The monthly Craft N Crop will be held Thursday, Oct. 6, at Heritage House Arts and Civic Center.  The event is a relaxed artists mixer for creatives of all stripes.   Participants each bring a potluck dish to share for dinner and then work on their various projects (scrapbooks, bead looms, clay projects, etc.) while sharing conversation and positive feedback.   ... (click for more)

The newly founded Libertarian Party of Northwest Georgia is hosting inaugural events including a Monday demonstration,The Cross Walk Protest and Sign Waving, highlighting tactics by the U.S. Presidential Election Debate Committee.  Local Libertarians will protest to advocate for past successful two-term governor, Gary Johnson to be allowed to participate in presidential debates.  ... (click for more)

District Attorney General Neal Pinkston filed a petition on Monday, asking that two Chattanooga gangs, the Gangster Disciples and the Grape Street Crips, and their members be declared public nuisances. General Pinkston is also asking that injunctive relief be given to the law-abiding residents of East Lake by establishing a Safety Zone that covers most of their neighborhood.  ... (click for more)

A boy is in critical condition after being stabbed on Sunday afternoon in what police described as a dispute between neighbors. One other person was stabbed and a man was shot in the stomach in the melee in the 2700 block of Citico Avenue. The injuries to the second person stabbed in the neck and the shooting victim were said to be not life-threatening. The 12:45 p.m. incident ... (click for more)

Re: City Police donating two patrol cars to Kevin Muhammad's Nation of Islam: While I know it's unpopular to mention the wisdom of separation of church and state, this sets a dangerous precedent and should meet with concern from everyone who values religious and secular freedom. What's next? Southern Baptists getting old city parking scooters to patrol church parking lots ... (click for more)

When Jose Fernandez was killed early Sunday morning in a boating accident, he was 24 years old yet had already lived a life much larger than almost all old men. He had spent part of a year in an unimaginably cruel Cuban prison, this when he only 14 years old and sandwiched in an inhumane cell among grown criminals. There were murders daily – in his very cell -- and nobody cared. ... (click for more)