The Germantown community has laid aside anything that might divide them to rally around healthcare workers and make sure they are well-fed as they continue to care for those in hospitals and those with coronavirus.

Lakeland residents will have another grocery option by this time next year as ALDI is readying for a construction start later this month on its new location at 2298 Canada Road.

Germantown's finance commission will review the 2020-21 budget later in the summer. For now, the commission recommends aldermen adopt resolution continue under the current budget.

Stephanie Lepone and Ginna Rauls helped organize a sewing group that fixed over 20,000 damaged masks discovered by Baptist employees. 

Arlington Community Schools hopes to make a decision on the district's next superintendent later this week after interviewing four candidates remotely last week. 

Bartlett is breaking ground this spring on a new, bigger City Shop at Yale Road and Brother Boulevard. 

John McFerren died Saturday of natural causes. He was instrumental in registering African American voters and integrating Fayette County, Tennessee, schools. 

Following the merger early last year of Caliber Collision and Abra Auto Body Repair of America, Caliber is growing its Mid-South presence with a new auto body repair and paint shop in Arlington.

Memphis Oral School for the Deaf and Madonna Learning Center are confronting unique online learning challenges.

While an Arizona developer's decision to pull out of plans to purchase the Germantown Country Club property has some hoping the city might re-enter the picture, at least one alderman thinks that's unlikely.

The Chamber of Commerce organizations in each of Shelby County's suburban municipalities are focused on helping members weather the storm during the coronavirus pandemic.

Arizona-based Millennium Companies, which planned to purchase Germantown Country Club, has pulled out due to potential financial risks related to the COVID-19 crisis.

Germantown addressed letting go 209 employees due to the burden it would cause on the general fund. However, other suburbs have not made drastic changes yet.

The beeping of horns, thank you signs, cheers and applause were loud in the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville parking lot Sunday night as residents thanked health care workers for their service in the COVID-19 pandemic.

With a number of large commercial spaces sitting open along the busy U.S. 64/Stage Road corridor in Bartlett and the Wolfchase area, and new commercial development underway at the southwest corner of Stage and Germantown Road, the race is on as property representatives search for the right fit for those empty spaces.

Lakeland is celebrating the start of the first building at 
The Lake District, a long-awaited $400,000 project.

Across-the-street neighbors Melinda Henson and Laura Allen realized they weren't seeing as much of each other as they should. So they took it upon themselves to connect as only two elementary school teachers could. In the process, they taught a lesson to us all.

“We’re building an airplane in the air and doing it on a stopwatch. We’ve got a minute to build it.” 

Collierville aldermen will continue to meet in town hall, although the public will not be allowed to attend. 

"The 901 is like a beehive, and we’re all playing our small part. We’re doing what we can, and look at what we can produce.”

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said Monday he and municipal mayors are issuing Safer at Home orders and closing non-essential businesses.

The teachers at Bailey Station Elementary missed their students. So they threw a giant (no joking) coronavirus parade!

The Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, a period during which the city has brought in major corporations and jobs along with cultivating a thriving small business and entrepreneurial environment.

Dr. Andrenette Fleming hoped to give a boost to local COVID-19 testing when she offered a limited number of tests last week at her Lakeland clinic. 

Shelby County's suburban school districts were supposed to return from Spring Break this coming week but instead are now, like everyone else, figuring out how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. All are closed at least through the coming week.