The Ringgold Playhouse will open its summer comedy, “Rumors,” for a two-weekend run beginning Thursday night. The show, which is the company’s third of the 2018 season, will offer fast-paced hilarity from writer Neil Simon that has been polished over the past 10 weeks by director Kimberly Tyner Jones and her cast of 10. “From the very beginning, I knew this cast, this ... (click for more)

Van Johnson in Dory Schary's World War II Docudrama GO FOR BROKE!  will be presented on  Thursday, July 19 at 2 p.m. at Heritage House Arts & Civic Center, 1428 Jenkins Road in Chattanooga.  Admission is free.  Running time is 1:31 and the film is rated PG. Review of the film: The film GO FOR BROKE! is the story of the 442nd Infantry Battalion, the ... (click for more)

Five people were shot on Cowart Street early Sunday morning.   At approximately 2:55 a.m., Chattanooga Police responded to the area of 1400 Cowart Street on reports of multiple people shot. The shooting was near Coyote Jack's where one person was killed and another injured in a shooting in December 2017.   Upon arrival, police found several ... (click for more)

The body of Robert Townsend, 60, was found on Friday in a dumpster on Laura Street.   At approximately  11:19 a.m. , Chattanooga Police were dispatched to a deceased party in the 2500 block of Laura Street. Upon arrival, officers located the body inside the bin.     Violent Crimes Bureau responded to the scene. The decedent was transported to the ... (click for more)

Here we go again with the same pitiful news reports about the Cummings Highway Interstate interchange with I-24 - Flooding yet again after a heavy rain.  TDOT is derelict in not having repaired this years ago.  How hard is it to get some excavators out there to dig up the collapsed drainage pipes which TDOT says are the cause of the flooding and replace them with ... (click for more)

I travel to other neat old cities and don't see nearly the graffiti vandalism as in Chattanooga. Why do we allow one or two or three repeat vandals to mar our venerable Walnut Street Bridge, the pillars to the Holmberg Bridge, the remodeled Chief John Ross Market Street Bridge, the walls along our multi-million-dollar Riverwalk, our sidewalks, street signs and our old limestone ... (click for more)