The Early Word: MSCS security gets a raise; plus, what’s rising up on a CY lot
Hush, y’all. It’s tee time for the annual FedEx St. Jude Championship. The pro-am tournament kicks things off today — Wednesday, Aug. 14 — at TPC Southwind. But bad news for players and fans: It’s going to be a scorcher of a tournament. We’ve got a look at the weather forecast.
Just as the sun is setting tonight (around 8 p.m.), the Memphis Police Department will conduct a “Sea of Blue” honoring Officer Demetrice Johnson, who was killed in a crash Downtown on Aug. 2.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools security officers are getting raises, and that means they will show up to work at this week’s annual football jamborees. The school-resource officers staged a walkout during a meeting with the district’s new executive director of safety and security, George Harris, on Monday over pay and other issues. But it was revealed during a Tuesday MSCS board committee meeting that new Superintendent Marie Feagins was raising their pay. She also walked back her new, stricter overtime policy after complaints of micromanaging.
A new, nearly six-acre mixed-use development, appropriately named The Cooper, is coming to, well, Cooper-Young. (Where else, right?) The plan, from developers Chance Carlisle and David Dlugolenski, will bring apartments, townhomes, a hotel, a dog park, retail, a restaurant and a parking garage to the old Albert Cook Plumbing Co. lot between Central Avenue and York Avenue. The site was previously slated for the Central Yards mixed-use development, but that deal fell through after an out-of-town investor lost money in a Bitcoin scandal.
Plus, National Civil Right Museum updates are coming, a Republican district attorney defends Steve Mulroy and we’ve got all the golf news you need to know.
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Bianca Phillips
Bianca Phillips is a Northeast Arkansas native and longtime Memphian who’s worked in local journalism and PR for more than 20 years. She’s a diehard morning person who spends her free time running marathons and ultras. She’s the author of “Cookin Crunk: Eatin’ Vegan in the Dirty South.”
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