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Chief Joan Koplan and Norman Reedus from AMC’s “The Walking Dead”
Second season of “Small Town Security” begins May 9
Fame or infamy? After owners and employees of Ringgold’s JJK Security welcomed America into their unorthodox universe as the stars of AMC’s non-scripted workplace series “Small Town Security,” loca...
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Down Home Days headliner The Straight Up Band during a previous performance.
Chickamauga's Down Home Days is back: Fest set for May 2-4
After a one-year hiatus, the Down Home Days festival will return to celebrate its 41st year of spring entertainment in Chickamauga. The Chickamauga Lions Club sponsors the festival as its primary f...
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Rob Jenkins
Local columnist hosts book signing
Rob Jenkins, a 1979 graduate of Ringgold High School and columnist for The Gwinnett Daily Post, will be signing copies of his new book “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility” at The...
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Janie Dempsey Watts
Catoosa County celebrates new release with signings
A new southern voice is quickly rising to the top of popular reading lists. Janie Dempsey Watts, a Chattanooga native who now lives in Woodstation, Ga., is charming reviewers with her first novel “...
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Drake and Ida (played by John Perry and Laura Perry) are Ugly's loving parents.(Catoosa News photo/Sherry Dee Allen)
“HONK!," a modern-day "Ugly Duckling" musical, comes to Catoosa County Colonnade
Since it first hatched in 1993, the hit stage musical “Honk!” has winged its way around the world in more than 8,000 productions and has now made its way to The Colonnade in Ringgold. Performances ...
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Sharp Dressed Man, a ZZ Top tribute band, will perform at Lake Winnie on June 24, with shows at 3 and 8 p.m.
ZZ Top tribute band "Sharp Dressed Man" at Lake Winnepesaukah June 24
ZZ Top tribute band Sharp Dressed Man will perform at Lake Winnepesaukah’s Jukebox Junction stage June 24, with shows at 3 and 8 p.m. Sharp Dressed Man is nationally known as an authentic tribute b...
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Lauren Alaina (Photo by Savannah Lee Climer)
Lauren Alaina contends for her first CMT award tonight
Rossville’s Lauren Alaina will be competing for her first major country music award at tonight's Country Music Television Awards. Her hit release "Georgia Peaches" is nominated for the Weekend Brea...
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Cast members of “Ramona Quimby”. Click photo to enlarge.(Catoosa News photo/Sherry Dee Allen)
“Ramona Quimby” coming to The Colonnade March 29-31
Boisterous and bossy “Ramona Quimby” is making a leap from the page to the stage. Director Kim Parrish and her playful cast of kids invite the public to join them the last weekend of March at The C...
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A musical “Little Women” comes to The Colonnade this weekend
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Six generations have read it. This one will sing it. Ever After Productions is pleased to announce their musical spin on “Little Women,” Louisa May Alcott's timeless nineteenth century classic tale...
Rossville’s Lauren Alaina to perform tonight on “American Idol”
by Sherry Dee Allen
Mar 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
Rising country queen Lauren Alaina will take a familiar stage tonight (March 8). The popular Rossville teen, who was last year’s “American Idol” runner-up, will perform her single “Georgia Peaches”...
Ringgold names Roger Gann “Haunted Depot”'s actor of the year
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In a special recognition ceremony recently, the city of Ringgold named Roger Gann its 2011 “Haunted Depot” actor of the year. The two-week event, which turns the historic Ringgold Depot into a haun...
Armuchee Valley native compiles family, area history in “Jordan’s Journey”
by Christi McEntyre
Mar 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
After 14 years away from his hometown, Walker County native Jordan Scoggins is getting back to his roots. His new book, “Jordan’s Journey: An Illustrated History of My Family Ancestry,” details lit...
Tuesday, Feb. 21: Mark your calendar
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Tuesday, Feb. 21 COMMUNITY · Are you ready for the next disaster or emergency? Amateur radio gets through when all else fails, even cell phones. Sign up for the next amateur radio class, sponsore...
Bandy Center in Dalton to host Civil War lectures
Feb 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
“Protecting Home and Hearth: Civil War Georgia 1862” will be the topic of the 2012 Civil War in the Western Theater Colloquium sponsored by The Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia in conjun...
Stained glass classes start Feb. 7 at LFO
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Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School is offering studio space for local artists and classes for community members. Stained glass classes run Feb. 7, 9, 21 and 23. Artists wishing to utilize the art...
Valentine’s event for hard-of-hearing is Feb. 10
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David M. Harrison, director of the Hear Now Café, a support group for hard-of-hearing people, invites all hearing impaired people and friends to attend a special Valentine’s event. This event is eq...

Actress Berenice Bejo poses for portraits at during the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent Emmanuel)CANNES, France (AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.


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Actors Mathieu Amalric, left, and Benicio Del Toro pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)CANNES, France (AP) — It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen.


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File - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, US singer Michael Jackson announces at a press conference that he is set to play ten live concerts at the London O2 Arena in July 2009. Jurors hearing Katherine Jackson’s lawsuit against AEG Live heard from a pair of defense witnesses who gave varying assessments of Jackson’s health as he rehearsed for the “This Is It” show. The testimony in a Los Angeles courtroom by choreographers Stacy Walker and Travis Payne on May 13-14, 2013, was the only evidence in the trial’s third week that focused on the pop superstar. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:


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