The Excel Center opened as a charter school but is now a contract school with Shelby County Schools.

Some people have asked but the owners of Piano’s flower shop say there is no reason for them to leave the Whitehaven community.

As a new recurring feature, I’ll be on the hunt for street-food finds in the Memphis area: good stuff from food trucks, farmers markets, gas stations, walk-up windows and the like.

Anshei Sphard Beth El Emeth congregation is moving, leaving behind its “Brutalist” synagogue but not its sacred Torahs or special memories.

Ethan Pettigrew and Tyler Collier combine for two touchdown passes as Collierville holds off Houston.

2020 has been a banner year for former Tigers in the NFL; which alums are standing out?

More than 500 people in Shelby County have died from the coronavirus, according to the Shelby County Health Department.

Collierville Police arrested six people Friday following vandalism of the Confederate relic in Town Square.

The move back to school buildings would make KIPP one of the first public schools in the city to reopen after starting all remote. The return to in-person learning is outlined in a letter from the charter network’s CEO Kendra Ferguson. 

New social distancing protocols have increased the seating capacity of the Liberty Bowl for the season’s remaining five games.

The book, a collection of his columns and mine, is titled “In A Colorful Place,” and it will be published next month. Good stories are worth retelling and we’ve picked some we think are good enough to share again with you. As always, you’ll be the judge.

Reopening a restaurant as large as The Majestic Grille isn’t in the cards just yet, not when we’re playing a COVID hand, but Patrick & Deni Reilly are getting by with a little Italian place.

David Lusk Gallery is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month with a show of work by seven artists who were in the gallery’s 1995 opening show and remain there today.

Kennedy Shaw named MVP as Houston earns the right to host Class AAA sectional match next week.

What to do with De’Anthony Melton? And how exciting could 2021 be?

In its third year, the middle school will operate in Fogelman Executive Center off Central and Innovation Drive.

Like at other city parks, Overton Park Conservancy is reopening its playgrounds on Friday, Oct. 9. The conservancy is also launching a weeklong campaign to raise donations that will be double-matched by International Paper.

Rebecca Yeung, vice president for advanced technology and innovation at FedEx, discussed development of Roxo the SameDay Bot during Greater Memphis IT Council Innovation IT conference Thursday, Oct. 8.

Germantown is allowing 7th and 8th graders on campus four days per week beginning Nov. 2. The change brings the hybrid learning model in house.

The Memphis River Parks Partnership presents a schematic design for Tom Lee Park on Riverside Drive in Downtown Memphis. 

Related: Q&A on the latest Tom Lee Park changes.

Germantown Municipal Schools District Superintendent Jason Manuel and Bartlett City Schools Superintendent David Stephens talked on “Behind The Headlines” about changing local health department requirements that require students in schools to wear masks and be 6 feet apart at all times.

Facility will serve 200 3-, 4-year-olds in the Melrose High School neighborhood.

Alderwoman Paula Sedgwick is seeking a third consecutive term to Bartlett Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Newcomer Kevin Quinn is running his first political campaign, trying to unseat Sedgwick. 

A “frequent flyer” with dozens of encounters with law enforcement is hit with pepper foam and denied water, even as three Crisis Intervention Team-trained officers were on the scene.