Rhea County Emergency Management Director Brad Harrison honored members of the Kiuka Fire Department for their 20 plus years of service at Tuesday night's commission meeting. Mr. Harrison also surprised County Commissioner Rusty Rogers by giving him a plaque as well for his some 32 years of service. Comm. Rogers was a junior fireman with Kiuka fire department when it was first ... (click for more)

The Rhea County Commission honored Roy Pankey at its Tuesday night regular meeting. At the start of the meeting, Commissioner Rusty Rogers presented Pankey with a plaque honoring him for his years of working with the youth of Dayton and Rhea County getting them involved in athletics of all types. Mr. Pankey, who survived Covid-19 where he was in a coma since Christmas ... (click for more)

Governor Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and Five Star Food Service, Inc. officials announced Wednesday the company will expand its headquarters operations in Hamilton County. Through this expansion, Five Star will create 25 new jobs as the company relocates to 412 E. 10th St. in Chattanooga. The new downtown location will allow ... (click for more)

An early morning fire in Lookout Valley damaged a family’s home, but thankfully, the residents and their baby were able to safely escape the burning structure. CFD Green Shift companies were called to a house in the 3300 block of Kellys Ferry Road at 3:50 a.m. on Wednesday after a neighbor called 911 to report the fire. The neighbor also rushed over to notify the sleeping family ... (click for more)

“And so we come to commencement, that glorious moment of achievement when a high school or college graduate will be awarded a hard-earned diploma and venture into a complex world full of promise and fright.” Uh-huh. Except for over 40 million young Americans who are saddled with a collective debt of well over $1.5 trillion, and who are being “blamed” by conservatives like Roy ... (click for more)

On Monday Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill to combat bad behavior, which most laws do, but HB 1571 should have never been necessary. It bans angry mobs and profane picketers from going into neighborhoods to protest in front of somebody’s house. We’ve seen the upraised middle fingers and the insidious language spewed out of megaphones in recent weeks in front of some Supreme ... (click for more)