The Hamilton County Parks and Recreation Department reports all concerns at Enterprise South Nature Park have been addressed and trail conditions are now acceptable enough to open Enterprise South Nature Park on Saturday. The parks department wants to remind the public social distancing in the park should be observed. There may be intermittent closure of the entrance gate ... (click for more)

Tennessee State Parks, in an effort to flatten the curve of COVID-19 while continuing to serve Tennesseans, is joining the CDC and the Tennessee Department of Health by encouraging residents not to travel, but to visit only their nearby parks. The park system is also announcing a series of operational changes effective March 26. “Our state parks are part of the fabric of Tennessee ... (click for more)

Hamilton County plans to open a drive-thru coronavirus testing site on Friday morning. Becky Barnes, Hamilton County Health Department administrator, said the location will be a vehicle emissions testing site on Bonnyshire Drive off Bonny Oaks Drive. She said the Health Department on Wednesday at 8 a.m. will begin to schedule appointments. A formal referral from a medical ... (click for more)

The death toll from the conoravirus in Tennessee has risen to 23 - up 10 in a single day. Cases in the state jumped to 2,239 from 1,834. Officials said 175 people have been hospitalized in the state from coronavirus. It is now in 80 of the state's 95 counties. Hamilton County now has 50 cases, up from 39 on Monday. Another Hamilton County resident - described as an older patient ... (click for more)

Each day in Georgia, physicians, nurses and other health care providers go to work in our hospitals, nursing centers or private office practices to care for patients with a variety of health needs. This practice of medicine occurs 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and 365 days per year; because illnesses and injuries don’t take a holiday. Without thinking twice, patients visit ... (click for more)

The lush green of the trees and the bushes, the beautiful birds so full of song, my rose bush coming alive, and the fact that today it is not raining cannot dull my heavy heart as I stay in prayer for all of us in the midst of our world’s pandemic. Already there is no one who hasn’t been affected in some way by the fiercest storm any of us have ever known, and already I know we ... (click for more)