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    The state’s only dual-language program grows with Memphis’ Latino population

    It’s lunchtime at Treadwell Elementary and the school’s new optional program coordinator, Darlene May, is heading to the cafeteria. Along the way, she’s met by a dozen students shouting, “Hola!” through beaming smiles.

    By Cole Bradley, High Ground News October 02, 2018
  • Business

    Hotel Napoleon celebrates two successful years in iconic Downtown building

    With a vision to repurpose an older building into a boutique hotel, Jay Kumar and Snay Patel immediately fell in love with the charm of the former Press-Scimitar building, located at the corner of Madison Avenue and B.B. King Boulevard.

    By Christin Yates October 02, 2018
  • Health Care

    New Midtown clinic takes preventive-care approach

    Instead of waiting to schedule a doctor’s appointment until a health concern comes along, a new clinic in Midtown is taking a more proactive approach to health care.

    By Michelle Corbet September 29, 2018
  • Real Estate

    ErinWay Shopping Center to undergo renovation

    A shopping center in the heart of East Memphis will soon undergo a renovation.

    By Tom Bailey September 28, 2018
  • Real Estate

    Downtown sensors keeping tabs on feet on the street

    More feet on the street has long been a mantra in the Downtown Memphis Commission’s effort to attract development and improve quality of life Downtown.

    By Wayne Risher September 28, 2018
  • Education

    17 schools in Tennessee’s turnaround district remain priority schools six years after first takeovers

    Most of the schools that were taken over by Tennessee’s turnaround district remain on the state’s priority list six years after the intervention efforts began.

    By Caroline Bauman September 28, 2018
  • Health Care

    Bereaved parents help pediatric hospitals, medical professionals deliver bad news

    When 9-year-old Sydney Ives attended her first piano lesson, she put her hands on the keys and when she attempted to play a note, her right hand fell flat to her side, as if she’d had a stroke.

    By Michelle Corbet September 26, 2018
  • Business

    Fashion entrepreneur Ashley Dean-Parson’s ‘glamtique’ offers one-stop shopping

    With her “glamtique” Ashley Dean-Parson has flipped the concept of boutique on its head. “A lot of times, being a full-figured woman, we would go into a store that we would really, really love and they wouldn’t have a plus-size section or if they did, it was really, really small,” she said. “So, I took that same concept and did it here and did the reverse.”

    By Elle Perry September 23, 2018
  • Midtown

    MIFA celebrates jubilee year

    Since its founding by church and community leaders on Sept. 15, 1968, the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association has spawned a number of organizations and has grown into one of the most important nonprofits in the Mid-South. In fiscal 2018, which ran from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, MIFA served more than half a million meals to more than 3,600 seniors; helped more 3,500 families with utility, rent and mortgage assistance; distributed more than 11,000 food vouchers; connected more than 250 families with permanent, stable housing; and screened more than 7,000 calls through a 24-hour homeless hotline.

    By Elle Perry September 22, 2018
  • North Memphis

    City-wide diaper drive to support Memphis families in poverty

    “I need help with everything,” Brooks said. “Most important has been the money issue. Buying Pampers, wipes, clothes, extra bottles. Then transportation sometimes because my mom works every day, and I need to find a way to my doctor’s appointments for my babies.

    By Ashlei Williams, High Ground News September 22, 2018
  • Reviews

    Pete & Sam’s still serves up the favorites, but it does it better

    Pete & Sam’s celebrates its 70th anniversary this year in a spiffed up restaurant, thanks to the Bomarito brothers taking on local investor partners and a late 2017 fire that caused the place to close for almost five months for cleaning and updating.

    By Jennifer Biggs September 21, 2018
  • South Memphis

    Bike and community projects proposed for South Memphis inspired by the Netherlands

    One by one, each Big Jump Project advisory committee member explained the project they want to pursue in South Memphis, based on inspiration from a week spent in the Netherlands in June.

    By Elle Perry September 21, 2018
  • Real Estate

    More employees fuel need for second industrial entrance

    The Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission is working to secure state funds to create a second entrance, or exit, where the road inside the industrial park currently dead ends on the south side.

    By Michelle Corbet September 18, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx earnings surge, but fall short of expectations

    FedEx earnings rose nearly 38 percent in the June-August quarter from a year ago, but fell short of analysts’ expectations.

    By Wayne Risher September 17, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Memphis sees potential in river shipment of cargo containers

    Memphis doesn’t want to miss the boat if and when container ships start plying the Mississippi River on a regular basis.

    By Wayne Risher September 17, 2018

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