“When the City of Germantown proposes sweeping and permanent changes to our system of governance — such as this charter amendment — transparency is not optional, it is essential. But this is where city leadership has fallen short.”

Germantown’s Industrial Development Board heard from a handful of residents who oppose a tax incentive for The Standard, the mixed-use development replacing Carrefour at Kirby Woods.

Blaze Jordan, a top prospect in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, took part in the team’s Cards Caravan event in Germantown. 

Local prospect Blaze Jordan along with a newly acquired pitcher and three pitchers who played for the St. Louis Cardinals last season are part of the caravan headed to Germantown.

With the disappearance of trees along one stretch of Wolf River Boulevard, the suburb’s medical corridor should soon get new offices.

Twin Bridges Investment plans to extend the suburb’s medical corridor to the west with a pair of 54,000-square-foot office buildings.

The Germantown Board of Mayor and Alderman voted to update rules on alcoholic beverage sales to align better with state law.  

Germantown is considering amendments to its beer, wine and liquor sale rules — modernizing them and aligning with state law. 

The Germantown-based center, which started operating as its own clinic last week, will continue to work closely with Baptist.

Once the new restaurant, 320 apartments, new retail and parking garage are fully operational, the economic impact to the local economy is estimated at $61.9 million. 

Germantown’s first-ever TIF is under review for The Standard Germantown, the mixed-use development replacing Carrefour at Kirby Woods. 

A local band celebrates a new album and a decade of creating music, while two singers proclaim Memphis R&B is not dead (via concert).

The Grant family name has become synonymous with homebuilding and development with a number of relatives involved for generations.

City leaders have discussed the debt limit several times lately as Germantown Municipal School District seeks to make Houston — the only high school in the municipal district — comparable to other suburban districts’ high schools.

A Memphis suburb has a taste for hot chicken. The Nashville-based chicken chain clears a significant hurdle for a second location near two of Shelby County’s busiest roadways. 

Hattie B’s is looking to open its second Memphis-area location in Germantown near two of Shelby County’s busiest thoroughfares.

Memphis-area school board elections will be partisan next year.

Bartlett became the latest suburb to put term limits on its elected officials, holding them to a trio of four-year terms.

Anna Dunn gets the winner as the Houston Mustangs hand arch-rival Collierville its first loss of the season.

The number Germantown residents enrolled this year is 170 fewer than last year. But 784 students who don’t live in the district are also enrolled, some the children of school employees.

Germantown will soon ask its residents a big question: Should mayor become a full-time job?

Victory gives the Arlington Tigers an all-important home match in the sectionals as they look to advance to state for the first time.

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Real estate agent Ben Boscaccy’s social media fans find his posts to be anything but pedestrian as he treks through the Memphis suburb. 

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.

Service at City Hall was disrupted Friday, Oct. 3, due to a problem with external AT&T equipment.