In Southside Chattanooga, a new space for music hosted its first concert a few weeks ago.
Arts Avenue - on Rossville Avenue - is a venue for performances, both music and dance, events and collaborative arts projects.
Mike Dougher - who booked shows at Songbirds - is booking acts for Arts Avenue.
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Large New Homeless Camp Sprouts Up In Unhealthy Floodway Near Chattanooga Creek Tuesday, July 13, 2021
One of Chattanooga s largest homeless camps has sprouted up in an unhealthy Chattanooga Creek floodway near the Rossville, Ga., line.
Robert Gustafson, who has a fulltime mission to local homeless, estimates that up to 60 homeless individuals are in two large camps and four or five smaller ones along a wooded section of Workman Road.
The location is just beyond a railroad spur from the now-closed Southern Honda Powersports. That business, that was formerly operated by now mayor Tim Kelly, has moved to East Ridge.
Mr. Gustafson said the camp developed over the past several months after a camp closer to Rossville Boulevard was shut down by Walter A. Wood Supply and a homeless group was told to leave a camp behind an ice business on South Broad Street. Some have come up from North Georgia as well, Mr. Gustafson said.
Black Saturday: One of the largest fires in Staten Island history in photos
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Today 12:41 PM
Mrs. Dorothy Vorek stands within the leveled walls of her former home at 875 Sinclair Avenue in Huguenot, as a fire pumper throws a stream to test water flow from a nearby hydrant. Mrs. Vorek s home, was one of about 100 structures destroyed or damaged in the 1963 brush fire epidemic on the South Shore – April 20, 1963. (Staten Island Advance)Staten Island Advance
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. –– Nearly 60 years ago, 100 homes were destroyed, as three different fires simultaneously burned through multiple Staten Island neighborhoods.
On April 20, 1963, also known as Black Saturday, a total of three large brush fires began in Rossville, Tottenville, and Mariners Harbor. In their wake, the fires caused more than $2 million of property damage and left over 500 people homeless.
Win Set Of Chattanooga Old Photo Books Published By Chattanoogan.com Tuesday, April 20, 2021
The sixth grade at Sunnyside School in 1946
You can win a set of all the books in the Chattanooga Photo Series of old Chattanooga photos in a contest sponsored by Chattanoogan.com, publisher of the books.
The books include Chattanooga in Old Photos, The Remarkable Stokes Collection, Railroads in and Around Chattanooga and Paul Hiener s Historic Chattanooga.
Chattanooga in Old Photos includes almost 300 pages. It features hundreds of scenes from downtown, local landmarks, rivers and streams, parades, medical, banks, churches, entertainment, parks and cemeteries and auto and livery. The book is highlighted by sections on Chattanooga s restaurants as well as its hotels, motels and apartments of yesteryear.
Police Blotter: Businesses, Individuals Hit By Catalytic Converter Thefts; Woman Finds Someone Else Is Trying To Lease Out House She Owns Sunday, January 24, 2021 Police responded to a business at 1963 Northpoint Blvd. A woman said that sometime between Sunday night and that morning, an unknown person cut the catalytic converter off of one of the company vans. She says this is the third time this has happened to one of the vans. A watch was requested. Police were called to 1812 Gunbarrel Road on a disturbance call. A man who said he was just released from Erlanger was walking in and out of Target and Kohls asking for people to call him a taxi.