give the community a tool for better regulating projects like it in the future.
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Hearings set for Byhalia Connection pipeline lawsuits
One of the hearings scheduled for next month will be on the issue of whether an oil pipeline company has a right under state law to use eminent domain proceedings to gain access to property it needs to build the pipeline.
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February 2021
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Council action on pipeline postponed again
Opponents of the proposed Byhalia Connection oil pipeline will have to wait a bit longer to see what action the Memphis City Council might take regarding the project. The council’s attorney has requested more time to study the city’s legal options.
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Coro Lake area in SW Memphis may get senior-living community
A 21-acre, senior-living community is proposed for a site that was partially occupied by the Coro Lake Elementary School, which was razed four years ago.
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January 2021
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Anonymous donors to fund Universal Parenting Place
Anonymous donors are willing to fund the operation of a Universal Parenting Place, if they can find a qualified site operator.
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