Feature writer Karen Nazor Hill covers fashion, design, home and gardening, pets, entertainment, human interest features and more. She also is an occasional news reporter and the Town Talk columnist.
She previously worked for the Catholic newspaper Tennessee Register and was a reporter at the Chattanooga Free Press from 1985 to 1999, when the newspaper merged with the Chattanooga Times.
She won a Society of Professional Journalists Golden Press third-place award in feature writing for a series on Alzheimer¹s disease; a Tennessee Press Association second-place award for feature writing; a Chattanooga DAR Media Appreciation Award; and was voted a 2009 Best of the Best columnist.
Karen represented the newspaper as a member of the first adult class to graduate from Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala.
Her hobbies include painting folk art portraits of John Lennon and Chihuahuas.
Contact Karen at 423-757-6396 or khill@timesfreepress.com.
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When Stephen Rucker hits the road Saturday morning for a 30-mile bike ride, he has one goal in mind — to raise at least $1,000 for T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital at Erlanger, the hospital that saved the lives of his twin daughters, Kate and Annie.
'Magic Tree House'
Creative Discovery Museum's summer exhibit time-travels into America's past
Children love tree houses, and starting Saturday, May 25, there will be a new one to explore at Creative Discovery Museum.
S'mores? No thanks. "Kumbaya"? Heard it. Secret candy stash? Gone stale.
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Maternity clothing is making fashion headlines these days, thanks to Kate Middleton and Kim Kardashian, both mothers-to-be.
May 13: The Collegedale Green Thumb Garden Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the Collegedale City Hall on Swinyar Drive. Guest speaker Cherry King will talk about propagating from cuttings, layering and root division. Contact: Cherry King, 238-3647.
Anna Belk, who moved to Chattanooga from England in 2008, had mediocre results with online dating.
“We live. We die. The best we can do is leave a worthwhile example for those who come after us.” — Adam Walinsky
Reading, writing, and arithmetic — the basics of an education, right?
