Your Thursday at a glance:
- Weather: High 77; partly sunny, isolated showers
- What to eat: Spring tomato gazpacho, the perfect way to celebrate growing season.
- What to do: Check out the latest offering from iconic Southern writer Lee Smith, “Blue Marlin,” a novella loosely based on her family history.
- What we’re excited about: Elvis Presley’s Graceland reopening today.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
How are all your doggos doing? Probably having the time of their lives amid all this sheltering in place, huh? Yup, our fur babies could get used to all this togetherness. So, as you tentatively begin to think of summer travels, might we suggest you bring along the pooch?
Here are five pet-friendly beaches, all within driving distance of Chattanooga, to check out.
And now, today’s top stories:
As the pandemic has changed the world and pushed people into their homes and out of old routines, it has also, for many, revealed some surprising traits within themselves. Here are a few stories of self-discovery.
The Georgia Department of Public Health hopes to have more than 1,000 contact tracers in the next few weeks to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
And, a donation just helped to bring a bit of Mardi Gras to hospital workers.
– Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
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