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Holiday Gift Guide: Keeping It Local in 2024
With the holidays just around the corner, it’s becoming the most wonderful time of the year. Thankfully, it’s possible to make this season even more wonderful. When we shop from locally owned, small businesses, we give two gifts rolled into
Opening the Doors to Opella: Inside a Day with The Howard School Students
Over fall break, Tamyus Malone woke up early on a day he could have otherwise slept late. The Howard School senior joined 15 other classmates for a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of a Chattanooga company known around the world. Opella. “This
EPB marks 15 years of keeping Chattanooga on the cutting edge
Fifteen years ago, Netflix was primarily a DVD-by-mail service, and high-speed internet at home was a luxury. When EPB connected its first fiber optic internet customer the same year at 15 megabits per second (Mbps), today’s technologies weren’t much more
Pathway Lending Celebrates 25 Years Supporting Chattanooga Entrepreneurs
Chattanooga is full of entrepreneurship opportunities. Since 2001, Pathway Lending has been helping local small businesses grow and thrive in Hamilton County and beyond. Founded in 1999, Pathway is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that offers financing and coaching
How Doing What You Know (and Finding Help with What You Don’t) Pays Off: The TESBROS Story
If you’d asked Ji Hoon Heo what he anticipated the next five years to look like when he launched his “Tesla Bros” Facebook group in January of 2019, he likely wouldn’t have shared visions of a nearly 30,000-subscriber YouTube fanbase,
The Compassionate, Brave and Gutsy – Yes, Gutsy – Story of Seahorse Snacks
This summer, you can buy a special seventh-inning snack – take me out to the ballgame – at any Chattanooga Lookouts home game. “Curveball Crunchies,” said Stacy Martin. “It’s a play on ‘buy me some peanuts and Crackerjacks’.” Martin created
Zest: App-to-Table Cooking Lessons
The American dining landscape is a case study in polar extremes, as it often feels like we simultaneously exist in a golden age of high-quality restaurant options while we’re also surrounded by junk food crammed with loads of unhealthy ingredients
The Remarkable Career of Fleurette Fitch: A Story of Women Leading in Manufacturing
On April 18, Fleurette Fitch – a 21-year employee of Shaw Industries – was honored at a Washington DC gala for her outstanding manufacturing career. That evening, the Manufacturing Institute recognized Fitch as a Women MAKE Award honoree for her
After announcing her retirement, Enterprise Center CEO Deb Socia reflects on career, community and advancement of digital equity
When I was a child, there was no internet. We all had access to the same information which came from the same place: our libraries. These precious community resources were available, accessible and inclusive for all. Today, accessibility to knowledge
Happy 160th Birthday, First Horizon. And Thanks for All the Acts of Kindness.
Happy 160th Birthday, First Horizon Bank. You’ve got lots to celebrate. “March 25, 1864,” said Richard Shaffer, regional president. “Our documents go back to 1864.” It was Memphis, 1864. The US government approved bank charters for First National Bank of
