Memorial Day Weekend is normally one of the busiest times of the year at the 153-year-old Memphis National Cemetery off Jackson Avenue, and 28-year-old West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery on Forest Hill-Irene Road. But like most aspects of current American life, the COVID-19 pandemic made other plans.
Memphis nonprofit will donate 1,300 summer learning kits for area children.
The company's 937 employees in Memphis have worked from home during the pandemic, but a number reconvened Thursday to donate food and money for the Mid-South Food Bank.
The director of the West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery found a special way this Memorial Day to honor those who sacrificed everything.
COVID-19 cancelled Amari Ajamu's senior trip, and prom, and graduation ceremony, but it didn't stop his family from celebrating their Soulsville Charter School and Stax Academy graduate.
A development team is building a three-story apartment building that will place residents in the middle of the restaurants, groceries and entertainment that surround Brookhaven Circle in East Memphis.
Will it be safe to swim at community pools this summer? The Shelby County Health Department has not yet issued reopening guidelines for swimming locations.
Despite a “rejection” recommendation from the Office of Planning & Development, the Land Use Control Board voted 6-4 to approve construction of a production facility, using 3-D printing, in the middle of single-family homes in Whitehaven.
Both founded in South City in the 1960s, Paradise Entertainment Center and Tom Martin's Body Shop plan to improve the exterior of their buildings.
Weekly trash collection services for Northaven residents could begin as early as July 1.
Fred Davis was an early advocate of black-owned business growth even before the city had a majority African American population. He was also on the city council during the 1968 sanitation workers strike.
The athletic-apparel chain will open its second, Memphis-area store at the southwest corner of Central and Cooper. The 111-year-old building last housed Toad Hall Antiques.
The YMCA’s community meal plan is now running seven days a week. A week ago Friday, it fed 18,000 people in one day.
Terry Ryan loved Frayser football, and the feeling was mutual.
Reverend Jacek Kowal cited changing demographics in Collierville, competing private schools and COVID-19 among factors which led to decision to shut school doors.
A sense of community built over six years at the coffee shop will leave lasting memories for customers and those who worked there.
An online petition and plans for a "peaceful vehicle protest" Wednesday mark opposition to a proposal to convert Whitehaven's old Graves Elementary into a manufacturing and vo-tech complex.
Frayser Community Schools recently launched its “Family Wellness Check” program. The goal is for staff to remain in touch with students and families weekly and help connect those families to resources such as food.
LPI Memphis, the owner of Overton Square, plans to build a three-story, 18-unit apartment building in the entertainment and dining district.
St. Patrick Catholic Church has been streaming its services on Sundays due to the suspension of public mass. But parishioners' pictures are taped to the pews while they gather apart for worship. Public Mass has been suspended until May 16 by a decree of Memphis Bishop David Talley.
Not every business will be willing or prepared to reopen Monday even if allowed to under the Memphis and Shelby County "Back to Business" plan.
The first 11 grants, totaling $62,500, were approved Friday, May 1, under the Economic Development Growth Engine's new program to aid small, inner-city businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A building permit application filed this week is part of a $20 million project to enlarge and upgrade St. Clair Foods, which makes potato salad and many other refrigerated or frozen side dishes and has an expanded deal with Sam's Club stores.
Ron Redwing and Golden Gate Cathedral set out to ease a financial burden for residents in Frayser, but the addition of music made for a timely party at the pump.
The Memphis College of Art Legacy Catalog celebrates the school's 84-year history with lots of photographs and names.