The Chattanooga Department of Transportation announced Wilcox Boulevard Tunnel will be closed for routine maintenance on the following dates and times: • This Thursday from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; and • This Sunday from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Detours will be posted. Please plan additional time into your essential travel. View CDOT's map of event and road closures for full details ... (click for more)

City Hall, Library and City Services will be closed in observance of Good Friday this coming Friday. For residents and businesses that have recycling pickup on that day, their recycling will be picked up on Monday, April. For more information on recycling, call East Ridge Sanitation at 892-8666 or visit their website at www.eastridgetn.gov . (click for more)

Georgia state health officials said Wednesday evening that another seven people have died from the coronavirus since Wednesday morning, bringing the total to 369. The confirmed cases are now over 10,000, at 10,189, up from 9,156 on Tuesday. Officials said 2,082 have been hospitalized in Georgia with the deadly virus - up from 1,899 on Tuesday. Whitfield County remains ... (click for more)

Tennessee now has 79 coronavirus deaths - up seven since the Tuesday report. Cases have gone up from 4,138 to 4,362. Officials said 449 people have been hospitalized in the state from coronavirus. The state report shows 94 cases in Hamilton County and nine deaths. Of the total cases, 49 have recovered and 27 are still in the hospital. County Mayor Jim Coppinger said ... (click for more)

What if there is a COVID-19 conspiracy? The internet, radio talk shows, and the national news networks talk conspiracy all night and all day from all angles. Pro Trump, anti Trump, 5G network, Chinese bio-lab accident or maybe not. Could be as advertised, a new virus (read flu) that is very strong because no one has ever had it before and there is no natural built up immunity. Like ... (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)