At the Tuesday meeting of the Chattanooga Beer Board, organizers for two special events planned for this weekend at MainX24 were given permits to sell beer.  The Big Wheel championship sponsored by Chattanooga Presents will take place in a parking lot at 1400 Broad St. from noon-6 p.m. on Saturday.  Competition will be a relay between four-member co-ed teams on adult-sized ... (click for more)

The East Side Elementary Choir and the East Hamilton High School Choir performed at Christmas at the Courthouse (click for more)

My husband and I gathered signatures on petitions over the Thanksgiving holiday. Given the future impact of the domestic benefits ordinance narrowly passed by the City Council, we felt it was important for all Chattanoogans to have an opportunity to be heard at the ballot box.    We have lived here for decades; we are both recently retired (TVA management and ... (click for more)

A carefully-hatched plan by loathsome yet desperate men to block federal efforts that would strengthen the Horse Protection Act of 1970 may have just been foiled by an ironic twist of fate. As both Congress and the Senate ponder bills that would finally put teeth into a horse industry gone horribly awry, a notorious trainer and three others were indicted in Maryville earlier this ... (click for more)

The Marion County High School football team will skip spring practice and extend the summer "dead period" from 2-4 weeks as self-imposed penalties for recent incidents in which two assistant coaches were charged with vandalizing the school's field house prior to the game with rival South Pittsburg. The TSSAA has accepted the penalties. TSSAA Executive Director Bernard Childress ... (click for more)

Back in July, members of the Southeastern Conference media picked defending national champ Alabama and Georgia to meet in this year’s SEC Championship game. As is usually the case, the media was wrong; dead wrong. Along the way Georgia came down with a lot of injuries the Bulldogs were unable to overcome and, well, you know the Alabama story. The top-ranked Tide was upset last weekend ... (click for more)