No local guidance on what CDC advice means for Shelby County
Decision on masking mandate rests with the county mayor’s office. Aside from a tweet endorsing the CDC guidelines Wednesday, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris refused comment.
Decision on masking mandate rests with the county mayor’s office. Aside from a tweet endorsing the CDC guidelines Wednesday, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris refused comment.
“Stay true to what you do and try not to worry about the outside factors,” Tigers defensive line coach Kyle Pope said.
All the property within the vast, old Memphis Army Distribution Depot has been sold to private owners, so the public board overseeing the site was to have been dissolved Wednesday. But neighbors’ concerns delayed the action.
The board also approved zoning variances for a Georgia-based developer that plans to build affordable housing complexes in the North Poplar neighborhood near Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Collierville’s mayor and aldermen took steps towards its next fire station and operating its own ambulance service.
Ridgeway Trace shopping center operates at a prime junction for Memphis retail: Interstate 240 and Poplar. The property changed hands this week.
Though the school announced Wednesday it would be adding new outdoor seating options for the upcoming season, there’s a much larger vision.
Eastbound traffic will resume by Monday, Aug. 2, and westbound lanes will reopen Friday, Aug. 6. Crews will continue some work on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge even after the span across the Mississippi River resumes.
As of 5 p.m. July 21, there were 162 COVID-19 positive people in area hospital beds.
Robert Machen has been named chief information officer for Prospero Health, which runs its operational headquarters in Memphis.
The National Civil Rights Museum plans to mark its 30th anniversary in late September with a “community celebration.”
As the Tigers experienced last season, a COVID outbreak can potentially setback a season.
Jennifer Biggs: “It’s the best time of the year to eat local, we talk about tomato pies, quiche, beer — and this: Do grownups eat cereal?”
Grizzlies Draft headquarters
Welcome to the day before the NBA draft. Typically this is when the chatter around potential picks and trades starts to accelerate.
Summer basketball is right around the corner.
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington react to the Grizzlies’ trade with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Grizzlies GM Zach Kleiman has always said the goal is to bring an NBA title to Memphis. And if that required dealing Jonas Valanciunas, he was willing to do it. Memphis fans should be glad.
Jennifer Biggs: A follow-up tip for last week’s apple cake; a visit to an Uptown brewery; My Favorite Things comes back this week after a visit to Dory and Slim Chickens hired errybody.
Arlington and Bartlett school districts have announced safety protocols for the coming year even as they watch changing federal recommendations.
One Beale’s developer unveiled the final renderings for the 20-story, $190 million Grand Hyatt Hotel. Construction is to start early next year.
The DMC set up three different “parks” using the street parking spaces in front of the Peabody Place tower to help people “look at their city differently for a few hours.”
More than 850 participants ranging in age from 4 to 92 are expected for the inaugural Runway 5K at Memphis International Airport.
The Owls improve to 4-1 as Maddox Giel runs for two touchdowns and Jackson Hood scores the game-winner midway through the fourth quarter.
MahJ Squad 901 started meeting for weekly games years ago, making every fourth meeting a luncheon that started by checking out one of Biggs’ recommendations.
Memories of Maywood bring back times of cold water, spraying fountains, a jukebox and high dives, plus sand mined from Destin.
Vendors selling all kinds of collectibles also make up a huge part of the Memphis Comic Expo, with everything from vintage toys, posters, books and gaming cards to statues.
“When President Donald Trump announced Monday, Sept. 15, federal troops will now be deployed to the streets of Memphis, the cheerleading by Tennessee’s top three elected officials ... seemed much more concerned with revealing no trace of daylight between themselves and Trump.”
On this morning’s episode of The AM/DM, we get into the Memphis Tigers’ last SEC football game (for a while, at least), where you can see hot air balloons take flight and why you might want to hit the Totally Rad Vintage Fest.