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    Explore Bike Share rolling onto Hampline in Year 3

    Explore Bike Share by the numbers: In two years, Memphis bike-sharing nonprofit logged more than 56,000 rides by 22,000 riders, covering 193,000 miles and lasting for 2.5 million minutes.

    By Wayne Risher June 12, 2020
  • North Memphis

    Neighborhood leaders reconnect in first meeting since COVID-19 pandemic

    Rice hopes the Frayser Exchange Club resumes in-person meetings in the next month or two at Impact Baptist Church and Ministries on Clifton Avenue. That’s almost entirely dependent on how the pandemic’s status locally.

    By Omer Yusuf June 11, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Building permit sought to renovate historic buildings for restaurant, apartments

    Project plan is to convert upper floors of four, attached buildings into six apartments, and enlarge McEwen's restaurant.

    By Tom Bailey June 09, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Elmwood cradle gardeners tend roots of history

    There are thousands of cradles graves at Elmwood. Slowly, in pockets and bunches, they are being planted by a troupe of volunteers finding particular solace tending a cemetery in a pandemic.

    By Jane Roberts June 09, 2020
  • Business

    Church unveils renovated sanctuary while testing safe worship

    The Church of the Holy Communion members have two reasons to celebrate: They finally get to see their renovated worship space, and each other.

    By Tom Bailey June 06, 2020
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    Improved apartments, rising rent may force refugees from Binghampton

    Some see new investment and neighborhood improvements that can lift the area's quality of life. Others see rising rents and property values that displace neighbors who cannot afford to stay. One or both is happening at Binghampton's Woodcrest Apartments. 

    By Tom Bailey June 05, 2020
  • Food News

    Former Caritas director wants to reopen; board says it’s closed for the summer

    Caritas Village is closed, though a former director says she and her husband, the chef, want to run it and open now. But the board says the café will close permanently.

    By Jennifer Biggs June 03, 2020
  • Business

    Interfaith leaders call for conversation about racism

    Memphis faith leaders and social justice advocates called Tuesday, June 2, for a meeting with top Memphis and law enforcement officials to address racist roots of violence against black people.

    By Wayne Risher June 03, 2020
  • Metro

    Congregations gather again, and it’s a little different

    Ridgeway Baptist Church reopened Sunday morning, and about 130 of the flock attended. 

    By Abigail Warren June 01, 2020
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    Pizzeria Trasimeno takes over vacated Elemento space at Crosstown

    Sabine Langer, who owns Global Cafe in Crosstown Concourse, will open Pizzeria Trasimeno there on Tuesday.

    By Jennifer Biggs May 30, 2020
  • Health Care

    Dar Salud moving to nonprofit model, adding clinics in Orange Mound, Whitehaven

    Two new clinics are expected to open by year's end, and in another four to five years, the team that created Dar Salud expects the nonprofit network will have 10 clinics to serve chronically underserved people in Memphis.

    By Jane Roberts May 28, 2020
  • Business

    Immaculate Conception Cathedral School ends its high school program

    The school was unable to withstand the impact of a world pandemic, economic recession and competition from other schools.

    By Linda A. Moore May 27, 2020
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    Veterans’ cemeteries ready for Memorial Day visitors

    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. 

    By Patrick Lantrip May 25, 2020
  • Education

    Give901 needs help to buy books for area children

    Memphis nonprofit will donate 1,300 summer learning kits for area children.

    By Linda A. Moore June 02, 2020
  • Financial Services

    Raymond James colleagues reunite for Mid-South Food Bank

    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.

    By Tom Bailey May 27, 2020
  • Metro

    Honoring veterans on Memorial Day during pandemic takes creative thinking

    The director of the West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery found a special way this Memorial Day to honor those who sacrificed everything.

    By Karen Pulfer Focht May 25, 2020
  • Neighborhoods

    ‘Miracle’ third child snares fourth-generation Grambling scholarship

    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.

    By David Waters May 19, 2020
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    Brookhaven Lofts bringing live/work (and walk) units to East Memphis

    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. 

    By Tom Bailey May 19, 2020
  • Coronavirus

    Swimming pool operators await health department guidance

    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. 

    By Drew Hill May 16, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Graceland-linked production plant wins planning board’s OK

    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.

    By Tom Bailey May 14, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Longtime South City businesses plan renovations

    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.

    By Tom Bailey May 13, 2020
  • Shelby County

    County Commission panel approves trash service for Northaven

    Weekly trash collection services for Northaven residents could begin as early as July 1.

    By Linda A. Moore May 13, 2020
  • Metro

    Fred Davis, charter city council member and black business advocate, dies at 86

    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.

    By Bill Dries May 12, 2020
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    Lululemon coming to Midtown

    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. 

    By Tom Bailey May 12, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    YMCA is more than gym-and-swim when kids need lunch

    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.

    By Jane Roberts May 11, 2020

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