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• Tuesday's Banner highlights articles about Rev. Dr. Michael J. Laney accepting a...
• Civil Air Patrol Cadets, some of whom will become military veterans in the futur...
• Over the past 17 years, the Cleveland and Bradley County community has developed...
• Cleveland Banner's Memorial Day paper includes articles about James Cash survivi...
• Shane Hicks loves military history. He’s been studying and reading about it all...
• When it rains it pours, but lately it hasn’t even been raining.
• Sunday's Banner features articles about the Director of Schools, Johnny McDaniel...
• The annual Memorial Day remembrance service is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m....
• Bradley County Board of Education members, and Director of Schools Johnny McDani...
• A horse-drawn caisson carried the body of Cleveland Police officer Justin Maples...
• Friday's Banner features stories about the farewell to fallen officer Justin Map...
• Expediting a 10-year sewer rehabilition program aimed at reducing inflow and inf...
• A caisson provided by the North Carolina Highway Patrol and the North Carolina T...
• Thursday's Banner highlights articles about Justin Maple's funeral caisson; Dr....
• Cleveland Director of Schools Dr. Martin Ringstaff, and members of the city scho...
• Hannam University President Visits Lee
• Wednesday's Banner features articles about the Maples funeral route being set, a...
• The Cleveland Board of Education will be getting a new entrance to its Cleveland...
• A site plan revision to Mouse Creek Crossing approved by the Cleveland Municipal...
• Tuesday's Banner highlights articles about the friends of Justin Maples family s...
• Cleveland Police Chief Wes Snyder reflected on the career of his fallen officer...
• Friends of the Justin Maples family have established a fund to assist the fallen...
• Monday's Banner contains stories about the TDOT deadline for input on the SR 60...
• Tragedy struck brothers and sisters of Cleveland Police and all law enforcement...
• The Drug Enforcement Administration came to Bradley County recently to weigh in...
• Cleveland officer being airlifted after crash on South Lee Hwy...details in Mond...
• Sunday's Banner features articles about Dalton Pike's completion being moved to...
• Dialougue. Focus. Impact. These are the goals of the 2012 Bradley Initiative for...
• REACHADULTHIGH SCHOOL graduates walk to the auditorium for their ceremony. Banne...
• Tennessee Department of Transportation has changed the completion date to “late...
• Phi Mu Alpha Donates to Build A City
• Friday's Banner features stories about area construction booming, Habitat for Hu...
• Habitat for Humanity is known for building homes, but the organization also buil...
• The Carmike 12 theater at Bradley Square Mall, announced in October 2011, is amo...
• Jenkins Receives Lee’s Excellence in Advising Award
• Thursday's Banner highlights articles about the Cleveland Jetport getting the id...
• National leaders in the Save the Children organization visited Bradley County Sc...
• The three-letter identifier assigned to the Cleveland Regional Jetport by the Fe...
• Fourth Annual Day Camp for Individuals with Autism
• Wednesday's Banner features stories about how to become part of a movie being sh...
• In celebration of its 125th anniversary, United Way Worldwide has recognized Pro...
• If you’ve ever wanted to be in a movie, now is your chance.
• Sherwood Receives Zeno C. Tharp Award
• Schertzer Receives Charles Paul Conn Award Winner
• Softball Opens Nationals Against Reinhardt
• Tuesday's Banner highlights articles about the Cleveland City Council to continu...
• Rodney Murray, senior program director for the Cleveland Family YMCA, was the gu...
• A second vote by the Cleveland City Council not to pursue the appeal of a chance...
• Wilkinson Named 2012 Presser Scholar
• Monday's Banner features stories about the SR 60 road plan accepting input, Read...
• Five days remain before Friday’s ballot entry deadline for Reader’s Choice 2012,...
• Whether or not their homes, businesses or property are impacted, Bradley County...
• Stephenson Awarded Excellence in Scholarship Award
• NAIA Salutes Clair Lanter
• Sunday's Banner features stories about the April 2011 storm aid cutoff nearing,...
• BCHSGRADS Jennifer Grant, Miranda Green, Ashley Ryan and Matthew Hanby line up t...
• Long-term recovery for those affected by the April 27, 2011, tornadoes is fast c...
• Theatre Camp Registration Now Underway
• Friday's Banner features articles about "Stamp out Hunger" collecting food for f...
• READYFORGRADUATION from left, Paul Almodovar, Caitlin Geren and Taylor Morris ar...
• The local letter carriers group will be helping “Stamp Out Hunger” Saturday with...
• Kevin Brown Receives Excellence in Teaching Award
• Thursday's Banner features stories about finance leaders balking at more 911 fun...
• The old house at 222 Dooley St. looks tired, weather-beaten and no sign of life...
• The Bradley County 911 Communications Center will not receive additional funding...
• Flames Ready to Begin March Toward Sixth Straight World Series Appearance
• Wednesday's Banner highlights articles about the County board split on the new s...
• Excitement filled the air as students waited in anticipation of the official ded...
• Despite having three major projects under way with projected completion for the...
• Business Students Compete for Presentation Award
• Business Advisory Council Holds Annual Meeting
• In Tuesday's edition of the Banner, stories highlighted include the county possi...
• A young entrepreneur, one who has been enticing the taste buds of Cleveland’s It...
• Keynote speaker for the Cleveland/Bradley County Chamber event was Bradley Count...
• Summer Camp Opportunities at Lee
• Monday's Banner highlights stories about the Bradley Healthcare and Rehabilitati...
• Friends and family of the late Ann Martin attended a special service at Bradley...
• Only 14.54 inches of rainfall have been recorded through April, with just 0.82 i...
• Sunday's Banner features stories about Bradley County's revenues remaining flat,...
• A 33-year-old Ooltewah woman became Bradley County’s seventh traffic fatality of...
• Revenues for Bradley Count were essentially flat this year, according to Bradley...
• Achten Receives F.J. Lee Award
• Friday's Banner features stories about educators and the Bradley-Cleveland Publi...
• A special visitor made this year’s ninth annual Healthy Horizons event a big suc...
• The Bradley-Cleveland Public Education Foundation and educators from the Bradley...
• Fifteen Graduate from ELC
• Political Science Students Accepted to PhD Programs
• Thursday's Banner highlights articles about Larry Gatlin to speak at Cleveland S...
• Ray Evans will retire from his position as executive director of Southeast Tenne...
• Bradley County Planning commissioners approved a rezoning request Tuesday over t...
• The Cleveland Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is beginning to talk...
• Graduation to be Streamed Live
• Murch, Rinaudo, and McClung Receive CWC Award
• Furey Adds Nine Soccer Signees
• Tuesday's Banner features articles about the Bradley jobless mark dropping to 7....
• The honored guests at the Dearly Loved Banquet on Sunday were people who are una...
• Cleveland’s residential electrical rate (per kilowatt hour) is expected to incre...
• Rymer Winners Honored at Luncheon
• Monday's Banner highlights articles about all of Cleveland Utilities' divisions...
• Half of one of the city’s resources has been shut down for over two years, but a...
• Cleveland’s residential electrical rate (per kilowatt hour) is expected to incre...
• Sunday's Banner features stories about the Yarber home being dedicated, Recovery...
• Day of Service continues work There was a big turnout for Saturday’s Day of Ser...
• Rain threatened the dedication ceremony for the Yarber family’s new house Friday...
• Flames Advance to Winner's Bracket Final
• IN MEMORY OF Eva Catlett, Tommy Evans, Chase Glasgow, Tami Glasgow, Evelyn Johns...
• The black, debris-filled cloud which traveled through the Leadmine Valley, Dalto...
• Friday's Banner highlights articles about Tom Wheeler giving a post-storm update...
• Sarah Ballinger is regularly heard praising God in song during Sunday evening ch...
• David Ellis built a storm shelter 12 years ago, 13 years after the Ellises first...
• Bowdle to Deliver Commencement Address
• Flames Advance in SSAC Tournament
• Furey Signs McCallie Star For Flames
• Thursday's Banner highlights stories about the high bids forcing city schools to...
• BRADLEY COUNTY UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
• Wednesday's Banner features stories about the county schools seeking $1.7M in a...
• Tuesday's Banner features stories about the city council seeking re-vote on the...
• People helped Teena Garner at a time when she felt helpless after her family’s h...
• The Cleveland City Council will revisit the sales tax appeal when it meets again...
• Scholarship Winners Announced at Lee Day
• The Cleveland Banner for Monday, April 23, 2012, provides stories about the "Day...
• Musicians who perform as volunteers for the love of music and pride in community...
• The Bradley County “Day of Service” is on track and hundreds of volunteers are e...
• Students Present Research at Ollie J. Lee Symposium
• Sunday's Banner features stories about the city receiving its 14th budget presen...
• A week full of events will lead up to the first anniversary of the April 27, 201...
• The city of Cleveland was recently awarded the Distinguished Budget Presentation...
• 2012 Rymer Winners Selected
• Achten, Lady Flames Honored by TSHOF
• Friday's Banner features stories about Empowering Women making a difference, 40...
• Four Cleveland women whose empowering mindsets are making a difference in their...
• Approximately 40 Bradley County residents have prequalified for a weather radio...
• Free Tax Assistance Extended to May 31
• Thursday's Banner highlights articles about Johnny McDaniel, Bradley County dire...
• David Simonds, 26, had been sick for a few days in late January, but went to wor...
• Johnny McDaniel slideshow Bradley County Director of Schools Johnny McDaniel ma...
• 10th Annual Humanities Lecture to Host Author Smith
• Wednesday's Banner features stories about a Rwandan humanitarian sharing hope, t...
• Paul Rusesabagina enthralled a large crowd at Cleveland State Community College’...
• People filtered through the conference center in Bradley Square Mall Tuesday dur...
• Theatre Alum Wins Design Competition
• Students Present at Sims Colloquium
• Tuesday's Banner highlight articles about the county accepting the old Blue Spri...
• (Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of four articles submitted by Unit...
• The former site of Blue Springs Elementary School was officially accepted as Br...
• Tuesday's Baseball and Softball Schedule Changed
• Clean Sweep for Women's Golf
• Monday's Banner features stories about State Sen. Mike Bell also believing the S...
• An adorable Lincoln Bailey, the 8-month-old bundle of joy of Daniel and Cassie B...
• The new interchange at Exit 20 and State Highway 311 is fully funded by the Tenn...
• Faculty and Students to Give Tour of Historic Homes
• Sunday's Banner highlights stories about TDOT fully funding interchanges, an ale...
• Many events are being scheduled to remember the events which occurred almost a y...
• The new interchange at Exit 20 and State Highway 311 is fully funded by the Tenn...
• Opera Theatre Class to Perform
• U-Church to Host Gungor at Lee
• DUNCIL ORGANIC FARM CONTACT INFORMATION In an article in Thursday’s Banner about...
• Friday's Cleveland Banner features articles about Charleston officials being con...
• The city of Charleston is having problems with its roads. Worth Street has been...
• A 19-year-old student of Franklin Academy was killed Thursday evening when her c...
• Faculty, Students Present at St Louis Conference
• Fatal car crash claims young woman's life on Keith Street. Avoid the area around...
• Thursday's Banner highlights articles about Dennis Burtnett being named BHRC adm...
• There will soon be a gigantic parade along the downtown streets of Charleston. T...
• Dennis Burtnett slideshow The Bradley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center’s bo...
• End-of-the-Semester Events to Be Streamed Live
• Wednesday's Banner features stories about U.S. Secretary of Commerce, John Bryso...
• Only 20 months after unveiling an ambitious strategy to build a new $200 million...
• American manufacturing is making a comeback, one whose growing competitiveness a...
• Lee Day This Weekend
• String Theory to Close Concert Season with Renowned Line-up
• Chinese Virtuoso Players to Perform
• Russell Earns 400th Win in Lady Flames Sweep
• Tuesday's Banner highlights articles about the county deciding the future of the...
• The program providing assistance with utility bills, rent and other financial ne...
• The former site of Blue Springs Elementary School would become Bradley County pr...
• PR Students Host a Night of Fun for Encore Students
• Last Week for Free Tax Assistance
• Monday's Banner features articles about legislators being encouraged by the prog...
• Whirlpool Cleveland Division employees own a new house and they can’t wait for t...
• Two Bradley County legislators say they are encouraged at the direction of two b...
• Summer Tennis Clinic Coming in June
• Sunday's Banner highlights stories about Broad Street UMC donating 62,500 to LTR...
• IN REMEMBRANCE of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross and resurrection, St. Theres...
• Broad Street United Methodist Church presented the first of four checks Thursday...
• Wind Ensemble to Present Spring Concert
• Friday's Banner highlights articles about John Bryson, U.S. Secretary of the Com...
• Cleveland High School seniors and juniors, all those teenagers pondering next we...
• U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson will join Whirlpool Corporation Chairman...
• Marimba Madness This Wednesday
• Thursday's Banner contains information on the unemployment rate seeing a minimal...
• Accolades continue for Tunes 4 the Troops founder Kaylee Radzyminski who found...
• Her work at the Bradley County Health Department is “life and death” for Carolyn...
• Registration Deadline for Secret Church is Nearing
• Great Strides Surpasses Half-Million Mark Raised
• NAIA Highlights Lee, SPSU Series
• Wednesday's Banner features stories about the FEMA center to close Thursday, den...
