There’s a flurry of events and festivals in mid-May, and you need to get tickets now because they’re all pre-sale and they’ll be gone soon.

As Durham Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis awaits confirmation from the Memphis City Council as the new leader of MPD, city leaders, former colleagues and activists from her past weigh in on her law enforcement career. 

As Lakeland grows, so does the need for more parks. The latest recreation area — Oak Ridge Park — should open in May as students finish classes and start summer break. 

While neither side is completely happy, the law allowing Tennessee gun owners to carry openly with or without a permit sailed through the legislature — and with relatively little pushing from gun advocacy groups. 

There are at least a couple of Grizzlies who merit serious consideration for year-end accolades, starting with Kyle Anderson.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 149 new coronavirus cases and no additional deaths Sunday, May 2. 

Many of the speakers reiterated concerns about the pipeline’s potential impact on the city’s aquifer and questioned why the Byhalia Connection had to run through predominantly lower-income Black neighborhoods in Memphis.

‘I now understand the science of groundwater aquifers and the complex of laws and regulations that keep an aquifer healthy,’ says geologist Deborah Baker Carington. ‘I also understand the very real risks an oil pipeline spill would pose to the region’s most precious resource, the Memphis aquifer.’

Lynne Turley taught music in the Memphis City Schools for 22 years. She believed that every child was musical.

Work has begun on the nearly $90 million Opus East Memphis at 1029 Cherry Road, which developer Kevin Adams says will take about two years to complete. The 240-unit facility will offer independent living, assisted living and dementia care.

In the war against opioid overdose deaths, Tennessee is winning one battle — doctors are prescribing pain pills at much lower rates — but still losing other battles.

May 1, 2021: Magic 112, Grizzlies 111

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Thirty-two years ago after quitting nursing school in her final semester, Penny Williams earned her RN degree in one of the first in-person commencement exercises in Memphis in more than a year.

The retreat Saturday, May 1, marks the first in-person council meeting in more than a year. It included new details of $16 million in bonuses to city employees in Mayor Jim Strickland’s $716 million budget proposal and a flap over whether team-building exercises and a tour of the Renasant Convention Center were open to reporters.

Overall, the Health Department has reported 95,598 total coronavirus cases and 1,620 deaths, classifying 92,340 cases as inactive/recovered.

The Sun Belt Player of the Year had included the Tigers among his four finalists.

Regional One Health earned the lowest marks for care and patient safety while Saint Francis-Bartlett and Methodist Olive Branch were the only four-star hospitals in the metro area.

A $6.5 million project to install along the Highland Strip five crosswalks, medians, better sidewalks, more lighting, lusher landscaping and improved drainage is set to be complete by June 2022.

The Memphis musician’s blend of hip-hop and R&B finds nationwide airplay. ‘I grew up on Memphis music and I just try to compact all of those influences into one thing,’ he says.

City Council budget committee Chairman Worth Morgan said that the drop of the city property tax rate below $3 as appraised values have increased could set the stage for a tax rate hike.

RoboKiller predicts that scammers will design even smarter, more believable phone scams in the future. Spam calls could reach 70 billion and texts 90 billion by the end of 2021.