The pre-Valentine’s Day weekend “Love Wild” event allowed Memphis Zoo guests to eat while watching a keeper chat about African penguins, starring the renowned Dexter.

“We have families and rights. To see the children, who were having a good time, crying and terrified, was horrible,” said organizer Jenna Dunn. “It lit a fire inside of me that was already burning.”

Gloria “GloRilla” Woods visited her former high school, MLK Prep, to surprise students with a musical performance and a donation.

The city filed in Federal Court this past month following two elevated walkways collapsing and a fire that burned the apartment leasing office to the ground.

Klondike Smokey City Community Development Corporation, The Works, Inc. and Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. will host a May Day Saturday at Northside High School. 

Six months after residents at College Park, a government-subsidized housing complex in South Memphis, received letters informing them they would need to temporarily move out due to renovations, the site’s new owners hosted a groundbreaking ceremony. 

If there’s anything we can take away from this last week, it’s that the Cooper-Young neighborhood, although it has its stable businesses and celebrations, is constantly evolving while maintaining its unique character.

Last month, Frayser saw the addition of the new Legacy Impact Community Resource Center.

The center in Frayser will bring multiple benefits to the community for everyone from youths to veterans to seniors.

In something of a “surprise,” even to himself, Steve Lockwood is the new interim executive director of BAM. 

Klondike-Smokey City project will use an incentive first applied for the Binghampton Gateway Center. 

The county approved $1 million in ARPA grant funding for four community development groups in South Memphis, showing signs of growth in the area.

The Memphis Fire Department reached a new milestone Monday, Jan. 31, when it hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new fire headquarters at its “fire campus” at 2670 Avery Ave.

Alpha Omega Veterans Services was given the former training center through a federal grant by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

The City Council delayed a vote on the convenience store that would be built on Tillman Street between Broad Avenue and Sam Cooper Boulevard in Binghampton. 

The Memphis Medical District is currently undergoing a transformation with several private and public developments and redevelopments in the works. 

But there may be a small silver lining after most of the art installation was destroyed. 

This week was a busy one for Whitehaven as it wrapped up its appreciation week, Elvis Presley Boulevard received new Christmas ornaments, and a restaurant moved locations. 

The Daily Memphian’s new neighborhoods reporter is a native Memphian who has lived all over the city.