The Early Word: Airport, U of M both achieve long-term goals; course goes more country club
Grand jury indicts local security guard, West Memphis chase leads to Memphis shooting and we could be looking at another COVID Christmas. Plus, gift ideas!
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December 2021
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New owners renaming Stonebridge as ‘Lakeland Golf & Paddle Club’
Stonebridge Golf Course sold only about 20,000 rounds of golf this year. That creates an opportunity to improve the golfing experience and grow the business, the new owners say.
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Conaway: Bundle up and head down to the river
From the Big River Crossing one can stand above the middle of the churn of this nation’s main artery like nowhere else, for a view of the city like none other.
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Daily Memphian soccer awards: Houston, St. George’s share player of the year honor
Players, coach of the year as well as all-metro teams named for the 2021 soccer season.
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Daily Memphian postseason volleyball awards: Briarcrest sweeps
Carlia Northcross led the Saints as they finished runner-up at the state championships.
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Daily Memphian high school honor roll: Jones instrumental for Overton boys
Senior leads the way in victories over Nashville Overton and Covington.
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Here’s how the Tigers’ players-only meeting came about
A dejected DeAndre Williams reached out to his high school coach, who offered sage advice.
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The Early Word: New opportunity zone; plus, 20-somethings have time to burn for barbecue record
Which football players are going where, who is in at EDGE and we hear about Horton.
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Sanford: Who was Odell Horton? ‘An exceptional man,’ that’s who
Horton was a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta and Howard University Law School in Washington. After an illustrious career in Memphis, the federal judiciary would be Horton’s final and most impactful calling.
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Inked: Goldfish Swim School headed to Germantown; Union mixed-use update
What to do with shuttered big box stores, and an update on the planned mixed-use development at the former Union Avenue police station.
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The Early Word: Tigers, Memphis feel the Spirit; singer makes good showing
Terminix to get new ownership, we talk to Rhodes’ incoming president and a redistricting plan raises eyebrows.
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Q&A with Jennifer Collins, newly appointed president of Rhodes College
Jennifer Collins sat down with The Daily Memphian to talk about who she is and what she plans to do in her presidency.
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Calkins: Memphis saves its season with an arena-shaking win
When Tyler Harris hit a 3-pointer to put the Memphis Tigers up by 19 on No. 6 Alabama, FedExForum erupted in air-shaking joy. It was a win that saved a season. And felt just like old times.
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Is Desmond Bane a true Most Improved Player candidate?
The Grizzlies guard’s résumé fits the criteria for the NBA’s Most Improved Player award. But who are his challengers?
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The Early Word: Memphian soars ‘over the rainbow’ and a Global gift expands
Coronavirus closes a door at Southwest, we’ve got odds on a new city administrator in Germantown and four entire schools get transferred. Plus, pizza and cheesecake.
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With enrollment falling, SWTCC drops Downtown expansion
Southwest Tennessee Community College is focusing on rebuilding its enrollment after a 24% drop during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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November home sales up 1.1% from last year
“Even with the market slowing a bit during the holidays, like it always does, the numbers are still strong,” MAAR president Cassandra Bell-Warren said in a statement released Monday, Dec. 13.
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The Early Word: Winter tornado rips through six states; artist sees potential in Summer
This weekend included a deadly tornado, the local emergence of Omicron and a devastating loss for the Tigers.
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Pervis Payne resentencing centers on consecutive or concurrent life sentences
The Monday, Dec. 13, resentencing in Shelby County Criminal Court comes after prosecutors took the death penalty off the table in a retrial for a 1987 double murder in Millington. At stake is whether the life sentences will run consecutively or concurrently. If concurrently, Payne would be eligible for parole.
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County commission approves economic impact plan, TIF district for Union Depot
On Monday, Dec. 6, the Shelby County Commission approved the Economic Impact Plan for Union Depot, which in the process approves a TIF district for the project.
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Daily Memphian high school honor roll: MHEA’s Kyzar goes on tear
The Memphis Home Education Association senior played a key role in three victories.
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Calkins: A raucous celebration of Z-Bo — and Memphis
The Grizzlies staged a number retirement ceremony unlike any other. It was both raucous and joyous. It was as Memphis as Zach.
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The Playlist: Collaboration is the key, for music and for Memphis
Memphians make beautiful music, and maybe more so together. This months playlist showcases collaboration, with a bonus mix of Memphis Christmas music.
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Calkins: Hardaway is right — the problem is ‘bad coaching’
Penny Hardaway said Memphis lost to Murray State because of “bad coaching.” But there is no evidence he intends to fix it.
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Conaway: Mad to sad, rage to resignation, warning to worrying
“There is a vaccine for COVID. There is none for what’s wrong with us.”
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