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The Signal Mountain Genealogical Society will meet on Tuesday, April 7 , at the Walden Town Hall, 1836 Taft Highway. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. with light refreshments followed by ... (click for more)
(Editor’s Note: Dr. Wayne Shearer, 95, is a retired optometrist and retired colonel from the U.S. Air Force Reserve now living in Hixson. In his early 90s, he decided to sit down and write from ... (click for more)
With the recent announcement by the Chattanooga Area Regional Transit Authority, that in March of 2020 new cars will replace the current ones in operation on Chattanooga's famous Lookout Mountain ... (click for more)
The Signal Mountain Genealogical Society will meet on Tuesday, April 7 , at the Walden Town Hall, 1836 Taft Highway. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. with light refreshments followed by a brief business meeting and program. The speaker for the day, Society Member Larry Chapman, will present a program entitled, "Traveling to Build a Family." As always, visitors are welcome. (click for more)
(Editor’s Note: Dr. Wayne Shearer, 95, is a retired optometrist and retired colonel from the U.S. Air Force Reserve now living in Hixson. In his early 90s, he decided to sit down and write from memory and a few records he still possesses his recollections of going through Army Air Corps pilot training at several bases in the United States during World War II. A lifelong writer, ... (click for more)
The Tennessee toll from the conoravirus has reached 37. Cases in the state rose to 3,067. Officials said 293 people have been hospitalized in the state from coronavirus. Hamilton County is reporting 68 cases. Officials said of those, they were only able to identify 20 who could say who they believe they knew of the source of the virus. Drive-thru testing was held on ... (click for more)
Georgia state health officials said Wednesday that 198 people in the state have died of the coronavirus - 14 more than Thursday. The cases have increased to 5,967 - up from the Thursday report of 5,444. Officials said 1,222 have been hospitalized in Georgia with the deadly virus. The first person to contract the coronavirus in Dade County has died. Dade had reported its first ... (click for more)
A pioneer in police public information passed away earlier this week in California. Ron Eberhardt worked for the Chattanooga Police Department in the 1970’s. Then Fire and Police Commissioner Gene Roberts named Eberhardt police information officer. To my knowledge the police department never had had a PIO. Eberhardt developed new techniques to deliver police news to the media. ... (click for more)
Well, here we are: By nightfall Friday we had 1,097,909 cases of the coronavirus in the world, the count up by 69,073 in just one day. In Louisiana, where the total cases quite nearly doubled in 24 hours, there are 10,227 cases with 370 dead, a gain of 60 since the day before. The United States? It’s horrifying; 30,715 new cases on Friday pushing us easily over 275,000 with our ... (click for more)