Metropolitan Tabernacle Church Senior Pastor Steve Ball will speak on "Advance" Sunday at 10:30 a.m. The Praise and Worship will be led by Pastors Adam and Olivia Aziz and Metro Praise and Band. The middle and high school students meet every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. with Youth Pastor Travis Kiger and the Merge Youth Staff leading the way. The Metro Kidz Church with Children's ... (click for more)

Middle Valley Church of God, at 1703 Thrasher Pike in Hixson, announces Pastor Mitch McClure will begin preaching on the theme "The Church is Pretty Important" on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Pastor McClure's sermon title will be "Do We Have Time Not To Get Together?!" Pastor McClure is presently teaching a Bible study on the "The Emotions of Jesus" each Wednesday at 7 p.m. All ... (click for more)

Six juveniles (ages 13-17 years old), who were arrested for their criminal involvement in auto burglaries and shooting of BCSO K9 Joker, attended an arraignment hearing on Friday. They were ordered to be held at the Bradley County Juvenile Detention Center until their detention hearing next Thursday. Prior to their arraignment, the Cleveland Police Department charged them ... (click for more)

The Hamilton County Health Department reported two more coronavirus deaths on Friday and 143 new positive cases, down from 174 the day before. The total cases in the county now stands at 60,893. The death total is at 613. The deaths was reported to be two women, one black and one white, one age 51-60 and the other was age 61-70. The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is ... (click for more)

With the number of homes, apartments and condos built downtown, why is a 40 percent property tax increase necessary? Are these new structures on the paying property tax role? I need to know what’s going on downtown and why isn’t that money benefiting the city? Georgia Vaughn * * * The answer is that tax exemptions for these projects have been given out freely and ... (click for more)

Debbie Moore-Black, is a registered nurse whose blogs regularly appear on the medical news website, KevinMD.com. With the unearthly demands of COVID and historic lack of concern for the nursing populace, she wrote this week on the degradation and the devaluation of the nation’s nursing force. Perhaps we should all listen: * * * TIME WILL TELL IF LESSONS WILL BE LEARNED ... (click for more)