Submitted by Todd on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 4:40pm
The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) announced nominations for the third annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards, scheduled for June 10 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Up for best reality series is AMC’s locally filmed “Small Town Security.”
Submitted by Todd on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 10:26am
Work to make Dietz Road safer is expected to be complete before year’s end.
Catoosa County will announce Wednesday, May 29, a request for bids to perform major reconstruction of a section of Dietz Road near Cloud Springs Road.
Catoosa County projects administrator Christal Thomas said a hill will be lowered to provide improved sight lines where traffic from Cinderella Hills enters this major north-south traffic artery.
Detours can be expected as a project of this magnitude will require the total temporary closure of Dietz Road, she said.
Submitted by Todd on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 10:10am
The annual paving season, when warmer temperatures allow pouring asphalt and concrete, may have arrived but that doesn’t mean Battlefield Parkway’s surface will soon become as smooth as satin sheets.
The Georgia Department of Transportation will accept bids — in October — for repaving Catoosa County’s main east-west connector sometime next year.
Devon Brooks, area engineer for GDOT, said preliminary estimates to resurface Ga. 2, the parkway’s official designation, from Fowler Road, about one mile east of Interstate 75, westward to the Walker County line is estimated at about $4.8 million.
Submitted by Heather on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 3:46pm
It's been eight years and nine days since Microsoft showed the world the Xbox 360 on May 12th, 2005. Today, we see what's next. The Xbox One. Check out the review over at Gizmodo.
Read More. (RTC Internet TV Blog)
Submitted by Heather on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 8:17am
Ringgold is ready to kick off the summertime with its annual Memorial Day festivities, which includes the 1890s Day Jamboree and the bi-annual Festival of Flags.
For the two weeks each year that surround the Memorial and Veterans Days, the city erects commemorative American flags to honor deceased military personnel from Catoosa County.
The flags line the streets of Ringgold and are held in place by wooden crosses donning the name of a gone, but not forgotten, veteran.
This year will mark the 38th annual 1890s Day Jamboree, which is an admission-free event.
Submitted by Heather on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 8:06am
About 50 acres of Catoosa County-owned property will soon become home for a Georgia Northwestern Technical Community College satellite campus as well as a mixed-use commercial development.
County attorney Chad Young reported during the Tuesday, May 21, county commission meeting that the property’s sale had been approved and recommended the previous week by the Catoosa County Economic Development Authority.
Submitted by Heather on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 8:28am
In just a few days, Ringgold High School senior Brenna Schroder will graduate with highest honors, one of which is being named the STAR student. Each year, the student with the highest SAT score receives the title of STAR student along with a $500.00 scholarship.
Submitted by Heather on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 8:19am
Catoosa County commissioners on Tuesday heard an appeal by former Lookout Mountain Drug Task Force commander Larry Black, who has filed a grievance against sheriff Gary Sisk.
County attorney Skip Patty said an action by the sheriff prompted the appeal, but since the sheriff holds a constitutional office, whatever decision the commissioners reach can only be considered as a advisory.
Black’s grievance concerns his losing status as a sworn officer of the law, as well as the loss of benefits and financial compensation.
Submitted by Heather on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 2:17pm
First responders are in a race against time in the search for any survivors of a devastating tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., while the medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from 51 to 24, including nine children.
Oklahoma medical examiner spokeswoman Amy Elliot said this morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. The original death toll included 20 children.
Submitted by Heather on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 8:16am
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The massive tornado that devastated an area near Oklahoma City injured 237 people and the number of dead may rise beyond the current official count of 24, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said today.
"We don't have any firm numbers on the numbers of deaths that have been experienced," Fallin said during a news conference. "There may have been bodies that may have been taken to local funeral homes."
Officials said today that nine of the 24 people confirmed to have been killed in Moore, Okla., on Monday were children.
Seven children died at Plaza Towers Elementary School, which took a direct hit, but many more survived unhurt.
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