James Lewellen’s 26 years in Collierville will come to a close in a few months, but the impact he had on the suburb will surpass his time with the town. Related story:
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Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order allows students to opt out and attend classes without masks.
Germantown Baptist Church will reopen as a mass vaccination site in September.
Schools saw COVID-19 even when universal masking was required. The numbers from the first week of school, prior to Gov. Bill Lee’s order, provide a baseline.
Suburban districts shared the number of students opting out following Gov. Bill Lee’s order. However, most students continue to mask.
Collierville Schools said more than 70 students have contracted COVID-19, causing 241 students to quarantine. About 11.16% of Collierville students opted out of masking.
While Shelby County’s population only grew by 1%, the suburbs reflected much higher percentages of population growth across the board.
The church is home to one of the city’s handful of Stephen Ministries, a program that pairs a person suffering from loss with their own trained lay person for a year.
A gathering for Collierville residents to discuss the school mask mandate ended before it began. The parents and others gathered at Suggs Park got up and walked to their cars when members of the media arrived.
Five of the Shelby County suburban districts saw some of the top achievements in results for TCAP, the state-mandated testing.
Protests from suburban parents continued Tuesday, although gatherings were smaller than those that occurred Monday.
Collierville Schools board members will receive a pay raise, the first for board members since the district’s inception.
Collierville will enforce masking at its schools. Students who do not mask will be sent home.
Parents in Collierville are divided on the Shelby County Health Department’s mandate and the district’s decision to align its guidelines accordingly.
New Day Children’s Theatre has returned with its summer show to give back to the community. This weekend students are performing “Les Misérables,” and the community is embracing its return.
Some say that creating districts would help bring diversity to the town’s boards.
Collierville’s mayor and aldermen took steps towards its next fire station and operating its own ambulance service.
A member of the Planning Commission is asking the Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen to support conversations about removing a Confederate marker from Town Square Park.
Collierville Schools is also recommending students who are sick stay home.
Juni Ganguli will represent Latoshia Daniels, a Little Rock woman charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Brodes Perry. Perry was a pastor at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church.
The Target closed June 12 following a fire on a grocery aisle in a back corner of the store.
Collierville is studying land near the square for a potential parking garage. Residents living nearby have concerns about its impact on their homes and the historic area.
Staff will complete a site assessment, preliminary plan, cost estimates and explore the possibility of tax increment financing (TIF) to pay for any debt that may be incurred by the town.
Collierville leaders will consider pursuing a parking garage and hotel near Town Square Park. Suburban staff and business owners say that those will make the square a destination.
The Collierville location will reopen July 19. It closed in June after a fire in the store’s grocery section.