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Posted: Saturday - Nov. 21, 2009
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Chlorine plant fights legislation's mercury timeline
CHARLESTON, Tenn. -- Business and elected officials are asking for help delaying a proposed federal regulation that would affect a manufacturing plant here and, they say, result in the loss of 1,000 jobs.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 13, 2009
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Third rock slide in three weeks rumbles on Signal
Mountain roads with rocky bluffs on one side and steep drops on the other may be pretty places to drive, but a series of slides in the last three weeks are rocky reminders of the dangers.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 12, 2009
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Blueways and greenbacks
Don Oliver and Jim Ledbetter paddled portions of West Chickamauga and South Chickamauga creeks over the weekend with a mission.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 12, 2009
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Answers elusive as slide cleanup begins
When Vanessa Bateman got a call Tuesday to come to the Ocoee Gorge to check the stability of a bluff over U.S. Highway 64, she didn't know she would become a hero.
Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 10, 2009
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Former parks chief tries to motivate locals
Saying Chattanooga has a wonderful opportunity with Moccasin Bend as well as the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, former U.S. Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne told park “friends” to dream big.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
Former interior secretary is Moccasin Bend speaker
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Superintendent Shawn Benge is looking forward to Monday night’s final speaker in the 2009 Moccasin Bend Lecture Series.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
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Rock-mining trial starts Tuesday
A rock-mining dispute that became the first legal challenge to whether mineral rights include the right to mine mountain stone is scheduled to go to trial next week in Sequatchie County.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Groups want to preserve more plateau land
Cumberland Plateau groups are looking to expand efforts to preserve and connect large tracts of plateau land -- a minimum of 1.7 million acres and perhaps about 2 million acres.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 1, 2009
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Tennessee grants fund farm innovation
With a little bit of state help, Michael Mayfield is using the closeness of Interstate 75 to boost his farming income.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 31, 2009
Check cashing scam hits 3 states
An counterfeit check case in Alabama has connections to Soddy-Daisy and North Georgia, according to Alabama authorities.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 30, 2009
Support urged for Stringers Ridge park
Will Rogers, president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, praised Chattanooga's urban park leadership Thursday and told local Rotarians that Stringer's Ridge has potential to be the city's "gem park."
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 29, 2009
Chattanooga: Public lands speaker urges support for Stringers Ridge park
Will Rogers, president of the Trust for Public Land, praised Chattanooga’s urban park leadership today and told local Rotarians that Stringers Ridge has wonderful potential to be the city’s future “gem park.”
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 25, 2009
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Wanted: Cleaner home for darter
Lavelle and Scott Badger and their six children are watching an intervention.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 24, 2009
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Animal park closes amid complaints, problems
Lookout Mountain Wild Animal Park in Mentone, Ala., has closed its gates to the public and surrendered its exhibitor's license to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 24, 2009
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Trial date scheduled in police shooting
Attorneys on both sides in a lawsuit against six Chattanooga police officers who shot and killed a local man July 18 say there has been no talk of a settlement in the case.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 23, 2009
Chattanooga: Trial date set in Heyward shooting lawsuit
Attorneys for both sides in a lawsuit against six Chattanooga police officers who shot and killed a local man July 18 say there has been no talk of a settlement in the case.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 23, 2009
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Saving the sturgeon
COHUTTA, Ga. -- Lee Friedlander and Norm Haley caught, counted and measured more than 1,500 lake sturgeon early Thursday morning.
Posted: Monday - Oct. 19, 2009
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Grant helps cities grow green
Pikeville is adding 40 more trees to its new downtown streetscaping to bring back a small-town feel after a highway bypass stripped the city of its quaint coziness.
Posted: Monday - Oct. 19, 2009
Park enthusiast is speaker for Moccasin Bend event
Tennessee was not "a trackless wilderness" when Europeans first visited here in the 1500s, according to Charles W. Maynard, founding executive director in 1994 of Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 17, 2009
Stimulus money coming to food bank
The Chattanooga Area Food Bank will receive $55,005 in federal stimulus money as reimbursement for helping people through the recession.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 17, 2009
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German football club gets U.S. gridiron tour
While soccer remains the king of sports in Germany, Chattanooga’s sister city of Hamm has enough high school-age American football fans to form a football club.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 14, 2009
Mother Nature takes bite out of pumpkin crop
Weather may have carved a notch in Tennessee's pumpkin crop this year, but it didn't hurt pumpkin sizes, according to local growers.
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 11, 2009
River Rescue found less trash but too much plastic
River Rescue organizer Christine Bock said last weekend's River Rescue left a message for Tennesseans:
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 10, 2009
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Landlocked aquarium offers ocean of learning
Camille Conley was wide-eyed when the exotic butterfly perched on her.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 9, 2009
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Chemicals found in Dalton compost
Sampling done this summer by Dalton Utilities found emerging-risk chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS in compost made at the utility's wastewater treatment plant and sold to the public.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 8, 2009
Risky chemicals found in Dalton Utilities compost, EPA says
Dalton Utilities sampling done this summer at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found emerging-risk chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS in compost made from the utility’s wastewater treatment plant and sold to the public.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 8, 2009
Trucks’ fuel-saving strategies hailed
Two Chattanooga trucking companies have won national environmental awards for saving fuel and reducing greenhouse gases.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 6, 2009
Weather cooperates with fall color forecast
Folklore has it that Jack Frost pinches leaves with icy fingers to bring the reds, yellows and purples to autumn trees.
