Teachers in the suburban municipal districts can begin receiving vaccinations beginning Wednesday as educators begin to receive the shots.

The Raleigh vaccination site will open next week at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith.

We’re letting the good times roll — even if your car shouldn’t. We’ve also got the best kind of snowballs, vaccine locations closed and coaching prospects for the University of Memphis. 

With temperatures remaining below freezing, the city is using snow equipment it has only used one other time in the past eight years. And when snow removal begins, the city warns the snow is likely to go on sidewalks and other property that is not the responsibility of public works.

Announcement about Wednesday will be made at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

After a late-night notification, teachers braved Monday’s weather to receive expiring doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The city has been running the Appling location with UTHSC, vaccinating about 1,000 people a day without long lines and running out of vaccine.

The County Commission will discuss the call by Commissioner Mick Wright during Wednesday, Feb. 17, committee sessions. Wright said the current system needs to be reworked.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 156 new coronavirus cases today, Feb. 15, with one new death. 

The Memphis City Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 16, has been postponed for a week as the city recovers from a Monday deluge of snow and sleet.

In case you wondered, the National Weather Service refers to the Memphis area’s current precipitation as “freezing fog.” They even posted a tweet from Beale Street.

Eight love stories and all the snow you could ever want, plus the first day of school is set, a coach retires and minor league baseball is getting major changes. 

Some savored the unusual weather, including a couple having a Valentine’s Day wedding, while others stormed stores to stock up.

Bartlett City Schools and local colleges close campuses, Monday classes due to inclement weather.

Saturday, many were turned away unable to receive a vaccine. They were told to return Sunday and some arrived to a snowy lot with no staff on site.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 180 new cases and one additional virus-related death Sunday. 

For a while, the good times rolled when Memphis had its own Mardi Gras. Then Yellow Fever happened. This year, as the pandemic takes a toll on Fat Tuesday, we look at 1870s images that recall a citywide celebration.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, City Council member JB Smiley Jr. says the Health Department needs “boots on the ground” in Black communities to remedy a racial disparity in who is getting the COVID-19 vaccines.

When David Porter and Kontji Anthony proclaimed their love on Facebook, it proved what we already should have known. Love doesn’t stop for a pandemic. Here are seven Valentine’s Day stories that will remind you of the wonder and durability of love. 

Wind chills could fall as low as -5 Saturday night and Sunday morning. Warming centers are open for those who have no heat or no place to go, and the Office of Emergency Management will provide transportation.

The state’s two Republican Senators telegraphed their votes for acquittal in former President Trump’s second impeachment trial days ahead of the Saturday vote to acquit that ended the trial.

Overall, a total of 94,664 total doses were administered in Shelby County. At least 69,557 people in Shelby County received one vaccine dose; 25,107 people have received both COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to Health Department data.

Since March, the Health Department has reported 86,070 total coronavirus cases and 1,439 deaths, classifying 81,866 cases as inactive/recovered.

After being closed for two consecutive days due to inclement weather, three Shelby County Health Department COVID-19 vaccination sites reopened Saturday, Feb. 13.

New EEOC proposal says incentives have to be minor, not “100 bucks,” said Burch, Porter & Johnson lawyer Lisa Krupicka.