Around and About Chattanooga

Shane Berryhill, a Chattanooga, TN resident and author of the Chance Fortune young-adult series, has a new novel intended for all ages.  The Long Silent Night is a Christmas noir tale starring a North Pole detective named Jack Frost.

When Adam Boeselager was at Lee University, he and his friend Nick Macco decided to start a business converting old home videos and audio recordings into digital files.  Now, three years later, their company Southtree has created more than a million DVDs for customers all over the country.

Downtown Chattanooga will light up this weekend with the Holiday Starlight Parade, Lighted Boat Parade and Fireworks Finale. 

A new book tells the true story of a Chattanooga woman who got so hooked on hydrocodone that she took between 30 and 40 pills a day. 

Colleen Laliberte is directing The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at the Mountain Arts Community Center on Signal Mountain December 14th through the 16th. 

On Thanksgiving evening this year, there was a brush fire in Ashland City, Tennessee, which is about 20 miles west of Nashville. When the firefighters arrived, they found something in the woods they weren't expecting: about 60 dogs chained up at a suspected dog fighting operation.

LAUNCH hosted the High School Entrepreneurship Competition on December 2 with the winning team taking home a $10,000 prize package. 

Broken sidewalks. Dilapidated houses. Leaky roofs.

Those are some of the things that the city has traditionally been able to help fix with funds from the federal government. But if we go over the fiscal cliff, that could change. In this segment, we take a look at some of the ways that big cuts from the federal government could affect life in Chattanooga.

A gluten-free diet may help people shed pounds, but not because gluten is inherently fattening.  In this segment, experts explain why.  We also talk about two new gluten-free food options in Chattanooga: Mimi's Low Carb Market and Crave Café and Bakery.

The Community Theater on the third floor of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium is being renovated but you can get a peek at the work going on in this historic building at an Open House on December 4th. 

At Kenton Shoe Shop on Broad Street, shoes are repaired in the back of the store. But up front in the window, Arthur Ballanger puts on the final touches – he scrubs and polishes the repaired shoes. And he works on other shoes that just need a good clean. He says, no matter how dirty a pair of shoes looks, he'll never turn them down.

The Southside Cowart Place Neighborhood Association is hosting the fourth annual Corn Hole Tournament at MAINx24 on Saturday, December 1, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. 

Visitors from Chattanooga's first sister city, Hamm Germany, traveled to the Scenic City to celebrate 35 years of friendship. 

Whitson Gordon, Deputy Editor at Lifehacker.com, talks about reasons to give people apps and digital subscriptions as gifts instead of physical presents.  Lifehacker recently published a 2012 gift guide.

The Hamilton County Courthouse turns 100 next year.  A photo exhibit showing the courthouse's history is already in place, and an open house will happen on Tuesday, December 11.