By 2:30 a.m. last Monday, North Chattanooga was buried in 6 inches of snow. I know because I was playing in it.
I thought there was no way my newspaper carrier was going to pitch my paper on the driveway at the usual witching hour of 5 – not that I’m ever awake then. I was almost right. He told me later it was closer to 5:30 a.m. But when I headed to the car for the slushy drive to the office, there was my newspaper – a yellow-bagged beacon glistening from a snowy blanket.
Man, I’m glad I tipped my carrier at Christmas.
Greg Troglin is a 47-year-old Chattanooga native who works as an independent contractor for this newspaper before heading to his real job, in maintenance at Chattanooga Restaurant Supply. He’s thrown newspapers for 11 years.
Troglin took his burgundy 2010 Ford Focus and plowed through a half-foot of snow on his route from Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute to downtown, the North Shore and North Chattanooga where Barton Avenue becomes Hixson Pike.