Navigating Thru Change, a jobs and career support group sponsored by First Baptist Church of Fort Oglethorpe, welcomes Pat Harrington as a special guest speaker this week. Ms. Harrington will be walking the group through how to use Linked In, the business social networking site, for looking for jobs and building a brand online. The session will start at 6:30 p.m. and ... (click for more)

"What Repentance Looks Like" will be the topic of Dr. Steven Wright on Sunday, at 11 a.m. at Signal Mountain Baptist Church, 939 Ridgeway Ave. His text will be Psalm 51:1-17. Sunday School is at 9:30 a.m. The 100th birthday celebration of Ila McInturff will be at the church on Saturday, from 2-4 p.m. in the Christian Life Center. (click for more)

The County Commission may act as soon as next Wednesday on getting architects moving on new county schools and additions. County Mayor Jim Coppinger said he will confer with individual commissioners prior to the next commission meeting to try to get a consensus on which of six school priority building programs should go forward now. He did not give a specific figure on how ... (click for more)

Concern over a new cell phone tower brought several residents to speak at the Lookout Mountain, Tn., commission meeting Tuesday night. Federal regulations require the town to accommodate communication services. With increased use of cell phones and wireless data transmission it is not only a matter of convenience but also one of safety since many families no longer have land lines, ... (click for more)

How does the city of Chattanooga really think it saves money by only picking the brush when someone calls 311. I called the other day and they came and picked up my brush and passed 10 other piles of brush in my area, some of which were only a few doors down from my house. Now they will have to come back 10 more times as people call in and some will not call so those piles will ... (click for more)

I can remember a time in my life when I could recognize a person’s handwriting. It was back when we used to send and receive letters and postcards and love notes with our friends. But the biggest reason I am wildly in favor of a bill now in the Tennessee Legislature that will hopefully make it a law that all children must learn to write and read in cursive by the third grade is ... (click for more)