Catholic closed out the 2018 season with an impressive 46-14 on-the-road victory over Grace Baptist Academy. Catholic began the contest with an impressive five-play, 53-yard drive culminating with a 20-yard touchdown run from Isha Davis. Andrew Petrin and Ian Scott provided the key blocks on the scoring play. Cal Brown added the 2 point […]
Police Capture Suspect Who Ran from Accident Scene
Law enforcement officers captured a man who crashed a car on Ringgold Road hiding along a creek near Camp Jordan Park, early Thursday afternoon. The suspect, 32-year-old Kinny Bass of Homestead, Florida, was taken into custody at 12:06 p.m. as he was found hiding under a log near West Chickamauga Creek. Once in custody, Bass […]
Thongnopnua Calls for Debates/Forums in State House Race
Wednesday, in a press release from the Joda Thongnopnua campaign, the Democratic candidate for Tennessee’s 30th State House District, called for a range of debates and forums to be held in advance of the November 6th general election for the most competitive state legislative race in Hamilton County and invited his opponent, Esther Helton, to participate. Thongnopnua highlighted the importance […]
Controversial Rezoning Approved on First Reading
The rezoning of property on Fountain Avenue that would allow the continued renovation of an apartment complex was approved on first reading, Thursday evening during the East Ridge City Council’s first meeting of the month. Lexington Assets Management, which owns Sweetbay Apartments at 3623 Fountain Avenue, had applied to rezone a portion of its property […]
Wilson Named Parks & Recreation Director
The City of East Ridge has hired Adam Wilson as its new Director of Parks and Recreation. According to City Manager Scott Miller, Wilson will start in his new position on September 17 at an annual salary of $62,000. Wilson was the top pick of a special committee formed by the city to select the […]
The Adventure Guild Holds Ribbon Cutting for Zip Line
Representatives of the Adventure Guild and city officials gathered at Camp Jordan Park, Thursday afternoon, to cut a ribbon signifying the opening of the new zip line. The 35-foot tall, 550-foot long zip line is the main attraction that the Adventure Guild has built on the Northeast quadrant of Camp Jordan. Kim Stock, who along with […]
Council Keeps Controversial Rezoning Measure ‘Tabled’
All talk, no action. During Thursday night’s East Ridge City Council meeting, no action was taken on the rezoning of property on Fountain Avenue that would allow the Sweetbay Apartments to continue renovation and build more units. Most of the talk came from a half dozen citizens who opposed the rezoning, citing crime, population density […]
Suspect in Convenience Store Robbery Turns Self In
A man that police say robbed a convenience store earlier this week, turned himself into the East Ridge police on Tuesday. Officials said that Ellis Bell Thornhill, 41, of an Orangewood Avenue address in Chattanooga, turned himself in at the Fire and Police Service Center. Charged with Aggravated Robbery, he promptly made a $25,000 bond […]
Candidates for Municipal Election Set
The candidates for the East Ridge Municipal Election are set, as qualifying deadline was Thursday at noon. Two council seats are open as well as the mayor’s position. For Mayor, City Councilman Brian Williams is asking voters to move up to run the council meetings. Williams is in the middle of a four-year term. Former […]
Council Approves $100K in Spending to Beef up SWAT
On Thursday, the East Ridge City Council approved spending more than $100,000 on the city’s SWAT team to replace aging body armor and provide new firearms. Police Chief J.R. Reed said he will order 12 state-of-the-art tactical vests, 12 light-weight helmets and 13 rifles with accessories from GT Distributors as soon as possible at a […]
Planning Commission Rejects Rezoning for Apartment Complex
The East Ridge Planning Commission denied the request of a local businessman to rezone property near the Bachman Tunnels so he could build an apartment complex. P.J. Patel with Shreenathji Properties proposed to build an 80-unit “high end” apartment complex on 4.8 acres at 1023 South Seminole Drive. He said the 1,100 square-foot apartments would […]
CM Miller Announces Retirement
On Friday, East Ridge City Manager Scott Miller announced that he would be retiring from his position this fall. In a letter dated Aug. 3, Miller informed the mayor and city council that he would step down effective Oct. 26. “After considerable thought and discussions with my family I have concluded that it is time […]
Helton Edges Mason in District 30 House Race
Esther Helton is a Republican. In a race where her opponent, Jonathan Mason, insisted that the East Ridge City Councilwoman cast a ballot for former President Barack Obama twice, voters in State House District 30 gave the nod to Helton in the Republican Primary, 3,507 votes to 3,367. “People over politics prevailed tonight,” Helton said […]
UPDATED: Lambert Cleared of Ethics Violations
On Thursday, a special counsel cleared East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert of alleged ethics violations brought against him in May by a private citizen. Stephen Greer, the special counsel hired by the City to investigate the allegations filed by East Ridge resident Laura Seneker, wrote in a two-page document that Lambert’s acceptance of […]
Community Backs the Blue
Our friends at News Channel 9 were at Camp Jordan on Saturday and provided East Ridge News Online with this account of the “Back the Blue” event. Cold drinks and hot food brought the East Ridge community together Saturday. So did the fear that their police department is ill-equipped to keep them safe. After a national representative […]
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