Your Monday at a glance:
- Weather: High 70; mostly sunny
- What to eat: Strawberry swirl pound cake. Here’s Anne Braly’s recipe.
- What to do: Save the date. Catoosa County graduations have been rescheduled for July, with a May drive-thru option and even a dance amid the coronavirus pandemic.
- What we’re excited about: The reemergence of victory gardens.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
The coronavirus quarantine baby boom has begun – at least for wild animals. Did you hear about the two pandas in a Hong Kong zoo? Staff had been trying to get the two to mate for 10 years. When the pandemic shut the zoo down, they finally did.
And now, the Chattanooga Zoo has announced that one of its meerkats is pregnant and is expecting pups soon. Read the story here.
And then check out today’s top stories:
Here are the renderings of the potential new CSLA at the former Sears site in Hixson.
Gas prices dropped to 99 cents a gallon at a local station last week.
And, Gov. Bill Lee is on the hunt for 5 million cloth masks to distribute free to Tennesseans.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
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