Metro Tab Church invites the public to its worship service on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Senior Pastor Steve Ball will bring a message titled "I've Got To Keep It." The Praise and Worship will be led by Pastors Adam and Olivia Aziz and Metro Praise and Band. Officials said, "We are excited to announce the new MTC Worship project, "ENTER IN" has been released and is available. ... (click for more)

Middle Valley Church of God, at 1703 Thrasher Pike in Hixson, announces that Pastor Mitch McClure will continue preaching on the theme 'Moving Towards Heaven' on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Pastor McClure's sermon title will be "The Bad Team Has a Plan." Pastor McClure is presently teaching a Bible study on 'Have You Reached Your Boiling Point, Yet?' each Wednesday at 7 p.m. ... (click for more)

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly has ordered the closure of all community centers at the conclusion of summer camp on Friday. While community centers are always closed for a week of deep cleaning following summer camp, Mayor Kelly ordered that they remain closed indefinitely due to spiking COVID-19 infections among unvaccinated Chattanoogans. All community centers will remain closed ... (click for more)

The federal government has decided not to further prosecute Mark Hazelwood, the former president of Pilot Travel Centers, as well as two co-defendants. After a trial that concluded three years ago, Hazelwood got 12 1/2 years and a $750,000 fine, while Scott Wombold received six years and a $75,000 fine and Heather Jones got 2 1/2 years for defrauding trucking firms of promised ... (click for more)

I attended the meeting held by county officials on Thursday at Sale Creek High School. Mr. Coppinger gave a background on the purchase of the farm and also what possible future uses might be. In his comments he mentioned the word “transparency” multiple times. To my way of thinking this so called transparency in the use of taxpayer money would have been to put this before the county ... (click for more)

The public schools within the limits of Hamilton County (TN) will register all students on Friday, Aug. 6, and the first official school day will follow on Thursday (Aug. 12). At summer’s beginning, we thought the return might be easy. People were vaccinating and our masks were laid aside. After the last school year, which was chaos and a total disaster to any child’s development, ... (click for more)