Shannon Edwards was chosen to represent Georgia Northwestern Technical College at the Dinah Culbreath Wayne EAGLE Leadership Institute March 14-16, 2022. The Leadership Institute recognizes and honors those students who have demonstrated superior achievement in adult education classes and programs. A resident of Calhoun, Ms. Edwards is enrolled at GNTC and her career objective ... (click for more)

The Ooltewah/Collegedale Council of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce recognized Southern Adventist University as its Business of the Month last Wednesday. With a 1,300-acre campus and more than 2,700 students, Southern has been located in Collegedale since 1916. (click for more)

A man who was killed while driving along Highway 153 on Tuesday night had just carried out a drug deal with the shooter, police said. Stewart Brodie Luttrell, 35, was killed in the incident that resulted in traffic being clogged for hours. Luttrell's wife, 27, was also shot. Their two-year-old son was not injured. Police said Wednesday night that h omicide investigators had ... (click for more)

The County Commission made last-minute redistricting changes to its 11-member plan at a lengthy meeting on Wednesday. The commission is expected to pass the plan next Wednesday and send it on to state officials for their approval. Officials said the completed plan is within deviation standards (not having one or more districts too much larger or smaller than others) and keeps ... (click for more)

Walker County government put out a press release on Tuesday announcing that Walker County Water and Sewerage Authority (WCWSA) had requested that the county use $5 million of its American Rescue Plan stimulus funds to invest in a $45 million improvement plan recently developed by WCWSA. Walker County was allocated a little more than $13 million from the American Recovery Plan Act ... (click for more)

I have taken the position that mandates of any kind that limit personal freedoms are awful. And I have watched with sorrow what has happened at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and is now happening at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga. Good people are losing jobs all across America rather than surrender their personal beliefs. I also mourn the COVID vaccine has been divided ... (click for more)