• Dentistry is one of the major services the Bradley County Health Department prov...
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency will close its local doors for business...
• See How They Run to Close Theatre Season
• Three students are under investigation today and charges are pending after a sma...
• Tuesday's Banner highlights articles about Bradley County Oking PILOT for P&G Du...
• Tennessee’s 170th General Assembly paused recently during its busy schedule in N...
• A payment in lieu of taxes for The Gillette Company/P&G Duracell was approved Mo...
• Students Host Successful Book Signing
• Monday's Banner features stories about Bradley County saving Household Hazardous...
• A new partner commemorating “The City With Spirit” has pedaled into the Clevelan...
• It’s already Monday and those storage shed shelves lined with nasty, out-dated,...
• Sunday's Banner highlights articles about Cleveland getting its 20th Tree City U...
• Bradley County Republicans celebrated another Lincoln Day with the party’s annua...
• The city of Cleveland has been recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree...
• Lee Golfers Seeking High Finish
• Carbone to Speak at Autism Symposium 2012
• Friday's Banner features articles about a new school to be located at Spring Cre...
• Montessori Kinder quickly won approval earlier this week from the city’s Metropo...
• Building activity in the city of Cleveland is off to a good start in January and...
• Softball Drops Pair in Crossover Series
• Thursday's Banner focuses on stories about the FEMA Center to remain open, House...
• Three FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers in the 10 counties affected by the tornado...
• Procter & Gamble Duracell will invest $36 million over the next three years in i...
• As part of the Great American Clean-up, the Bradley County affiliate of Keep Ame...
• Community Camp Calendar
• Wednesday's Banner highlights stories about an architect filing a report on the...
• As growth comes to Bradley County, the impact residents are making on the world...
• Architect Doug Caywood, owner of Downtown Design Studio, presented a report on t...
• Tuesday's Banner features articles about the City Council appealing the latest s...
• Many of Bradley County’s elected officials visited Amazon’s new fulfillment cent...
• Cleveland City Council members voted Monday to appeal the latest court ruling in...
• Students, Faculty Recognized at Sigma Tau Delta Convention
• Sunday's Banner highlights articles about Debbie Melton and Richie Hughes to lea...
• The first thing one notices is how quiet it is in the parking lot of the Amazon....
• United Way of Bradley County Chairman of the Board Cameron Fisher announces toda...
• Colloquium on Latin American and Iberian Studies
• Friday's Banner highlights articles about the Bradley health program drawing nat...
• Bradley County Coordinated School Health is getting attention at the state level...
• Attempting to avoid a fourth consecutive year without giving employees what Gene...
• Faculty and Staff to Play Basketball for Great Strides
• Friday Softball Postponed
• Thursday's Banner features stories about county finance leaders eying 911 Center...
• There are many, many stories that could be told of people in distressed circumst...
• A proposed plan to keep Cleveland-Bradley County 911 from being labeled a “distr...
• Jazz Combos Concert on Thursday
• CMA Review Course to Be Offered this Fall
• German, Westbrooks are NAIA All-Americans
• Wednesday's Banner highlights stories about the Industrial Development Board app...
• Merciless storms may have battered the Cleveland area landscape and brought inno...
• Bradley/Cleveland Industrial Development Board members approved what is expected...
• School of Music to Present “Ning & Friends”
• Texas murder suspect in custody in Bradley Co. after THO trooper Gray Gibson sto...
• Davis' Homer Gives Brew 300th Win
• Tuesday's Banner highlights articles about the unemployment rising less than 1 p...
• Dr. Don Bartlette, considered by many as one of the world’s outstanding motivati...
• Part-time workers hired last fall by retailers preparing for the Christmas rush...
• Monday's Banner highlights articles about Whirlpool launching its plant, the Age...
• A diverse group of assembly line workers wrote a new chapter in Cleveland applia...
• Last week’s lengthy debate by the Tennessee House of Representatives that led to...
• Kleinmann Awarded Page Legacy Scholar Grant
• Comm Arts Department to Hold Book Signing with Local Author
• Sunday's Banner features articles about Memphis Democrats suing over Senate redi...
• AFTER THE STORM Saturday morning, a beautiful double rainbow appeared in the Spr...
• “Coming soon” to the local 911. Tennessee’s Next Generation 911 network is conne...
• Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and President Barack Obama have announced that the f...
• The Secret Church Coming in April
• Campbellsville University President to Speak at Lee
• Friday's Banner features stories about the recent spotters class drawing more th...
• ATTENTION - TODAY AT 5 P.M. IS THE LAST DAY TO SUBMIT ENTRIES FOR THE "CLEVELAND...
• Ham operators, business people, safety specialists and others were packed into a...
• The three largest expenditures in Cleveland’s FY2013 General Fund are public saf...
• Percussion Group to Present Spring Concert
• German, Rowe Honored by WBCA
• Georgetown Ends Lee's Hoop Season
• Thursday's Banner features articles about Occupy Nashville's costs currently at...
• The Cleveland Daily Banner is partnering with SkyRidge Medical Center and Mix 10...
• More than 40 people came away from Wednesday’s education roundtable discussion w...
• Eric Watson slideshow The cost of Occupy Nashville to the residents of Tennesse...
• Students Present Research at Emory Conference
• Sharp Winner of Pattison Scholarship Award
• Wednesday's Banner features articles about the city's appeal of the sales tax ru...
• The Cleveland Daily Banner is partnering with SkyRidge Medical Center and Mix 10...
• Charleston is in the process of filing for a $50,000 matching grant from the sta...
• Cleveland Police and the FBI continue to search for information regarding the lo...
• Jazz Ensemble to Perform
• Lee Partners with The Caring Place to Host Lecture and Donation Drive
• Tuesday's Banner is sending out a bulletin about a bank robbery on APD 40. Other...
• The Cleveland Daily Banner is partnering with SkyRidge Medical Center and Mix 10...
• Law enforcement investigators responded to the scene of an alleged robbery this...
• The first tank for Wacker Polysilicon North America arrived on-site this week, a...
• Cleveland City Council members got their first look Monday at the FY2013 General...
• Dirksen Speaks on Development in D.R. Congo
• Symphony Orchestra to Present Spring Concert
• Tellico Plains Runner Picks Lee
• Monday's Banner features articles about National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day...
• A longtime friendship has led a local middle schooler to take an active role in...
• More than a few brows furrow when their owners are asked to ponder the connectio...
• Matthews Qualifies To Run Marathon at NAIA Nationals
• Sunday's Banner features articles on the Goodwin's alpaca farm being one of the...
• Peter and Susan Goodwin knew late Friday morning the weather was threatening as...
• With all the recent tornadoes, changes have been made in getting public service,...
• School of Music to Welcome Synofzik as Artist-in-Residence
• The Cleveland Daily Banner is partnering with SkyRidge Medical Center and Mix 10...
• Friday's Banner highlights stories about reminding folks to move their clocks fo...
• BRENDA CRESS, sales associate at Coy’s Jewelers, is helping to remind Cleveland...
• Companion bills providing sales tax refund assistance to Tennessee families reco...
• The Cleveland Daily Banner is partnering with SkyRidge Medical Center and Mix 10...
• Thursday's Banner features articles about "Cutie" entries being sought, the coun...
• Parents, grandparents and legal guardians who believe they have one of creation’...
• Daniel Wagner and his wife, Geri, stood on the porch of their new house Wednesda...
• Cleveland Police Department investigators are working to determine the cause of...
• Squires Hall Series to Host Petar Jankovic Ensemble
• Wednesday's Banner highlights articles about Peak-Jones and Santorum being favor...
• CapitalMark Bank & Trust will return the building at 10 Church St. to its origin...
• Cleveland businesswoman Charlotte Peak-Jones outdistanced five opponents Tuesday...
• Saxophone Concert Next Tuesday
• Monday's Banner features stories about the Friday storm being rated a EF-2, VA H...
• An 18-month endeavor whose planning began long before climaxed today with the em...
• Friday’s destructive storm that swept through Bradley County has been confirmed...
• Students Participate in The Ultimate Recording Project
• Sunday's Banner features articles about the recent storms and the damage incurre...
• Bradley County residents have collectively spent thousands of dollars to provide...
• Empowering Women is quickly establishing a tradition of bringing exceptional rol...
• At least 3 homes destroyed..hundred or more damaged according to EMA Spence
• In Highway 64 area.
• Temps beginning to cool...that's good
• Another warning!..until 8:15 in southern Bradley
• EVERYONE: TEXT 888777 THEN IN THE BODY OF THE TEXT "CBCEMA"...INSTANT NOTIFICATI...
• Dalton Pike area reportedly hit...according to 911
• Pay attention...minutes away...same path as 2011
• T warning til 7:15
• NWS...path oncoming storm same as April 2011...
• Early damage photos posted on www.clevelandbanner.com
• ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS MOVING IN BETWEEN 5:30 UNTIL 8 OR SO...TWO RO...
• Widespread damage Bradley Co...south from Mountain Road to Old Charleston...Beel...
• Friday's Banner features articles about Whirlpool to dedicate its plant Monday,...
• Olin Chlor Alkali Products in Charleston went to the head of the class Thursday...
• Whirlpool Corporation will unwrap an eagerly anticipated $120 million package Mo...
• EMA...NO SCHOOLS CLOSING...kaylor
• Bradley County 911 TORNADO WATCH 56 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR THE FOLLOW...
• Free Tax Assistance Drawing to a Close
• Thursday's Banner features stories about "Miss Vicki" to retire after 33 years,...
• Daniel and Geri Wagner will accept the keys Friday to their new home on Bent Oak...
• Vicki Patterson’s job description has changed many times in her 33 years at Lake...
• Lee Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
• Flames Weekend Baseball Moved Back
• Wednesday's Banner highlights stories about the slow response to the biannual Co...
• Wednesday's Banner highlights stories about the slow response to the biannual Co...
• FORMER BRADLEY COUNTY COMMISSIONER and Cleveland resident Bill Creech was in Flo...
• A surprisingly limited response to the biannual Community Needs Assessment has p...
• Velasco to Present at Silicon Valley Panel
• THE PROGRESS EDITION of the Banner is out today in the paper's Tuesday edition....
• Tuesday's Banner highlights stories about Waterville scoring big, the city to se...
• “THE CITY WITH SPIRIT” slogan author Phyllis Anderson models a T-shirt bearing t...
• An investment in Bradley County that turned out to be the single-largest capital...
• String Theory at the Hunter to Feature Miró String Quartet
• Monday's Banner features articles about the mild winter putting a deep freeze on...
• Due to a scheduling conflict, Cleveland/Bradley County Emergency Management Agen...
• Warm, wet winters may help area residents’ comfort levels and Bradley County wat...
• Sunday's Banner features stories about the Ledford family pushing foro passage o...
• Danny and Kim Ledford have been on a mission to strengthen state laws after thei...
• Danny and Kim Ledford delivered a petition with more than 1,000 signatures from...
• Friday's Banner contains articles about Cleveland Utilities not anticipating a u...
• Talking about all that has happened to her in the past two years, Maria Hernande...
• Cleveland Utilities is considering a Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal that inclu...
• Thursday's Banner features articles about Severe Weather Awareness Week coincidi...
• Many prominent individuals have passed through Cleveland on their way to greatne...
• Wednesday evening storms that moved into Bradley County could be a precursor to...
• Linguist Ross to Lecture Tuesday
• Flames Adjust Weekend Series
• Bradley County 911 The latest weather update from NOAA: HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLO...
• Wednesday's Banner highlights articles about the $32 wheel tax heading for the A...
• TODD STARNES, the award-winning journalist and best-selling author, visited Book...
• Bradley County residents will have the opportunity in August to decide if a whee...
• Bradley County 911 Wind Advisory has been issued: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORR...
• Tuesday's Banner features articles about Needs Assessment getting a strong commu...
• Several local government and housing officials gathered recently on the porch of...
• A biannual Community Needs Assessment earmarked for February intended to get inp...
• Monday's Banner highlights articles about the local veterans home dropping on t...
• Despite a lot of tears and regrets, longtime school crossing guard Claudine Ens...
• The long-sought Southeast Tennessee Veterans Home in Bradley County has dropped...
• Phil Wickham Next U-Church Guest
• Sunday's Banner highlights articles about the EMA mitigation plan update being d...
• About 200 Boy Scouts descended on Johnston Woods to test and hone their outdoor...
• Polk County officials have charged a man with the murder of another Polk residen...
• For several weeks now, officials with county and city government have been worki...
• Ysaÿe Quartet to Conclude PCS
• Friday's Banner features articles about divorce being discussed at Family Law Fo...
• Family law was the topic of discussion at Thursday evening’s forum at the Clevel...
• Greg Kaylor
• Opera to Perform "The Marriage of Figaro"
• Thursday's Banner highlights stories about one person dying in a motorcycle acci...
• MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE gave Jason DeBerry, who has hydrocephal...
• The city of Cleveland is asking Bradley County Chancery Court for authorization...
• A bill titled the “Equal Access to Public Property Act of 2012” was expected to...
• Guest to Speak on Film Theory and Religious Experience
• Pianist Sioles to Perform
• spring place road shutdown due to motorcycle car crash
• Wednesday's Banner contains articles about Mayor Tom Rowland wanting discussions...
