People have emailed me since we launched last week, wondering if we planned to start having Friday lunches again.

As part of new elementary school plans in Germantown, the suburb is turning the tree-lined, two-lane out-in-the-country-style Forest Hill-Irene Road into a four-lane thoroughfare with a landscaped median between Poplar Pike and Winchester.

Friday night at Crump Stadium, Fairley learned what other teams have learned this season. If Central's left hand doesn't get you then the right one will.

The heritage of Hi Records brackets this first weekly list, with the sound of Al Green and the image of guitarist/songwriter Teenie Hodges making unexpected appearances. Elsewhere, our criminal justice system bears watching, next year’s mayor’s race gets weird, and our food trucks get some pub.

Dennis Wolf, Lakeland’s future fire chief, expects the suburb’s new fire department will begin answering calls in July, 2019, becoming the last government entity in Shelby County to operate its own fire service. Wolf, former fire chief in Germantown, provided insight on the new department for officials and residents at a Lakeland Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, Sept.18.

Brady White handed the ball to Darrell Henderson who then flipped the ball to Tony Pollard who headed back around left end and into the end zone. 

The Memphis Grizzlies will hold their annual Media Day gathering on Monday, and will hit the training-camp hardwood the next day. Many questions will be asked amid Media Day scrums, but the most important ones won’t be answered on that day or even, fully, in the days and weeks that follow. But it’s a start.

Three of the four voting systems certified by the state of Tennessee for use in elections would enable voters to get a printed copy of their choices and then complete the voting process by running that printed copy through a scanner.

With her “glamtique” Ashley Dean-Parson has flipped the concept of boutique on its head. “A lot of times, being a full-figured woman, we would go into a store that we would really, really love and they wouldn’t have a plus-size section or if they did, it was really, really small,” she said. “So, I took that same concept and did it here and did the reverse.”

The Shelby County Commission will vote on several of Mayor Lee Harris’ initial proposals for his administration at its meeting Monday.

Darrell Henderson ran for 188 yards and two touchdowns as the Memphis Tigers were able to survive a back-and-forth contest Saturday night with South Alabama, eventually winning 52-35.

Not very many people have spent a month on a working ranch sleeping under the stars, feeding cowboys three meals a day as they prepared the spring herd. Germantown resident and longtime FedEx employee Steve Gibson is one of those people, cooking from a chuck wagon in an atmosphere far removed from suburbia. “I love being out there and thinking about how it once was like – what were people doing back then and what was it like to eat back then?” said Gibson. “It’s quite interesting studying U.S. history. Everything cowboys are doing now is what vaqueros, descendants from Spain, were doing back then in Mexico.

These are the code names for some of the largest economic development projects in recent history — Mitsubishi Electric Power Products’ $226 million manufacturing plant on Presidents Island, Orgill Inc.’s $21 million world headquarters in Collierville and the $36 million transformation of Peabody Place into a headquarters for ServiceMaster Global Holdings.

Kevin Box grew up folding paper airplanes and paper making and wound up studying graphic design. But he decided he wanted to do sculpture.

By some accounts, Democrat Phil Bredesen narrowly leads Republican Marsha Blackburn in what may be the nation’s most important contest in determining which party will control the United States Senate for the next two years. Democrats in Tennessee are right to rejoice at the prospect that the popular former governor has at least an even chance to represent the state in Washington come January.

Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is doing all she can to nationalize her race for the U.S. Senate.

LYFE Kitchen at Chisca on Main Street Downtown has closed permanently, and Memphis-based Carlisle Corp. has sold the healthful dining brand to franchisee L3 Hospitality Group in Chicago.

The city’s second convention center hotel will be constructed on Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall and next to the Downtown Memphis Commission offices, Jonathan Tisch, the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotel & Co., said Friday.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland addressed the city Friday morning, saying there have been 40 incidents in which the Memphis Police Department investigated and disciplined officers for violating policies surrounding the use of body and vehicle cameras, vowing to get “to the bottom of this” shooting of 25-year-old Martavious Banks.

“I need help with everything,” Brooks said. “Most important has been the money issue. Buying Pampers, wipes, clothes, extra bottles. Then transportation sometimes because my mom works every day, and I need to find a way to my doctor’s appointments for my babies.

Less than two weeks before an Oct. 2 gubernatorial debate set for Memphis, Republican candidate Bill Lee missed an MTSU Gubernatorial Luncheon & Forum in Murfreesboro on Thursday, Sept. 20.

Since its founding by church and community leaders on Sept. 15, 1968, the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association has spawned a number of organizations and has grown into one of the most important nonprofits in the Mid-South. In fiscal 2018, which ran from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, MIFA served more than half a million meals to more than 3,600 seniors; helped more 3,500 families with utility, rent and mortgage assistance; distributed more than 11,000 food vouchers; connected more than 250 families with permanent, stable housing; and screened more than 7,000 calls through a 24-hour homeless hotline.

At a recent Collierville High football practice, the state-of-the-art sound system was blaring a selection of Top 40 classics at an ear-shattering volume loud enough to be heard across campus. “Coach (Mike) O’Neill likes to keep it turned down,” said Dragons athletic director Jeff Curtis in all seriousness. “It definitely bumps. Hopefully, we won’t have any neighbors that get upset.” 

On Saturday, the Brooks Museum of Art will be active inside and out. The work of renowned Barcelona sculptor and artist Jaume Plensa will make a Memphis debut as his “Talking Continents” exhibit opens to the public. Meanwhile, a secretive, week-long “Outings" project installation from French artist Julien de Casabianca will begin at parts unknown across the city.

The mother of Martavious Banks, the man shot by Memphis police on Monday evening, stood on the street where he was shot earlier this week and demanded the names of the officers who critically wounded her son and that they be arrested.