Task Force driving down suburban crime, officials say
Some worried the Memphis Safe Task Force’s launch would drive crime up in the suburbs.
Some worried the Memphis Safe Task Force’s launch would drive crime up in the suburbs.
Shelby County’s first Safe Haven Baby Box is open in Collierville, and parents can surrender newborns anonymously and legally at the suburb’s newest fire station.
Bond conditions have changed for the 19-year-old charged with eight felonies related to two sexual assaults at the Collierville campus after school hours.
A man accused in a double homicide at a Collierville apartment complex in Sept. 2023 entered a guilty plea on Wednesday. He was scheduled for trial in late February.
The builder said the condos will be one to two bedrooms ideal for singles, nurses, pilots or an elderly couple. There’s no official price yet, but he said could sell for $400,000.
A 19-year-old accused of eight felonious accounts related to two sexual assaults on the St. George’s campus appeared in court. His attorney says much of the story is still untold.
The project would replace the historic home that Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken once operated. The mixed-use development would offer a residential ownership option above retail and office space.
Several suburban officials noted they pretreated major roads with a salt and sand mixture. While they continue to treat them, that mixture only works when temperatures are approximately 20 degrees.
For town leaders, one Collierville street is due for a “road diet.”
This is the second time Edwards Realty has hosted the contest. This time it chose five winners who will get six months rent-free at the shopping center.
Rachel Davis moved to Collierville because keeping her kids in the district was important. Now she’s seeking election to the suburb’s Board of Education.
Bryant Swing Jr. turned himself in Friday following an investigation of rape at St. George’s outside of school hours.
“It’s time, and I’m very happy with my decision. I have no regrets,” Chism said.
“If I was asking you to give me 300 bucks a month every day for five years and get nothing — what would you do?” one of the property owners said.
Jack Knight is one busy 11-year-old. He’s an athlete, actor and aspiring entrepreneur.
Collierville officials endorsed a plan to subdivide more than 130 acres in southeast Collierville.
Improvements to the future Thompson Machinery site in Collierville are needed before the company can relocate to the suburb.
Bailey plans to pull his petition Jan. 9, the first day candidates can pick up their paperwork. He is running in the Republican primary.
Watty Brooks Hall opened her shop on the square more than 26 years ago, offering a unique collection of gifts and decor for multiple generations of customers.
A new strategic plan should take Collierville into 2050, but what that will look like — and what it will mean for the town — is still up in the air.
Trinity Church, which has met in a gymnasium at Schilling Farms, will move its congregation westward to a home of its own.
Collierville is the only school in the area to offer aviation mechanics at the high school level.
Collierville added several improvements this week to enhance the safety in the town.
Collierville Town Square is not the only thing glowing brighter this season. South Houston Levee Road will soon be illuminated.
Collierville opened its sixth fire station Tuesday. The station is the biggest in the suburb and features the county’s first Safe Haven Baby Box.
“This is not what I want,” Mayor Maureen Fraser said. “This is not what the Board of Mayor and Aldermen wants. This is what you, the community, wants.”
The dispatch center was useful in September 2021, when a shooter opened fire in a Kroger, and more than $800,000 worth of improvements aim to keep it “resilient.”
The Grant family name has become synonymous with homebuilding and development with a number of relatives involved for generations.
Some said that Michael Lightman, who contributed to the real estate landscape of Memphis, had the “Midas touch.”