The Children's Sing and Tell at Signal Mountain Baptist Church, 939 Ridgeway Ave, will present their spring program, "The Hallelujah Hop," this Sunday at 6 p.m. in the sanctuary. An ice cream social and the quarterly business meeting will follow.   Dr. Steven Wright will speak at  the 11 a.m. worship service on "Reasons for Hope and Joy," with Romans 5:1-8 as text. ... (click for more)

A farewell reception for Dr. Dwight and Patty Kilbourne at First-Centenary United Methodist Church, 410 McCallie Ave., will be held in Mohney Hall following the 10:45 a.m worship service this Sunday.  Dr. Kilbourne will speak at the 8:45 and 10:45 services on "Pressing On," with text from Philippines 3:7-11. The Rev. Brian Davis will speak at the 10:45 service at The Vine on ... (click for more)

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to Baa1 from A3 the rating assigned to Erlanger Health System's $172 million of outstanding bonds issued by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority. The outlook is negative at the lower rating level, the report says. Erlanger has lost over $17 million this fiscal year and reported a $771,000 loss for April on Monday night. ... (click for more)

Losses at Erlanger at Hutcheson Hospital rose to $1.9 million in April. It was the fifth straight month of increasing losses at the Fort Oglethorpe facility, dating back to $894,354 last December. Board members of the hospital that serves three North Georgia counties had little comment at a finance committee meeting on Wednesday attended by administrator Roger Forgey, a former ... (click for more)

I've watched how some in the media have attacked Scottie Mayfield for not debating. I've never been to a debate, and I am not going to vote for someone because they are able to remember and recite from memory, the well crafted answers they came up with the night before.   Often times, candidates focus on attacking each other instead of influencing undecided voters on any ... (click for more)

As Jackie McConnell was being told he now faces up to five years in prison and a multitude of other penalties after pleading guilty to just one of 48 counts in violation of the Horse Protection Act on Tuesday, the outcry from Tennessee Walking Horse owners was incredible and there is a groundswell of support growing to either clean up a very crooked industry or actually ban it. ... (click for more)