• A bridge connecting a parking area for construction workers plus deliveries to t...
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland exercised his veto power Monday to kill a 4-3 vote c...
• Pfahl To Direct Community Relations
• Tuesday's Banner highlights articles about the city of Cleveland slogan being un...
• Claudine Ensley is congratulated for 45 years of service as a crossing guard by...
• The Bradley County Commission will vote on the wheel tax referendum resolution a...
• The Cleveland City Council settled on a branding slogan Monday after a lengthy p...
• Xinyu Wang Takes First at Competition
• Monday's Banner features articles about the city receiving a donation of trees f...
• The streets of Cleveland will soon be lined with what has been called “the great...
• Residents of Cleveland and Bradley County are just a few days away from being ab...
• Sunday's Banner contains stories about early voting getting underway Wednesday,...
• Newborn chicks and emerging butterflies are bringing science to life for student...
• Residents of Cleveland and Bradley County are just a few days away from being ab...
• Dorm Wars Competes for Charity
• Friday's Banner highlights articles about Larry Wright being killed in an apartm...
• Vision Hospitality Group has begun construction of a 97-room Hampton Inn on the...
• Cleveland Fire Department investigator Ben Atchley identified the man who died i...
• Songer Recital on Thursday
• Friday's Lee Baseball Moved to 12:30 p.m.
• Lee Softball Opens with Tennessee Temple, Saturday
• Thursday's Banner highlights stories about the county to review more wheel tax o...
• CHATTANOOGA — A new era in technical training officially began Wednesday morning...
• Their Facebook numbers are growing and so are cleanup efforts in Bradley County.
• The Bradley County Commission will review recommended changes to the proposed wh...
• Theatre Opens with "Eleemosynary"
• Lee Helped Get Crawford His Shot
• Traffic northbound I75 blocked due to crash.
• Wednesday's Banner features articles about the new city school heading for a fou...
• Maria Abeyta is not only the 2012 Youth of the Year at the Cleveland Boys & Girl...
• Cleveland firefighters spent the night at Procter and Gamble’s Duracell site on...
• Cleveland Board of Education members earlier this week agreed a recent joint lun...
• Journalism Students Spend Semester in D.C.
• Tuesday's Cleveland Banner features local stories about WACKER increasing its in...
• Cleveland’s Waterville Golf Course will soon open its new nine holes, much to th...
• Wacker Polysilicon North America will again expand its north Bradley County proj...
• Students Partner with United Way to Fight Childhood Obesity
• The Banner's Monday edition highlights stories about CSCC soon launching Bradley...
• Christmas is still 11 months away, but Yuletide vocalists might still borrow the...
• A new program that will allow area students to attend Cleveland State Community...
• Convocation Begins Sunday
• Sunday's Banner features stories about the Bradley County jobless rate is the lo...
• Jim Finley, a retired Cleveland and Bradley County educator, has finally reached...
• Both local governments are standing behind resolutions authorizing their shares...
• Unity Dance Troupe to Perform "Rescued"
• 2012 Honor Choir Concert
• Baseball Moved to 11:30 a.m.
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about a busy economic development year being...
• Shortly after the groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter Thursday, a local...
• Alma Dotson and Michell Goldston were the only private citizens among the fewer...
• Alumna Michels Promoted to Life Care PR Director
• Thursday's Banner features stories about the FBI investigating Judge Randolph, t...
• Work is nearing completion at the Bradley County Courthouse as the columns struc...
• The FBI has confirmed an investigation of Bradley County General Sessions Judge...
• Wednesday’s Banner spotlights stories about funding being set for the vets home...
• Today was the target date for a new home construction to begin but builders had...
• The Southeast Tennessee Veterans Home is closer to reality than ever after Gov....
• School of Music to Present Guitar and Violin Recitals
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam budgeting $...
• Local government continued the process of determining how to deal with anticipat...
• Cleveland City Council members, and the Cleveland Board of Education, continue t...
• String Theory to Present Kapilow, Hristova and Chien
• Monday’s Banner features stories about Cleveland Utilities’ sales volumes slumpi...
• Connecting two existing stretches of trail via the long-anticipated Phase 5 proj...
• Halfway through the 2012 fiscal year, Cleveland Utilities’ sales volume has drop...
• Manuel Barrueco to Perform at Lee
• Wangaard Named Director at Hibbett Sports
• Sunday's Banner highlights stories about address disparities that can cause 911...
• The annual Old Timers Hall of Fame Banquet will be honoring several outstanding...
• It was brisk and windy Saturday morning as the volunteer group Cleveland Cleanup...
• Phonetic road names, odd and even house numbers on the same side of the road, ad...
• Friday’s Banner features stories about the state of Tennessee wanting to build a...
• If scripted as a Clint Eastwood movie, Thursday’s monthly session of the Clevela...
• Mitchell Lyle, former Cleveland Police commissioner, vice mayor and a member of...
• Tennessee Department of Health officers attended Thursday’s Bradley County Regio...
• Wind Ensemble to Perform
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about Mayor Tom Rowland’s “State of the Cit...
• Members of the board of directors for Life Bridges signed paperwork Wednesday to...
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland presented his 18th consecutive State of the City add...
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about Crown Motors buying Kile Dodge, Robert...
• The Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce handed out awards Tuesday evening duri...
• Personally and professionally, William “Bill” Creech teaches how to live graciou...
• Cleveland’s Chrysler-Dodge dealership, owned by Bill Kile, has been sold to Crow...
• Higher Education Grant to Benefit Community
• Illusionist Harris III to Perform Sunday in U-Church
• Monday’s Banner features stories about a new program called Transitions to help...
• A new international hunger relief organization co-founded by a former Bradley Co...
• Brenda Hughes, executive director of the Bradley Initiative for Church and Commu...
• Hammon Chosen for NATS and NOA Master-Class
• Sunday's Banner features articles about the Cleveland Ryan's closing its doors,...
• Wacker Polysilicon has begun vertical construction on its site in Charleston. Th...
• Cleveland and Bradley County have lost one of the community’s favorite family re...
• Tornado watch until noon today.
• PCS Presents Schliessmann This Thursday
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about four District 4 candidates, the Bradley...
• The memorial set to be built at the Cherokee Removal Memorial Park in Meigs Coun...
• Four of the six candidates for the available 4th District Bradley County Commiss...
• Bradley County Mayor D. Gary Davis told his fellow Kiwanis Club members Thursday...
• A Bradley County School bus crash on North Lee Highway has traffic shut down nor...
• Hunter to Serve as Great Strides’ Honorary Chair
• The Banner’s Thursday paper features stories about the new mapping system target...
• It’s Girl Scouts cookie time in Tennessee, and the community-popular event will...
• “Welcome to Lee United Methodist Church,” Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland said Wedne...
• Childers Joins Lee Women Runners
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about the local impact of redistricting gett...
• The Cleveland Daily Banner’s “lost and found” pet notices have reunited people w...
• Complicated redistricting bills passed by the Tennessee House of Representatives...
• Musician Sanchez to Perform in Chapel Tomorrow
• Theatre to Debut New Spring Plays
• Hockaday Joins Lee Softball for 2013
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about transportation projects getting local...
• CLEVELAND’S BESS PIRKLE recently celebrated her 105th birthday with, from left,...
• Bradley County Mayor D. Gary Davis said recently that both local governments hav...
• Students Depart for Semester in Cambridge
• Monday’s Banner features articles on Sunday’s MLK celebration, Service Learning...
• About 200 people gathered Sunday afternoon in the Lee University Chapel to give...
• DR. BILL JOHNSON presented the latest update on the water project that Mark Rodg...
• Sunday's Banner gives readers stories about state redistricting plans being pass...
• The Tennessee Sandhill Crane Festival continues this morning at 9 at Birchwood E...
• A Memphis Democrat pitched the only argument Friday in Senate floor debate again...
• 2012 Writer's Festival This Week
• Coming This Spring to U-Church
• nice pics. who took those?
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about Bradley’s redistricting revision being...
• THE TRAVELING TROPHY presented to the winner of the City/County Wrestling Champi...
• The Tennessee House of Representatives took about an hour to pass the congressio...
• String Theory to Present January Concert
• Polk County Schools will be on a two-hour delay Friday due to impending snowy pr...
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about the City Council urging a campaign to s...
• A local resident turned a way to save money into a way to make money after winni...
• The Cleveland City Council is encouraging residents to mount letter-writing and...
• Evangelistic Singers to Honor MLK Day with Concert
• School of Music to Feature Vocalist Brendel
• Lee Celebrates King in the Classroom
• From the National Weather Service: SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SE...
• Wednesday's Banner features stories about the Bradley County split expected to r...
• GOV. BILL HASLAM, center, talks about his legislative agenda on the opening day...
• The chances of Bradley County remaining whole in the state Senate and congressio...
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories on the City Council delaying a decision on pic...
• Local train historian and artist Tom Rock, left, presents a lithograph of a pain...
• The Cleveland City Council found Monday afternoon that choosing a simple slogan...
• Children’s Choir Auditions Coming Soon
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories about area economic development remaining on...
• The non-profit Mosaic organization now has an affordable new home thanks to an o...
• With Wacker Polysilicon North America breaking ground, the new Whirlpool plant n...
• Sunday's Banner features stories about the redraw splitting Bradley between the...
• Naomi Tutu, the third child of South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize wi...
• The congressional redistricting plan released Friday shows Bradley County split...
• Friday’s Banner contains stories about the city of Charleston discussing annexat...
• Area teachers sat down with state Rep. Kevin Brooks and state Sen. Mike Bell Thu...
• The Charleston City Commission is planning some immediate annexation, and discus...
• Lady Flames Face Big Challenges
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about State Sen. Mike Bell is reviewing optio...
• In a dramatic turnaround from having one automobile nameplate taken away from Cl...
• State Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, said this morning he is still looking at opti...
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories about the Bradley County Commission voting...
• THE FIRST BABY TO ARRIVE in 2012 was Brayden Conner Payne, a 20 1/2-inch, 7-poun...
• General Motors representatives visited Cleveland today for the groundbreaking of...
• For humans, it would be called dust to dust; in the case of evergreens, it’s kno...
• Law enforcement investigators have charged aggravated arson and homicide suspect...
• Construction was generally steady throughout the first 11 months of 2011 with th...
• Lee Partners with IRS to Provide Free Tax Prep
• Lee Returns to face No. 9 Mountain State
• Monday’s Banner contains stories about the homicide, hotel arson suspect arreste...
• An answer to a fire call by the Cleveland Fire Department ended up as an apparen...
• An unexpected rise in construction employment and a seasonal increase in tempora...
• Person of interest is Russell Brown, 35, 6'2" black male...175 POUNDS ...AGGRAVA...
• Lady Flames Open New Year Against Trevecca
• UPDATE: tag number: A5787Y possibly north Cleveland area, Charleston
• Cleveland police investigators on the scene of a possible homicide at Days Inn....
• Sunday's New Year's Banner features stories on the deadly storms voted the top l...
• In a year dominated by inclement weather and economic development, it comes as l...
• The executive committee of the Bradley County Republican Party voted unanimousl...
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about Cleveland losing the Sears store at Bra...
• REMINDER: The blood drive honoring veterans is today at the Life Care’s Campbell...
• The Sears store in Bradley Square Mall is among the stores identified for closur...
• Mixed reactions were felt by folks when talking about the coming of the year 2012.
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about reading still a concern in some local s...
• According to a study recently released by the Education Consumers Foundation, th...
• The New Year’s weekend gets under way Friday at 6 p.m. Law enforcement will be o...
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about Matt Ryerson to lead the United Way, t...
• Ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the new $120 million Whirlpool Cleveland Division...
• Matt Ryerson, vice president of Community Investment Strategies for United Way o...
• The Banner features the following stories in Tuesday’s paper: area rainfall ecli...
• Cleveland Bradley County Public Library director Andy Hunt agrees that time has...
• In spite of a late-summer drought that baked the Cleveland and Bradley County la...
• Interstate 75 northbound in McMinn County - Crash at MILE MARKER 42 reported at...
• In Monday’s Banner readers will find stories about Christmas in East Cleveland,...
• “AND SO MY LITTLE FRIEND, are your parents taking their Christmas tree to ‘Chipp...
• Parents who needed a little help bringing the Yuletide spirit to their children’...
• Generous skies that have deluged the Cleveland and Bradley County community with...
• Encore Program Offers New Courses for Spring
• Today, Christmas 2011, the Banner features stories about Horace Coffey and the B...
• John and Betty Scott will be celebrating two momentous occasions today — Christm...
• It won’t be finished for Christmas but the Yarber families of the Leadmine Vall...
• The William Hall Rodgers Basket Fund has passed under the umbrella of several s...
• NOTICE: Some area folks will get the Sunday Daily Banner delivered on Saturday i...
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about a “Secret Santa” at the Kmart, traffic...
• EARLIER THIS WEEK, Secret Santa placed 10 $100 bills in a Salvation Army Red Ket...
• EARLIER THIS WEEK, Secret Santa placed 10 $100 bills in a Salvation Army Red Ket...
• Salvation Army’s Red Kettles have had “Secret Santas” drop cash donations and ma...
