Here are the new business licenses from the County Clerk's office: 503 CONSTRUCTION MAURICIO A IRAHETA 1151 HURRICANE CREEK RD CHATTANOOGA TN 37421 ART FOR LIFE BLUEPRINT JENNIFER H STRICKLER 8115 E BRAINERD RD STE 13 CHATTANOOGA TN 37421 CARDWELL CANING ROBERT T CARDWELL 4409 CUMMINGS HWY CHATTANOOGA TN 37419 CEMPLEX GROUP GEORGIA, LLC NATHAN SHIRLEY 2480 WEAVER ... (click for more)

A leader with the 2020 Census is urging Whitfield County residents to be sure to fill out their Census forms, saying it could pay financial dividends for the next 10 years. “Our most important mission is to count everyone where they are, to ensure that their jurisdiction receives all of the funding based on their population,” Tracey Monroe Sr., partnership specialist with ... (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)

Perhaps the terrible toll that has engulfed the greater world community due to the black wave known as COVID 19 brings about an urgent sense of reflection and recollection on the true meaning of Memorial Day. One of the earliest commentaries was provided by Frederick Douglass at Arlington National Cemetery on Decoration Day 1871. He would extol to the crowd to never forget ... (click for more)

There is an old Indian proverb that is perhaps my favorite when word reaches me than a man or a woman in uniform perished in combat. On this day where we honor those who died while defending our country’s freedom, I am always reminded, “Good men must die, but death cannot take their names.” Any one who has ever stood post, knows well of the huge risks, the God-wretched intangibles ... (click for more)