With Connecticut wheelchair users reporting lengthy wait times to get their chairs fixed, advocates argued Thursday with industry representatives over whether hiring additional technicians and dedicating more staff toward home visits would help resolve a backlog of repairs.
Maureen Amirault began trying in 2021 to arrange for the servicer of her wheelchair to repair an ill-fitted footplate. After two years of phone calls, sores and now deformed foot bones, she told a legislative task force last week that the issue remained unresolved.
Despite plant closings so far this year at a half dozen area businesses, unemployment in metropolitan Chattanooga declined again last month and remained below both the state and national averages for unemployment in September.
T-Mobile is cutting 127 jobs at its Chattanooga call center next week as the wireless carrier grapples with rising costs related to adding more subscribers in a competitive market.
Robin Bolduc isn’t the type of person who takes “no” for an answer — particularly when it comes to fixing her husband’s wheelchair. Her husband, Bruce Goguen, 69, is paralyzed