Neighborhood studies next step against cancer-causing chemical
Ethylene oxide, or EtO, has been on the community’s radar since the Environmental Protection Agency identified a Florida Street business as one of 23 high-risk polluters.
Ethylene oxide, or EtO, has been on the community’s radar since the Environmental Protection Agency identified a Florida Street business as one of 23 high-risk polluters.
Former Shelby County Commissioner Sidney Chism’s annual summer political picnic returned June 10. It was also the last day of early voting for the special primary elections in state House District 86. And Martin Luther King III came through Memphis last week in a summer bus tour across the country.
Tone celebrates Juneteenth with a festival on its Orange Mound Tower grounds on Jun 18, 2023.
A 7-CD box set brings together 146 demos from the legendary label, including 140 previously unreleased recordings.
Volunteers rolled up their sleeves and got to work cleaning, weeding and painting Westwoods’ abandoned drive-in, with sights set on a new community area.
For a time, Doris Bradshaw walked miles around the neighborhood nearly every day, telling her neighbors about the toxins at the Defense Depot — arsenic, lead, mercury and a host of other chemicals — that seeped into their soil and water. Within the first year, Doris had organized a group of about 1,500 people.
“No children in America should be sitting in a classroom, sweltering in the summer and cold in the winter,” said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. “Every child should have a safe and comfortable learning environment so they can soar.”
The former Whitehaven High star played at Missouri and Jackson State before signing this year with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent.
In the summer before his first season in charge at Whitehaven High, former Memphis point guard Willie Kemp will coach the Beale Street Boys in The Basketball Tournament.
In advance of the legislature’s special session, the former Shelby County District Attorney and head of Tennessee’s Department of Safety and Homeland Security argues for a series of changes to the state’s gun laws.
“I decided I was gonna sell some lipstick,” Angelita Parham recalls. “I put them on Facebook and, honey, they sold out in the first day.”
As residents assembled outside the Westwood community center, local and state leaders called for government action against gun violence. “Our state legislature needs a sense of urgency to address this problem through appropriate legislation.”
The new location joins more than 200 American Deli locations across eight states. In Tennessee, this will bring the number of American Deli locations to 11.
The bulk of that went to approve a proposal of more than $44 million for the reconstruction of the west half of the Taxiway Alpha at Memphis International Airport.
The fire took the life of Lt. Jeffrey Norman and injured three of his team members.