Residents tour the new $50 million Lakeland Preparatory High School, which is ready to welcome students for classes Aug. 8.

“The present Shelby County Clerk is running for reelection. This is her system and record after 3 1/2 years on the job with a record backlog of tags.”

It’s all about work, this week. We’ve got entrepreneurs at Archer Malmo, Lucky Cowboy and Miccos Snow Cones & Shakes, plus some hard-working gardeners swapping plants in Cooper-Young.

A $30 million, mixed-use development featuring upscale shops, restaurants and boutiques, patterned in part after Silo Square in Southaven, is poised for approval in Hernando.

“The cases in our region that we plan to investigate as part of the Civil Wrongs project were often trivialized by journalists at the time. Reporters often took officials’ statements without question while disregarding Black voices that dared to complicate the story.”

Class of 2022 grad willing to lend a hand, while getting a chance to compete alongside the pros.

MALS is a 501(C)(3) organization providing civil legal services to individuals facing critical situations in the Memphis area including domestic violence, mortgage foreclosure and wrongful denial of healthcare.

Lee said Friday, July 29, at Knowledge Quest’s Teen Tech Center that more than 2,000 families in Memphis and Nashville have applied for school vouchers and 40 schools have expressed interest in accepting those vouchers.

This year’s game will be played on Dec. 28 and kicks off at 4:30 p.m.

Almost 65,000 had voted early or absentee through Thursday according to the latest figures from the state. The next-to-last day of the voting period on Fridays is usually the highest.

The Shelby Literacy Council grant denial will force the organization to pause its services in August, leaving nonprofit at risk of permanently closing.

Ritz’s nomination by President Joe Biden goes to the U.S. Senate for confirmation.

A Collierville High alumna and Collierville Elementary parent is seeking a seat on the town’s board of education.

Off the bench last season, Clarke averaged more than 10 points per game on 64.5% shooting – one of the best percentages in the league. 

A delegation from the Association of British HealthTech Industries just completed a two-day tour of Memphis to establish stronger relationships with local health care organizations.

Of the roughly 3,000 Americans who have been exonerated since the late 1980s, only 30 have been from Tennessee, Jessica Van Dyke said at the meeting.

Lakeland was designated an adventure tourism district for the state of Tennessee in 2017.

Law Wright says he’s approaching his final high school season with the same kind of approach he did the backyard games with his brothers Hays, a sophomore who is the backup at Central, and Brooks, a seventh grader at Bellevue Middle.

This marks the second connection made through records obtained by The Daily Memphian through open records requests to show Ray supervised a woman named in divorce filings as having had alleged affairs.

Network channel TLC captures local visiting Manhattan-based Kleinfeld Bridal salon and rapper Tommy Wright III is on the first track of Beyonce’s newly released album, “Renaissance.”

Penny Hardaway has selected a replacement for Rodney Hamilton as director of basketball operations.

In the middle of an election campaign, District Attorney Amy Weirich appears on Thaddeus Matthews’ show as her office simultaneously prosecutes him on several misdemeanor allegations. Legal experts say it appears to be a conflict of interest.

Miccos serves milkshakes, sno cones — which are actually New Orleans-style “snowballs” — sundaes and more.

“In that wonderful Memphis sort of way of zero degrees of separation from anybody and anything in the rest of the world, I’m related to Teddy Roosevelt.”

Also Friday, the Memphis Area Transit Authority will offer free service on all fixed routes to encourage early voting ahead of the Aug. 4 election day.