The Jericho Brass, Chattanooga's traditional brass band, performs up to 25-30 concerts a year in Chattanooga and the tri-state area.  Band members are composed of retired music directors, military musicians and High School and College trained musicians.         The band will be performing on May 25 at Lake Katoomba, a man-made lake on the property ... (click for more)

The Spring Jazz Fest at the Barking Legs Theatre is brought to a close Saturday, when the Evan Cobb Quintet comes down from Nashville to play the compositions of the great Horace Silver.   The show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, and $12 at the door. Review for Evan Cobb: Transplanted from NYC to Nashville, tenor saxophonist Evan Cobb is one of the ... (click for more)

A woman was found dead on Sunday morning at 8912 Lovell Road, and police are seeking a "person of interest" in the case. Deputies responded to that location at approximately 8 a.m. on a suspicious death. On arrival "deputies found a dead female in her 30s deceased from an apparent homicide." A person of interest has been identified as Terry Releford, 34. He ... (click for more)

Flooding has brought the closing of some area school systems and a delay in starting others. Dayton City Schools , Rhea County Schools and Bledsoe County Schools are closed. Walker County Schools are on a two-hour delay for students and staff (click for more)

The Delta Queen is a magnificent part of history and in many ways I'm pleased she is in town. Having the boat where she is is the problem. The boat blocks the view of and from the prettiest park in our town. The crew take many of the parking spots around the park leaving families to park across Frazier and schlep their kids, strollers and picnics to the park. You don't get fireworks ... (click for more)

Maybe 20 years ago I became entranced by a book called “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.” It was co-authored by a surgeon, Paul Brand, and a Christian writer, Phillip Yancey, and gave one specific after another about the human body and how only God could have created such a miraculous machine. Today the book is a classic and I have marveled ever since over how unbelievable human ... (click for more)