Germantown News

Shelby County suburbs took the next step towards letting voters decide if they want their own school systems tonight, approving individual ordinances for Aug.

Votes for municipal school referendums across Shelby County reach a conclusion tonight as all six suburbs consider final readings on school-related ordinances.

MCS students practice finale: Participants in the Memphis City Schools Class Piano Program practice for their recital at Wooddale Junior High School in May 1991.

Germantown officer Nicholas Godwin talks to Michael Human, who was begging on a street corner Friday.

Soon a number of middle and high school students may be asking friends, "What wilt thou do for thy summer vacation?" This is the third year that Tennessee Shakespeare Company, the four year-old professional theater organization based in Germantown, has offered Summer Shakespeare Camps for students in grades 6 through 12.

Shelby County Trustee David Lenoir collects county property taxes, and he's now offering to collect current and past-due taxes for the city of Memphis in exchange for an annual fee of $1.25 million.

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

Governor Bill Haslam has signed several pieces of legislation, including a measure to require drug testing as a condition for receiving welfare.

Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a proposal that allows parents to grade themselves on how involved they are in their children's schooling.

Former Germantown prosecutor Joe Lee Wyatt pleaded guilty this morning to reckless driving and refusing to submit to a blood-alcohol test in connection with a March 6 one-car traffic accident in Memphis, but a driving under the influence charge against him was dismissed.

A 15-year-old girl stared solemnly at the courtroom floor Wednesday as she admitted to setting a fire in a Germantown hotel while her grandparents slept in the room.

When 18-year-old Winston Atnip graduates from Westminster Academy in East Memphis on Thursday night, he'll pursue a career in the booming private space industry.

The 15-year-old girl charged with aggravated arson in a May 6 fire at Homewood Suites in Germantown was in the room with the couple who owned Isaac Hayes' former home at the time of the fire, police confirmed today.

As the Shelby County Commission convenes on Monday for its regular biweekly public meeting, one of the issues which has bedeviled it for many months now will probably get a virtually free pass.

"With all due respect and sincerity my hope is that this plan does not succeeda I live here and my friends live here in Collierville not because of the square, or the holiday parade but because of the great school system.

A debate of sorts Tuesday night between David Pickler and Kim Wirth, candidates for the Unified School Board for District 5, made one thing clear: Whoever wins that seat, representing the Germantown-Collierville area, will owe their primary allegiance to the prospective municipal districts there, not to the Unified District itself." The joint ... (more)

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will finish out this season's First Tennessee Masterworks concert series with an ancient work which has woven itself into present day culture.

Three Greater Memphis students graduated with more than a diploma in recent ceremonies for the spring semester at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

He says the bill is much higher than you have been told. Commissioner Mike Ritz says the math errors of the recent suburban feasibility studies could be off by hundreds, thousands, or even a million dollars.

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.