Robert King, 61, passed away on Monday, May 25, 2020. Arrangements are by John P. Franklin Funeral Home, 1101 Dodd’s Ave., 423 622-9995. (click for more)

Wanda Shamburger, 64, passed away on Sunday, May 25, 2020, in Chattanooga. Arrangements are by John P. Franklin Funeral Home, 1101 Dodds Ave., 423 622-9995. (click for more)

Raymond Strattan, 71, of LaFayette, passed away on Friday, May 22, 2020. He was a member of the Bethel Memorial Baptist Church. Raymond is survived by his loving wife, Harriet Strattan; daughter, Terry Lynn Goss; sons, Bobby and Raymond Strattan; sisters, Pauline Christman, and Paula Gottlibe; brothers, Ben and Joe Strattan; grandchildren, Amber Burns, Kelia Pettigrew, ... (click for more)

Linda Hatfield Dalton, of Rock Spring, Georgia, passed away on May 22, 2020, from complications of heart disease. She was in Lakeview High School Class of 1974. She worked at Top Flight Paper Co and Sears Shoe Store. Linda was a kind and loving person and will be greatly missed by family and friends. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Glen and Mae Kirkpatrick, ... (click for more)

Hamilton County has added another 54 coronavirus cases, moving the total to 694, the local Health Department reported on Memorial Day. The county remains at 14 deaths. There have been seven confirmed cases at the Waddington North America Novolex plant on Quintus Loop in the Jersey Pike area. The plant, which had already planned to close for the Memorial Day weekend, conducted ... (click for more)

Summer meal pickup sites available at Hamilton County Schools will start food service on Tuesday. These sites will be open on Tuesdays and Friday each week from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Each Tuesday, families will be able to pick up three meals for each person at the sites. On Friday, families will receive four meals for each person in the family. The sites will continue to follow CDC ... (click for more)