CHI Memorial’s mobile health coach will provide mammography screenings at YMCA Healthy Living Center at North River, 4138 Hixson Pike in Chattanooga, on Monday, June 1 from 8 a.m.-noon. "All women should have one screening mammogram between the ages of 35-40. After age 40, a screening mammogram is recommended every year," officials said. "Any woman who meets these age guidelines ... (click for more)

Morning Pointe Senior Living announces that Knoxville-Knox County Planning has approved the Chattanooga-based senior healthcare company’s plans to build a new senior living and Alzheimer’s memory care community on Reagan Road, located off of Hardin Valley Road and Pellissippi Parkway. Construction is slated to begin in summer 2020 with a grand opening in late 2021. This combined ... (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)