Arlington News

The fat lady just sang for Fat Boy Frank's. Owner Frank Whitington has permanently closed his fledgling restaurant on Highway 70.

If you're fed up with government and want to change it, you have a chance to do just that.

I am on board with the health care compromise being kicked around in the House of Lords.

Last week Arlington, Tennessee, Mayor Russell Wiseman posted on his Facebook page the opinion that President Obama is a Muslim who intentionally scheduled his Afghanistan war address last Tuesday night to preempt the annual broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Here is what he is quoted as writing, taken from the Memphis Commercial Appeal: ...

Anyone who habitually reads blogs or readers' comments to online articles or tweets or such other cyber-utterances as, er, Facebook entries understands that hyperbole is not only tolerated on the Internet, it may be the dominant mode there.

Arlington, Tennessee Mayor Russell Wiseman said a stupid, bigoted, ignorant quip about President Barack Obama when he wrote on his Facebook page that Obama purposely preempted the "Christian" holiday TV cartoon classic, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" last week to give a national TV address regarding the war effort in Afghanistan.

Share + Dec 8, 2009 4:00 pm US/Central ARLINGTON, Tenn. 1 of 1 President Barack Obama makes a statement from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., upon his return from Camp David on Nov.

In his West Point speech on Tuesday, President Obama announced 30,000 fresh troops would be delivered to Afghanistan early next year.

From Russell Wiseman, mayor of Arlington, Tennessee, on his annoyance at the timing of Barack Obama's West Point speech: Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch "The Charlie Brown Christmas Special" and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose.

ARLINGTON, Tenn. - The mayor of a Memphis suburban city accused President Barack Obama of deliberately timing his speech about the war in Afghanistan this week to block the airing of the "Peanuts" Christmas television special.

The holiday parade in Lakeland on Saturday will feature Santa Claus, of course, but throwing candy from floats has been outlawed.

From Arlington, Tenn., Seth Tino with son Warner, 1, and daughter Hadley, 3, look for the perfect tree at the farm.

FAST FACTS: City and County officials say a merger plan is close City Council Chairman has questions about who will pay Plan must be approved by unions The red truck pulls into Shelby County Fire Station Number 1 just before noon.

ARLINGTON: Arlington Town Hall and other government offices will be closed Thursday and Friday in observation of Thanksgiving.

A man died late Thursday after he was struck by an SUV on Brunswick Road, northeast of the Wolfchase Galleria.

A Brunswick man died from injuries late Thursday night, November 19, 2009, after being struck by a vehicle as he walked near his home.

Over the next five years, Shelby County Schools will likely focus on campus renovations and rezoning to balance student population in the district, rather than building new schools.

So he waived his preliminary hearing in court Tuesday and sent the case straight to the grand jury.

Batesville, Miss.-based Dunlap & Kyle Co. Inc ., which owns and operates Gateway Tire and Service Centers, has internally transferred six acres of land at Lamb Road and U.S. 70 in Arlington for $1.1 million.

Two months after the statewide guns-in-parks law took effect, Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman says the town's Board of Mayor and Aldermen won't consider opting out of the legislation that allows handgun-carry permit holders to pack their guns in parks.