A free weekly Senior Taiji (tai chi) class will begin on Thursday, July 7 at 4 p.m. at the Everlan Senior Living Community, 2760 Northpoint Blvd. in Hixson. This class series will focus on strengthening balance and agility, while helping relax and release tensions in the body and mind. Lead by Chris Campbell, a master teacher with 35 years of experience, this course will ... (click for more)

Blood Assurance is seeking dozens of all-stars to save local lives. From July 1-8, the nonprofit organization is rewarding each donor two complimentary tickets to an upcoming Chattanooga Lookouts game (while supplies last). Donors can choose to attend one of three games between the Lookouts and the Rocket City Trash Pandas, July 26-28. Additionally, donors will receive a baseball-themed ... (click for more)

County Mayor Jim Coppinger said Wednesday that over $1 billion in development, including a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium, will be announced on Thursday morning at the U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry site. He said the development includes 120 acres and about nine acres will be for the $70 million stadium, which he said will not be just for the Lookouts but for community use. He ... (click for more)

The County Commission on Wednesday voted to spend $1 million toward providing officers in every Hamilton County public school. The appropriation will go along with $950,000 approved recently by the School Board toward the school safety goal. Currently there are 32 School Resource Officers approved with 28 now hired. Sheriff Jim Hammond said four SROs "are in the pipeline" ... (click for more)

I enjoy Soddy Daisy. Truly I do. But over the past six years or so, everything in the town has been going downhill, and quite fast. There is simply no place to eat in Soddy Daisy that offers any nutritional value or variety. Burger King, McDonald's, Sonic, KFC, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Bojangles. This is what we have to feed our children. Now a couple people may say what about ... (click for more)

In 2015 Joe Kennedy, a career Marine, was told by a “woke” crowd of educators that he could no longer be an assistant high school football coach in Seattle, Washington. The problem was that he publicly knelt and prayed on the field’s 50-yard line after every game and there were some school administrators that felt he was an undue influence on non-religious students. On Monday ... (click for more)