Chattanooga Department of Transportation announces the following closures beginning Thursday: Youngstown Road Youngstown Road will be closed to through traffic due to utility construction beginning Thursday through Monday from 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily. Detours will be posted. E. 3rd Street E. 3rd Street between Derby Circle and Derby Street will be closed due to ... (click for more)

Red Clay Road will be closed at 5224 Red Clay Road beginning Sept. 25 at 8:30 a.m. for cross drain replacement. South of the work zone will utilize Wolfe Street to Apison Road to Old Apison Road. North of the work zone will utilize Old Apison Road to Apison Road to Wolfe Street. (click for more)

During a specially-called meeting of the Erlanger Health System Board of Trustees, Chairman Mike Griffin announced that Chief Medical Officer Dr. William L. Jackson Jr., has been appointed as the health system’s new president and chief executive officer. Also a settlement was reached with former president Kevin Spiegel, who resigned last week under pressure from the board. ... (click for more)

A car accident on Lee Highway caused a gold van to leave the road, crash into an SUV in a hotel parking lot and then into two hotel rooms, structurally damaging the building. The incident happened just after 3 p.m. Wednesday at the In Town Suites on Lee Highway. Both hotel rooms were empty at the time of the incident. A total of 12 surrounding rooms were evacuated as a precaution. ... (click for more)

Tennessee American breaks a line and 35,000 people lose water for three days. Well they don’t exactly admit they broke it, they were working on it a few feet away and it just broke….so they say. One half of TAWC service area is out of water three days and nights, hospitals canceling surgery, schools closed and opened and then sending the children home, businesses shut down, government ... (click for more)

Regarding Mr. Exum's claim in his Sept. 12 column that Erlanger Chief Administrative Officer Gregg Gentry attended his Sept. 4 meeting with Kevin Spiegel is not accurate. Mr. Gentry said he was not at this meeting. (click for more)