Where would Catoosa County be without SPLOST (Special Project Local Option Sales Tax)? Since 1994, when the very first SPLOST started rolling in, $97,606,992 in pennies flowed through the coffers of the county and the two cities for capital expenditure projects. A capital expenditure is money used to acquire or upgrade physical assets - buildings, bridges, or vehicle, such as a fire truck. Benton Place would still be a green field with trees, ...
Eighth-grade McCallie School student Asa Peeples has one thing in particular that sets him apart from his classmates - he's a professional youth horse reining competitor."No one else does it in our grade," he said. The Ringgold resident recently won in the 13 and under division of the United States Equestrian Federation National Youth Reining Championship held in June in Oklahoma City, ...
The Catoosa County Board of Commissioners heard additional concerns Sept. 2. from Bible Road residents about safety issues from a bus stop at the end of the Catoosa County road. Students in the area, many of whom, live in the Village Green Mobile Home community, use the stop. Residents had expressed concerns at an earlier meeting that cars parked along both sides of the road limited it to one lane while parents' were dropping off and picking up ...
Illegal goods make their way through Catoosa County on a daily basis by means of Interstate 75. A lesser-known issue is animal trafficking, but on Aug. 14, a large collection of dogs was confiscated in what turned out to be a animal trafficking incident. Around 12:30 a.m. a rented RV filled with an estimated 56 dogs was traveling through Catoosa County from Florida to Missouri. According to Donna Proctor, director of the Catoosa County Animal ...
Patrice Hobbs Glass will lead the volunteer efforts for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Glass is its first-ever volunteer coordinator and her initial salary is being funded by a partnership of three private donors coordinated by the Friends, a not-for-profit group of volunteers dedicated to promoting and enhancing the 9,100- acre Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, which spans two states, three counties, ...