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Amend the Ordinance and Move Forward

October 29, 2017 By Dick Cook 1 Comment

The battle lines have been drawn in the Great Debate concerning sales of beer on East Ridge city property. In last Thursday’s Workshop Agenda meeting of the East Ridge City Council, that august body met to discuss amending Ordinance 860 to allow the sale of alcohol on city property by special permit. Right off the […]

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Realtor Encouraged by Trends in East Ridge

October 12, 2017 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 2 Comments

As a resident of East Ridge for about 13 years, I’ve ridden the roller coaster of expectations regarding our city’s future (on many fronts). We lived at the west end for about six years, then moved to the east end, near the Georgia line. We owned ChattaMusic for several years, right in the heart of […]

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No Need for Civilians to Have Automatic Weapons

October 11, 2017 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 3 Comments

This letter is in response to the articles covering the recent shooting in Las Vegas. The second amendment of the United States Constitution states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Obviously the need for […]

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Let’s Stop Worshiping at the Feet of Border Region Act

October 1, 2017 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

I’m beginning to become annoyed by the idolatry of the Border Region Act by some of our city leaders. I’m in the second meeting of the East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting on Friday morning. Yes, Friday morning is the best time. It apparently discourages residents, citizens, taxpayers and other interested parties from attending […]

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Poor Execution Will Doom Regional Sports Complex

September 18, 2017 By Matthew DeGlopper 4 Comments

Across the country businesses along with cities and counties are changing their physical and economic landscape using Mega sports complexes.  These indoor and outdoor facilities cover every type of youth sport that you can imagine, and are designed to capitalize on the $10 billion a year business that is youth sports. Westfield, Indiana, a city […]

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A Property Tax Abatement Dressed up in a Youth Soccer Uniform

September 17, 2017 By Dick Cook 3 Comments

During last Thursday’s East Ridge City Council meeting, the council voted 3-1 for a resolution that would earmark all city and Hamilton County property tax money at the Jordan Crossing development to pay for improvements inside Camp Jordan Park. It was explained by the mayor and city manager that the resolution was merely to endorse […]

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Proud of My Neighbor, Chief Williams

September 6, 2017 By Dick Cook 3 Comments

I wanted to talk to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams about his experiences in flood-stricken Houston, but I thought I would give him time to rest and decompress. So, when I went to Corner Cafe for lunch and saw the city’s fire trucks and battalion commander’s vehicle and the familiar white SUV that Chief […]

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Kudos to ERFD

August 20, 2017 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

I live a few doors up from the folks who had the fire at 6607 State Line Road. I would like to personally thank the firefighters of East Ridge for the quick response. Although the family pet didn’t make it, it was not from a lack of trying. I witnessed a couple of firefighters doing […]

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Do We want ‘LakePoint North’ or a ‘Town Center?’

August 8, 2017 By Dick Cook 1 Comment

This Thursday’s East Ridge City Council meeting just may determine the future direction of our city. At the July 27 council meeting, City Manager Scott Miller rolled out an ambitious plan to revitalize the central part of East Ridge with his vision of creating a new “Town Center.” The project would finally, finally address that […]

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Good Things Happening in East Ridge

July 30, 2017 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

Last week I  talked with Daniel Wright, the young man at Jones Memorial United Methodist Church who leads the youth there. He was excited to share a couple projects that the church had going on. On Friday, the young folks took a bunch of non-perishable food items down to Prater Road where the people at […]

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Dean Replies to Criticism

July 25, 2017 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

Citizens of East Ridge, During a recent Community Meeting there were a couple of statements made regarding my office that I feel compelled to correct. It was stated that I had an employee in the Hamilton County Criminal Court Clerk’s office that made an outrageous salary and only worked three days a week. That is […]

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Focus of Leadership is Skewed

July 15, 2017 By Matthew DeGlopper 1 Comment

It has been an interesting week seeing the back and forth between Roy Exum and Tim Boyd regarding the upcoming idea of a $15 million expansion at Camp Jordan.  While everyone seemed to argue over how it should be done, no one seemed to ask if it should be done. To me it’s as simple as […]

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Growing Weary of Promised Development

July 9, 2017 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

I got a good chuckle when I recently read media reports of Wolftever Development principals going around to Hamilton County officials shopping a grand plan to build a regional sports complex in Camp Jordan. John Healy and his partners Matt and Ethan Wood, recently met with Commissioner Tim Boyd explaining that this sports complex would […]

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Mathis Advocates for Care-A-Van Bus Service

June 20, 2017 By Dick Cook and Laura Mathis 0 Comments

For about three months, I have attended all the East Ridge City Council meetings. During these meetings, I get up and sign in for “My five minutes of fame” to ask the City Council questions or comments. My special interest is and always has been for the city to have the CARTA Care-A-Van service – […]

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United We Stand…

June 18, 2017 By Matthew DeGlopper 3 Comments

… divided we fall. Anyone paying attention to city council meetings for the last month and a half has witnessed first hand the power of that phrase.   A group of neighbors upset over the use of ATVs by a property owner and his 12- year-old grandson on a vacant tract of land culminated with […]

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