Your Tuesday at a glance:
- Weather: High 66; strong to severe storms
- What to eat: One of these brilliant seafood recipes - perfect for anyone who hates doing the dishes.
- What to do: Get some fresh air at one of these eight scenic vistas, with a few COVID-19 safety precautions in place, of course.
- What we're excited about: The "Mustang Express," a new service at Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy that takes meals on the road while schools are closed due to COVID-19 concerns.
Greetings, Chattanooga!
Here's some non-coronavirus news: In 1989 NASA published an extensive study on houseplants to find the most effective ones to send into space to clean the air in space stations. So, which plants work best? Check out Sabrina Bodon's story in our recent issue of Chatter magazine.
And now, today's top stories:
Walmart, America's biggest retailer, plans to hire 4,200 workers in Tennessee in the next couple of months, plus it's giving bonus checks to full-time workers.
If you can sew, you can make face masks for under-supplied healthcare workers across the country. Here's how.
And, consumers trying to cope with the economic fallout from the growing COVID-19 epidemic are getting some reprieve: cheaper power and gas for Chattanooga.
- Sunny Montgomery, smontgomery@timesfreepress.com
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