Applications are now being accepted for Tennessee American Water’s 2020 Environmental Grant Program. The program supports innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore or protect watersheds and water sources through partnerships. Diverse activities like watershed cleanups, water quality monitoring, biodiversity projects, surface or groundwater protection ... (click for more)

Welcome Home of Chattanooga announces two new additions, Amy Boulware, LAP MSW as the new board chair and Sarah Quattrochi as the first development director. Ms. Boulware brings with her three decades of serving elders, people with disabilities and their families through advocacy and geriatric and special needs care coordination. She has a unique position as a Tennessee Licensed ... (click for more)

After temperatures mild enough to make the forsythia bloom and the daffodils rise, Chattanooga will face mercury dips into the low 20s for several days. The low for Sunday night is set to be around 20 degrees. The sub-freezing weather is due to continue through Thursday morning when a slight warming trend begins. Here is the latest forecast: Tonight Mostly clear, ... (click for more)

Some protestors tried to drown out Rep. Robin Smith at the Women's Rally at Miller Park on a wet Saturday. The Hixson Republican mainly spoke about a Chattanoogan named Abby Crawford Milton, who in 1920 played a pivotal role in securing women the right to vote. Through protest and lobbying, Ms. Milton convinced enough Tennesseans to support women’s suffrage, thus making the Volunteer ... (click for more)

The behavior of our local radical left women was abusive and uncalled for. The next Woman’s Rally and March should be lessons in common decency and civility towards other women. Interrupting an invited female speaker with displays of yelling and holding up disparaging signs is wrong. The women before me that broke the barriers in male-dominated professions would be embarrassed ... (click for more)

During last week’s College Football Championship, the ESPN network teased us with the first 11 of the Top 150 College Football Players of all time. In this new year of 2020, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the college game and ESPN will offer more delights than a Whitman’s Sampler. But, brother, I don’t care what kind of 20-20 vision you may boast, the reality of such ... (click for more)