Rainy weather and high water make conditions unfavorable for the 800 to 1,000 volunteers who will help clean 23 zones in Bradley, Hamilton and Marion counties.
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While quarantine caused many cancellations this year, green|spaces’ Eco Field Day event is back with a socially distanced, scavenger hunt twist. From July 7 to July 27, families, individual ... (click for more)
TWRA wildlife officers are investigating a reported bear encounter that occurred at an undeveloped campsite on South Holston Lake in Sullivan Co. Wildlife officers say that Matt Marvin ... (click for more)
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reported there were no boating-related fatalities and eight statewide serious injury boating incidents over the July 4th holiday weekend which includes ... (click for more)
While quarantine caused many cancellations this year, green|spaces’ Eco Field Day event is back with a socially distanced, scavenger hunt twist. From July 7 to July 27, families, individual kids or adults and corporate teams can sign up for Eco Field Day @ Home. Then, beginning July 29, a re-imagined Eco Field Day provides a virtual week of eco-activities ranging from ... (click for more)
TWRA wildlife officers are investigating a reported bear encounter that occurred at an undeveloped campsite on South Holston Lake in Sullivan Co. Wildlife officers say that Matt Marvin of Abingdon, Va., was camping at an undeveloped campsite along South Holston Lake across the lake from the 421 Access Area. During the early morning hours of July 5, Mr. Marvin was asleep in ... (click for more)
Stephen E. Meyer, MSc., P.E., FASCE, chairman of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Board, has announced that the director of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau will be retiring from public service. Bob Colby has served as director of the Bureau for the past 30 years. Prior to that, he was staff attorney for the Bureau for 10 years. ... (click for more)
The beginning of the next phase of Signal Mountain’s water company started at the July 13 council meeting, with the council’s approval of spending a quarter million dollars to buy new water meters. A contract was approved to purchase up to 3,500 Automatic Meter Read (AMR) water meters for $775,100 from Consolidated Pipe and Supply. The company is local, has the meters on the shelf ... (click for more)
Because I am taking the lead on the County Commission in reinstating discretionary money, I take it that a Commissioner’s comments in the Chattanoogan.Com on July 13 where he asserts that giving discretionary money is a way of currying favor with voters in the next election was aimed at me. We haven’t had discretionary money for over five years now. In spite of not having the ... (click for more)
There is a once-in-a-lifetime experience going on above us and it will put any child under the age of 99 years young absolutely in awe. On March 27, a NASA spacecraft known as NEOWISE (that stands for ‘Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) was circling planet Earth in an effort to categorize as many asteroids as possible that are non-threatening yet orbit close ... (click for more)