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Your Thursday at a glance:

Greetings, Chattanooga!

Is there a difference between a dream and a fantasy? And if so, where does Dana Shavin’s desire to have an animal rescue ranch fall? Here, the always-entertaining writer explores how scholars separate the two.

And now, today’s top stories:

Chattanooga’s Gate 11 Distillery, opened last year in the Chattanooga Choo Choo, has been nominated as one of the nation’s top new distilleries by the editors of USA Today.

A local historian will be exploring Walker County’s Black history in a new TV show.

And, with power consumption down and rainfall up this year, fuel costs for the Tennessee Valley Authority have dropped to record-low levels.

– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com

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