While quarantine caused many cancellations this year, green|spaces’ Eco Field Day event is back with a socially distanced, scavenger hunt twist. From July 7 to July 27, families, individual kids or adults and corporate teams can sign up for Eco Field Day @ Home. Then, beginning July 29, a re-imagined Eco Field Day provides a virtual week of eco-activities ranging from ... (click for more)

TWRA wildlife officers are investigating a reported bear encounter that occurred at an undeveloped campsite on South Holston Lake in Sullivan Co. Wildlife officers say that Matt Marvin of Abingdon, Va., was camping at an undeveloped campsite along South Holston Lake across the lake from the 421 Access Area. During the early morning hours of July 5, Mr. Marvin was asleep in ... (click for more)

There are 74 coronavirus patients in Chattanooga hospitals - a new one-day high, Health Department officials said on Monday. Of that group, 39 are from Hamilton County. However, the number of Intensive Care Unit patients with the virus dropped to 15. Hamilton County had 52 new cases of coronavirus, but deaths remain at 38, officials said on Monday. The local case total is ... (click for more)

The City of Dalton’s Municipal Court is suspending in person court appearances through at least Aug. 12 in response to the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in Whitfield County and the northwest Georgia region. Payments for fines can still be made online or in person at the window in the Public Works building at 532 N. Elm Street. There will be no in person Municipal Court ... (click for more)

Most people that know me well know that I will not vote to reinstate the $900,000 commissioner’s discretionary spending of taxpayer money. My reasons are: 1. There could not be a worse economic time for the government to spend additional money. It’s time to tighten the belt of government spending and not expand it. All American families are having this conversation around their ... (click for more)

There is a once-in-a-lifetime experience going on above us and it will put any child under the age of 99 years young absolutely in awe. On March 27, a NASA spacecraft known as NEOWISE (that stands for ‘Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) was circling planet Earth in an effort to categorize as many asteroids as possible that are non-threatening yet orbit close ... (click for more)