Blue Yonder and Banjo Nickaru and Western Scooches will play at Charles and Myrtle's Coffeehouse on Saturday, Aug. 31, at 8 p.m. The coffeehouse is inside Christ Unity Church at 105 McBrien Road. There is a $10 suggested donation at the door. There will be two 45-minutes sets and a big jam at the end. (click for more)

When you turn on your radio, what do you hear? There is a good chance you’ll happen upon a top 40 hit station, where they play the most popular songs in the country. As Marshall Bandy Jr. told the Civitan Club, this kind of station happened by accident. According to the Georgia attorney and co-founder of the National Top 40 Hall of Fame and Radio Museum, Todd Storz was in charge ... (click for more)

An investigation by special agents with the Human Trafficking Unit of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, detectives with the Cleveland Police Department, and investigators with the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department has resulted in the arrest of two Tennessee men, and two men from Georgia. Over a three-day period beginning Aug 15, as part of an undercover investigation aimed ... (click for more)

The Dalton Police Department is investigating a late-night shooting incident on Sunday that sent two people to local hospitals with injuries that are not considered to be life-threatening. The man who investigators have identified as the shooter, Jobanie Martinez, 21, is still at large. The victims and the shooter were known to each other. The incident happened at approximately ... (click for more)

Our community is blessed with many good Southern Gospel singers and groups. One such person was LaVaugh “Whitey” Cantrell. “Whitey” as he is known around here passed away on Friday. “Whitey” received His nickname at Rossville High School where he graduated. Mr. Cantrell worked at Combustion Engineering as a welder until his retirement in 1991. I first became acquainted with ... (click for more)

I was sitting on my porch last week with a pair of churchmen and reveled in the conversation when it coursed into the topic of friendship. The Bible's King Solomon had much to say about the beauty of friends when he wrote the Book of Proverbs … “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend” … and I was moved to be in the same circle of these two friends who met long ago ... (click for more)