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Staff photo by Olivia Ross / On July 8, families brought out their paddles for water activities at the Chickamauga Dam Day Use Area. Continuing a trend seen in the past few decades due to climate change, the Chattanooga area and the larger Southern Appalachian region is expected to see higher than normal temperatures this summer
Staff photo by Olivia Ross / On July 8, families brought out their paddles for water activities at the Chickamauga Dam Day Use Area. Continuing a trend seen in the past few decades due to climate change, the Chattanooga area and the larger Southern Appalachian region is expected to see higher than normal temperatures this summer Staff photo by Olivia Ross / On July 8, families brought out their paddles for water activities at the Chickamauga Dam Day Use Area. Continuing a trend seen in the past few decades due to climate change, the Chattanooga area and the larger Southern Appalachian region is expected to see higher than normal temperatures this summer

People who had a way with words in the news last week:

“I’m more focused on the principals and the assistant principals and the teachers that are actually in the classroom. The librarians, the counselors, the social workers that are actually in the school interacting with kids every day. That’s where I want to see the bulk of the pay raises go.”

— School board member Larry Grohn, R-East Ridge, as the Hamilton County school board weighs pay raises.

“We can do hard things. We can face those fears. We can face those challenges, but we can also do it together.”

— Shawanna Kendrick on her planned trek up Mount Kilimanjaro this month.