
Kennedy: Brainerd couple say God told them to start homeless outreach
Wyndi White, a 63-year-old ordained minister, said she has frequent conversations with God.
Wyndi White, a 63-year-old ordained minister, said she has frequent conversations with God.
If you read the headline on this column expecting a rant, please back up.
Time was, the Drake Hotel Courts and Restaurant on South Broad Street was a popular stop for overnight tourists visiting Lookout Mountain attractions such as R…
People at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church on Signal Mountain call her "The Hat Lady." She even has the words "hat lady" in her email address.
I think too much about automobile tires. If this mental malady had a name, it would be called "tread dread."
Raise your hand if you remember potato chips delivered in big, metal cans.
Alex Byrum, 28, can tell immediately if a person getting fitted for a custom suit is an old pro or a first-timer.
Words are vessels for ideas. Two words — perseverance and perfectionism — have been chasing one another around my brain for some time.
There's an inside joke among folks who share the odd hobby of visiting every county in the United States.
When she was a child growing up in New Orleans, Whitney Evans-Snardon carried around a little bag that she pretended was filled with medical supplies and instr…
For years, drivers of Ferraris and Porsches and Shelby Cobras have quietly slipped into Chattanooga on their way to points unknown. Well, at least "unknown" to…
Sometimes, when it comes to buying a house, it's love at first sight.
My Facebook feed is filling up with photos posted by retired friends who seem to be on perpetual vacations.
Although modest in scale and cost, the Gateway Motel on the side of Missionary Ridge became one of Chattanooga's most iconic "motor courts" in the mid-20th cen…
At the animal shelter where she volunteers, Clara Register is known as "the dog whisperer."
On Saturday, the University of Alabama football team plays Middle Tennessee State University in Tuscaloosa.
In the early 1960s, Olympic Lanes at 5150 Hixson Pike was one of five local "bowling houses" that were homes to league and leisure bowlers.
One day, Chattanooga might be famous as the birthplace of iconic food brands such as Krystal hamburgers, Moon Pies and LoLo Lemonade.
I was 43 years old when our first son was born, 48 when our son second arrived.
Chattanooga's annual Christmas parade, sponsored by downtown merchants, was one of the biggest community gatherings of the year.
Bill Woolery, 84, was not impressed by the movie "Oppenheimer." He thought it was too long, too loud and too littered with flashbacks. (Although he concedes it…
One of the enduring qualities of my 27-year marriage is the clean division of labor in our household.
For seven decades, the municipal Rose Garden at Warner Park near downtown Chattanooga was a city treasure.
One day 20 years ago, Andy Wishart, of Leeds, England, stood atop Lookout Mountain and contemplated the city of Chattanooga down below.
My friend, business editor Dave Flessner, had a report in the paper last week that gave an update on the changing landscape of office work in Chattanooga.
Chattanoogans of a certain age may remember the National Shirt Shops location at 718 Market St.
At age 49, Betsy Bird still considers herself a "horse girl" at heart.
Sixty-two-year-old Don Bickford has had a difficult year.
My first hint that something was brewing in my hometown came in an email from columnist Ron Hart.
In 1951, a former city of Chattanooga fire hall was converted into an apartment complex on Cameron Hill near downtown.
Working at an addiction treatment facility, Katie Streber sees clients every day who have hit bottom while battling substance abuse.
Once or twice a year, one of our sons will ask, "Dad, is Chattanooga growing?"
In the early years of the 20th century, Chattanooga's live entertainment scene included a vaudeville theater called the Airdome.
Pied piper. Tour guide. Leader of the pack. Pick your description — Eddie Rahm fits them all.
Have you ever typed your name into the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT?
One of the family-friendly rides at Warner Park during the 1960s and 1970s was built by an EPB employee named James Walker.
Historian Stefanie Haire remembers the moment that sparked her doctoral thesis.
Often, you'll see a news report about the absurdly high cost of rearing children in America.
Sixty years ago this summer, the first Chattanooga-area McDonald's restaurant opened on Ringgold Road in East Ridge.
William Hartshorn, of Signal Mountain, is having a memorable 100th birthday season.
There's an observation floating around the internet.
A lot of people claim to be results-oriented people, but 31-year-old Alexa Williams has the resume to prove she can deliver.
One of comic-book creator Dakota Brown's earliest memories involves a Marvel comic book from the 1980s that he read so often as a preschooler that the cover fe…
In the summer of 1970, the miniskirt fashion trend hit Chattanooga in full stride.
Estelle Harris, 88, was in a KFC restaurant on East Brainerd Road one day waiting for her order when the cashier called out her name.
One day last month, I decided to take a walk. I strolled from the Times Free Press offices on East 11th Street over to Ankar's Downtown sandwich shop in the 50…
In this 1960s photo, the then-new Red Bank Junior High School on Morrison Springs Road looks a bit unfinished, surrounded by tall grass and unpaved driveway.
Krystal Enlow, a 27-year-old critical care paramedic in Rhea County, was volunteering off-campus with some of her college classmates in April when her medical …
"Digital natives." That's what they call Gen Z.
Remember that time your great-grandmother showed you a box of old letters from the 1800s?