The Arts at Erlanger Committee is now accepting submissions for the upcoming “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” gallery.  Artists may submit up to three pieces of any medium inspired by various modes of transportation including, but not limited to, planes, trains, automobiles, bicycles, etc. Entries will only be accepted from artists living within a 75-mile radius ... (click for more)

CHI Memorial Medical Group announces Jenifer Herra, M.D., has joined CHI Memorial Family Practice Associates – Soddy Daisy.  Dr. Herra received her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in West Indies.  She completed a residency in internal medicine at University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga.     Dr. Herra ... (click for more)

Officials of the Medal of Honor Heritage Center on Tuesday announced the center has reached a major milestone in its agreement with River City Company to build the new Heritage Center at the former Visitors Center building in the Aquarium Plaza.  This milestone, to raise more than $3 million by the end of 2018, was made possible, in part, by a $250,000 gift from Farrow Family ... (click for more)

Two tellers from the Hixson branch of the Bank of America testified Tuesday they are positive that Walter Frank Rice is the individual who robbed them at gunpoint last July 25. General Sessions Court Judge Lila Statom bound a bank robbery charge against Rice, 36, of 4734 Sabrina Lane, Hixson, to the Grand Jury. She raised his bond on the bank robbery charge to $250,000, calling ... (click for more)

Arming teachers with guns in the classroom, as Bill Lee proposes, would be the single most dangerous thing to happen to students in Tennessee history. Students and teachers in close proximity to loaded firearms daily? Across this state, in middle schools alone, there are probably hundreds of student/teacher conflicts a day. What if a student got hold of gun in a struggle with ... (click for more)

The word ‘ignobel’ is rarely used because only a few among us know that it means "characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness." About 30 years ago, a glorious group of great scholars took a literary hatchet to form the word into ‘ig nobel’ so it could be placed in the dictionary as a term that means “a satirical social criticism that identifies absurd research.” Think of ... (click for more)