Ark Pet Spa & Hotel Holds Grand Opening At New Location

Friday, June 01, 2012

The Ark Pet Spa & Hotel is having a grand opening at its new location, 7760 E. Brainerd Road, tomorrow from 12-2 p.m.  The event will be hosted by Hippie Radio and there will be snacks, door prizes, give-a-ways and tours of the new facility.

Anyone planning a vacation this summer is welcome to enter the Summer Pet of the Month Contest to win $100 in cash and a spa package at The Ark!  The Ark will also make a $100 donation in the name of the winner's pet to the Humane Educational Society each month!  June's Pet of the Month will be announced at the Grand Opening tomorrow.


Gourmet Guys Food Tasting Gala Is Saturday

The Chattanooga Breakfast Club, the Rotary Club of Chattanooga Hamilton Place and the Rotary Club of Chattanooga have joined forces again to present the 6th annual Gourmet Guys Food Tasting Gala. The event will be held on Saturday from 4-7 p.m. at the First Tennessee Pavilion located at 1825 Reggie White Blvd.  Admission is $15 per person, with children under eight admitted ... (click for more)

Fresh On Fridays Is At Miller Plaza

A River City Company program held in Miller Plaza at 850 Market St., Fresh on Fridays will be held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. every Friday through October. Starting this Friday, Fresh on Fridays will kick off with “Art You Can Eat,” a dessert cooking demonstration with Amanda Varnell from Dish T’Pass Cooking School and Catering Company located on West 6th Street. Ms. Varnell will be ... (click for more)

Kaylon Bailey, On Trial For First-Degree Murder, Was IDed By His Victim, Prosecutor Tells Jury

Doctors’ best efforts couldn't save 35-year-old Kima Evans’ life after he was ambushed and shot repeatedly on Jan. 13, 2012, prosecutors said Tuesday in Hamilton County Criminal Court.   But Evans hung on long enough to identify his killer, assistant district attorney Jason Demastus said.   The result, he said: Kaylon Sebron Bailey, 35, is on trial ... (click for more)

Highland Park Woman Helped Solve Mystery Of Gas Thief

Police said a Highland Park woman helped crack a mystery about a rash of recent gasoline thefts involving the cutting of expensive gas lines. Thomas Bouch was arrested after Bridgitte Brody told of looking out a window of her house last Thursday and seeing a white male standing by a 24-seat van at Tennessee Temple University. She said the man had a rubber tube near ... (click for more)

Replace Airport Authority Board Members - And Response

The public needs to intervene on the absolutely absurd Wilson Air Waste (WWW) at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport.  What this all comes down to is our elected officials have appointed board members to oversee the budget and decision making at the airport, and they clearly do not respect public resources.   Contrary to the Airport Authority CEO’s statement ... (click for more)

Roy Exum: The Colonel: ‘Tell My Sons’

In the Broadway play, “The Civil War,” there is an emotional song called “Tell My Father,” the words that a dying Union soldier on a distant battlefield asked to be delivered when the other troops got back home. The reason Lt. Col. Mark Weber sang that very song with his oldest son Matt was because the highly-decorated officer was fighting Stage IV intestinal cancer at the ... (click for more)