Jeff Hulett

2 months ago | memphisparent.com | Jeff Hulett

With summer officially in sight, many parents are scrambling to find meaningful and affordable summer camp options for their kiddos. While it’s a time of excitement, it can also be a season of anxiety as we all want to ensure our children have great experiences before heading back to class. Thankfully, summer camps have become a big business and most of them are well organized and allow online registration far in advance.

2 months ago | citylifestyle.com | Jeff Hulett

From now through May 21, visitors to the Memphis Botanic Garden will find themselves in a land of giant trolls on a quest to save their home. The six trolls on display in this traveling exhibit illustrate one chapter of Dambo’s bigger fairytale A Trail of a 1000 Trolls: Trolliefolkyfest. They also provide an extremely rare opportunity to see Dambo’s work, most of which is in permanent installations around the world and in his native Denmark.

Jan 8, 2025 | memphisparent.com | Jeff Hulett

My editor, Erika, was just telling me that she and her husband try to go out one night a week. One night a week? Seriously? Don’t get me wrong, that sounds amazing, but my wife, Annie, and I, are probably only managing one date night every three months or so. However, we are trying to do better. Recently, we finally made it down to Good Fortune on historic South Main. Let me tell you, it lived up to the hype.

Dec 24, 2024 | highgroundnews.com | Jeff Hulett

Over the past year, the High Ground Team has focused on diving deep into the More for Memphis plan: What it is, what’s new, and more. This week, we recap and put a bow on it as the plan is set in motion. Initially backed by $8.5 million in national and local investments, More for Memphis, formerly known as Place Matters: Memphis, began as a collaboration of more than 300 community partners working to improve social and economic mobility in Memphis and Shelby County.

Dec 11, 2024 | highgroundnews.com | Jeff Hulett

This is the 11th story in our new series on senior food insecurity. It’s a topic that is especially important in the greater Memphis area, which has the third-highest senior food insecurity rates in the country. Meals on Wheels America is running a national awareness campaign called End the Wait to increase the number of volunteers delivering meals to clients in need. Locally, maintained by the Aging Commission of the Mid-South, the waiting list is currently around 3,000.