The Arlington Community Schools board will consider its annual fiscal year budget Tuesday evening, and included in the numbers is a significant increase to board members’ salaries.

Collierville agreed to sell the former University of Memphis satellite campus to the suburban school district. 

“Many of us know that training for these high-wage, high-demand careers are needed right now, and the demand will simply just continue to grow in the future,” said Michael Heindl, president of NWCC since 2018.

“This really wasn’t the plan,” owner Amanda Martelli joked. “I always wanted my own sports restaurant, and I never thought that (my husband) would do this for me. But here we are.”

Purchase of the Relax Inn and an adjoining site are next in Lakeland’s effort to re-invent the north side of the Canada Road-Interstate 40 interchange.

Arlington’s Board of Education chairman responded to remarks made by one of Germantown’s school board members in light of bumping custodial pay. Arlington and Germantown use the same custodial provider.

LED streetlight conversion was a major focus during Bartlett’s second budget workshop ahead of next week’s final vote on the financial plan and property tax rate.

Residents could face a 15-cent property tax increase with the revenue covering the cost of a new YMCA and purchasing properties north of the Interstate 40 interchange.

“I’m a little irritated that Arlington is just apparently throwing money around and we’re having to react,” GMSD board member Brian Curry said. “I’m not real happy about that.”

Part of the Rotary Club funds raised by the Collierville Balloon Festival are being used to help Hernando High students experience the obstacles of autism.

Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite doesn’t want trucks from a new development in Memphis ruining the city’s roads, so he plans to issue fines against the vehicles using Tulane Road.

After years of delays because of changing conditions and economic setbacks, a development has changed for a site near Goodman and Hacks Cross roads.

The Board of Aldermen unanimously approved designs for the projects, including a new Embassy Suites by Hilton hotel, which will be part of the Landers Center expansion. 

The University of Memphis Collierville Center is owned by the suburb. The town is looking to sell the building to the suburban district for its central offices.

Houston High school’s softball team now has a base to call their own.

“We have not seen anything on our end that would say, ‘Hey, this is imminent failure.’ But it’s still an emergency, and we’re still treating it as such because of the consequences.”

Andy B’s, a Bartlett bowling and entertainment business, was sold on Monday to Bowlero, a national chain of similar bowling operations. 

Collierville-based Township Development Services is expanding its team. The eastern road network and BlueOval City’s imminent production is creating new business opportunities.

A group of around three dozen waved signs for more than an hour and a half near Poplar Avenue and Byhalia Road, urging people to contact their state lawmakers about stricter gun laws.

Area experts are closely watching Arkabutla Dam at the DeSoto-Tate county line to make sure a foundation problem does not contribute to a breach.

Plans for Chapel Lakes, a residential development in Lakeland, have been presented to the city a few times but never moved forward. Now a new developer is in the driver’s seat. 

Mandy Gunasekara’s run for Public Service Commissioner in Mississippi’s Northern District suffered a blow Thursday when the state Supreme Court ruled she had not met the five-year residency requirement.

If we’re being real, chicken might be the true favored protein in Memphis year-round, and Kukuruku offers more variety of a thing we already can’t get enough of. 

The youngest son of “Big John” Grisanti just purchased the building at 148 North Main St., which was most recently home to P.O. Press Public House & Provisions. 

After concentrating on improvements at Snowden Grove, Southaven will spend funds from its “Penny for Your Parks” program on neighborhood parks.