The Bartlett Express

4 days ago | bartlett-express.com | Jennifer Deshazo

AT BPACC – JUNE 13Courtesy Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center (BPACC)ALMOST FAMOUS is a quintessential high energy, sophisticated, versatile rock n roll band who, on Friday, June 13, will visit Bartlett to play the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center’s popular “Music By The Lake” outdoor music series.  ALMOST FAMOUS hails from Memphis, and features some of the best musical talents anywhere, with show stopping live performances.

4 days ago | bartlett-express.com | Jennifer Deshazo

Ray Donavan Phillips, 37, Bolton High School Graduate and former Fed Ex employee passed away May 16, 2025. Ray is survived by his beloved son Carson, his father and mother Donavan and Terri Phillips, his sister Emily Phillips, grandmother Freda Clark and Aunt Bonnie Clark. He will be so greatly missed by all and will always be in our hearts. He is now resting in Gods arms.

1 week ago | bartlett-express.com | Elizabeth W. Pugh |Jennifer Deshazo

Staff ReportsWest10/Legacy MediaElizabeth Cunningham Pugh wrote the following poem in 1979, which the Bartlett Express published. She was an educator for Bartlett High School and served as the curriculum writer, and publisher of the Pantheon as well as being the sponsor of the writing club. Elizabeth passed away April 19, 2025. Being Historical month, we found this poem to be relevant for then and now.

2 weeks ago | bartlett-express.com | Jennifer Deshazo

The following story, written by Kim Hardaway, is part of the Stories Behind the Stars project (see https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/). This is a national effort of volunteers to write the stories of all 400,000+ of the US WWII fallen here and on Fold3. Can you help write these stories? Related to this, there will be a smartphone app that will allow people to visit any war memorial or cemetery, scan the fallen’s name and read his/her story.

2 weeks ago | bartlett-express.com | Jennifer Deshazo

On May 22, 2025, at approximately 5:45 pm, members of the Bartlett Police Department were involved in an Officer-involved shooting stemming from an incident that occurred in the area of Kate Hyde Blvd and Highway 64. During the encounter, the suspect, while armed with a knife, attempted to stab an officer, at which time officers fired their weapons, striking the suspect. Emergency medical services responded and transported the suspect to a local hospital.