Your Thursday at a glance:
- Weather: High 52; partly sunny, possible showers
- What to drink: Yemenia coffee, described as “mother coffee” and now being sold via pre-orders by Mad Priest Coffee Roasters. (Spoiler: It isn’t cheap.)
- What to do: Mountain bike. A $6 million federal grant is about to help build 50 to 75 miles of mountain bike trails in East Tennessee.
- What we’re excited about: Christmas trees, helping provide a bright spot amid the pandemic.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
Our holiday edition of Chatter magazine is officially on stands and online! And as always, it’s accompanied with a spanking-new issue of Edge, which, this month, spotlights small business.
Check them out!
And now, a few recent stories:
For Rhea County, Tennessee, resident Charles Hancock Jr., the Times Free Press Neediest Cases Fund was a light – literally – during a difficult point in his life. Read his story here.
The long-awaited restaurant owned by celebrities from “The Walking Dead” plans to open next week in the historic Choo Choo.
And, in the land of lexicography, out of the whole of the English language, 2020’s word of the year is a vocabulary of one. Can you guess the word?
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
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