Posted: Monday - Oct. 5, 2009
‘60 Minutes’ report on ash gets mixed review
A “60 Minutes” report on the Kingston coal ash spill prompted kudos from at least one member of the Harriman, Tenn., community but was found wanting by TVA.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 3, 2009
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Sunshine power lets the savings in
Suzanne Corrington can't keep the grin off her face when she talks about her electric bill.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 3, 2009
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TVA on defensive; '60 Minutes' to feature ash spill
The CBS news program "60 Minutes" will focus Sunday on the Kingston ash spill, and TVA's CEO and president, Tom Kilgore, sent out a letter to "stakeholders" on Friday afternoon.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 2, 2009
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TVA pulling 110 train cars of ash from Emory River daily
HARRIMAN, Tenn. -- TVA officials say they are removing about 10,000 tons of spilled coal ash daily -- about 110 train cars of it -- from the Emory River, the site of the nation's worst industrial spill that occurred here last December.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 1, 2009
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TVA removing about 110 train cars of ash from Emory River daily
TVA officials say they are removing about 10,000 tons of spilled coal ash daily — about 110 train cars of it — from the Emory River at the site of the nation’s worst industrial spill that occurred here last December.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 1, 2009
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TVA to spend $8 million on dam modifications for unlikely floods
Tennessee Valley Authority officials said Wednesday they will begin immediately to raise the embankments around four dams by 3 to four 4 before Jan. 1 to avoid “highly unlikely” massive potential floods.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 30, 2009
Tennessee: TVA to make changes to 4 dams to prevent floods
TVA says it will alter four Tennessee dams to avoid potential floods.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 30, 2009
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Cumberland Trail spruced up by volunteers
Retiree Don Taylor drove all the way from Mount Juliet, Tenn., to help build steps on a washed-out end of the Cumberland Trail last week because, “I try to help when I can.”
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 29, 2009
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Weather work begins
By Pam psohn@timesfreepress.com Tennessee and Georgia agencies in the region are at last starting work on weatherization projects funded with federal stimulus money. Jackie Westfield, program coordinator for the Bradley-Cleveland Community Service Ag
Posted: Sunday - Sept. 27, 2009
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Flood gauges, modeling project can bring big help
The National Weather Service is exploring ways to put rain and flood gauges on Lookout Creek -- something to help forecasters to issue flood advisories and warnings in the Lookout Valley lowlands south of the river.
Posted: Saturday - Sept. 26, 2009
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USDA says Trion Dam inspected every year
TRION, Ga. -- A 40-year-old dike that just wasn't tall enough to hold back the Chattooga River earlier this week has a last-inspection date of 2001 listed on the National Inventory of Dams, but USDA officials said Friday the dam is inspected every year.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 25, 2009
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Drinking water hit by flood impurities
Several regional drinking water systems are struggling with problems created by flooding, according to Tennessee and Georgia officials.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 25, 2009
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Lift a glass this weekend to save historic buildings
When Wine over Water toasts its 15th year this weekend, attendees will be investing in endangered historic downtown properties.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 24, 2009
Trion residents under “boil water” advisory
Trion residents should have clean water again soon, Chattooga Commissioner Jason Winters said Thursday afternoon.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 24, 2009
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Trion dam not tested since 2001
TRION, Ga. -- A 40-year-old dam that just wasn't tall enough to hold back the Chattooga River last was inspected on Jan. 1, 2001, although it's supposed to be inspected every five years, according to National Inventory of Dams data.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 24, 2009
Water contaminants in area rivers on EPA list
The EPA on Wednesday released a list of contaminants that soon may be added to drinking water monitoring requirements.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 24, 2009
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Girls-only hang gliding festival to open skies, sport
Women, spread your wings and fly.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 22, 2009
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Trion residents search for missing boy
TRION, Ga. — Searching for a boy swept away Monday by the swollen, churning Chattooga River, emergency crews worked into the night.
Posted: Monday - Sept. 21, 2009
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Age is enemy of safe water
The greatest threat to safe drinking water here and across the country is the web of aging pipes that carry the liquid from treatment plants to taps, according to a microbiologist who researches water for American Water Co.
Posted: Sunday - Sept. 20, 2009
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What's in your water?
Area residents turning on the tap can expect their water to meet federal and state regulations, but that might not mean the water is free from contaminants, water experts say.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 18, 2009
Local buildings considered by National Register
Engel Stadium, First Presbyterian Church and the Clarence T. Jones Observatory may soon have plaques denoting them as sites on the National Historic Register.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 17, 2009
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Lower gas heating costs are good news for consumers
The economy's chill may leave at least one warm spot in consumers' hearts and pocketbooks for the winter heating season.
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