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UPS announced plans Tuesday to hire more than 50 employees in the Memphis area and more than 100 in the Nashville area, according to a news release.

Positions include permanent and part-time package handling positions.

The release says part-time positions are available on multiple shifts.

Positions offer healthcare, pension and tuition benefits, as well as discounted stock purchase opportunities, the release says.

Pay can be up to $17 an hour depending on the shift, location and position, the release says.

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What can brown do for you? Turns out much more in Morristown.

United Parcel Service began Saturday delivery in the Morristown zip codes this week. An event at UPS’ Morristown facility, complete with a convoy of the famous brown delivery vehicles exited the terminal onto Morris Boulevard, led by one of the brown delivery trucks with racing flames.

“Saturday delivery is going to bring more jobs to the Morristown UPS facility,” Operations Manager Leonard Wall said. “It’s also going to provide a service to customers on a day which we hadn’t traditionally provided the service. We believe it’s going to increase the volume we can generate into this facility on a key day of Saturday.

“Our competitors deliver on Saturday and we want to provide the same service,” Wall said.

Dozens of runners took advantage of the weather on Saturday to run for a good cause.

UPS and the United Way teams up for a 5K at the UPS Customer Service Center in New Stanton.

All of the proceeds from the run will benefit the United Way’s work in Westmoreland County.

In mid-December, when the first vials of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kentucky, workers with Teamsters Local 89 played a pivotal role in delivering them from airplanes to arms.

“The people who took the vaccines off the planes and put them on UPS trucks were Teamsters,” said Avral Thompson, Secretary-Treasurer for the union that represents more than 16,000 workers in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. “The UPS truck drivers were Teamsters. We played a big role.”

On Friday, the vaccines came to them. In partnership with UofL Health, the Teamsters Local 89 hall in Louisville held a vaccine clinic for members, their families, and anyone else in the neighborhood who hasn’t yet been vaccinated against COVID-19.