Lee University’s Brass Choir will hold a spring concert on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Pangle Hall, under the direction of Dr. Nathan Warner.  The evening will feature pieces such as “Fantasia for Brass and Timpani” by Robert Ward, “Fanfare for Such a Time as Time” by Lee’s David Holsinger, and “Capriol Suite” by Peter Warlock.   The Brass Choir has 18 brass players ... (click for more)

The Lee University Opera Theatre, directed by James Frost, will perform “Opera Scenes” in the Squires Recital Hall on Sunday at 3 p.m.  The performance will include operatic scenes from well-known operas such as “Così fan tutte,” “The Magic Flute,” “Carmen,” “Ariadne auf Naxos,” “Old Maid and the Thief,” “Mikado,” and “Madama Butterfly.”  According to Mr. Frost, ... (click for more)

Mayor Andy Berke, in his annual State of the City Address on Thursday, said he plans to establishing the city’s first Affordable Housing Fund. He said the city plans to commit $1 million to the fund "that will be used exclusively to aid the creation of affordable and workforce housing throughout Chattanooga. These funds will be used to supplement federal funding, various ... (click for more)

Chattanooga Police have charged Britian Crutcher with the September 2017 shooting of LaSandra Burdette. Ms. Burdette, 26, was shot just after 3 a.m. in the 2000 block of Ocoee Street in Avondale. Her vehicle was involved in a minor wreck just before the shooting. The shooter was in another vehicle. Police recently charged Crutcher in the homicide of 28-year-old ... (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)