Joan McClane
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Fall festival season across the Tennessee Valley: Your guide to the 2026 lineup | Chattanooga Times Free Press (opens the original)
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From apple festivals and grist-mill craft fairs to a riverfront regatta, here is what's happening between now and Thanksgiving in Southeast Tennessee, North Georgia and Northeast Alabama. There is a stretch of about six weeks, beginning in mid-September, when it can feel like every small town within an hour of Chattanooga is closing its main street for something. Apples, pumpkins, pickles, barbecue, bluegrass -- the fall festival calendar in this corner of three states is dense enough that even
Lee Helton wants to see projects finished before leaving commission | Chattanooga Times Free Press (opens the original)
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Incumbent Lee Helton, R-East Brainerd, said he wants another term on the Hamilton County Commission because there are goals for his district he's still working to accomplish. "I've got things that I want to see through at my schools, as far as the facilities," Helton said by phone. "I want to see some infrastructure built out, East Brainerd Road widened and the road widening through Apison. I wanna see those through to completion." He said he also wants to see some of the planned vocational scho
Democrat Laura Betrand wants to support Health Department | Chattanooga Times Free Press (opens the original)
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Democrat Laura Bertrand said she is seeking a seat on the Hamilton County Commission to help schools and infrastructure keep up with and handle the impacts from new construction. She also wants to empower the county Health Department to provide for the physical and emotional needs of residents. Bertrand, a licensed therapist, said she watched county officials move to close the county's longstanding Health Department building on Third Street, near Erlanger, without much of a plan to replace it. "
Democrat Amanda Sovago-Royal wants seat on Hamilton County Commission | Chattanooga Times Free Press (opens the original)
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Democrat Amanda Sovago-Royal said she's seeking a seat on the Hamilton County Commission because she wants to bring more perspectives and transparency to county government. "The only real way to be a part of the decision-making is to be at the table where the decisions are being made," Sovago-Royal said in an interview. "I want to be that person who can get answers." Sovago-Royal and incumbent Republican Chip Baker, who lives near the Applewood neighborhood in unincorporated Hamilton County, are
Chip Baker seeks third term on the County Commission | Chattanooga Times Free Press (opens the original)
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Incumbent Chip Baker, R-Signal Mountain, said he wants another term on the Hamilton County Commission because he wants to continue serving the Signal Mountain community that welcomed his family 34 years ago and educated his four children. "We moved here from Dallas to run Children's Hospital, and we didn't know a soul," Baker said in an interview. "We are thankful for what this community has given us." Baker and Democrat Amanda Sovago-Royal, who lives at the foot of Signal Mountain, are seeking
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