• BRADLEY COUNTY IS UNDER A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 P.M.
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about Pete Vanderpool and his “Project Santa...
• Just as American business changed years ago to embrace a burgeoning global econo...
• It takes Santa Claus, according to legend, one night to delivery toys and gifts...
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about FEMA reimbursements to CU possibly hit...
• DENNIS DANIEL, second from right, retiring manager of the Cleveland Utilities El...
• An electric changing of the guard sparked a portion of Tuesday’s final gathering...
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about the county looking to oppose the senat...
• A small cadre of volunteers over the weekend placed crosses on graves in the sma...
• State Sen. Mike Bell said Monday he vigorously disagrees with the conclusion sta...
• The Bradley County Commission plans to go on record in opposition to dividing Br...
• String Theory at the Hunter Spring Preview
• Monday’s paper features articles about Naomi Tutu to deliver the MLK keynote add...
• Fifth-grade students from Charleston Elementary were fascinated by the history a...
• Nontombi Naomi Tutu, the daughter of retired South African archbishop and human...
• Sunday's Banner highlight stories about a divided Bradley losing its "voice," a...
• Innovation and energy were the focus at the official opening of the newest in gr...
• A challenge has been made with only a few days left until Christmas 2011. Secret...
• Splitting Bradley County into two separate state senatorial districts would dilu...
• Check out the Banner's "Hot Deals" online.
• Friday’s Banner features stories about a bankruptcy filing stopping the auction...
• Steps were taken early today to halt the sale of Cleveland Speedway. A foreclosu...
• For some time, Tim Garrett said he would return to his destroyed property severa...
• One redistricting scenario apparently under consideration by Republicans would s...
• Check out the Hot Deal on today's Cleveland Banner website.
• Students Win Southern Adventist Competition
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about a longtime United Way leader to retir...
• Investigators with Cleveland Fire Department and the Tennessee Bomb and Arson di...
• While other staff and volunteers within the agency have changed over the past 36...
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about TDOT resolving a woman’s flooding iss...
• The warmth and holiday spirit inside Life Care Centers of America was in sharp c...
• The Tennessee Department of Transportation is the answer to one Spring Place Roa...
• In Tuesday’s paper, the Banner highlights stories on an investigation into the c...
• A popular Samaritan’s Purse initiative that has captured the hearts and minds of...
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland and several individual City Council members expresse...
• Monday’s Banner contains stories about the Three Kings Feast feeding, warming an...
• Take a brief break, Santa, this year Aspire Orthodontics is teaming up with Clev...
• Families began lining up outside the gymnasium at Saint Therese of Lisieux Catho...
• Sunday's Banner highlights stories about Wreaths Across America honoring decease...
• About 200 volunteers laid fresh wreaths on the graves of deceased members of the...
• —Last in a three-part series— “I’ll be home for Christmas ... if only in my dre...
• City and county officials must wait until after the first of the year to hear Ch...
• Judge McClarty to Speak at Lee Commencement
• Check out today's Hot Deals from the Cleveland Banner.
• Friday’s Banner features stories about the Airport Authority seeking donors, ele...
• The Cleveland Municipal Airport Authority presented designs of the new airport t...
• Tennessee bomb and arson officials will be joining Cleveland Fire Department inv...
• Lessons & Carols Service
• Lady Flames Face No. 2 Union
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about an anthrax hoax clearing the Courthou...
• Heavy smoke drifted over the city today as Cleveland Fire Department personnel f...
• Just before 1 p.m. Wednesday, a clerk in the Circuit Court Clerk’s office opened...
• Full details coming on big fire at the old Cleveland Chair Co. today...
• Buckners Present Scholarships
• Modern Art Quilt Exhibit
• Wednesday’s Banner includes stories about the U.S. Attorney speaking to the Noon...
• Students from Bradley Central and Walker Valley attended “ACT Bootcamp” recently...
• The purpose and daily operations of the local U.S. Attorney’s Office was the top...
• Songwriter's Showcase This Friday
• Tuesday’s Banner contains stories about the wheel tax resolution being OK’d and...
• CHATTANOOGA — The German ambassador to the United States said Monday afternoon a...
• The Bradley County Commission’s Education Committee moved one step closer Monday...
• Voices of Lee to Present Sounds of Christmas Concert
• Lee Athletes Garner Academic Honors
• Achten is NAIA Player of Year
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories about area unemployment taking a plunge for...
• Forty-two years after helping to shape education history as one of Allen Element...
• Unemployment in Bradley County took a long-sought nosedive in October to 8.4 per...
• We Got Four, but There Could Be More
• Sunday's Banner features stories about the Lady Flames making NAIA history, the...
• Four-year-old Luke Goins was named the official conductor of the Bank of Clevela...
• Cleveland Police Chief Wes Snyder said Friday morning if he had had any informat...
• Cleveland Police Chief Wes Snyder said Friday morning that if there had been any...
• String Theory at the Hunter Thursday
• Rams Drop Flames at SSAC Crossover
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories on Mayor Davis and the audit findings being r...
• A pair of special guests have been added to the lineup of Saturday’s downtown Ma...
• The Tennessee Comptroller’s office has released the official audit for Bradley C...
• Check out the latest Hot Deal on the Cleveland Banner website!
• Thomas Featured with CSO
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about the wheel tax resolution draft being...
• After nearly 5 inches of rain fell on the Cleveland and Bradley County community...
• A resolution to take the issue of a wheel tax directly to local voters will be d...
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about Dr. Konrad Bachhuber to lead WACKER, t...
• J&S Restaurants Inc., the Hardee’s franchisee in Cleveland, has stepped up to as...
• Dr. Konrad Bachhuber has been appointed vice president of Wacker Polysilicon NAF...
• Tuesday's Banner features stories about almost 5 inches of rain deluging area, W...
• Tuesday's Banner features stories about almost 5 inches of rain deluging area, W...
• Almost 5 inches of rain fell on the Cleveland and Bradley County region Monday,...
• Whirlpool Corporation has asked local governments to quickly find a way to fund...
• Volleyball Passes First Test in Pool Play
• Jazz Ensemble to Perform Thursday
• Achten Garners Top College Division Honor
• THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR......
• Per Bradley County EMA, schools are not being dismissed early today.
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories about today’s heavy rains, flooding and possi...
• Santa Claus never had it so good. Nor did his loyal supporters, as well as Cleve...
• Local weather forecasters have called for snow flurries this week, but a more pr...
• Please be safe in your travels today. Ponding and localized flooding can be expe...
• Sunday's Banner features stories about Neighborhood Watch, storm survivors to oc...
• Much of the damage to the community from the April 27 tornadoes occurred in the...
• Just like after the storms earlier this year, neighbors need to continue to wat...
• Friday’s Banner contains stories about what it was like for shoppers on Black Fr...
• Black Friday shoppers began staking their places in line at about 4:30 p.m. Than...
• Weather professionals with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration h...
• Happy Thanksgiving Day from the folks at the Cleveland Banner. In addition to la...
• Just as the Indians trooped to the Thanksgiving feast of the Pilgrims in Plymout...
• Dennis Daniel loved the man who gave him life and who always supported him throu...
• School of Music to Present “A Classic Christmas”
• Wednesday’s Banner covers stories on the Chief Justice and how the court system...
• The students in Erin Cole’s kindergarten class at Mayfield Elementary School are...
• “To many people, including some of us that are in it, the court system is often...
• Global Gift Shop Open for Business
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about rainfall going to be above normal in a...
• The Cleveland City Schools system has compiled a phenomenal record of winning ar...
• To quote a time-tested adage, “when it rains, it pours,” and that’s what has bee...
• Lee's Next Dining Upgrade Starts Thursday
• Monday’s Banner features stories about Cleveland Utilities hitting a seasonal sl...
• OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD is in the final countdown. Deadline for receiving the...
• A long string of monthly financial gains founded on increased sales volume in al...
• Sunday's Banner highlights stories about the city being asked to reconsider reso...
• This is the third year Greg Vital has had some very special people on his George...
• The Bradley County Finance Committee wants the Cleveland City Council to reconsi...
• Flames Hand AUM, 61-49 Defeat
• Friday’s Banner features stories about Cleveland Utitilies getting ready to powe...
• The Tennessee commissioner of Tourist Development said Thursday the Cleveland ar...
• Cleveland Utilities crews project the long-anticipated powering up within a mont...
• Lady Flames Begin National Title Drive
• Basketball Opens SSAC Play
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about the Wheel Tax being an option to fund s...
• Pledge totals to the United Way of Bradley County 2011 campaign jumped significa...
• A wheel tax may be the answer to funding needed capital projects for Bradley Cou...
• Howell Joins Lady Flames Softball
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories about the IDB approving the new extension...
• SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BRADLEY & SURROUNDING... UNTIL 1230 PM EST/ STR...
• AmVets Post 13 placed 172 American flags on graves in the veterans section of Fo...
• Bradley/Cleveland Industrial Development Board members approved a six-month exte...
• Tornado Watch: Bradley County and the surrounding area is now a watch until 7 p....
• Worship Leader Empowerment Weekend
• In Tuesday’s Banner, stories include one on the Cleveland City Council authorizi...
• The Cleveland City Council on Monday accepted a building from attorney James Web...
• The parade of concerned residents passing by the Cleveland City Council has not...
• ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED FOR FORMER SHERIFF CHASTAIN Arrangements are being made b...
• Lockerman Named Honorary Alumnus
• Monday’s Banner features stories about the passing of popular retired Cleveland...
• Hundreds of people set aside 90 minutes of their lives Friday morning on the Bra...
• The Cleveland and Charleston area continues to become more and more distinctive...
• Darlia Conn Named Distinguished Alumna of the Year
• Lee begins quest for fourth-straight title against Reinhardt
• Honor Band 2011
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about George Allen as Veteran of the Year, th...
• The possibility that Cleveland City Council will accept the offered gift of the...
• Pearl Harbor survivor George Allen was recognized as the 2011 Raymond H. Miller...
• Evening of Worship this Sunday
• Jackson Crowned Homecoming Queen
• Smith, Zelenovic Headline SSAC Volleyball Awards
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about Forrest Preston, chief manager of Cleve...
• The gift of the First Tennessee Bank building to the city of Cleveland was inten...
• Many people were recognized Wednesday as catalysts for growth of the Cleveland/B...
• Daffe to Present Lecture on Emerging Churches
• School of Music to Present Opera Theatre Performances
• Homecoming Music Festival
• Presidential Concert Series Presents Vizzutti
• Friday’s Banner features stories about the area’s growth being watched by the en...
• A sign next to the front door of the new house on Eggleston Drive read, “Welcome...
• A surge in economic development in Cleveland and Bradley County is capturing the...
• Homecoming 5K Continues Fun Run Tradition
• 2011 Homecoming Golf Classic
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about Gov. Bill Haslam’s visit, Bradley nea...
• GOV. BILL HASLAM today began a visit to Cleveland by dropping in on the new-plan...
• A new day dawned across Bradley County on April 28, but nine lives had been lost...
• An unidentified suspect is being sought today in connection with the robbery of...
• Jasso Presents at World Business Conference
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories about the dedication ceremonies to be held...
• Local law enforcement saturated the area around Athens Federal Community Bank ju...
• As Whirlpool Corporation moves toward vacating downtown for its new plant on Ben...
• Basketball Opener with Milligan Cancelled
• Lee Theatre to Perform Comedy Tartuffe
• Monday’s Banner contains stories about Cleveland Utilities extends the AMR insta...
• Aspire Orthodontics is combining a night of treats with a season of giving throu...
• Cleveland Utilities will launch the second phase of its Automated Meter Reading...
• Homecoming 2011 Preview
• Harnsberger Recognized for Composition
• Friday’s Banner features stories about Gov. Bill Haslam visiting Cleveland, the...
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland has announced that attorney James Webb has offered t...
• Gov. Bill Haslam will visit Cleveland next week to commemorate the six-month ann...
• Symphony Orchestra to Perform Thursday
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about State Rep. Eric Watson being named the...
• Bradley County has been awarded the Governor’s Three-Star Award with a level thr...
• As State Rep. Kevin Brooks, R-Cleveland representing the 24th Legislative Distri...
• Rising Star Solo Competition Winners
• Hudsons Sign Baylor Volleyball Ace
• Women's Soccer Cancelled
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights articles about State Rep. Kevin Brooks being named...
• Just when Cleveland bird watchers thought it was safe to go back into their yard...
• SkyRidge Medical Center has received Chest Pain Center accreditation from the So...
• Detectives are on the scene at Westwood Baptist Church where a man was found han...
• Tyson to Perform With Percussion Ensemble
• Kappa Delta Pi Honors Ten Local Educators
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories about the Blue Springs site will be remaining...
• In 1999, officials at Southern Heritage Bank decided to create an event that wou...
• The Cleveland Board of Education tentatively approved a short list of facilities...
• Lee, Shorter in SSAC Volleyball Headliner
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories about the GRAAB Coalition gearing up its anti...
• Heartfelt sharing and endearing words by Civil Rights leaders from the past and...
• This is a big week for the Going Respectfully Against Addictive Behaviors (GRAAB...
