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Local Nonprofit For Mothers In Crisis Opens New Thrift Store To Support Ministry

  • 4/24/2025

Foundation House Ministries announces the opening of their new thrift store in Athens that will employ and support mothers in their program. A grand opening ceremony will be held at the thrift store, 225 E. Washington Ave. in Athens, from 11 a.m.-1p.m. on April 25. Good Foundations Thrift Store is the second thrift store the nonprofit operates. Foundation House's growth into McMinn County is supported by the Tennessee Strong Families grant. The nonprofit's executive team, as well as mothers in the program and various local officials, will be in attendance. For more information, visit foundationhouseministries.org. "Volunteers and donations are always gratefully accepted," ... (click for more)

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First Things First earned the Nonprofit of the Year Award at United Way's Celebrate Awards
First Things First earned the Nonprofit of the Year Award at United Way's Celebrate Awards

Morning Pointe Foundation’s Caregiver Café Answers Tough Questions On Elder Care

  • 4/23/2025

Panelists addressed a variety of questions related to helping aging loved ones during the Morning Pointe Foundation’s free Caregiver Café on Tuesday, “How to Make Tough Decisions for Your Aging Loved One.” Attendees from the greater Chattanooga area gathered at Morning Pointe of East Hamilton. A panel of three local experts shared their ... (click for more)

Dr. Harold Alper Keynote Address And Award Ceremony Celebrates Compassion And Intention In Medicine

  • 4/23/2025

Nationally renowned physician and public speaker, Rana Awdish, MD, bases her advocacy for compassionate care in medicine on her personal experience as a patient. After suffering a life-threatening event herself, her perspective on medicine and healing changed forever. What she once learned through clinical training became profoundly personal ... (click for more)

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Benchmark Testing Is Expensively Flopping
  • 4/21/2025

Open Letter to the Hamilton County School Board and HCS District Leadership: My name is Jeremy Barrett, and I teach high school mathematics here in Hamilton County Schools. For 24 years I’ve taught through six superintendents, several curriculum changes, a dozen iterations of class schedules, two statewide grade scale overhauls, and, most recently, the overcaffeinated rise of benchmark testing. Benchmark testing. Three times a year. Every year. Like a redundant, blinking cursor in ... more

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  • 4/24/2025

Danny White adds the hashtag “#EverythingSchool” when retweeting social media posts by the University of Tennessee’s sports teams. The school’s athletic director has ample ... more

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