Your Thursday at a glance:
- Weather: High 54; few clouds, mild
- What to drink: Mocktails and alcohol-free drinks in honor of “Dry January.” Here are some to try at local restaurants.
- What to do: Learn about Dolly Parton’s prolific and formidable skill as a songwriter in musicologist Lydia Hamessley’s new book, “Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton.”
- What we’re excited about: The Humane Educational Society, finally moving into a new facility that is specially designed for animals.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
Peep these scenes: toy drives; outdoor movie nights; fundraisers at the zoo. We open each issue of Chatter magazine with snapshots of these “People Scenes,” highlighting the events (and people!) that celebrate and give back to our community.
And if you have an upcoming event you’d like to have photographed, email me.
And now, a few recent stories:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is looking for volunteers to monitor visitor use patterns in several of the park’s most popular locations.
Nokian Tyres is keeping the pedal to the metal at its production plant in Dayton, Tennessee, as it rolls out a new tire exclusively for the North American market and readies for more hiring this year.
And, this new website offers a one-stop shop for an array of Chattanooga startup resources.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
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