The tattered remnants of dozens of bottle rockets line the grass in front of East Lake Courts, where residents say three men - including a Hamilton County EMT worker - threw ignited fireworks at their homes as the men drove down Fourth Avenue belting racial slurs early Saturday morning.
East Ridge residents now will have to add 30 cents to their property tax rate and $5 to their garbage fee. But hotel and motel owners will be spared an additional tax because of a directive in Tennessee Code overlooked by the council until several days ago.
A year after Chattanooga increased its property tax, other municipalities across Hamilton County seem to be following suit.
Budget cuts to the Hamilton County Community Corrections program means fewer eyes will be supervising convicted offenders on house arrest.
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