Bartlett News

Bartlett: City offices and the Bartlett Branch Library will be closed; garbage collection will be delayed one day.

The Special Response Vehicle is essentially a miniaturized ambulance built on the chassis of a six person, all terrain vehicle.

Earlier this year, local guitar player/collector and entrepreneur Geoff Albert quit his upper-level management job at a certain local music-retail superstore to fulfill a personal dream: owning his own musical instrument store.

Appling Middle School principal Odell Foster oversees the loading of buses after the school day Monday.

Mary Luna , a buyer with THR & Associates, adds up the value of a coin collection brought in by George and Sandy Murray during the buying event hosted by the International Coin Collectors Association Wednesday at Agricenter International.

Proposed municipal school districts will cost more than suburban leaders think and voters need better information before deciding in the Aug.

Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz's analysis of the cost of suburban districts shows property owners will see their taxes double or quadruple in order to fund their own school systems.

Soccer practice stopped early, at the fields behind City Hall. The young players began spraying themselves with mosquito repellant after getting the warning of West Nile Virus being found in mosquitoes in Bartlett.

Tammy Harris has been named the payroll specialist at Patrick Payroll, a newly branded division of the certified public accounting firm Patrick Accounting and Tax Services PLLC .

Two men charged in connection with the theft of a safe at a Bartlett church waived their preliminary hearings this morning, and their cases sent to the Shelby County Grand Jury for consideration.

In a musical career that spanned 50 years, the late "Queen of Blues" Koko Taylor, was all about "keepin' it real." Born in the Bartlett countryside, orphaned at the age of 7, the former Cora Walton, through her talent, evolved into a gritty, earthy entertainer who'd cultivated a legion of adoring fans by the time she died three years ago at age 80.

A Corvette once associated with a drug dealer is now helping Bartlett, Tennessee police teach youngsters about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

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Just days after the Tennessee General Assembly voted to allow the Shelby County suburbs to create separate school districts, the Memphis and Shelby County Schools Transition Planning Commission Just days after the General Assembly voted to allow county suburbs to create separate school districts, the Memphis and Shelby County Schools Transition ... (more)

A man employed at St. Ann Catholic Church in Bartlett is accused of stealing a safe containing more than $12,000. Bartlett police say Michael Patrick Cantler cut the cables connecting the safe to the wall, and then removed the safe entirely.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , about the conservative Republican businessman and former presidential candidate : "'I didn't go quiet or dark in terms of being out there because I care more about changing the leadership in Washington, D.C., and changing the tax code,' Cain said in a phone interview this week.

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With the blessing of election officials and a tight timetable, suburban governments are scurrying to schedule special meetings and public hearings to consider ordinances by the end of the month setting up municipal schools referendums.