(Changes, Corrections Or Additions: Please Notify Dennis Norwood at dennisnorwood56@gmail.com) PREP BASEBALL TUESDAY, APRIL 23 McMinn Co. at Walker Valley CCS at Grace Rhea Co. at Lenoir City Ooltewah at Soddy Daisy Bradley at Cleveland Howard at East Ridge Hixson at Tyner Lookout Valley at South Pittsburg McCallie at East Hamilton Red Bank at Central ... (click for more)

Baseball suffered a 15-5 loss at Chattanooga State in a non-conference matchup on Tuesday. 2B Andrew Carpenter and 1B Marcial Hernandez batted back-to-back and had four of the Cougars’ seven total hits in the game. Pitchers Bradley Hayes, Matt Voda, and Brock Browning also combined for 3.1 innings of shutout baseball after Cleveland State gave up five runs in the early innings. ... (click for more)

State officials said a portion of Interstate 75 between Chattanooga and Cleveland will be widened. The project will add one lane in each direction. It will take it from two lanes to three from north of U.S. 11/Lee Highway in Hamilton County to near Exit 20 in Bradley County. It was included in this year’s multimodal program to tentatively receive right-of-way funding in FY ... (click for more)

Proposed changes to the city's Short Term Vacation Rentals program were set to go before the City Council next Tuesday, but that now appears to be off the table. Councilman Darrin Ledford said he had been set to discuss the topic brought forth by Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod at the planning and zoning committee Tuesday. However, administration officials said they had their ... (click for more)

A wastewater or service utility is simply a defined service in exchange for a fee. What if I pay a utility fee in exchange for a defined service, and the utility fails to deliver the service as agreed? As an example, I pay a private solid waste collection service to collect, transport, and dispose of garbage. Municipalities also operate waste collection and disposal. ... (click for more)

A dear friend sends me a note that his mom, after 40 glorious years of teaching children in public schools, is dying. The death of a mom or dad is among the worst things a child must bear, watching a parent in their final days. But I still marvel at the fact when Helen Exum died four years ago, not once did I cry and I’m a pretty emotional guy. The overwhelming reason I could ... (click for more)