“This is the best-case scenario for this site,” Arlington’s town planner said of the Dunkin’. “It does have indoor seating. It has everything we’re asking for.”

The Memphis suburb’s mayor’s seat, three alderman positions and two Arlington Community Schools (ACS) board offices are on this year’s town ballot.

Arlington’s growth, with a slight nod to the proposed BlueOval City plant, has nudged the project higher on the TDOT priority list. Mayor Mike Wissman said the town has sought the interchange work for years.

Some delays regarding the infrastructure have slowed the progress of completing Providence Place in Arlington, developer says.

Dealing with hundreds of acres of undeveloped land south of Interstate 40, Arlington officials want to make sure they establish a plan in keeping with town’s character.

At age 86, after more than five decades in state and county positions, he is retiring from his job as Millington’s city manager. This time, he says it’s real.

After a stint in administration at Houston High School, Shannon Blackburn will become principal at Arlington Middle School officially beginning next month.

Medical-device maker Stryker’s Arlington campus houses its foot and ankle business and consists of a manufacturing and distribution center and a biologics building where nonmetal products like bone grafts are made. 

The overall plan includes up to 37 townhomes, 114 individually owned stacked flats, 600 rental apartments and more than 50,000 square feet of retail.

The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students, including former Arlington High football player Devin Chandler who died.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a potentially deadly bacterial infection transmitted through the bite of infected ticks and typically seen with the American dog tick.

Arlington wastes little time in naming a new principal for the district’s high school, replacing Shannon Abraham.

The budget includes nearly an 8% hike in annual starting teacher salaries to $52,000.In fact, all Arlington Community Schools employees will receive a significant increase in salary next year.

The Tigers begin tournament play Tuesday night against Bradley Central at Murfreesboro Oakland high school.

Bands by the Square, blues by the lake and orchestras in at a winery: Two different concert series kick off in Shelby County suburbs, and a “Night of Enchantment” will unfold in Lakeland.

The Arlington Community Schools budget includes a substantial raise in salaries for the coming fiscal year, an increase official say will make the starting salary for teachers the highest of the suburban districts.

After missing the 2023 softball season, senior shortstop Addie Graham has come back better than ever.

After a two-year tenure as principal at Arlington High, Shannon Abraham is returning to Bartlett City Schools as head of the district’s high school.

Based on an idea borne from the pandemic years, Arlington Middle School has opened an outdoor classroom, providing a different learning environment for students.

Stryker Corp. gathered some of its ankle-replacement patients at its Arlington campus to get feedback from those who have benefitted from the procedure.

Future businesses like BlueOval and accompanying industry will provide opportunities for the local workforce, according to an executive with the Greater Memphis Chamber.

Mayor Mike Wissman — alongside 6-year-old “Mayor For a Day” Molly Grace Caldwell — ran a tight ship at Arlington’s annual budget review, keeping the suburb’s property-tax rate at $1.28 for the fourth consecutive year.

While increased interest rates and rising cost of materials have slowed the housing market, things could improve by the end of this year or the first of 2025.

Scott Hauss, a graduate of the University of Memphis, spent more than three decades in senior management in the banking industry and has been involved with ECS for more than 20 years, including serving as a member of the ECS Board of Trustees for 14 years.