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‘I will fight this until there’s either a bulldozer in my backyard or this idea is scrapped’ and other notable quotes from a week of Chattanooga area news

Staff file photo / Chris Taetsch walks his dogs, Jack and Grace, at Enterprise South Nature Park. Under a proposal by Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp, the southern end of the park would be opened up to industrial development.
Staff file photo / Chris Taetsch walks his dogs, Jack and Grace, at Enterprise South Nature Park. Under a proposal by Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp, the southern end of the park would be opened up to industrial development. Staff file photo / Chris Taetsch walks his dogs, Jack and Grace, at Enterprise South Nature Park. Under a proposal by Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp, the southern end of the park would be opened up to industrial development.


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

“And here’s a little fun fact, because you guys might not know. We actually had, on a couple of different cases, dogs, like complete dogs that were frozen in the deep freezer.”

— Heather Parker, property and evidence supervisor, on Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office’s new property and evidence facility.

“I just have never seen our federal government enact a prohibition policy like this that has such a sweeping and devastating effect … It’s robbing a lawful industry — and these are my colleagues, my employees. It’s robbing us of our ability to make a living.”