The East Brainerd Community Theater will present a free Broadway Memories Concert on Sunday, Nov. 7, at 3 p.m. It will be held at Christ United Methodist Church, 8645 East Brainerd Road. East Brainerd Community Theater will present an afternoon of music from their favorite musicals as they present the Broadway Memories Concert. The show will include solos, duets, ensembles and ... (click for more)

Lee Theatre will premiere “Sense and Sensibility” by Kate Hamill for two weekends, Nov. 5-6 and 11-13. All performances will be at 7:30 p.m. in the university’s Dixon Center. The family-friendly fall play was originally intended for spring 2020, but was never performed due to the COVID pandemic. “This has been a very unique experience,” said Dr. Christine Williams, professor ... (click for more)

The County Commission made last-minute redistricting changes to its 11-member plan at a lengthy meeting on Wednesday. The commission is expected to pass the plan next Wednesday and send it on to state officials for their approval. Officials said the completed plan is within deviation standards (not having one or more districts too much larger or smaller than others) and keeps ... (click for more)

Stewart Brodie Luttrell, 35, was killed in an incident Tuesday night on Highway 153 that resulted in traffic being clogged for hours. A woman, 27, was also injured, and a child in the car was uninjured. Police said Wednesday night that h omicide investigators have arrested 26-year-old Genesis Latroy Vaughn in connection with the incident. Vaughn is in custody at the Silverdale ... (click for more)

I’ve ‘seen some stuff’ in my time. I have followed politics for many years. I’m retired, I’m a realist and a Vietnam veteran, pretty much in that order. I’m not an alarmist or a conspiracy theorist. That said, I have never in my life been so concerned about the future of this Republic. Politics was once a legitimate contest of ideas, put forth by political figures who were sincere, ... (click for more)

I have taken the position that mandates of any kind that limit personal freedoms are awful. And I have watched with sorrow what has happened at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and is now happening at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga. Good people are losing jobs all across America rather than surrender their personal beliefs. I also mourn the COVID vaccine has been divided ... (click for more)