Germantown News

The Robert E. Lee Camp 1640 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is hosting the first Germantown Historic Tour Saturday and Sunday focusing on the Germantown of the 1800s, complete with costumed actors telling stories of the people, places and events.

Despite strong closing arguments from staff supporters about Germantown Municipal Court moving to daytime, City Administrator Patrick Lawton has ruled against the idea, and court will continue at night.

Tues. July 03, 2007 Photo by Matthew Craig. Charlie McCraw , a volunteer from Germantown, guides a 1932 Ford V-8 Roadster into a parking spot Tuesday night.

Bartlett police Lt. Todd Halford is working with more than 70 Neighborhood Watch programs in the suburb these days - some new, some existing, some resurrecting.

The new total came Tuesday, May 14, after interim schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson told countywide school board members he and his staff had eliminated a "district initiative department" that would have cost $737,366. The changes reflect a still fluid budget proposal that the countywide board votes on Thursday, May 16, and submits to the Shelby ... (more)

"I was thinking two, three weeks max ," Jessen said. "Five months later, I got my car back." Jessen's dilemma with the transmission shop illustrates a little known right Tennessee consumers have when a repair shop keeps your property for an unreasonable length of time.

SPRING HILL -- Police are seeking information about a woman accused of cashing counterfeit checks in Spring Hill.

"I nearly died and it was just the simple fact of someone not taking that extra precaution, said Zack Williams who was injured in a motorcycle accident.

Amanda Hailey Turner wonders if everyone who went to high school in Shelby County knows someone from his or her class who has been murdered.

Two new retirement and assisted living communities have opened recently in West Tennessee and at least three more are planned.

Some Germantown officials would like to see the suburb's night court moved to daytime, but logistical problems could make the change difficult.

They lined up, dozens of them, young and old, for a chance to shake hands and snap pictures with their coaches.

Legislative bodies in five of Shelby County's six suburbs began the process Monday evening of setting July 16 referendums for voters to decide on municipal schools in their cities.

John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, has listed five state legislators - along with House Speaker Beth Harwell and Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey - as legislators "who do not understand the Constitution" as it applies to gun rights.

A Germantown teenager who was involved in numerous vehicle burglaries last summer was released on probation Friday after serving 10 months of a six-year prison sentence.

Adding three more armed police officers in the schools, a second K-9 team, a museum special projects coordinator, a code enforcement plans examiner and upgrading three firefighter positions to firefighter/paramedic are a few of the proposed budget changes earmarked for next year's budget in Collierville.

Even though you may be a safe driver, there could be danger in the next lane over.

If you own a home in the Mid-South, it's that time of year again. Re-appraisals are in the mail, if not already in your mailbox.

Mark Weber / The Commercial Appeal April 24, 2013 - Chris Jones appears in a Germantown court on the charge of second-degree murder Wednesday in the death of his wife Heather Palumbo-Jones. The hearing for Christopher Jones, facing second-degree murder charges in the death of his estranged wife, was continued until June 12 after a brief appearance ... (more)

The Germantown Financial Advisory Commission has endorsed the 44.5-cent property tax increase recommended by Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy's administration.