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Your Friday at a glance:

Greetings, Chattanooga!

I hear the cicadas are swarming in Prentice Cooper State Forest, but I’m yet to see any in my Ocoee backyard.

What’s the status in your neighborhood?

Indeed, cicadas are poised to invade whole swaths of America this summer. And if you’re freaked out by that? You could stick a fork in ’em. Full of protein, gluten-free, low-fat and low-carb, cicadas are an important food source in many countries.