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🌱 Patch AM: Where can you rediscover Chattanooga’s music, history, and riverfront in one trip?

Also, don't miss Free Bra Fittings to Support Breast Cancer Awareness on the Chattanooga Patch calendar

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Greetings Chattanooga! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Where can you rediscover Chattanooga's music, history, and riverfront in one trip?
  • Chattanooga remembers longtime Elder's Ace Hardware manager Gary Yonke
  • Could Chattanooga's new quantum cohort change how local businesses solve problems?

Also on today's calendar: Free Bra Fittings to Support Breast Cancer Awareness and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the hospital? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 81 and low of 64 degrees.
  • Saturday: Wind and rain, temps: high: 70, low: 63.
  • Sunday: A couple of thunderstorms, with a high of 71 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. It All Comes Together in Chattanooga (atlasobscura.com) — Chattanooga's natural beauty, music festivals, and historic sites come together in a detailed tour of places locals know well, from the Choo Choo and Bluff View to the Tennessee River Gorge and Ross's Landing. The piece highlights bluegrass traditions, outdoor adventures, haunted legends, and the Chattanooga Whiskey story, offering plenty of ideas for how residents can rediscover their own city.
   

2. Gary Andrew Yonke, 62 (3bmedianews.com) — Chattanooga residents are mourning the passing of 62-year-old Gary Andrew Yonke, a longtime local who worked as a department manager at Elder's Ace Hardware. An avid outdoorsman and cat lover, he had lived in the area since 1983, and his family plans a celebration of his life at a later date.
   

3. Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative Graduates First Quantum Ready Cohort (chattanoogan.com) — A Chattanooga-based quantum training program has just graduated 17 professionals from 16 Tennessee employers, strengthening the city's growing tech ecosystem. Led by the Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative and supported by UTC and NSF funding, the 12-week course equips participants to explore real-world quantum applications in sectors like healthcare, logistics, finance, and energy, with more cohorts planned.
   

4. Baylor Earns 5-0 Shuout Over CCS On Senior Night (chattanoogan.com) — Baylor's girls soccer team dominated CCS 5-0 on Senior Night in a key region matchup, giving Chattanooga-area fans plenty to cheer about. Multiple players scored, including a penalty from Ayanna Hamler and a brace from Brylee Faulkner, as the team now turns its focus to another big home test against GPS.
   

5. Illegal Alien Accused of Human Trafficking in Chattanooga Area Entered Under Biden, Faces 'Human Slavery' Charges: DHS (tennesseestar.com) — Law enforcement recently arrested three men in a Chattanooga-area human trafficking investigation, including one described by federal officials as an undocumented immigrant now facing serious exploitation and trafficking charges. Two other defendants are identified as Chattanooga residents, and authorities say the case ties into broader statewide concerns about crimes involving undocumented individuals.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Howdy, neighbors!
    I just moved to town and need a great vet for my sweet rescue kitty. Any recommendations? TIA! (Nextdoor Lower Normal Park)
  • Rooms to Go Furniture posted a job opening for Furniture Service Tech in Chattanooga. Apply here.
  • Goodwill Industries of Chattanooga posted a job opening for Processor Salvage in Chattanooga. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Chattanooga here.

Ok Chattanooga! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the cookie go to the hospital?" — Because he felt crummy. (Thank you Sanda J. for sending it in!)
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