Kat’s Sourdough and Juice Bar owner Kat Alaina started her flour-based career as a gluten-sensitive mom who needed a bit of extra cash for her four kids’ Christmas presents. 

Germantown wants heavy community engagement as it develops its roadmap to 2050. The suburb has not pursued a plan of this scale in nearly 50 years.

Lakeland officials are studying the question of changing the city’s form of government, but some officials are balking at one theory of the expert they brought to the table to outline what a change would mean.

Locally, two new voting representatives would come from Shelby County’s largest suburbs — Bartlett and Collierville.

The Germantown Municipal School District’s funding per pupil is in the bottom third of the state. 

With early voting starting this week, the lobbying for Germantown voters to decide if they want to go the full-time mayor’s route has increased.

“We need to change our form of government. We need to ensure our city has the full-time leadership needed to meet the demands of today and the expectations of the future.”

Germantown Municipal School District is making some efforts towards its master plan, but it can’t make large improvements without investment from the city.

In late January, sleet, snow and then more sleet fell in Germantown. Now, the city is doubling down on its winter weather response.

One Shelby County suburb is putting restrictions on vaping at 21-and-up venues. How are other suburbs handling vaping and smoke shops?

Singer-songwriter and bassist Mark Edgar Stuart opens the spring series on May 7.

Burlington is looking to fill an empty retail space in Germantown. It would be the brand’s sixth store in Shelby County.

Germantown has about $27 million planned in improvements as part of the 2026-27 budget.

Some suburban residents may have to face an increase in sanitation costs this summer, but the increase is certainly better than trash sitting uncollected at the curb.

The season includes actor/singer Darren Criss, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, and fiddle duo Carter and Cleveland.

Will Drennan lost his life saving a child from nearly drowning at Riverdale Park. But his name will not be forgotten.

Funds officials thought were earmarked for the center went to other projects, leaving Germantown’s dispatch center high and dry.

Germantown is reviewing a sanitation contract, but prices will significantly increase due to inflation rates in the industry. A city administrator said Waste Pro has provided “Rolls-Royce-type” service.

While both coaches were investigated, their departures are unrelated, the Germantown Municipal School District confirmed Friday.

For some of those seeking a spot on a local school board, the only thing that stands in the way of the November general election is an August ballot. 

Germantown residents will be voting whether to make the town’s mayoral position a full-time gig. However, officials took back earlier statements that a full-time mayor must quit any other full-time job.

A TIF for the Germantown redevelopment, which would replace Carrefour at Kirby Parkway and Poplar Avenue, failed by a 3-2 vote.

While neither has kids in the district, they’ve been involved for many years.

The realization that a full-time mayor elected in Germantown might have to abandon their regular job has added a layer of discussion to the suburb’s decisions this year.

Germantown is saying if the mayor becomes full-time, the elected individual would have to quit their full-time job. However, the referendum on the May 5 ballot doesn’t state such.