The East Ridge City Council has agreed to a raise for the city court clerk position effective July 2019. It would move the current pay of $54,472 up by six percent to $57,740. In addition, the clerk would begin to receive annual raises in line with other city employees. Patricia Cassidy was the first elected clerk with her term beginning  September 2014, and ... (click for more)

The Soddy Daisy Commission is continuing to do "housekeeping" regarding spot zoning that has been discovered in the city. At the commission meeting Thursday night, a public hearing and first reading of an ordinance took place to change five tracts of land on East Highwater Road, four tracts on Baptist View Drive and one on Old Dayton Pike from C-2 Local Business District to R-1 ... (click for more)

Seven years ago today, my family and I found out that my brother, Sgt. Jonathan D. Gardner, was seriously injured by a roadside bomb, (explosively formed penetrator - EFP), while on a mission in Kuwait. The EFP went through the bottom of his seat and put a softball size hole in his upper thigh. The doctors said that if the bomb had entered the Humvee an inch to the right, he ... (click for more)

If you have never seen one in an antique store you wouldn’t know that the first telephones were contained in a not-so-small wooden box that had a snout-looking mouth piece and a separate speaker that you would hold on your ear while you talked. This was many years ago when phones were fun as compared to today’s tiny cell phones that rudely interrupt us from the task-at-hand both ... (click for more)

Silverdale had beaten Chattanooga Christian by a 7-0 final in a   softball game at CCS a few weeks ago, but the Lady Chargers were hoping to turn the tide after allowing just two earned runs in that earlier game. Things didn’t turn out as planned for the Lady Chargers Thursday evening at Silverdale. The Lady Seahawks are a really good hitting team and they showed it ... (click for more)

University of Tennessee Chancellor Beverly Davenport announced Thursday that Director of Athletics Phil Fulmer has signed a four-year contract. Fulmer took over as UT's Director of Athletics on Dec. 1, 2017.   "Phillip has been a great partner over the last four months and I commend him for the work he has done with our student-athletes, coaches and staff," Davenport ... (click for more)