Board and Brush Creative Studio, a Do It Yourself home décor design shop, has signed on at Cambridge Square, according to Cambridge Marketing Director Jim Cheney. “I am thrilled to bring Board and Brush to Cambridge Square and Ooltewah to provide a local creative option for a night out with friends and family,” said owner, Wesley Odum. “Board and Brush is the perfect way to ... (click for more)

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. has welcomed Mae Shelley to the firm's estate and tax planning group. Ms. Shelley joins Chambliss as a paralegal with more than 10 years of extensive experience in corporate law, administration and partnerships. Her work focuses primarily on trust administration, and she assists with the planning and navigation of trust requirements. ... (click for more)

Former County Mayor and Deputy Governor Claude Ramsey has died after a recent illness. Mr. Ramsey held a number of top government posts after leaving his strawberry farm at Harrison and going into politics. He was a major factor in the development of the Enterprise South Industrial Park and landing Volkswagen as its main tenant. He served in the state legislature and was ... (click for more)

Former House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick has decided to pull out of the House District 26 race and take a position with an engineering firm in Nashville. Among the top contenders considering the post are County Commissioner Greg Martin, former county Republican Party Chairman Tony Sanders and former state GOP Chairman Robin Smith.  He told the Chattanooga Times Free ... (click for more)

In April, First Tennessee Bank and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition announced an agreement on a $3.9 billion reinvestment plan for economic development in low to moderate income communities under the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. The Chattanooga Times Free Press soon followed with an article reviewing the plan in depth. The plan presented Chattanooga, as well as ... (click for more)

Four years after William Styron’s best-seller ‘Sophie’s Choice,’ had achieved the highest height of an atrocity that the literary world had known at the time, a little girl who was birthed the same year as the book (1979) was cast as Meryl Streep’s daughter in the movie. The four-year-old blonde knew nothing about evil, not to mention the Holocaust, but she became enamored with ... (click for more)