• Chattanooga Symphony, Next Presidential Concert Series Guest
• Conway Named Tucker Scholar
• Missions Week to Benefit Haiti
• Marine Corps Sgt. Justin Earls will return from Afghanistan to a welcome home pa...
• Friday’s Banner features stories about Tennessee Commissioner of Public Safety a...
• Tri-Con Construction is awaiting approval from the state before it begins the fi...
• Tennessee Commissioner of Public Safety and Homeland Security Bill Gibbons outli...
• Riggins Elected President of TCGS
• School of Music to Feature Composer Elkins
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about a Cleveland police officer appealing he...
• When President Barack Obama dedicates the stoic-faced Martin Luther King Jr. Nat...
• A Cleveland police officer who was earlier dismissed appeared at an appeal heari...
• Gowin, Holder Win Education Graduate Awards
• Roebuck to Present Azusa Lecture
• Today’s Banner features stories about the Board of Education chosing the 5th Dis...
• Tuesday was open mike night in the Museum Center at Five Points as a long line o...
• The new Blue Springs Elementary School was purposely located in the 5th District...
• JUST IN-The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help solving...
• String Ensemble to Present Autumn Pops Concert
• ATTENTION—The Recycling Center at the Bradley County Landfill accepts mixed pape...
• Tuesday’s Banner contains stories about the district for the new Blue Springs sc...
• For Betty and Jerry Morris, recovery after the April 27 tornadoes meant more tha...
• Whether the future site of the new Blue Springs Elementary will remain in the 5t...
• Monday’s Banner features stories about the Whirlpool Cleveland Division earning...
• The Bradley County Democratic Party enjoyed political conversation and laughs ov...
• Commitments to full recycling in its packaging and trash disposal process have e...
• Schrock Gains Literary Opportunities
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories on the Veteran of the Year nominations due, a...
• Recurring stormwater issues have one Bradley County resident wondering who will...
• Deputy Dustin Patrick has been terminated by the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office...
• School of Music Hosts String Invitational
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about time conflicts prompting State Rep. Eri...
• United Way of Bradley County volunteers announced some good news and some bad ne...
• State Rep. Eric Watson said Wednesday evening he has done nothing to compromise...
• Wednesday’s Banner contains stories about State Rep. Eric Watson leaving the Bra...
• On Saturday mornings Park View Elementary School Principal Deb Bailey will somet...
• State Rep. Eric Watson, R-Cleveland representing the 22nd Legislative District a...
• Rome Professor Begins Lecture Wednesday
• McCampbell to Deliver Lecture on Arts and Faith
• 24th Annual Halloween Block Party
• Tuesday’s Banner focuses on stories about the county adopting a new debt managem...
• On a clear day, it is said that seven states are visible from Lookout Mountain n...
• Days prior to the severe storms of late April, Bradley County Election Commissio...
• Squires Recital Series Features Saxophonist Osland
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories about the area’s unemployment rate unchanged...
• One parent said the new playground equipment at Waterville Community Elementary...
• Cleveland’s quest for a branding nickname or slogan won’t be easy in the face of...
• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Open String Theory
• Dr. Ravi Zacharias to Speak at U-Church
• Image Step Team to Perform
• Today’s Banner features stories about the fatal shooting on Baker Bridge Road, N...
• Three people are dead and a fourth was airlifted to Chattanooga’s Erlanger Medic...
• Autumn lovers planning to attend the 44th annual Nillie Bipper Creative Arts Fes...
• Fall Convocation Begins Sunday
• Ray Receives Crosby Scholarship
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about the slogan ideas exceeding 2,000 entrie...
• The city of Cleveland and a few downtown officials and business people recognize...
• The Cleveland Board of Education met with the Bradley County Commission’s Educat...
• Local High Schools Participate in Quiz Bowl
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories about the city saying “no” to a developer’...
• As children in Sunday school, we sang these lines of a chorus: “And the rains ca...
• At Large City Councilman Richard Banks this week wrote an impromptu motion to wi...
• Bennett and Harrell Receive Payne Scholarship
• Brown Wins Poetry Contest
• Alumni Baseball Planned for Nov. 4
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about Cleveland OKing a $6 million loan, scu...
• Peter “Wolf” Toth, creator of Cleveland’s “Cherokee Chieftain,” is visiting the...
• The Cleveland City Council authorized a $6 million variable-rate interest loan t...
• Monday’s Banner features stories about a person being killed in an early morning...
• The Cleveland Police Department is investigating an early morning traffic fatali...
• There might be people who start collecting license plates on purpose, but most c...
• Friday’s Banner features stories about the Exit 20 modifications being discussed...
• The transitional La Nina snarled traffic, caused flash flooding and precipitated...
• The interchange on APD 40 between Interstate 75 and South Lee Highway was the fo...
• Women's Soccer Open SSAC Play
• Bradley and.surrounding counties under strong storm advisory until 4:45 p.m.
• On scene of shooting in Benton pike area. Youth reportedly shot in the shoulder,...
• JUST IN — A 9-1-1 call to the Bradley County communications center Wednesday mor...
• Today’s Banner includes stories about the Cleveland slogan contest current entry...
• Cleveland is home to one of the world’s outstanding Urban Search and Rescue part...
• Area thinking caps are smoking more than Cleveland Utilities’ ongoing sewer reha...
• Wind Ensemble to Perform
• ShoWagon Children’s Theatre Coming to Lee
• Volleyball Wins at Brenau, 3-0
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about the IDB moving forward with industrial...
• The Tennessee Department of Transportation will conduct a National Environmental...
• With the final piece of the funding puzzle falling into place, members of the Cl...
• BREAKING NEWS — Marcus J. Johnson was sentenced today to 12 years in prison on c...
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about the county OKing the industrial park p...
• U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann began the week in front of an American History class...
• Where is your child being taught? Is it in a nice, comfortable classroom, or in...
• JUST IN — Two men were arrested Monday trying to sell stolen playground equipmen...
• JUST INTO THE BANNER — The driver of a 2007 Honda Accord was injured in a collis...
• Monday’s Banner features stories about the new time-of-use rates being a reason...
• Excitement was in the air as Bradley Central High School celebrated the open hou...
• By converting 30,000 existing electric units to Automated Meter Reading technolo...
• School of Music Faculty to Perform
• BREAKING NEWS — Bradley County Sheriff’s investigators took three members of a f...
• Friday’s Banner features stories about the new Veterans Home ground breaking in...
• Foothills Country Fair crowned the 2011 pageant winners Thursday evening at Tri-...
• Playing the guitar and singing has been a way of life for James Rogers since he...
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about the Foothills Country Fair kicking of...
• Garden Plaza paid tribute to its military veterans and widows on a patriotic Wed...
• A convoy of tractors left from Bradley Central High School Wednesday afternoon,...
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories on arson being suspected at the recent fir...
• The girls have found an answer to the boys’ physical activity called “Fight Club...
• A costly Tuesday morning blaze that sent Cleveland firefighters rushing to the C...
• Lee to Host Business Accreditation Conference
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories about the county hearing concerns about the in...
• Cleveland Fire Department responded to the Catnapper plant off Industrial Drive...
• Concerns about how the proposed Spring Branch Industrial Park will affect the co...
• In today’s Banner, read about VEC getting the AMR meter benefits it sought, more...
• More than 1,000 Cleveland and Bradley County area residents gathered Sunday in L...
• Volunteer Energy Cooperative successfully entered the world of Automated Meter R...
• "Wit" by Edson to Open 2011-12 Theatre Season
• The Banner has personal and local reflections of the 10 year remembrances of 9/1...
• Family Force 5 to Kick off Sunday U-Church
• Cleveland's water supply is safe. Heavy rainfall created some contamination on t...
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about WACKER being closer to getting more sta...
• LaDonna Gatlin greeted the crowd with a song. She ended her talk by asking: “If...
• Wacker Polysilicon North America is one step closer to receiving additional stat...
• New Hughes Hall Dedicated
• Students, Faculty, Alumni Contribute to Archaeology Dig
• In Thursday’s Banner, readers can find out about the repairs on the Courthouse a...
• Life changed in the blink of an eye when 84-year-old Daniel Wagner hung up the p...
• A recommendation to make much-needed repairs to all of the columns on the front...
• Faculty to Reflect on September 11
• Nathan Angelo to Headline Tornado Relief Benefit Concert
• Flames Awarded Championship; Cuthbert is Top Defender
• Hall of Fame Nominations Being Accepted
• Textbook on Teaching Published by Lee Profs
• Cleveland Apple Festival 2011
• Cleveland-Bradley Ema Bradley County is under a Flood Warning until 5:00 am tomo...
• Bradley County and Cleveland Schools closed Tuesday per EMA Director Troy Spence.
• Please exercise extreme caution and be aware of what is going on in your neighbo...
• According to EMA Director Troy Spence, the Hiwassee Chapter of American Red Cros...
• 7-inches of rain so far...flooding in Weeks Drive residential area as web as dow...
• Today’s Labor Day Banner features stories about the city slogan contest now reac...
• To recognize those who died on Sept. 11, 2001, Judge Daniel Swafford and the sta...
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland has received some good news: His “What’s in a Name?”...
• Possibility of roadways and stream flooding as well as a new threat. Tornadoes s...
• Friday’s Banner includes stories about Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Joe Snip...
• The Bradley County law enforcement community lost one of its own Thursday when o...
• The stage was set by 4 p.m. As soon as the doors opened, people were waiting to...
• Less than 24 hours after receiving the tragic news that the Tennessee Highway Pa...
• New Faculty Welcomed to Campus
• THP trooper killed today while ridings personal motorcycle. His wife suffered se...
• Thursday’s Banner features articles about finance leaders favoring the industria...
• U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander has enjoyed a busy, productive week in Southeast Tenne...
• It was an emotional moment for moderator Matt Ryerson Wednesday as he began to r...
• Pianist Yakushev to Perform at Lee
• Bulletin: cause of death determined ....Randy Lee Hammontree died of smoke inhal...
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories about Whirlpool downsizing its local engin...
• Cleveland Utilities has dispatched three contracted ASPLUNDH Tree Company crews...
• A consolidation of jobs at the Whirlpool Cleveland Technology Center and a Michi...
• Bulletin...mutual aid response once again to Julian Road, Benton Pike rekindled...
• 2011-12 Theatre Season to Begin Soon
• HDCOE Awarded Diversity in Teaching Grant
• Investigation continues...name of deceased was Randy Hammontree, 32....according...
• Tuesday’s Cleveland Banner features stories about the area jobless rate dipping...
• Crime scene technicians were dispatched to the scene of a structure fire early t...
• Bradley County’s unemployment rate in July dipped below double digits at 9.6 per...
• According to LT. Donnie Sullivan...a body was discovered inside the store...kaylor
• Fire and arson investigator onscene...Kaylor
• Fire reported at Paul Huff Parkway. BP Station near I 75.
• Monday’s Banner features stories about partners being sought for “unmet needs” f...
• Firefighters from surrounding counties converged Saturday afternoon to fight a b...
• Two intensive months of work to identify remaining unmet needs of Bradley County...
• Firefighters will probably stay onscene late tonight or even Sunday. Wind gusts...
• ATTENTION/BREAKING NEWS-BEWARE!!!-A fire has broken out near the Covenant Hills...
• U-Church Promises a Great Season this Fall
• FATAL SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH ON I 75 TIED TRAFFIC TODAY...UNDER INVESTIGATION
• Friday’s Banner features stories about Cleveland Utilities finishing the year st...
• Followers of an American dream whose jump-start came half-a-century ago through...
• Sales volume increases in all three major divisions and over-budgeted expenses i...
• ATTENTION PLEASE — It’s been almost 10 years since the tragic events of 9/11. Th...
• The Thursday Banner highlights stories on the need for rain in Bradley County, t...
• More than 240 people from both parties attended State Rep. Eric Watson’s annual...
• Yes, it has been a dry summer in Bradley County and a great need for rain is evi...
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories about the Historic Landmark Magnolia, Firs...
• United Way of Bradley County kicked off its annual fundraiser with help from Ten...
• United Way of Bradley County announced its goal of raising $2.3 million at the k...
• Back to School for Cleveland - Bus Schedules, Lunch Menus, School Supplies and more
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories about the county again voting on an industrial...
• Several hundred United Way of Bradley County volunteers, contributors and commun...
• Bradley County’s inclusion in a joint venture to acquire a new 343-acre industri...
• ATTENTION PLEASE — It’s been almost 10 years since the tragic events of 9/11. Th...
• Today’s Banner features stories about 5,000 “SmartMeters” installed so far by Cl...
• Cleveland Utilities electric crews and a contractor have installed more than 4,9...
• Ticket sales are brisk for the “back-by-popular-demand” return to Cleveland of N...
• Men's Golf Adds Scotland's Murray
• ATTENTION PLEASE — It’s been almost 10 years since the tragic events of 9/11. Th...
• Friday’s Banner features stories on industrial park talks needed soon, new park...
• “Since the (school) building was constructed in 1925, bare wiring may be in use....
• Standing by an affirmative vote Tuesday of its board, Cleveland Utilities remain...
• Hoffman and Hope Work in Jordan on Archaeological Project
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories on state law disallowing tax breaks for vet...
• High-achieving students are being challenged to reach their greatest potential a...
