Your Friday at a glance:
- Weather: High of 74.
- What’s interesting: This 95-year-old Ooltewah resident makes amazing miniature rooms at Morning Pointe of Greenbriar Cove.
- What to do: Whether you want to look for wildflowers, ride large seesaws, catch a comedy show or find other ways to have a good time, here are this weekend’s Chattanooga area events.
- What’s impressive: The Bradley Central girls basketball team won its seventh straight region title.
Good morning, Chattanooga!
The state of Tennessee has 56 state parks. And 58-year-old Robin Bell has hiked every single one of them.
She signed up for a challenge to conquer them all in less than a year, but wasn’t sure if she’d finish.
“I figured worse case scenario, you go out, and you see a bunch of great places, and you don’t finish. But whatever, you still have a great experience,” Bell said.
“The more I started hiking all these different trails, it really [became] almost like a craving and an obsession, in a sense,” she said. “I quickly realized the challenge wasn’t in physically hiking but rather the hours of driving to get to the trail.”
Now for some recent stories:
LET’S EAT: Here’s a story about boxed wines and a recipe for chicken pot pie with a savory crumble topping.
NEW BUSINESS: A medical research and training business is expanding to Chattanooga with a new lab facility.
GALLERY: Parishioners attended an Ash Wednesday service at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Dalton on Wednesday.
-Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
P.S. We can’t do this work without the support of our subscribers. You can join our Times Free Press community and subscribe here today.