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Chattanooga: Whimsical country garden offers plenty of summer surprises

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Uninspired by a simple landscape of lawn and foundation plants, Ron and Judy McGill began decorating their Fairfax Heights home 27 years ago in the style of a whimsical country store.

CrossFit: Chattanooga in latest wave of high-intensity workouts

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Could CrossFit — a fast-paced, Internet-based, total-body personal training system — revolutionize fitness?

Chattanooga: Families have blast setting up professional fireworks

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Thirty years ago, young Chattanooga Fire Department firefighter David Thompson and his friend, bookkeeper Mark Scott, saw an ad at the local fire station for pyrotechnicians.

Chattanooga: Sparking safety

Monday, June 30, 2008

Fireworks sales have grown tenfold since the late 1970s. Yet, injuries from backyard firecrackers have decreased during the same period, experts say.

Ooltewah: Pass-along plants connect family to land

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Past, present and future mingle in Aimee Maschhoff’s Ooltewah garden.

Chattanooga: Topiarist Pearl Fryar sculpts green dreams

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Freeform topiary artist Pearl Fryar demonstrates his artful sculpting talent at the Tennessee Aquarium Plaza tonight.

Chattanooga: Wheelchair tai chi an Olympic hopeful

Thursday, June 26, 2008

More than 1,000 Chinese people in wheelchairs hope to demonstrate a new activity at the summer Olympic or Paralympic Games in Beijing this summer: wheelchair tai chi.

Boyington blends volunteer work, family and a business

Sunday, June 22, 2008

“Compartmentalized” thinking never seemed like the ticket to a good life for Sheila Boyington, president of North Shore-based Thinking Media.

Mid-life career change can be stimulating

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Christine Smith is a late-in-life career changer. In her early 40s, after a career in nursing, she returned to school and earned a doctorate 10 years later.

Topiary artist's Asian elephants on 'survival tour' of Ireland, Britain

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Thirteen boxwood elephants are the faux-animal rage in Ireland this month.