• A Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has reversed and dismissed the conviction...
• Volleyball 3rd in NAIA Pre-Season Poll
• In Wednesday’s Banner, readers will find stories about the industrial park talks...
• Tennessee Department of Children Services Commissioner Kate O’Day toured Bradley...
• Cleveland Utilities General Manager Tom Wheeler was authorized Tuesday to attemp...
• Auditions for Lee Children’s Choir Coming Soon
• Banner stories today include ones on the county giving the industrial park debat...
• The first attempt to redraw municipal district boundaries was an eye-opener as s...
• Whether the Bradley County Commission will participate in a jointly funded indus...
• Five Join Lee Cross Country Team
• Cross Country Adds 5 New Runners
• Monday’s Banner features story on the city slogan contest having received 500 en...
• Born in Hanau, Germany, famous for being the birthplace of the Grimm brothers an...
• Responses to Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland’s “What’s in a Name?” contest continue...
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories on the county voting ‘No’ on the home-school...
• Trousdale School Student Andy Marcum can’t pick a favorite aspect of his job at...
• Preparation has begun for the new school year at the Bradley County Juvenile Cou...
• Home-schooled students will not be permitted to play on public school athletic t...
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about the County’s anticipated home-school vo...
• A copper steeple was placed atop the Lee University chapel Wednesday morning. Th...
• Discussion of whether home-schoolers will be allowed to play on public school at...
• Twra confirmed victim as Misty Rymer Thompson.
• INVESTIGATION ONGOING BY TWRA ...FEMALE 32, CONFIRMED FATAL IN BOATING ACCIDENT...
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories on the county setting Thursday for a home-...
• Cleveland Utilities General Manager Tom Wheeler’s proposal to chip in $2 million...
• A small single-engine airplane crash-landed this morning at Hardwick Field Airpo...
• Pilot Bob Harkrider from Augusta had a wind behind him on his approach, accordin...
• Plane crash. Hardwick Field
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about Councilman Bill Estes crediting $2M pl...
• Revenues from payments in lieu of taxes from Whirlpool, Amazon, Wacker Polysilic...
• Councilman Bill Estes said Monday he was encouraged by an email from Cleveland U...
• Isaza sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Tiffany Isaza on the stand giving statement in her.sentencing hearing of the veh...
• Monday’s Banner features stories about Jim Polier, LTRO director, Greenway etiqu...
• Forty dollars per person. That’s all that’s being asked. That’s what the nationa...
• While on the Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway enjoying the outdoors and getting...
• Future expansion of the Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway will be more complicat...
• CPA Review Program Begins Thursday
• Freake Receives Research Grant
• Friday’s Banner highlights features about the EDC fearing its hoped for industri...
• Bradley County has filed a “motion to alter or amend” the summary judgment made...
• Bradley County has filed a “motion to alter or amend” the summary judgment made...
• Students Learn the Music Business on Nashville Trip
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about the LTRO recruiting 25 case worker vo...
• Gardner’s Market owner Bill Hain stands behind the counter of the local market a...
• With two full-time leaders now in position, Bradley County’s Long-Term Recovery...
• Cheerleader Tryouts Scheduled
• 3 Lee Golfers Make State Amateur Cut
• Women's Soccer Visits Edinburgh Castle
• Wednesday’s Banner lets readers know about Allan Jones aiding the CSCC student t...
• After years of planning and hard work by Cleveland City Schools, parents and cit...
• A local philanthropist is focusing on making the dream of college education a re...
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories about education and finance leaders eyeing pro...
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland said the city’s northernmost sign is two miles north...
• The Bradley County Commission voted unanimously Monday to have the education and...
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories about Cleveland Utilities water sales may be...
• Growth is good, but sometimes growth gets in the way and requires a few twists a...
• As Bradley County heads into the “Dog Days of Summer,” Cleveland Utilities’ wate...
• Today is Dr. Charles Paul Conn Day in Tennessee
• Coach Rowe Reflects on Dominican Trip
• Friday’s Banner features stories about Cleveland Utilities reporting sales volum...
• Now that its traffic engineers, in partnership with outside contractors, are del...
• Preliminary year-end reports show sales volume increases for Fiscal Year 2011 in...
• Lee Receives Grants for String Theory
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about Mayor Davis promoting regional growth...
• Early spring rainfall was frightful — especially for those in the construction i...
• Bradley County Mayor D. Gary Davis said his job has many components reaching bey...
• Lady Flames Shop for Needy Families
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories on the possible closure of the downtown post...
• Quite the showcase event will be taking place at Cleveland High School on Tuesda...
• The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday it will study 3,653 local off...
• Lady Flames Visit Sugarcane Village
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories about the city rejecting the county’s sales ta...
• Fifty-three of 70 Wacker Polysilicon North America employees attended a full day...
• Cleveland City Council members unanimously declined a sales tax settlement offer...
• Thompson Named Council President
• Lady Flames Visit Dominion Orphanage
• Today’s Cleveland Daily Banner highlights stories on Lexee Hill becoming this year’s Distinguished Young Woman winner, storm recovery town halls starting tonight, on the city’s naming contest receiving 300 entries, on photojournalist Al
• The morning after Lexee Hill was named Distinguished Young Woman of Tennessee 2012, she began a one-year reign beginning with Sunday brunch with the state program co-chairs Charles and Traci Fant.
• While a Michigan-based disaster relief organization known as the “Green Shirts” launches a storm assessment campaign in Bradley County’s worst hit neighborhoods, the community’s recovery is also taking a couple of new directions.
• Teen Talent 2011
• Friday’s Banner features stories on Sen. Mike Bell and his strikes against the high court process, the interviews and the judging today for the Distinguished Young Women program, profiles on the co-chairs for the DYW program — Traci Dunn-Fant
• Thursday was interview day. That’s when all 23 contestants vying for the title of Distinguished Young Woman of Tennessee stood before five judges and answered a gamut of questions — from current events to their interests, hobbies, talents and
• State Sen. Mike Bell took an opportunity Thursday to express his opposition to the current process of selecting and retaining Tennessee Supreme Court justices.
• Read the latest on what's going on with the Distinguished Young Women program in today's Banner. Tonight at 7, enjoy the talent portion of the DYW program at Lee University's Dixson Center.
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• From arriving in Cleveland to meeting their host families to starting their various competitions, the 23 young ladies who are part of this year's Distinguished Young Women program have been highlighted this week in the Banner. Continue to keep up wi
• Thursday’s Banner features articles about the Civil War Sesquicentennial observance, finance leaders reviewing budgets, Distinguished Young Women’s host families — Judie and Leonard Morton and Mallory and Brad Annis, Charleston OKing bu
• Days after the Bradley County Commission passed the 2011-12 budget, the Finance Committee met to review five budget amendment requests.
• Sunday is the second major event in a local series of activities where participants will reflect on a historical moment of “The War Between the States” as part of the ongoing five-year observance of the Civil War Sesquicentennial.
• Lee and Sodexo to Unveil Sweeping Changes
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories on the Distinguished Young Women holding its annual program in Cleveland this week, “Green Shirts” coming to town, the Bradley County Fire Board looking at a fire plan, Douglas Circle woman’s sh
• The Distinguished Young Women of Tennessee entertained the distinguished seniors of the Garden Plaza at Cleveland, a retirement and assisted living facility in Cleveland on Tuesday night.
• Talented hopefuls from across the state have come to Cleveland to try and take home the state title for the Distinguished Young Women competition whose long week of activities began Monday following a welcoming reception over the weekend.
• Cleveland Police were on the scene earlier today investigating a shooting incident at a Douglas Circle address. A female was suffered reported bullet wounds in the upper chest and arm, according to Evie West of CPD. Additional details will be printed in
• Austin to Speak at July Commencement
• Theatre Program Receives Grant
• Fatal crash discovered late Saturday evening claims two lives...details on Monday...Kaylor
• Daugherty waives extradition...in Bradley Co. Jail...Initial autopsy results indicated strangulation as cause of death.
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories on David Daugherty being captured in North Carolina, a massive contract awarded by Olin, the county buying school property, a second chance in life for Charles Lusk, Johnny McDaniel earning 4.68 out of 5 points in
• Charles Lusk was at the Cleveland Family YMCA going through his exercise routine. That was Jan. 19, just a little after 10 a.m. The next few minutes of his life hinged on the knowledge of three people and an automatic electronic defibrillator, or AED.
• Just hours after a first-degree murder warrant was issued for a man wanted in connection with the death of his wife of just a few weeks, Cherokee, N.C., law enforcement officials took him into custody late Thursday.
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• Cleveland Daily Banner David Keith Daugherty is in custody in Cherokee, NC. He is accused of killing his wife whose body was found wrapped up inside a closet in a home on 6th Street. Cause of death is still to be determined. Autopsy results are forthcomi
• Thursday’s Banner contains stories about Cleveland City Councilman Bill Estes asking for realistic fire contract options, a murder warrant being issued for David Daugherty, a “Thank you” letter from EMS workers, the assault charge again
• (Editor’s Note: Because of the strength of its community message, the following “Letter to the Editor” is being published on the front page of today’s edition of the Cleveland Daily Banner. “Letters” are traditionally
• Cleveland City Councilman Bill Estes has asked City Manager Janice Casteel to prepare realistic options in the event a fire contract with Bradley County is renewed.
• Lee Alumni Develop Creative Solutions for Disaster Relief
• Storms moving into Bradley County could produce high winds and hail.
• Wednesday’s Banner features articles about Polier being named LTRO recovery director, DA Bebb responding to audit findings, county school board beginning review of director applications, the school board visiting potential new school site, the &ldq
• The Bradley County Board of Education took a field trip this week to inspect potential new homes for Blue Springs Elementary and the system’s technology staff.
• Jim Polier, a U.S. Forest Service retiree and a veteran of two branches of the military who played a key volunteer role in the immediate response to the severe weather events of April 27, has been named recovery leader by the Long Term Recovery Organizat
• Former Lady Flame Accepts Bradley Post
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories on the county commission not appealing its sales tax ruling, a Swiss company buying Arch, the county wanting figures on fire contract costs, on Rockholt retiring from the city school board, the redistricting comm
• Arch Chemicals Inc., the largest global supplier of calcium hypochlorite water treatment products, has been acquired by one of the world’s leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, health care and life science industries.
• The Bradley County Commission will vote on a resolution to comply with the judge’s decision in the disputed sales tax case during the next voting session.
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories on Elva Howard reflecting on her Wyoming upbringing, night owl CU work to begin tonight, electric workers aid North Georgia and Chattanooga, storms having changed the face of Bradley County, Habitat for Humanity g
• Only 10 weeks have passed since 24 out-of-town utility crews rushed to the aid of Cleveland Utilities after one-fourth of its electric grid was obliterated by five waves of ravaging tornadoes, and now CU is already repaying the favor.
• Barring inclement weather conditions tonight, Cleveland Utilities Water Division crews are on schedule to begin a sewer line repair at 11 p.m. and work through the night with project completion hoped for sometime just after dawn Tuesday.
• CPA Review Program This Fall
• Women's Golf Named NAIA Scholar-Team of Year
• Friday’s Banner features stories on storm cleanup expected to be finished on July 15, a special teacher’s aide, Cleveland’s construction falling in June, on city schools installing 41 bus security cameras, a Cleveland woman dying in a c
• Blue Springs Elementary School teachers have been given supplies by the Museum Center at Five Points to help make the transition to their new schools a little easier.
• Bradley County storm recovery cleanup crews are now projecting July 15 as the target date for completing the massive operation that began two months ago.
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• Symphonic Band Visits Cuba
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about the chancellor’s sales tax ruling favoring the city, storm recovery director selection set for next week, county workers not losing any pay, Wrecker Board decides the meaning of the ordinance is that
• Teachers from across East Tennessee learned more about local history-related opportunities Wednesday as part of a tour with the East Tennessee Historical Society.
• The city of Cleveland does not have to share sales tax revenue with Bradley County, according to a ruling handed down by Chancery Court Judge Jerri Bryant.
• Casey Anthony receives 1 year and $1,000 fine for each of 4 counts of lying. Sentences consecutive. With time served, could be out this month or next.
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about the sales tax ruling being issued, the county to continue discussing the fire contract, Sheriff Jim Ruth’s new pay plan failing for now, tornado cleanup almost being finished, zoning board reconsideri
• A MAKEOVER continues its strong progress on APD 40 near Ocoee Street. In the lower left corner of the aerial photograph is the former Hall Chevrolet dealership now being redesigned by the property’s new owner, Easy Auto. To the right is The Retreat
• The Bradley County Commission voted Tuesday to move the topic of ending consideration of future fire contracts with the city of Cleveland to the next work session for more discussion. The recommendation to end consideration of future contracts was made t
• A lengthy inter-governmental dispute that led to a court battle between the Cleveland City Council and Bradley County Commission over the distribution of sales tax revenue may have ended today when Chancellor Jeri Bryant issued a complicated ruling in su
• BREAKING NEWS: CASEY ANTHONY FOUND NOT GUILTY IN THE MURDER OF HER DAUGHTER CAYLEE ANTHONY.
