By on July 30, 2010
By Mandy Grisham I’ve heard people say it but I chose not to believe it. Carrying around my baby boy close to my body in a sling people would stop to say, “Cherish these days. You will blink, and before you know it, he’ll be starting school!” Blink. In just a few short days my [...]
Posted in Community News | Tagged Education, kids, Peabody Elementary |
By on July 30, 2010
By Sarah Bogdewiecz As an MA candidate at the University of Memphis in anthropology, I will be conducting research this summer and fall with the residents of Cooper-Young and households within the Peabody Elementary school zone. I will be asking for your help by completing surveys and interviews about your experiences, perceptions, and opinions of [...]
Posted in Community News | Tagged Education, University of Memphis |
By on July 30, 2010
By Kimberly Richardson “No man is an island,” truer words were never spoken. No matter how much one may want to live apart from the world, the reality is that no one truly can. Whether we like it or not, our lives and choices affect many others: some who know us well and others who [...]
Posted in Arts, Bookworm | Tagged book reviews, books |
By on July 30, 2010
By Kara Chamberlain Cooper-Young is making news. The CY Jabberwocky is a list of events in or about CY that other media found interesting and buzzed about. Lux reopens in new CY locale Lux owner Tad Feazell has reopened his recently shut down clothing store. The store is now open at 944 South Cooper. Feazell [...]
Posted in Business, Community News, Goings On! |
By on July 30, 2010
I was distressed to see online in your June LampLighter issue that one of John Gaisford’s beautiful buildings [the Union Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church on the corner of Union and Cooper] may be demolished to make way for a chain drugstore. John Gaisford was the brother of my grandmother, and he was a well-respected architect. [...]
Posted in CYCA, Letters to the Editor | Tagged conservation, Memphis Heritage, Union Ave Church |
By on July 30, 2010
By Kyle Wagenschutz There has been a flurry of discussion these past few months about what Cooper Street will look like once bike lanes are installed. Will the bike lanes be wide enough? What will happen to the on-street parking? What happens at the intersections? Not wanting to sit by and let city engineers alone [...]
Posted in Community News, Education, Green/Eco | Tagged bike, bike lanes |
By on July 30, 2010
By Tamara Walker Thursday, August 5 is the next Cooper-Young Night Out. We are excited to have Darien Clea bringing her musical combination of indie, pop and folk to serenade us at the gazebo from 5:30-9pm. Darien and her addictively rhythmic songs take listeners on an emotion filled voyage through all territories, from whimsy to [...]
Posted in Business, Community News, Goings On! |
By on July 30, 2010
By Sarah Frierson Cooper-Young is a close-knit community, and the board of the CYCA has realized that when and if a disaster ever strikes we will turn to each other for help. The recent floods in Millington and Nashville were a reminder that it is important to plan for the unexpected. Cooper-Young has always been [...]
Posted in Community News, Safety | Tagged Community News, emergency response plan, neighbors, Safety |
By on July 30, 2010
By Emily Bishop Saturday, July 24 was one of the hottest days of the year, but the hosts of the second fundraiser for the McLean Mural project stayed in the kitchen and showed that they could take the heat. 26 people bought $20 tickets so that they could go to three homes and enjoy good [...]
Posted in Community News, Events | Tagged beautification, McLean Mural Project, mural, progressive potluck |
By on July 30, 2010
By Trisha Gurley It’s 2am and my husband Kris and I have just been roused from sleep. Our cat Milton is meowing and pawing inside our bedroom window. Outside the window, we hear scratching and pulling at the window screen. I suppose this scenario could be unnerving to some, but neither Kris nor myself even [...]
Posted in Community News, Education | Tagged animals, feral animals, pets |
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