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Your Tuesday at a glance:

Greetings, Chattanooga!

I played the clarinet all through middle school. Yup, I was a band geek, though the “geek” part of my personality had less to do with extracurricular activities and more to do with general nature.

Regardless, “who knew that being a former band geek would one day come in handy,” Mark Kennedy wrote in his recent column. Here, he muses how we would all be in a better place today if everybody had been in band – instead of playing contact sports – and if we replaced politicians with band directors.

And now, today’s top stories:

Most of Chattanooga’s large projects are moving ahead despite the coronavirus. Here is a look at a few of them.

Is Hamilton County’s mask mandate working to curb coronavirus?

And, who can help us identify these mystery women from this 1947 photo?

– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com

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