Southern Adventist University will host acclaimed double bassist Xavier Foley in a guest recital on Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Ackerman Auditorium in Mabel Wood Hall on the university’s campus in Collegedale. The performance will include his double concerto “For Justice and Peace,” a piece commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Sphinx Organization. Among Mr. Foley’s accomplishments, ... (click for more)

Unity Touring, along with Unity Dance Studios, presents its all-new production, Scrooge: A Unity Carol. Based on Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, Scrooge will premiere Nov. 22-24 at the Lee University Dixon Center. Review for Scrooge: A Unity Carol: Come experience the story of Ebenezer Scrooge with an unexpected twist that will open your eyes to a new perspective ... (click for more)

As part of a management reorganization, Erlanger Health System officials announced the elimination and restructuring of 30 management positions, effective this month. In making the announcement, Erlanger President and CEO Will Jackson, M.D., said Monday’s management realignment effort at the Chattanooga-based health system will better position Erlanger to meet the changing landscape ... (click for more)

County Commissioner Sabrena Smedley said she would like an opportunity to address some 70 current and past county school teachers who signed a letter hitting her and four other commissioners who voted against a wheel tax referendum. She addressed an email to Kendra Young, a teacher at East Hamilton School, whose picture was shown on the Facebook page of the Hamilton County Democratic ... (click for more)

I appreciate our underpaid teachers here in Tennessee so much. We as a whole have a moral obligation to make sure we contribute to their pay. A wheel tax on our cars is a minimal expense to most of us. Sixty dollars is not enough for us to complain. We shouldn't even bat an eye at that if it contributes to the hard working teachers who sacrifice daily for our children. We ... (click for more)

Yes, it didn’t take long … not long at all … for a majority (remember this word) of the Hamilton County Commission to request a meeting with those teachers who still dare to bear the faces after sending a live warhead of stupid over the bow to their funding body. On Sunday there appeared a letter that chastised, by name, five county commissioners who neither deserved it nor toil ... (click for more)