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‘We don’t want to contract a disease’: Notable quotes from a week in Chattanooga area news

Staff file photo / Chickens roam the yard of an Ocoee, Tenn., cabin Aug. 8, 2023. Chattanooga is considering allowing backyard chickens.
Staff file photo / Chickens roam the yard of an Ocoee, Tenn., cabin Aug. 8, 2023. Chattanooga is considering allowing backyard chickens.

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

“To call it a shop is really an understatement. It’s more like a manufacturing or an industrial mecca.”

— Matt Miles, vice president of external affairs at nuclear fusion firm Type One Energy, on TVA’s Power Service Shops in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where the company will contract for services.

“If you can’t read by second or third grade, you can’t learn anything.”

— Learning Foundation of Georgia Board Chair John Minor on one focus of the first charter school in Northwest Georgia.