Helping citizens exercise their privilege to vote amidst the pandemic required extra attention this year. One of the ways was through expansion of absentee ballots. Among the local workers who contributed to that process was Andrea Springfield, an election tech/absentee ballot clerk for the Whitfield County Voter Registrar’s Office. For her positive attitude and diligent ... (click for more)

Children and families are invited to participate in Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park’s 2020 self-guided summer day camp. Beginning Tuesday, July 14, through Friday, July 17, camp packets will be available for pick-up outside Chickamauga Battlefield and Lookout Mountain Battlefield Visitor Centers. Each day, 20 packets will be placed in boxes outside each ... (click for more)

A man has died after being found in a car late Tuesday night in East Ridge with multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was Antonio Smith, 25, of 3311 Delong St., Chattanooga. East Ridge Police responded at 11:46 p.m. to S. Seminole Dr. on a report of shots fired. When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Officers started CPR and continued ... (click for more)

Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) co-sponsored legislation "to restrict taxpayer funding from cities that allow jurisdictions to be ruled by anarchy while providing no basic services to their residents." The Ending Taxpayer Funding of Anarchy Act , led by U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), would restrict federal funding for “anarchist jurisdictions,” or jurisdictions "that abdicate ... (click for more)

Re: Coyote Jack's Is For Sale: Southside Pioneer! From an inspiration for zonal urban re-development to an urban armpit and disgrace to a city in two short decades. 1400 Cowart St. has had five lives and counting over most of a century: from meat packer, to furniture warehouse, to upscale restaurant, to mid-scale restaurant, to glorified honky tonk dive. ... (click for more)

I know, and you know, and everybody in the world knows, this ‘Defund the Police’ is the most ridiculous nonsense in the world. Maybe you’ve heard that in Chicago on the Fourth of July weekend, 70 people were shot. That’s 38 on the Fourth of July alone. Ten in body bags. For the week, ending at midnight on Saturday, it was 138 shot, 26 dead. But wait … on Sunday, June 5 th , the ... (click for more)