December 2021 | Volume 15 | Issue 4
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Back at Brookwood
Seventeen years after he first began his career at Brookwood Baptist Medical Center, Jeremy Clark has returned home to serve as CEO.
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Hoops Preview
Shelby County Tourism and Events Manager Kendall Williams at the Dunnavant Valley Trail. Photo by Erin Nelson.
High school basketball season has arrived, and with that, the promise that this season will be the one each team breaks through and has a terrific campaign.
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‘Everything led to this’ Kendall Williams embraces role with Shelby County tourism, events By LEAH INGRAM EAGLE
INSIDE Sponsors .......... A4 News ..................A6 Business .......... A13 Chamber ......... A18 Events .............. A21 Community..... A24
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ust sitting down and talking with Kendall Williams, it is obvious that she loves her job. After spending eight years as the director of the Shelby County Schools
Education Foundation, she moved into her newly created position as the county’s tourism and events manager at the end of March and is already making an impact. “Working with SCSEF, that role kept me connected within the community, and I learned things about each city and town in Shelby
County,” Williams said. “Even though I lived here for 30 years, there were things I didn’t know before.” When the tourism and events manager position was officially posted, Williams said she did
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Chelsea council reviews findings of school system feasibility study
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By LEAH INGRAM EAGLE
Representatives from The Criterion K-12 Consulting Group address the Chelsea City Council and audience during a special called work session Nov. 18. Photo courtesy of Wayne Morris.
After discussions earlier this year about forming its own school system, the Chelsea City Council had a special called work session Nov. 18 to hear the results of a feasibility study, along with a breakdown of the costs associated with starting a new city school system and construction of a new high school.
“Please understand this is an early step in a marathon,” Mayor Tony Picklesimer said. “There will be public hearings; there will be lots of opportunities for all of our citizens to address the council and offer questions they may have. Tonight is just for us, the City Council, to hear the results of this study directly from Criterion as you
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