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    Jerry C. Johnson’s legacy: Many games won, but many more men were made

    Former players tell stories of the renowned LeMoyne-Owen basketball coach and his ways of teaching.

    By John Varlas February 01, 2021
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    Calkins: Rob Fischer has thought hard about killing himself. Now he wants to help others who feel lost

    Rob Fischer is the warm, cheerful sideline reporter for the Grizzlies TV broadcasts. He also suffers from suicidal depression. He’s telling his story because he thinks it may help. 

    By Geoff Calkins February 08, 2021
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    Dr. Simone, former St. Jude director, dies at 85

    Dr. Joseph V. Simone, a clinician who helped lead the first curative treatment for childhood leukemia, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, at the age of 85.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 28, 2021
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    Engineer Harvey Marcom helped shape Memphis

    Engineer Harvey Marcom worked behind the scenes, but he played a big role for nearly six decades in forming the built environment of the Memphis area. The president of The Reaves Firm died on Saturday, Jan. 23.

    By Tom Bailey January 26, 2021
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    Plans for old Melrose School excite neighbors

    Melrose School has been an anchor in Orange Mound for 83 years and will soon have a second life.

    By Linda A. Moore January 24, 2021
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    Vaccine gives hope to ICU nurse and her mother

    Toni Woods feels safer after second dose, but she knows her patients and her mother still need her to keep working, avoid risk.

    By David Waters January 15, 2021
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    Reports of Molly’s death are greatly exaggerated

    Claims on social media that Molly’s La Casita is closed and for sale are wrong. It’s temporarily closed but will reopen when it’s not ‘crazy out there,’ owner says.

    By Jennifer Biggs January 09, 2021
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    Herrington: Elvis & Nixon oddity adds bonus to annual birthday celebration

    An exhibit that opened recently marks the half-century anniversary of one of American culture’s more colorful and peculiar moments. 

    By Chris Herrington January 11, 2021
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    Calkins: An 8-year-old St. Jude kid with a lesson for these times

    Jonah McCoy, 8, is a patient at St. Jude. He could teach us a thing or two. 

    By Geoff Calkins January 08, 2021
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    Why neighborhoods matter

    Hearing Steve Barlow talk about what a neighborhood truly is will change how you look at the world around you.

    By Eric Barnes January 08, 2021
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    Next step for Memphis Slim Collaboratory is out in the backyard

    The music nonprofit is expanding performance opportunities for musicians. The new space is a vacant half-acre lot behind the site of the renowned blues musician’s family home.

    By Linda A. Moore January 08, 2021
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    Five things Daily Memphian readers liked about 2020

    We chose five responses from readers to The Daily Memphian article A year to forget? Here are 20 good things we’ll remember about 2020. Robin Lemmonds finds reason for gratitude despite being diagnosed with cancer and losing a special friend. Penny Glidewell got to know her neighbors. And Dana Turner is glad we’re washing our hands.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 03, 2021
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    Memphis artist’s design debuts on Times Square Jumbotron

    Eso Tolson’s work is part of Coca-Cola’s “New Year, New Hope” campaign being introduced on New Year’s Eve.

    By Peggy Burch January 08, 2021
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    Hattiloo gives COVID frontline workers a voice

    The theater company based in Overton Square worked with Regional One to create “From the Frontlines of COVID-19,” a series that gives a virtual stage to some of the health care providers who are getting us through a crisis.

    By Peggy Burch December 29, 2020
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    ‘A heckuva engineering project’ — boardwalk, cable bridge connect greenway, Greenline

    Wolf River Conservancy is almost halfway home in a decades-long quest to build 26-mile Wolf River Greenway spanning Memphis. Next up: completing connection to Shelby Farms Greenline by next summer.

    By Wayne Risher December 29, 2020
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    Giving food, clothes ‘is what I love to do’ on Christmas Day

    Many of the Lunches ‘n Love volunteers don’t have to imagine what it was like for those walking into the parking lot, hoping to leave with more than they came. They were once homeless themselves.

    By Omer Yusuf December 25, 2020
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    Bringing opera to Memphis on a flatbead trailer: A pandemic pivot likely to roll on

    Taking opera from the concert halls to the streets was not a new notion for Opera Memphis. Their annual “30 Days of Opera” features small pop-up performances in unlikely places, from playgrounds and dog parks to libraries and groceries. 

    By Chris Herrington December 25, 2020
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    Bryant’s Breakfast owner, ‘a real character,’ has the job of his life ahead of him

    Phil Bryant is selling the family business because he has another task ahead of him. This time the former CPA, ER nurse and restaurateur is taking on cancer.

    By Jennifer Biggs January 08, 2021
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    Marilyn Belz gave generously, lived faithfully

    Mrs. Belz was a third-generation member of Baron Hirsch Synagogue and central to every major project there for decades.

    By Jane Roberts December 24, 2020
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    Century-old Glenview historic district is being reborn, one house at a time

    Homes in the neighborhood have fallen into disrepair, but renovations and new construction are giving the Glenview community new life.

    By Linda A. Moore January 08, 2021
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    Pandemic poses challenges for Memphis area nonprofits

    While area nonprofits have felt the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, Memphis has lived up to its reputation as a “giving” city and help also has come from national funding sources. 

    By Don Wade December 22, 2020
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    Frayser Exchange Club honors Steve Lockwood

    On Thursday, the Frayser Exchange Club awarded Steve Lockwood its 2020 Community Service Award. He’s credited in helping turnaround one of the city’s worst housing markets during the past decade. 

    By Omer Yusuf December 19, 2020
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    Ashley, Peyton Manning make ‘lead gift’ to Overton Park golf course renovation

    The amount of the Mannings’ donation to the Overton Park golf course renovation was not revealed, but the contribution brings the amount raised so far to $1.7 million of the $2.5 million fundraising goal.

    By Tom Bailey December 19, 2020
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    Opinion: Jarman made radio’s hard work sound easy

    The death of Chris Jarman this week ends a radio career built on credibility with Memphis radio listeners that transcended formats and call letters.

    By Bill Dries December 17, 2020
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    Coronavirus didn’t stop Advance Memphis’s mission for South Memphis

    The nonprofit’s programs prepare graduates for permanent employment.

    By Linda A. Moore December 16, 2020

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