The National Junior Honors Society has selected the NJHS chapter at Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts as one of the Outstanding Service Project Award recipients for 2020. Five National Honors Society and Five National Junior Honors Society projects are selected for this recognition each year. Angi Donen, a CCA counselor for middle grades, leads the reading service ... (click for more)

Chattanooga State Community College is now offering Tennessee Reconnect Virtual Information Sessions. The Tennessee Reconnect Scholarship is a last-dollar scholarship that will allow all Tennessee adults who qualify to attend an eligible institution free of tuition and mandatory fees. Reservations for Tennessee Reconnect Virtual Information Sessions can be made at chattanoogastate.edu/tnreconnect ... (click for more)

Georgia state health officials said Tuesday that 348 people in the state have died of the coronavirus - up from 294 on Monday. The confirmed cases are now at 9,156, up from 7,558 on Sunday. Officials said 1,899 have been hospitalized in Georgia with the deadly virus - up from 1,393 on Monday. Whitfield County has 21 cases and a second death - a 78-year-old man. Walker ... (click for more)

Tennessee now has 72 coronavirus deaths - up seven since the Monday report. Cases have gone up from 3,802 to 4,138. Officials said 408 people have been hospitalized in the state from coronavirus. Becky Barnes of the Hamilton County Health Department said there are now 94 cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton County. There were no additional deaths from Monday’s tally. Of those, ... (click for more)

Social media and memes. They seem to be made for each other. If you’re looking for laughs, they often give great comic relief, particularly in this difficult time we are facing. But as I’ve seen many of the memes that regularly get posted and shared, I felt compelled to share a few thoughts. This is the main one: “Never get your theology from memes.” Typically memes are ... (click for more)

On Friday morning the phone rang at 1 a.m., calling Manny Sethi – who is in a race to become the next senator from Tennessee – to come to the hospital. Sethi, who is one of Nashville’s premier trauma surgeons, would then perform not one surgery, but nine more before he went back home about mid-morning on Monday. “I guess I was working about 80 hours a week in the operating room,” ... (click for more)