Collierville News

UTC senior Chris Berry took first in the men's 3000 meter run at the Valentine Invitational at the Murphy Center on the campus of Middle Tennessee.

Angela Majors, with 4-year-old twins Jayden and Jayla, and 7-year-old Joseph, is left to wonder what will happen when all of the schools deals are complete.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga indoor track teams will conclude the regular season this Saturday at the Valentine Invitational hosted by Middle Tennessee at the Murphy Center.

FYI A press conference is scheduled at noon today at La Vergne City Hall to introduce the mission of TN-ZERO Task Force, a group created to battle synthetic drugs, human trafficking and other community problems.

Clarksville, TN - The politics in this city has made a joke out of trying to update a city charter that's long over-due for an upgrade.

The hair treatment "brazilian blowout" is at the center of a 1.5 million dollar suit being filed here in the Midsouth.

One Memphis woman went in for a hair-do and came out with a hair-don't. Now she says the hair treatment she says is putting her health at risk.

It wasn't a good day for Mark Norris in Nashville. As usual, the Republican state Senate Majority Leader from Collierville had the last word in Thursday morning's end-of-week Senate session, and this time, prior to calling for adjournment on Monday, he had to eat a little crow.

Norris plans to withdraw two bills after the state attorney general told him they were likely unconstitutional because they would only apply in Shelby County.

Jane Hampton Cook, a presidential historian, places the George Washington hat on Tara Oaks Elementary third grader Connor Mickel Monday morning before fishing out an Abraham Lincoln hat for Gracen Ponnath.

If Collierville creates a municipal school district, officials expect a home construction and retail boom as more people move there to enroll their children.

A resolution that would involve Shelby County government along with the countywide school board in any transfer of school buildings to another school district surfaced Monday, Feb.

Collierville officials are moving forward with plans to start their own school district and makes it the first city to officially try to break away from the county's merged school system.

In one of the more anonymous efforts in an interesting legislative session in Nashville, there is apparently some discussion of requiring school systems to charge nothing less than fair market value if they rent or sell a school building to a charter school.

She's praying "for the challenge of creating a new school system for all of the children in Shelby County." She's praying that "every man, woman and child, regardless of color, religion or geographic location, will be blessed in some way by the union of the school systems." "I've had some people ask me why I'm not praying for something that seems ... (more)

Collierville's decision to create a municipal school district was put in writing today with an ordinance created to let citizens vote on the matter.

At the outset, members of the schools consolidation transition planning commission set out some basic ground rules for the set of public hearings they began in late January.

"They will scratch you some times, but they don't really mean it," said Caswell.

Mark Bates, a resident of Germantown and a Shelby County School teacher and his wife Deanna were among the nearly 500 people attending the Germantown Board of Alderman Town Hall meeting at the GPAC Wednesday evening.

Concomitant with this week's surprise move by state Senator Mark Norris and state Representative Curry Todd, both of Collierville, to co-opt Memphis' agreed-upon annexation reserve on behalf of the suburbs, and the city's hurry-up response to annex the Gray's Creek area, was another ticking time-bomb. This one was courtesy of former longtime Shelby ... (more)