Chattanooga: Challenged by language barriers
Translator Paula Maldonado speaks English and Spanish, but she’s often asked to take a stab at Arabic or Somali.
October 13, 2008
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Chattanooga: Pulpit, politics create fine line for clergy
Dr. Bill Owens, senior pastor of 2,452-member Ridgedale Baptist Church, says he’d like to answer a parishioner who asks how he’ll vote in next month’s presidential election.
October 13, 2008
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Chattanooga: Roundabout way to ease congestion
The thought of driving in circles used to drive City Councilman Jack Benson crazy.
October 13, 2008
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Chattanooga: Dogs strut their stuff for shelter
It was a matchmaking event of a different breed as 25 adoptable dogs from the Humane Educational Society shelter took to the “runway” at the eighth annual Paws in the Park fundraiser at the Baylor School on Sunday.
October 13, 2008
Business tax break would be good for Whitfield, Dalton, leaders say
It’s all about being competitive in luring new businesses, local officials are saying about a tax break for businesses on the ballot in Whitfield County.
October 13, 2008
Liberty Tree Week in Dalton full of music and fireworks
Echoes of the Revolutionary War and its ideals and principles will be seen and felt here all this week.
October 13, 2008
Hamilton County: Election offices swamped by new voters
So many people have registered to vote in Hamilton County, election workers had to come in Saturday just to process bin after bin of voter applications, officials say.
October 13, 2008
Bledsoe jail project delayed, architect resigns
Bledsoe County’s jail project could be delayed another six months after a falling out between officials and the architect.
October 13, 2008
Ducktown museum hits 30 with plans to keep growing
he Ducktown Basin Museum began in a former general store where local residents and former Tennessee Mining Co. workers pooled their collections of photos and equipment from the mining era.
October 13, 2008
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga helps design map of watershed
Programmers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have designed an online map that allows city planners and developers to see how their actions might affect habitats, animals, plants and bodies of water around them.
October 13, 2008
Chattanooga: Rosewood takes over Friendship Haven
After years of financial struggle, the 78-year-old Friendship Haven elderly care facility — known in the black community as a place that never turned anyone away for lack of money — has been taken over by a similar company.
October 13, 2008
Bradley gets traffic safety grant
A $101,000 Governor’s Highway Safety grant includes adding a traffic patrol job to the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department.
October 13, 2008
Tennessee: Senate balance at play
The gloves are off in a key state Senate race that could determine whether Republicans or Democrats control the chamber next year.
October 13, 2008
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Ringgold: Cities explore auto alternative
RINGGOLD, Ga.— Sue Lane Helton and her husband still are in the honeymoon period with their new golf cart. Ms. Helton drives the battery-powered vehicle to work, grocery and drugstore, and to church. Her husband comes up with ideas to use it at night.
October 13, 2008