A grouping of snow globes by 11-year-old Britley Frazier of Signal Mountain has been selected the winner of the Chattanooga Times Free Press' 2024 Lin C. Parker Wrapping Paper Design Contest.
Her artwork, which features various Christmas icons within each globe, will be inserted in Sunday's print editions, filling one side of a newspaper broadsheet. Designs by five finalists are included in smaller representations on the reverse side.
Be sure to pick up your gift wrapping paper this year on newsstands near you this Sunday.
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Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee girl, visited Chattanooga Saturday at Ross’s Landing. The puppet was designed and built by Handspring Puppet Company and has traveled to 15 countries and is on a tour of cities across America to help raise funds for the education of refugee children.
Chattanooga area residents celebrated the upcoming Independence Day with a blueberry pie eating contest at the “Red, White and Blueberries” day at the Chattanooga Market at First Horizon Pavilion on Sunday.
Check out these photos and videos by staff photographer Olivia Ross of the Armed Forces Day Parade.
Check out this video from Repticon at the Camp Jordan Arena on Sunday:
Didn't watch/couldn't watch the Oscars? Here is what you missed:
Four Shillings Short performs for Music Wednesday
WATCH: Celtic/folk/world music duo Four Shillings Short joins the Times Free Press in The Studio at the Chattanooga Public Library for today's edition of Music Wednesdays. Christy Martin & Aodh Og O'Tuama perform several songs on a wide variety of instruments, including the sitar, banjo, crumhorn and dulcimer.
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Comedian Karen Mills joins us for Music Wednesdays
We continue to do things a little differently for this week's Music Wednesdays. Comedian Karen Mills is up first to talk about the Country Cool show with Leanne Morgan and Trish Suhr at the Walker Theatre ahead of the Oct. 4 show.
Stay tuned for the second half tomorrow, which will feature Deacon Bluz!
Cannon Hunt marks his third Music Wednesdays performance
Cannon Hunt is a senior at Baylor School with a talent for writing and performing. He makes his third visit to Music Wednesdays to perform some new songs.
Mitch Ryder
R&B legend Mitch Ryder performed Friday at UTC as part of the River City Sessions series done in conjunction with UTC Performances and Barry Courter was allowed to share some of the performance.
