Neediest Cases Fund helps provide stability for Chattanooga area deaf residents
Expressing a need can be difficult in hard times, especially when there is an existing communication barrier.

Expressing a need can be difficult in hard times, especially when there is an existing communication barrier.

After a record-setting year of 38 miles of road repaved in 2020, Walker County is planning to expand efforts for 2021 and repave 52 miles in the unincorporated areas of the county.

Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson has been named as one of four national finalists for 2021 National Superintendent of the Year, according to a news release from the school system.

"Bring the heat," a new post on Walker County Schools' Purposity app profile reads. "You can help a family keep warm with a space heater."

When the Hamilton County school district's coronavirus reopening plan rolled out in August, using information on community spread to assign students to fully remote, hybrid and fully in-person instruction, there was very little historical data for guidance, school system Superintendent Bryan Johnson said.

'In these days, everybody needs help every once in a while.'

A recently approved multipurpose development will be coming to Walker County in the near future, bringing with it retail locations, green spaces and hundreds of new homes just off of Happy Valley Road.

Catoosa County has begun initial steps to create greater opportunity for new industrial operations to move to the area.

For Rhea County, Tennessee, resident Charles Hancock Jr., the Times Free Press Neediest Cases Fund was a light during a difficult point in his life.

Catoosa and Walker counties will continue their partnership to provide each other with automatic dispatches for fires close to county lines.
