The new Frayser branch library opened Thursday, May 15, to a standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 people at 2220 James Road, replacing the city’s smallest branch library farther north in Frayser.

The museum on the larger history of the Klondike area is in an old bank building on Jackson Avenue, about a block from the house where Tom Lee lived the last 27 years of his life.

More than 50 residents and supporters of Frayser came together Thursday in something of a pep rally for the community following two recent episodes of gun violence. And two specific items were mentioned that could provide some encouragement for residents.

In a commercial kitchen in Frayser, something more than food is being made. Confidence, community and second chances are coming together one meal at a time.

“This is the rebuild and transformation of Frayser, but this is also a moment, a forerunner, of things to come,” said Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, who first proposed building the school five years ago.

“I just want to thank him for grounding me,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young said at the funeral of Pastor Ricky Floyd. “And for being a barometer to so many people in this community.”

Leaders of Girls Inc. and city officials cut the ribbon Friday, March 21, on a new greenhouse to go with the 20,000-square-foot building opened in 2023. It is part of a storied Frayser landscape.

Comeback Coffee and the adjacent Greenhaus were small businesses, but they represented a vision for what may be the “last frontier of Downtown Memphis.” 

North Memphis residents met Tuesday night to hear the latest on the long-delayed plan for a pedestrian and bike pathway stretching from Chelsea and Evergreen to Washington Park. 

Satellite Music Hall, slated to open in fall 2026, will host concerts, comedy shows, community gatherings and more.

Two men shot at each other at Raleigh Walmart, but they both missed. One of the men, however, shot himself in the leg and is in critical condition. Police have detained the other man, with charges likely.

In addition to competing, barbecue teams will have the opportunity to sell select menu items to attendees. 

Shelly Rice invited Mike Ellis, senior pastor of Frayser’s Impact Baptist Church, to helm the weekly Thursday meetings that have become the envy of other Memphis neighborhoods who crave consistent community engagement.

Leadership Memphis hosted the MLK Health and Wellness Day event as part of its volunteer efforts around the city tied to the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. 

“We hear a lot about restaurants closing here in Memphis, and they just leave, but this is one that we should say, ‘Thank you for all the things you have done for us. After 40 years, this family deserves all the flowers.”

The funds would have to be allocated at the Shelby County Commission’s meetings on Dec. 11 and Dec. 16, the last two before the end of the year. 

With a steady hand and a needle and thread, Rose Wheeler taught herself patience again. 

“We would like to have to be first choice for the new chemical engineers, data scientists, chemists that are coming out of the local universities,” said the company’s CEO. “We also hope to attract talent from around the country and perhaps even around the world to come to Memphis.”

At Hawkins Mill Elementary, chronic absenteeism plummeted. And at Trezevant High, graduation rates climbed closer to the district average. Both had been among Tennessee’s bottom 5% for over a decade.

“The new venue will be a unique addition to the city and bring even more exciting shows to Memphis,” said Grant Lyman, president of Live Nation Southeast. 

Up to 400 families received canned goods, electrolyte mixes, games, books, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, makeup and other toiletry items Thursday, Nov. 7.

Command staff, recruits, officers and their friends and community partners will paint, put in siding and install doors and windows as part of a Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis project at Imperial Avenue and Pearce Street. 

The $81 million, 270,000-square-foot Northside Square development is partnered with the work of restored and new affordable housing under the banner of “Moving Klondike Forward.”

The Wraparound District 6 strategy, which received an initial $600,000 investment that will be managed by the School Seed Foundation, will address public safety, public health and public education in north Shelby County.

The project leaders of the redevelopment of the former Northside High School in Memphis’ oldest Black community announced on Thursday, Oct. 17, that the residential financials have closed.