Chattanooga

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Dr. Will Jackson, Erlanger Health System's new chief executive officer, will earn $625,000 base salary for his first year and potentially another $50,000 if he meets three key goals.

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To coincide with National Drink Beer Day on Saturday, Sept. 28, the Humane Educational Society is sponsoring its first Chattanooga Pup Crawl to 11 drinking establishments around town.

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Last dollar? Qualifying students? What about the HOPE Scholarships? Some students and families might be asking what this means for them.

Here are some things you should know about the UT Promise Scholarship program.

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Of this weekend's 15 fall events, less than half are local. But of the six that are in town, the annual Hamilton County Fair is by far the biggest.

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Chattanooga Symphony & Opera opens its 87th season Thursday night, Sept. 26, with "Shostakovich & Rachmaninoff," featuring guest artist Andrew Tyson.

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PHOTOS: The 2019 @Skyhoundz World Championship took place on Sunday, September 22, 2019, in Coolidge Park in Chattanooga.

Competitors came from across the United States as well as internationally to compete in the event.

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"The old tower was in desperate need of repair," said @Chattanooga_gov Mayor Andy Berke. The city and county approved a payment in lieu of tax agreement to help with the renovation. @HamCoTNGov

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While this week's hearing did not give favor to either side of the lawsuit, a hearing in early September set the stage for the district to move forward with fee collection on tax bills, which will be distributed in October. @Chattanooga_gov

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The number of Hamilton County families facing financial hardship has increased in recent years, from 37% in 2010 to 39% by 2017, according to a new study by the @UnitedWaysTN.

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In 1995, Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle. She's flown four missions for NASA and was one of the first women trained to be a pilot by the U.S. Air Force. @CGLA_Chatt

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Power Poll: A majority of community leaders in Chattanooga and other large cities around the state support the legalization of marijuana in some form.

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From @tnamwater: "No utility is able to guarantee uninterrupted service. When events such as these occur, we do not provide for billing adjustments or claims for customer reimbursement of expenses."

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An official at @tnamwater has released some details of the maintenance that led to what the utility is now calling its largest water outage in "recent history."

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The movement against Islamophobia should also look to the Civil Rights Movement and how the movement made supporting racism politically, economically and socially untenable.

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The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a Hamilton County Criminal Court judge's decision in denying judicial diversion in the case of the man convicted of causing a 2016 bus crash that killed six children.

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JUST IN: The state expects to see accelerated improvement in student achievement and growth in @hamcoschools lowest-preforming schools in the next year.

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More women in the Chattanooga region will be able to obtain free, effective, long-term birth control through A Step Ahead Chattanooga and a $250,000 grant.

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JUST IN: A class action lawsuit against @tnamwater has been filed Tuesday in the Circuit Court of Hamilton County following last week's water main break that affected a large portion of Chattanooga.

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From @TFPCOLUMNIST: Today, I offer a glossary of Generation Z terms with their Baby Boomer equivalents. (Disclosure: I'm a boomer with two Gen Z kids at home, so my ear is tuned to this stuff.)

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Elaine Swafford, executive director of @CGLA_Chatt, said the clinic was launched to help remove barriers to health care and keep students in school.

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