Here’s how MidtownMemphis.org is working with other groups on the Madison Avenue Improvement Project to beautify a busy Midtown street.

“We believe in this technology. This team believes in the need to pay attention to what happens post-operatively to patients as they recover from surgeries,” said the co-founder of the company. 

A spinoff of International Paper, Sylvamo became a standalone, publicly traded company last fall. 

President Joe Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been devastating to the economy before the pivotal midterm elections.

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The majority of containerized goods coming into the Mid-South from overseas come in on one of the five Class I rails based here, said Woodson Dunavant of the logistics and supply chain management company Dunavant Enterprises.

The Shelby County Election Commission also approved two new polling places for the Nov. 8 election day.

Booker T. Jones grooved on “Green Onions” again, ahead of his Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction, and the Stax Museum teased a year’s worth of 20th anniversary events as past, present and future collided in Soulsville. 

Chef Tam is now officially the “Wesson Oil cooking lady” and has plans to open a new restaurant late this year.

The proposed “Restoring Law and Order Act” would include federal grant programs for more police and detectives focused on violent crime as well as a General Accounting Office examination of delays in processing rape kits.

There are a number of challenges that accompany BlueOval City, the production site by Ford Motor Co. about an hour’s drive from Memphis. 

Playing receiver has always been in Gabe Rogers’ heart, but it took a few years to get back to that position. Now he’s taking advantage of the opportunity. 

The Audubon Park golf course will change dramatically with the redesign; every hole will be part of the project and the course itself will be expanded. 

“We are wanting to tell more stories about Memphis and who we are. It’s just so important that we humanize everyone,” said the director of a new production from Playhouse on the Square. 

Look for a Creole Italian pop-up in town next week only, read about every single thing to eat at Pantà and find out how Ryan Hopgood is doing.

Drennan, who sacrificed his life by jumping in to save a child who had been swept into a culvert under Neshoba Road, will be recognized for his heroics at the home opener against Arkansas State on Saturday.

The scoreless streak ends but the Cougars keep rolling and take the top spot in the Power 15 after Bartlett knocked off former No. 1 Lausanne last week.

New Memphis moving to Emerge Building. Number of homes sold drops but August home prices up 5.2% over a year ago. Monster Mini Golf coming to Cordova.

Neckbones on Tuesdays and fish and spaghetti on Fridays are hits at Krissy’s Soul Food, a recent addition to the Memphis home-style dining scene. 

Tioga Environmental Consultants, FORVIS, Pittco Management, Rhodes College, Agape Child & Family Services, Moskovitz, McGhee, Brown, Cohen & Moore, Lehman-Roberts and sister company Memphis Stone & Gravel and Shelby Residential and Vocational Services announce promotions and additions.

International prize-winners and a deep array of local-interest documentaries highlight the lineup for the 25th Indie Memphis Film Festival. 

The Bartlett company expects to be the largest producer of vinyl records in North America by next year, making about 130,000 records per day.

The election will fill the vacancy left when Tarik Sugarmon resigned last month to become Juvenile Court Judge.

In wide-ranging discussion about violent crime, the Memphis City Council voted to ask the state for at least 50 more state troopers for at least six months and a digital messaging system similar to Amber Alert.

Greater Community Temple COGIC will host the fourth “Better Community Summit” Saturday, Sept. 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in an effort to curb local violence. 

Between February 2017 and October 2020, Glenda Adams, a former Shelby County Assistant District Attorney, sold Aaron Neglia, a personal injury lawyer, traffic accident report information.