Parents' Night Out for parents with children birth through 5th grade will be Friday, Feb. 17, from 6-10 p.m. at Brainerd Baptist Church, 300 Brookfield Ave.  The cost is $11 for one child, $5 per additional child and dinner is available for $1 per child.  Space is limited.   The moring schedule will change Sunday, Feb. 19.  Worship services will be ... (click for more)

Dr. Steven Wright will continue his sermon series on the Parables of Jesus Sunday, Feb. 12, at the 11 a.m. worship service at Signal Mountain Baptsit Church, 939 Ridgeway Ave.  "The Wheat and the Weedds" will be based on Matthew 13:24-30.  Sunday School is at 9:45 a.m. and small groups are at noon and 6:30 p.m.   The Adult Fellowship will meet Thursday, Feb. ... (click for more)

An Chattanooga man told police Monday night that he had just murdered his wife.  Police said Robert Lee Hardnett, 50. showed up at the County Jail to turn himself in at 8:40 p.m. He said his wife's body could be found at his place of employment, Power Supply Company, 1907 Daisy St.   Officers responded to that address and found the body of 34-year-old Elizabeth ... (click for more)

The four remaining members of the Red Bank Commission held a special called meeting on Tuesday and chose Kenneth Welch as the replacement for Vice Mayor Greg Jones, who moved to Alaska. At the same meeting, Commissioner Ruth Jeno announced she will not seek a new term. She urged the candidates who were not selected - Michael Tindle and Eddie Pierce - to run in the next election. ... (click for more)

It is not by coincidence I haven’t submitted an opinion piece in some time to the Chattanoogan.  The topics I cover are generally vitriolic in regards to local political decisions and their makers regarding public safety and I do not wish to associate my name with more noble subjects such as that of the heroic death and cowardly murder of Chattanooga Police Sergeant Tim Chapin, ... (click for more)

I would like to thank Judge Mattice for handing down a 30.5 year sentence for Kathleen Mathews.  Obviously, no amount of jail time, fines, or lashings can bring back Tim Chapin.   A 30-year sentence will, however, make the world just a little safer.  That's what Sgt. Chapin would have wanted.  He was a protector and sacrificed his life so the rest of ... (click for more)