School Board: Goal Is To Open Schools

Schools Opening In August? The July school board meeting was held virtually last evening (7/14/20) and all board members, as well as Superintendent Ted Horrell,...

LSB meets Monday by remote

The Lakeland School Board (LSB) will meet electronically (due to COVID-19) at 5:45 p.m. Monday (7.13.20). Link to agenda: https://lakelandk12.org/res/web/FY20-21/07.13.20%20BM/07.13.20%20Business%20Meeting%20Agenda.pdf To submit a public comment email...

BOC meeting: Highway 70 parks project abandoned; 5 of 5 resolutions approved

In their regular business meeting last night (7.9.20) the Board of Commissioners (BOC) approved a motion to abandon a U.S. Highway 70 parks project...

Daily report – COVID – 7.9.20: 208 deaths in Shelby, 710 statewide

Statistics released today (7.9.20) for COVID-19 by the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) include: 12,773 confirmed and probable cases (+306 newly confirmed today); 8,237...

COVID report for July 8, 2020 – Health Order and Directive No. 8

Statistics released today (7.8.20) for COVID-19 by the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) include: 12,467 confirmed and probable cases (+302 newly confirmed today): 7,975...

BOC meets for remote meeting this week

The BOC (Board of Commissioners) meets at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (7.9.20) for a remote regular meeting.  It will be accessible by computer, tablet or...

COVID-19 report – 7.7.20 – Joint Task Force

(Editor’s note: Lakeland Commissioner Wesley Wright “sits in” for the Tuesday/Friday briefings of the City of Memphis Shelby County Joint COVID Task Force, mayors...