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Your Friday at a glance:

Greetings, Chattanooga!

Regardless of how you feel about masks, surely we can agree that walking around the grocery store, making silly faces with none the wiser is pretty liberating.

Seriously, try it.

And remember, the order requiring face coverings in public begins today. Here’s how Chattanooga area businesses are preparing for the mandate.

And now, today’s top stories:

Need a new quarantine project? Virtual dog training classes are growing in popularity.

How many people saw “Hamilton?” For now, that’s a secret.

And, columnist Mark Kennedy asks, “If birds can get along, why not people?”

– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com

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