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By Staff on September 3, 2011
Recently, a friend of mine picked up an 8-month-old mamma dog and her 2 puppies from the area near Jefferson and Cox in Midtown. As the picture shows, they were in deplorable condition. She took them to Memphis Animal Clinic in CY where Dr. Tower, Dr. Seratt, and their terrific staff cared for them day [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged animals, pets |
By Staff on July 1, 2011
Cooper-Young recently lost a resident; I lost a neighbor and friend. Since the 1930s, Ella Mae Hasty has lived at the same address with her husband. She was independent and somewhat difficult to know. My mother remembered one day the door bell rang. Mrs. Hasty was standing on the porch with a cup and stated, [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged Cooper Young, in memoriam |
By on January 31, 2011
Most remember our company, Barnett USA, as the ice machine company in the Cooper-Young district. Started in 1957 by my dad, Cliff, we were based at 2089 York Avenue, with additional locations in Nashville, TN; Jackson, MS; and Louisville, KY. We employed over 30 people. Unfortunately, because of the continual sewage and flooding we have [...]
Posted in CYCA, Letters to the Editor | Tagged Letters to the Editor, Lick Creek Flooding |
By on October 1, 2010
By Randy Norwood After reading the preface from Cooper-Young: A Community that Works [reprinted in the September LampLighter], I am definitely looking forward to reading this interesting book. Since Cooper-Young is an older neighborhood that remained relatively stable all through the years when Memphis pushed the city limits east, it should be enlightening to read [...]
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By on October 1, 2010
By Dee Sanders As Bob and I prepare to leave Cooper-Young, I am finally writing the letter I intended to write shortly after we arrived here two years ago and realized what an amazing place we had landed in. When a job transfer required us to move to Memphis and leave South Carolina for the [...]
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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 1, 2010
BY TAMARA WALKER On July 14th, 2008, the Cooper-Young Business Association initiated talks with Mary Baker of the Office of Planning and Development and Bill Schaffer of the Memphis City Engineering Office to discuss ways to slow down traffic on Cooper Street. After meeting with Mary and Bill, we asked the ETI Corporation, an Engineering [...]
Posted in Business, CYCA, Letters to the Editor | Tagged bicycle, bike, Business, CYBA |
By on June 1, 2010
By Emily Bishop The LampLighter has grown under the leadership of many editors since the premiere issue back in 1989. Some editors have served for several years and some only a few issues. Leslie Jaynes has stepped down as editor after more than a year of service. Leslie worked to broaden the scope of articles printed in the [...]
Posted in Community News, CYCA, Events, Letters to the Editor | Tagged LampLighter |
By on March 28, 2010
Last month, I was fortunate enough to attend a Neighborhood Watch retreat sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. While I can’t say I learned a great deal of new information—as I have long been an avid supporter of NW—the experience did renew my resolve to advocate this critical aspect of community. Criminals, like cockroaches, [...]
Posted in CYCA, Letters to the Editor | Tagged letters, Safety |
By on February 27, 2010
Cooper-Young has one major thing in common with our newly chartered neighbors, the Rozelle-Annesdale Historic District to the west, and that is, of course, the revitalization of Mclean. Since we have two independent communities after one goal, this should start happening sooner rather than later. The thoughts are to put a bike path, widen, power [...]
Posted in CYCA, Letters to the Editor | Tagged letters, McLean |
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