Siskin Hospital announces that Michelle Smith, MS, CCC-SLP; Sara Tinter, MS, CCC-SLP and Kyle Volentine, OTR/L, CSRS, are now Certified Brain Injury Specialists (CBIS). The certification is awarded by the Brain Injury Association of America. This achievement brings Siskin Hospital’s total number of CBIS-certified staff to 19. Ms. Smith and Ms. Tinter have master of science ... (click for more)

Rees Skillern Cancer Institute at CHI Memorial will host a PROMPT party this Friday from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Rees Skillern Cancer Institute’s Cancer Risk and Survivorship Center, 605 Glenwood Dr., Suite 307 in Chattanooga. PROMPT, which stands for Prospective Registry of Multiplex Testing, is a patient-driven registry that will help answer questions about genetic test results. ... (click for more)

Crews are searching for a lost kayaker on the Ocoee Number Three Lake in the Tumbling Creek area. Those involved include TWRA law enforcement officers, along with Polk County Fire and Rescue, Polk County EMA, Polk County Sheriff’s Department, State Parks Crews and U. S. Forest Service Law Enforcement. The kayaker, a 68-year-old man from Polk County, was reported missing Sunday ... (click for more)

The Chattanooga area could get up to seven inches of rain in a new wave of downpours Tuesday through Sunday. Some streams are already swollen and under minor flood advisories, including Lookout Creek and Chickamauga Creek. The National Weather Service said, "A prolonged period of heavy rain is expected from Tuesday through Saturday. The heaviest rainfall will likely fall across ... (click for more)

So in 2003 Chattanooga and Marion County and more people below Chickamauga Dam suffered a 100 year flood because TVA had not prepared for the amount of rain that fell. Since then up until 2018 they have done a great job with controlling the flooding problems. On Feb. 14 they started dumping water at Chickamauga Dam and raising the river, bringing the river level up. Feb 15 it's ... (click for more)

I guess many people confuse racism with racial injustices. They're only related in the sense when racism is used to make legal and physical racial injustices take place. Racism is an emotion anyone is entitled to. That's their cross to bear. Something the racist will one day have to give an accounting for. Racial injustices takes physical, emotional, psychological and mental actions ... (click for more)