The Shelby County mayor says a survey of county employees found that 70% had already been vaccinated.

Council resolutions to call for no coal ash disposal within the city and over aquifers that supply the city’s drinking water will be voted on in two weeks.

Germantown will mandate vaccines for city employees with termination a possibility if they don’t comply. 

Dr. Jeff Warren believes it’s time for mandatory masking; Deni Reilly worries restaurants are going to bear the brunt of high COVID numbers once again.

The outline includes major funding for an expansion of broadband to parts of the city where connections were a problem as schools went to virtual learning last year.

The Shelby County Health Department has new guidance on masking.

COVID and the New Bridge are back, new cars make themselves scarce, a Tiger gets his own brand camp and a Cicada makes a move in East Memphis. 

Sunday, the situation was dire enough that Regional One Health diverted trauma cases to other emergency rooms.

Two resolutions come up in council committees Tuesday, Aug. 3. One urges TVA to keep coal ash from the old Allen Fossil plant out of the city, another seeks to have the ash taken outside the eight-state region where a system of aquifers provides water for Memphis and other cities.

Dr. Jason Martin of Nashville, a likely contender in the Democratic primary for governor, campaigned in Memphis this past weekend.

An attorney representing a former Memphis police officer charged with vehicular homicide in a fatal June crash said Monday they are studying if the case can be resolved without a trial. 

Because of the recent spike in Delta variant cases, Tennessee Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said more vaccine-hesitant people have decided to get vaccinated. 

The Hernando DeSoto Bridge reopened to all traffic — eastbound and westbound — 84 days after is was closed when Arkansas bridge inspectors noticed structural damage to a box beam on the north face of the span.

Order runs through the end of August and may be renewed.

County Commissioner Tami Sawyer announced Monday she will not seek a second term in the 2022 county elections. Her decision means six new faces on the commission in the next election.

We’re having different conversations about crime, SRVS is working the labor shortage and could Collierville benefit from a district approach? 

A common presence at the two July town hall meetings within two days of each other was the city’s new police chief, who is feeling her way through different discussions on what is the most effective response to violent crime.

“We have an untapped resource of labor that they can get, and they probably are not aware of that,” says Troy Allen, director of employment for Shelby Resident and Vocational Services.

As the start of the school year approaches, Shelby County Schools and surrounding suburban districts are releasing guidelines on how they’ll reopen safely, amid rising COVID-19 cases and uncertainty around the Delta variant.

“I want to pay it forward, and I’m working with an organization that is doing incredible things to help children and families,” Marie Pizano said of MVP3 Entertainment Group’s partnership with Rotary-Family Youth Initiative.