Liberty Park breaks ground after 14 years and three mayors
The Monday, June 14, groundbreaking starts with a youth sports complex that is the centerpiece of the $126 million project about where the Libertyland amusement park once stood.
The Monday, June 14, groundbreaking starts with a youth sports complex that is the centerpiece of the $126 million project about where the Libertyland amusement park once stood.
In May, Dillon Brooks and Brandon Clarke accepted invites to Team Canada’s training camp. Jonas Valanciunas will try to help Lithuania qualify. But what about Ja Morant?
Douglas Emhoff was just in the city last month to push the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan.
Shelby County Schools approved a proposed budget of $2.2 billion to be presented to the County Commission on Wednesday, June 16.
The final reading for Germantown’s budget is scheduled for June 28. The board also approved taking the first step toward acquiring soccer fields for the city’s youngest athletes.
Collierville adopted its 2021-22 budget Monday. To support the budget, aldermen also approved a tax rate of $1.72.
Collierville’s Target is closed after a weekend fire. There is no set reopening date, but the closure is expected to be about a month.
Instead of the traffic jams varying wildly throughout the hours of each day, this past week’s data showed the same delays for blocks of time.
The dividends will be payable July 12 to people on record as stockholders by the close of business June 28.
Germantown is expecting about $10.5 million in American Rescue Plan funds. The money will be invested in infrastructure, with the majority going towards drainage.
Saint Francis Healthcare and West Cancer Center are joining forces to offer new access to cancer care.
The shortened park season opened with water in the Riverwalk. But other parts of the upgrade in the 39-year-old attraction have been delayed. Meanwhile, there was an attempt on the City Council to get the park’s long-dormant monorail up and running again that didn’t pan out.
The journeyman taught himself how to perform magic and uses his skills to loosen things up if it’s a tense clubhouse.
He said policing has been his ministry. “I’ve always had a heart for helping those that really could not make that next step by themselves, and they needed some assistance,” he said. “I love God, and I just feel like His hand has been over me to drive that badge forward in a ministry type way.”
Since Bill Haslam was elected governor in 2010, Republicans have held control of Tennessee’s state government, with the party controlling the trifecta of the House, Senate and governor’s office. No Black politician has chaired a full, standing committee since then.
Judge Boyd is jailed, Collierville is being sued for saying no to Chick-fil-A and FedExForum funding clears hurdles.
The former Commercial Appeal facility was recently split into two entities: an office building and a warehouse.
Brandon Clarke “knew it was going to be a lengthy road,” Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins said. “It’s a product of just seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. ... He deserves this opportunity.”
“Today I don’t want to own (a restaurant), but I can never stop cooking,” Chef Tamra Patterson said. “Cooking is in my blood — it’s all I know to do.”
There are several hurdles Principle Toyota must overcome before it could relocate to Collierville.
A former restaurant server will open a new art gallery and event space inside Midtown’s Minglewood Plaza Friday, March 29.
“Rental property owners can reduce crime by utilizing police calls for service information at their properties. This is no untested theory. It is a proven method that has been put into practice in other crime-ridden neighborhoods in Memphis. And it works.”
This week on Sound Bites, Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington dined on pastries from Crosstown’s Lucy J’s Bakery and dished on some recent local food news.