The FLAMES team participated in Fight For Air Climb Atlanta. They were second overall in the team division. Douglas Kerns from the Dalton Fire Department won the overall with a time of  8:53 . He also placed first in his age group and first in fundraising with a total of $2,300. Billy Green from the Calhoun Fire Department got second place in the 30-34 age group. ... (click for more)

The Marion County Democratic will hold a Democratic Rally for all candidates on Thursday, beginning at 6 p.m. at  the Senior Citizens Center in Monteagle (adjacent to the May Justus Library), at 24 Dixie Lee Hwy Monteagle, Tn. 37356. Each candidate will be given three minutes to speak to the group followed by a coffee meet and greet.  This will give candidates ... (click for more)

The United Auto Workers announced Monday morning that it was withdrawing objections filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding February's vote at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, effectively terminating the NLRB review process. UAW President Bob King said the decision was made "in the best interests of Volkswagen employees, the automaker, and economic ... (click for more)

A child playing with a cigarette lighter started a mobile home fire on Saturday morning. At 9 a.m., the Chattanooga Fire Department responded to a mobile home fire at 6561 Cassie Lane. It took four fire companies about 10 minutes to get the fire under control. The fire was contained to one bedroom. No injuries were reported. Damage to the home is around $25,000. (click for more)

I don't know how to say this without getting my head handed back to me on a platter as is often the usual case. But at least I no longer receive the hateful (even threatening) emails and insults I became accustomed to. So I'll just bite and say it: I honestly don't see anything expressed by the NSM that hasn't been said locally on some level at one time or another, and ... (click for more)

One pundit who is awaiting the opening volleys of “The Volkswagen Hearings” is calling today’s start of the labor union fiasco at the Hamilton County Courthouse as fascism at its finest. That’s what you call it, he wrote in a fiery way, when the union, the employer and the president of the United States all line up on the same side. “And this push to eviscerate the legal rights ... (click for more)