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about “His Hands Extended” honoring the nation’s 235th birthday, Bradley County celebrating the Fourth of July, CU gearing up for the Wacker water project, and Herman Andersen, now a member of T
• Bradley County celebrated the Fourth of July in many ways Monday with neighborhood parades, family picnics and fireworks.
• Amid a reservoir of simultaneous water and wastewater projects, the Cleveland Utilities Water Division is gearing up for another big effort that will provide water access to an even bigger manufacturer — the Wacker Polysilicon North America plant n
• The separation of church was narrowed this Fourth of July weekend as the United States of America was cloaked in red, white, blue and religion. On Monday, Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland said anyone with a prayer request can contact His Hands Extended with a
• Happy Fourth of July!!! Today’s holiday paper features stories about volunteer Rod Davis receiving the Volunteer of the Year award from the Red Cross, State Rep. Eric Watson unveiling a resolution to post the 10 Commandments in the courthouse, th
• State Rep. Eric Watson unveiled a resolution urging all counties in Tennessee to post the Ten Commandments as an historical document lest America’s Christian heritage is forgotten.
• The Hiwassee Chapter of the American Red Cross named Rod Davis the recipient of the Frank Hardwick Volunteer of the Year Thursday at First Baptist Church on Stuart Road. The annual recognition was established by Hardwick Clothes as a memorial to Frank Ha
• Brendels to Direct German Festival
• Friday’s Banner features stories on the LTRO to interview five storm recovery finalists, law enforcement focusing on holiday traffic safety, holiday travelers watching fuel costs, TDOT Commissioner Schroer viewing Bradley County construction sites,
• Fourth of July holiday travelers are hitting the road — many have already left — amid the growing summer heat and unfriendly fuel prices while preparing to give wallet-worn credit cards a sizzling workout at the gas pumps.
• Personal interviews were scheduled to begin today by the Long-Term Recovery Organization as the multi-functional group works to pare down a short list of five finalists to the one individual who will become Bradley County’s storm recovery director.
• Summer Honors Students Help Out
• Thursday’s Banner contains stories on state legislators questioning the attorney generals’ Internet sales tax opinion, TDOT cutting ribbon on U.S. 64 project, the A&E show building a home for the Morrises, an update on the Yarber case, Br
• Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner John Schroer on Wednesday took his tour of major transportation projects under construction in the state to Polk County where he helped cut the ribbon on U.S. Highway 64.
• The Tennessee attorney general said Tuesday proposed legislation requiring an out-of-state dealer to collect sales tax would be constitutionally defensible.
• USA Today Gives Lee Top Marks for Service
• Wednesday’s Banner includes stories on water and sewer hikes in the city’s budget, the substation delayed but with no impact on Whirlpool, CU honoring a former chairman, Matt Ryerson in second place in the Dad’s Making a Difference cont
• Saying goodbye wasn’t easy, but then again Cleveland businessman Dale Hughes probably never planned to spend 26 years on the Cleveland Board of Public Utilities. Yet he did.
• The Cleveland City Council formally adopted a new budget Tuesday in a called meeting that includes a 4.78 percent increase in water rates and 3.99 percent increase in sewer rates.
• Today’s Banner contains stories on Southside Redevelopment seeking public awareness, the city terminating its financial contract with financial adviser, State Rep. Eric Watson facilitating a request for AG’s legal opinion, county leaders sche
• THIS BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE that followed a mostly cloudy evening was recently captured by the camera lens of Cleveland resident Angie Parris. The gorgeous view overlooks Bradley County farmland off South Lee Highway. A surprise panorama like this lessens the
• At-Large Councilman Richard Banks brought up three impromptu resolutions not on the agenda Monday that evoked comments from Vice Mayor Avery Johnson, who is normally disinclined to publicly criticize colleagues.
• Hou Takes First at Piano Competition
• Today’s Banner highlights stories on the legal forum to focus on foreclosures and rising family debt, the new Whirlpool plant still on schedule, the Final Endowment Fund Workshop to be held Wednesday, Family Promise names director to lead program,
• Devastating tornadoes that churned through on both sides of the building site in late April and a wet spring have hampered crews, but construction on the new 1 million square-foot Whirlpool manufacturing facility remains on schedule for production start-
• Unprecedented numbers of home foreclosures over the past couple of years and unforeseen family debt that continues to handcuff many families are two justifications for the third Community Legal Forum sponsored by the Bradley County Bar Association and Cl
• Friday’s Banner contains stories on the LTRO receiving 38 leadership resumes, the city’s “What’s in a Name” entries pouring in, the Sheriff’s auction set for Saturday, the attorney general’s opinion favoring Dare
• Several hundred items, including vehicles, are listed for sale at Saturday’s Bradley County Sheriff’s Office auction. Bicycles, jewelry, tools, electronics such as GPS devices, compact discs, DVDs, cellphones, games, televisions, computers an
• By early Friday, the Bradley-Cleveland Long-Term Recovery Organization had received 38 resumes for two newly created paid positions to lead the community’s storm recovery efforts over the next couple of years. Application deadline is today at 5 p.m
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• Thursday’s Banner features stories about many people applying for the two new jobs open with the Long-Term Recovery Organization, budget cuts possibly closing Cleveland’s Legal Aid office, a MainStreet tribute to the late Martha Adams, Keep A
• The downtown Cleveland MainStreet Cruise-In will be without one of its most supportive fans Saturday, following the recent passing of The Spot’s manager Martha Adams.
• Response from job hopefuls has been strong since last weekend’s announcement by the Bradley-Cleveland Long-Term Recovery Organization that it is creating two paid, full-time positions to lead the community’s post-storm recovery.
• McDaniel Tennis Clinic, 20 Years of Success
• Contact information regarding "What's in a Name" contest is Cleveland Municipal Building, 190 Church St. NE, Cleveland, 37311
• Wednesday’s Banner highlights stories about the Fire Board wanting to end its city contract, the “What’s in a name?” contest, stepping into history, FEMA funding process outlined, Sheriff’s auction including 25 vehicles, jew
• Area residents using the popular Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway are now not only exercising their legs and cardiovascular systems, but their minds as well.
• Cleveland and Bradley County government leaders, emergency managers and others involved in the local and surrounding storm recovery efforts in the aftermath of the April 27 tornadoes gathered at Life Care Centers of America Tuesday to learn the process f
• Greg Kaylor Bradley County is under a SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING until 7:30 p.m
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories on the county commission voting “No” on the fire rescue and fire department merger, Wacker on MainStreet, a murder suspect being arraigned, on election commission appealing its budget, on the county rev
• Brenda Sheehy took her position as president of MainStreet Cleveland Monday as two-term President Doug Caywood handed over his gavel. A large crowd of MainStreet members gathered at the Elks Lodge to greet the new president and honor the former one as we
• Bradley County Fire Rescue will not be merging with the Cleveland Fire Department. The Bradley County Commission opted during a voting session Monday to end the discussion of creating a merged department and instead chose to continue to develop Bradley C
• Schedule for Autism Symposium Released
• Monday’s Banner features stories on Mayor Tom Rowland’s reappointment to advisory commission, an Atlanta teen dying in a rafting accident, the Museum Center’s program on the 1960s race era, a robbery at a Cleveland Walgreens, Matt Ryers
• A robin’s nest in a bush near Lindsey Dixson-Hawn’s front door offered her the chance to watch the little birds grow. “I loved watching them and was sad to see them go,” she said.
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland has been reappointed by Gov. Bill Haslam to the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations for another four-year term.
• Lee Presents 9 Outstanding Piano Competitors
• Another person has died in the Ocoee River Gorge. A 14 year-old reportedly fell from a raft into the churning waters. This occurred earlier today, according to TWRA's Dan Hicks. Full details will be published in Monday's Banner....kaylor
• Bradley County under a Tornado Watch until 8 p.m. Please monitor media outlets.
• Cleveland-Bradley Ema Some further rain approaching our area from the NW, but nothing severe currently being monitored in the areas of the storm system still moving toward us.
• TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEAST BRADLEY, BENTON AND MCMINN COUNTIES MOVING 40 MPH NORTHEASTWARD.
• SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BRADLEY COUNTY AND SURROUNDING AREAS UNTIL 6 P.M.
• Friday’s Banner features stories on the state’s DIDD commissioner in Cleveland to tour Life Bridges, Cleveland’s latest building construction of a hotel and a restaurant, Habitat for Humanity’s dedication of five homes at a grand
• Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Commissioner Jim Henry is making a special visit to Cleveland today to meet staff and to tour a pair of showcase residential facilities operated by Life Bridges.
• Construction in the city of Cleveland rose in May with permits issued for a hotel and a restaurant providing most of the lift.
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• In Thursday’s Banner, read stories on the City Council approving the budget, the FEMA center being set to close on June 25, the Horse Show opening being delayed, heavy rains and lightning hitting the area Wednesday night, topsoil being a concern at
• Heavy rains in Bradley County Wednesday night delayed the show’s opening until this morning. The show runs through Saturday. Banner photo, DONNA KAYLOR
• The “New Normal” for Bradley County is quite a way off, but work continues toward the goal of recovery after multiple tornadoes struck the area, taking nine lives, causing injury and destroying hundreds of homes and other structures seven wee
• 2011 International Piano Festival and Competition
• An investigation continues at the Arch Chemicals plant in Charleston to identify the cause of a fire late Monday that sent five employees to area hospitals. All five have since been released. The plant remains shut down for continued inspection and repai
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories on Arch Chemical and its post-fire inspection, Bowater and TVA giving $7,500 in grants, the executive director of the BLC initiating the complaint against Louisiana compmany, the threat of storms predicted, the E
• The U.S. flag laments in a short allegorical essay “I Am Your Flag,” read by Lindsey Smith, that crowds get smaller and people pay less and less attention to it. The flag leads fewer parades, but even when Old Glory passes by fewer people sho
• Thunderstorms are expected to develop today. These storms will carry a threat of becoming strong to severe this afternoon and evening. Large hail and damaging winds of 60 mph or greater will be the main threats to people and property. These storms will c
• Grayson Living a Baseball Dream
• Today’s Banner features stories on the county addressing a motion to oppose the emergency service departments merger, Arch Chemical fire sending five to area hospitals, the County Commission to review school needs, othre fire at the landfill, Brant
• Bradley County firefighters battled two blazes Monday — the first coming late in the afternoon at Arch Chemicals in Charleston and the second later in the night at the Bradley County Landfill.
• At its next voting session, the Bradley County Commission will act on a motion to keep Bradley County and Cleveland emergency services separate. A final report from the Emergency Services Merger Task Force was submitted to the Bradley County Commission a
• Griffith Receives Doctorate
• Monday’s Banner highlights stories on Derek Dooley being the guest speaker at Friday’s Sunrise Rotary Gala, the legal forum to focus on debt, CU sending “Thank-yous” to outside crews, the ARC talking about the recent weather disas
• While remaining Cleveland Utilities line crews retrace all storm recovery steps in order to “double-check” repairs made over an exhausting 10-day period, personal thank-you cards are being mailed to 104 out-of-town workers who responded to th
• Individual tickets and corporate tables are still available for the coming second annual Bradley Sunrise Rotary Sunset Gala, but they are now in limited supply as University of Tennessee Volunteers football fans prepare to welcome head coach Derek Dooley
• Friday’s Cleveland Banner highlights stories on Blue Springs school not being repaired and new school planned instead, a new law preventing the Bradley County Education Association’s contract with Bradley County Schools, residents preparing f
• FARMERS MARKET opened Thursday evening with vendors putting their vegetables and peaches up for sale at the open air market at First Street Square. Patsy, Hannah and Lyle Hicks were excited to buy some fresh peaches from Bobby Lyle of Charleston. Banner
• Blue Springs Elementary School will not be repaired or rebuilt on its current site; instead, a plan for a new elementary school is being formed.
• FOR YOUR INFORMATION — The Bradley County Sheriff’s office will conduct sobriety and crime prevention checkpoints today and Saturday.
• Third Annual Day Camp for Individuals with Autism
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• Thursday’s Banner features stories on the community’s manufacturing success, the state’s economic development department changing its focus after a comprehensive study, sesquicentennial events remembering the Civil War set for Saturday,
• A pre-Civil War Union flag was recently raised on the steps of the Bradley County Courthouse, kicking off the five-year long 150th anniversary of the Civil War. This week, the United Daughters of the Confederacy will hold two events in the multifaceted l
• Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce officials celebrated the success of all local manufacturers Wednesday afternoon at its 2011 Industry Appreciation Luncheon and Showcase instead of holding more traditional individual awards presentations.
• Simmons Publishes eBook
• Crawford, Catapano Join MLB Draft List
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories on the court date set for the couple charged with alleged animal neglect, Farmer’s Market reopening Thursday, a teacher workshop debuting two new “R’s,” two men charged with allegedly loot
• Garden fresh produce is on its way back to the dinner table as farmers from around the area sell their freshest fruits and vegetables at the Five Points Farmers Market. The first of the seasonal pickings begins Thursday. Each Thursday, area farmers will
• A June 14 court date has been set for a couple charged with 39 counts of animal neglect. Patricia and James Freeman appeared Tuesday in Bradley County General Sessions Court. They were summoned to court through a criminal summons issued by the Bradley Co
• Grayson, Clark Selected in Major League Draft
• Tuesday’s Banner covers stories on responders honored for their storm relief efforst, an international program now being offered at Walker Valley High School, Peter Vanderpool attending a child advocates’ ceremony, a couple to answer to 39 co
• Advanced students at Walker Valley High School will soon be offered the opportunity to take courses in the International Baccalaureate program.
