With a noon deadline Thursday, Feb. 15, to make the May 1 Shelby County primary ballot, four incumbent county commissioners had no opposition filed in their re-election bids.

Five Republican primary races on the ballot for 23 county offices, including the 13 commission seats, were one-candidate affairs with two or more Democrats running in the competing primaries as of Tuesday. Two Democratic primary races were also one-candidate races against a field of multiple Republican contenders in the companion primary.

2. GiVE 365 Grants $88,000 to 12 Nonprofits - Monday, September 23, 2013

The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis made it easier for a dozen Memphis nonprofits to continue the good they do in the community when it announced the recipients of this year’s GiVE 365 grantees last week.

3. Festival Seeks Best Memphis Burger - Monday, August 27, 2012

Seth Agranov is a burger guru with a big vision.

He’s lived in Memphis since 1994 and up until a year or so ago, thought that Huey’s was the only solution to his hankerings. But upon being introduced to the griddle-fried, grass-fed beef burger at Three Angels Diner, that mindset quickly changed.

4. Lamplighter Montessori Offers Toddler Program - Monday, June 25, 2012

Lamplighter Montessori School will offer a toddler program for children 18 months to 3 years old starting this fall.

The school is currently taking applications for the class that begins Aug. 15. The development of the toddler curriculum is accompanied by a new space on the school campus for the program as well as the hiring of a new teacher, Stephanie Bennett, with experience teaching toddlers as well as children through the fourth grade.

5. Cook Named Director At Memphis Farmers Mkt. - Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Allison Cook has been named market director at Memphis Farmers Market. Cook brings her marketing and business management experience to the position, and also has volunteered at the market and its Harvest Celebration fundraisers for three years.

6. Nevels Takes Reins of BMHC Foundation - Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Jenny Nevels has been promoted to executive director of the Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation.

7. Events - Friday, April 9, 2010

The Greater Memphis Chamber will host a conversation with Senator Lamar Alexander today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Opera Memphis, 6745 Wolf River Boulevard. Cost is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. To register, contact Ericka Milford at 543-3518 or emilford@memphischamber.com.

8. Events - Thursday, July 16, 2009

Christian Brothers University will present the fourth session of its Family Business Enrichment Series today from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in the Spain Auditorium in Buckman Hall. The topic of the lecture is “Integrating Closely Held Businesses Into Personal Financial and Investment Strategies.” For reservations, call 321-3999 or e-mail rsvp@cbu.edu.

9. Events - Friday, July 10, 2009

MPACT Memphis will meet for a Lunch Bunch today at noon at On the River, 51 S. Main St. To R.S.V.P., contact Joy Turner at memberconnections@mpactmemphis.org or 528-8340.

10. Events - Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Memphis Investors Group will meet today at 7 p.m. at Appling Manor, 1755 Appling Road. Wendy Patton will discuss leasing real estate with an option to buy. Admission is free for first-time visitors and members. Repeat visitors pay $20.

11. Events - Friday, May 8, 2009

The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence will present a workshop titled “Don’t Dread the Audit” today from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Alliance office, 5100 Poplar Ave., Suite 502. Stephanie Chittom will lead the workshop. Cost is $65 for members, $125 for nonmembers and $55 for those in the Program for Nonprofit Excellence. For more information, call 684-6605 or visit www.npexcellence.org.

12. Events - Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Talk Shoppe will present “Alternative Funding for Business and Real Estate” by John Robertson of CashSolutionFunding.com today from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South, 3693 Tyndale Drive. For more information, call Jo Garner at 257-6536.

13. Application Period for State Court of Appeals Vacancy Ends - Wednesday, July 18, 2007

NASHVILLE (AP) - The state Judicial Selection Commission will meet later this month to discuss filling the state Court of Appeals vacancy created when Judge William Koch was named to the Supreme Court.

14. Archived Article: Gov - Friday, November 12, 2004
By Andy Meek

Lakeland Undertakes Giant Planning Initiative

ANDY MEEK

The Daily News

Mark Hartz has plenty of ideas for the future of Lakeland, a small town of almost 8,000 residents in northeast Shelby County. More than anything else at ...