With Clerk Wanda Halbert still declining to pay Millington for use of a city building in the North Shelby County suburb, Commissioner Mick Wright is drafting legislation where the county could cover the back rent.
Walls is DeSoto County’s “last frontier,” a city that would like to add services, but keep its small-town characteristics.
Jeremy Liu is 13 and the only Tennesseean representing Team USA in the World Artistic Roller Skating Championship. The sport is similar to figure skating but on wheels, and there’s no ice.
DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton said his office is challenging the sentence, arguing sexual battery committed by a person in a position of trust is classified as a violent crime and is specifically ineligible for the house arrest program under Mississippi law.
The combination of Whiteside’s sentence and school board member Michele Henley’s defense of her has galvanized a growing movement focused on accountability within DeSoto County’s leadership and education systems.
“Everything is on the table,” Millington’s city manager said.
Germantown will soon ask its residents a big question: Should mayor become a full-time job?
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Orgill’s massive new building on Bailey Station Road in Collierville began hosting hundreds of dealers Tuesday, Oct. 14, a day after the company celebrated the facility’s opening.
The tiny town of Walls is overlooked compared to DeSoto County’s four other cities, but it provides space for the potential for controlled growth.
A former high school coach and youth minister at a DeSoto County church pleaded guilty to sexual battery with a minor, but her sentence was considered too lenient by District Attorney Matthew Barton.
Collierville leaders appointed an accomplished attorney to their town prosecutor role. They also approved an escape room adjacent to Booya’s.
A dog park, an accessible playground and beyond, Lakeland Mayor Josh Roman says the city’s latest project “will be the cherry on top.”
In this week’s installment of a special Halloween-themed “Ask the Memphian,” we’ll tell you all about the Shelby Forest Pig Man. It’s up to you if you believe any of it.
Real estate agent Ben Boscaccy’s social media fans find his posts to be anything but pedestrian as he treks through the Memphis suburb.
The suburb’s Municipal Planning and Design Review Commission recommends a new site plan for The Learning Center on Canada Road.
This may be where Germantown has reached the crossroads between commitment to the community and paying the mayor for the 40-plus-hour work week.
For the fourth year, the Tennessee Shakespeare Company will perform outside of the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, this time presenting “Much Ado About Nothing.”
Lausanne’s T.J. Jenkins threw passes for five touchdowns and ran for two more TDs.
Canon Day won 51% of the vote for a big performance in Houston’s 28-25 loss to Oak Grove, Mississippi.
Service at City Hall was disrupted Friday, Oct. 3, due to a problem with external AT&T equipment.
Staffing has been an issue since Fire Chief John Selberg took his position. Now, there are enough employees to open the new station.
After terminating the previous leaders of the city’s animal shelter, the Horn Lake Board of Mayor and Aldermen have named replacements for the facilities top two positions.
“The qualities needed to win an election are not the same qualities needed to manage a modern city like Germantown.”
Residents in a Bartlett neighborhood opposed rezoning a tract to commercial, saying it is not in keeping with the long-held character of their homes.
The city has a cap of $83 million, but could raise that cap under proposed changes to help with Houston High upgrades.
For a good chunk of this year, construction on the existing Town Hall forced the growing number of employees into alternate spaces.
The church has purchased 8 acres near its current property to adapt to growth as necessary.
But all suburbs have a city administrator or manager who oversees day-to-day operations — and makes more money than their mayoral counterparts.