• The Bradley County Commission passed a resolution to honor emergency responders for their efforts during the aftermath of the April 27 tornadoes at a voting session Monday.
• LISA CABLE, owner of Cable’s Hair Studio, is holding sessions for stress relief for local residents and emergency workers affected by April 27’s severe weather. The sessions will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, at the Salvation Army Distr
• Monday’s Banner highlights a story about the current heat wave and Sunday’s storm, two county schools offering new international diplomas, a man drowning in the Ocoee River, the Starfish organization speaking to the Sunrise Rotary, a new prog
• Bradley County Schools will begin offering classes next year from international programs with the goal of eventually allowing students to receive an internationally recognized high school diploma in these programs.
• INFINITY BRADLEY, 11, celebrates the opening of Mosby Park Pool with a running leap into the deep end of the pool on Thursday. City pools at Tinsley Park, South Cleveland Recreation Center and Mosby Park opened for the summer over the Memorial Day weeken
• Springtime storms rolled into Bradley County and the surrounding area Sunday afternoon bringing with them gusty winds and heavy rain for a short time. Read more: Cleveland Daily Banner - Heat blankets area storm drops temps 25 degrees
• DeLoach Receives Doctorate
• Read about the following stories in Friday’s Banner: existing area industries looking to expand in Bradley, three men remain jailed in recent meth lab arrests, a fire causes $100,000 in damage, an appeals court rules on Fort Hill, one of the counci
• Three men remain in jail today after deputies went on a warrant service and discovered an alleged meth lab.
• AN ESTIMATED $100,000 in damage was reported during a residential fire at 1106 Park Ave. late Wednesday night. Although the cause of the fire has not been determined by Cleveland Fire Department Fire and Arson Investigator Donnie Sullivan, it was believe
• Business and industry continues to look at Bradley County and preliminary letters of potential incentives were being mailed today for at least one new prospect.
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• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories on FEMA grants totaling almost $750,000, a former University of Tennessee football player from Dalton, Ga., Cameron Mayo, charged for theft and trespassing, Charleston gearing up for Charleston Elementary School
• The second location opened at Cleveland State Community College for storm victims to visit Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives will be closing this week. Friday is the last day the satellite location will be open; however, the original FE
• A 2004 University of Tennessee football player from Dalton, Ga., was arrested for theft and trespassing after allegedly taking a refrigerator from a storm-damaged neighborhood.
• Crawford's Gem Helps Flames Advance
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories on pending legislation that could delay the start of the next school session, forensics confirms Florida woman shot by officer multiple times, the song of the cicadas not music to most ears, the early spring seas
• If you only came out once every 13 years, you would probably make some noise too. However, many in the Bradley County area are being driven to wits’ end by the ruckus of this year’s round of Magicicada.
• Pending legislation in the Tennessee General Assembly potentially could delay the date when Bradley County students go back to school.
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories on American remaining a beacon of freedom to the world, Cleveland traffic flow improvements anticipated, fallen soldiers honored, Hiwassee Heritage Festival to debut “Cowpea Cookoff,” and energy progr
• “America must remain a world beacon of freedom and we must represent the aspiration and hope of millions of people, that through hard work and perseverance anyone can succeed in this fair and just society. Freedom is not a gift. It is an earned ben
• Traffic flow studies in several troubled spots around the city are on cruise as Cleveland Utilities and contractors are putting the wraps on counts and synchronization changes that should improve congestion along some key intersections and heavily used r
• Today’s Banner highlights several stories especially for Memorial Day, such as one on a fallen soldier’s mom on a mission and another on three daughters and a father’s memory. Other stories covered today include one of the electric hook
• The death of a son has led a mother on a mission to educate service members and their families of a disparity between military regulation and civilian law. It is an education she received when she buried her son.
• Time has not lessened the desire for a Cleveland woman to find information about her father who was killed in action in Vietnam. Each crumb of information leads her to discover a hero she never knew.
• DON’T MISS OUT: Available starting today, the Banner is offering the special keepsake edition, titled “ROAD TO RECOVERY: The first 30 days,” for $1, available at 17 locations around town. It will not be part of the Banner’s regula
• Today’s Banner features a story about the special “Road to Recovery” keepsake edition on the month since the terrible storms and tornadoes hit the area on April 27. This edition will not be in Friday’s regular paper but in 17 loca
• “Road to Recovery — The First 30 Days,” a 32-page special edition published by the Cleveland Daily Banner that chronicles the community’s response to the devastating tornadoes of April 27, went on sale today for a $1 donation to t
• Cleveland Board of Public Utilities Chairman Dale Hughes’ recent selection to the Cleveland City Council left a vacancy that led to a wholesale re-circuiting of the group’s leadership during a formal monthly session Thursday at the Mountain V
• JUST INTO THE BANNER — The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit detectives have quarantined a room of a South Lee Highway motel after discovering an active methamphetamine lab. Two people who were in the room when detective
• Five Faculty Earn Promotion to Professor
• Nine Faculty Earn Promotion to Associate Professor
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• Golf Headed for NAIA Final Round
• “ROAD TO RECOVERY: The first 30 days” Published by the Banner and available Friday, May 27, for $1, a special keepsake edition on the recent disaster will be available. THIS SPECIAL PUBLICATION WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 17 LOCATIONS AROUND TOWN B
• Today’s Banner features stories about government leaders receiving the task force report, injuries reported in a crash at Lowe’s Garden Center on Paul Huff Parkway, utility assistance offered to storm victims, the city of Cleveland experiment
• An apparent freak accident Wednesday afternoon at the Lowe’s Home Improvement Store at 229 Paul Huff Parkway injured at least five people, including the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into the front gate of the Garden Center.
• The Emergency Services Merger Task Force presented its report Wednesday to members of the Cleveland City Council and Bradley County Commission during a joint meeting hosted by the county at Mountain View Inn.
• SPECIAL HOME REPAIR SECTION The Ocoee Region Builders Association provides some pointers to storm victims to help them avoid fraud. Tips also are given on selecting professional builders, what requirements FEMA needs to process an application, how to mak
• SPECIAL UPDATE ON THE RECENT DISASTER, continued This special collector’s publication can be purchased for only $1 at 17 locations around town. And all the money will go to the newly established Cleveland-Bradley Disaster Relief Fund to support the
• SPECIAL UPDATE ON THE RECENT DISASTER The Banner is offering a special edition for disaster relief chronicling the unprecedented tornado devastation of April 27 and its aftermath throughout Bradley County, that killed nine, destroy 285 homes and damaged
• Today’s Banner features stories about the downtown cell tower getting a tentative OK by planners, the tornado debris removal praised, a benefit concert set for Thursday, the United Way setting up Endowment Fund workshops, Charleston School to obser
• A special edition chronicling the unprecedented tornado devastation of April 27 and its Bradley County aftermath will be published by the Cleveland Daily Banner on Friday, a month after the nightmare that killed nine, destroyed 285 homes and damaged more
• Cleveland Municipal Planning Commission members gave conditional approval Tuesday evening for a cell tower to be located at 1455 Stuart Ave., N.W., south of 17th Street.
• Bowman Awarded Weaver Fellowship
• Today’s Banner contains stories about the City Council retaining the same property tax rate, the Blue Springs decision lies with the board, tornado recovery will require two to five years, the budget discussion eyes the schools, new hours announced
• As recordbreaking storms continue to rack the nation, Cleveland is finding ways to pick itself up and get to a “new normal.”
• Cleveland continues to have the lowest property tax rate compared to other Tennessee cities with a kindergarten through 12th grade school system after the City Council on Monday adopted the property tax rate.
• The Banner is reporting the latest on the story about a woman who attacked a Bradley deputy, a reported assault followed by a shooting, a one-stop people shop at the Blythe Avenue Family Support Center that houses seven agencies, “Helping Hands&rdq
• Cleveland area residents might not find it unusual to see a nonprofit organization serving their community. However, seeing a center with seven different organizations under one roof might be a different story.
• The woman who reportedly attacked Bradley County deputy Dustin Patrick, who then shot at her as she took his patrol car, has been identified as a Florida resident.
• An alleged aggravated domestic assault reportedly turned deadly during the weekend, according to reports from both the Cleveland Police Department and Bradley County Sheriff’s Office.
• Higginbotham Receives the Janet Rahamut Award
• Deputy Dustin Patrick has been confirmed as the official who reportedly shot the female suspect who allegedly slashed him, then took his patrol car on Interstate 75, according to Bob Gault, he is being placed on paid administrative leave pending outcome
• Update on Interstate 75 deputy shooting situation: Deputy suffered a cut to his hand as she allegedly slashed at him. The female suspect is dead after he reportedly shot her after she jumped into his patrol car and attempted to escape. Two small children
• Deputy involved shooting on I-75, near Raines Drive in the Prospect community. Officials on scene.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Fire is out inside Bowater plant...
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• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Fire inside Bowater plant in Calhoun...Machine 5...Supposed to be largest paper machine. TriCom, McMinn, Hwy.58, Calhoun and Bradley Co. Fire depts. On scene...Kaylor
• Shelton Leads Golf Team to Record-Setting Performance
• LATEST UPDATE — Deputy Doug Boucher has been released from Erlanger Medical Center after receiving treatment for facial lacerations he received on Thursday when his patrol car struck a cow on Springplace Road.
• LATEST UPDATE — A truck driver whose body was found in the cab of his rig parked at Love’s Truck Stop in Charleston has been identified as Omar Mohamed Yusuf, 38, of St. Paul Minnesota. The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office is continuing
• Friday’s Banner features stories on the price tag to merge emergency services is $17M, the recovery strategy meeting set for Monday, additional supplies and donations are arriving are arriving for the area, the injured deputy remains hospitalized a
• Two truckloads of supplies and $2,500 worth of monetary donations were given to local relief efforts by out-of-town agencies Wednesday.
• Bradley County deputy Doug Boucher, who was injured Thursday morning after his police cruiser collided with a cow, remains hospitalized at Erlanger Medical Center.
• Any agency, church group, organization or others who may be interested in overall long-term recovery efforts in Bradley County, are being asked to attend the Bradley-Cleveland Disaster Relief Committee meeting Monday.
• Moyen Recognized for Excellence in Teaching
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• Yelton Adds Four to Impressive Recruiting List
• Today’s Banner highlights stories on legislation requiring Amazon sales tax pulled for 2011, questions raised on the recently awarded debris contract, Bradley County Mayor D. Gary Davis on his expectations for the next fiscal year, the Cleveland 10
• Legislation requiring Internet retailer Amazon.com to collect sales tax on items sold in Tennessee was pulled from the 2011 calendar, but the issue may be revisited in 2012.
• An out-of-state business was awarded the storm debris removal contract instead of keeping the money in Bradley County to help it recover from the economically devastating tornadoes and a continued building slump, local contractors complained.
• Brown Receives Excellence in Advising
• Wilkinson and Lo Place in Piano Competition
• Today’s Banner highlights stories on Dale Hughes, who was the unanimous choice of the city council to replace the late Bill Robertson, the fire board discussing letters of appreciation to numerous fire departments who aided the county’s Fire
• The Bradley County Fire Board discussed drafting letters of appreciation to numerous fire departments who aided Bradley County Fire Rescue during the aftermath of the April 27 tornadoes.
• A local hall of fame coach was selected Tuesday to serve the remainder of another hall of fame coach’s term. Dale Hughes was the unanimous choice of the Cleveland City Council to replace the late Bill Robertson, who died April 27 after a long battl
• Jones Recognized for Excellence in Scholarship
• Tuesday’s Banner features stories about the County Commission hearing concerns about Blue Springs, seven hopefuls putting in for the open Cleveland City Council seat, Eason named to fill a county vacancy, the county vote supporting Amazon’s s
• It was getting dark that fateful day, Oct. 15, 1966. The squad came across a trench dug across the road. As the soldiers started jumping over the trench, the squad leader felt something was wrong.
• A Blue Springs Elementary School parent brought her concerns about the school’s future before the Bradley County Commission during Monday’s session.
• Flames Face LSU-Spreveport in World Series
• Highlighted in Monday’s Banner are stories on Amazon hiring hundreds of jobs, the FEMA tornado numbers growing, the Greater Cleveland Concert Band relief concert at 7 p.m. today at First Baptist Church of Cleveland, CU sees a drop in seasonal sales
• In the midst of political wrangling in Nashville over sales tax collections on items sold to Tennessee residents, Amazon.com continues moving toward a fall opening of two 1 million square-foot fulfillment centers.
• Staff and students at Blythe-Bower Elementary School have decided not to hold the annual Spring Carnival. Instead those at the school urged those in the community to donate school supplies and other items to aid in storm relief.
• Theatre Camp Registration Now Underway
• Catapano Hurls 4-hitter at Culver-Stockton
• LOCATION CHANGE — The Evening Shade concert will take place this evening (May 13) at Arnold School at 473 8th St. N.W. (and not downtown) at 6:30 p.m. because of today’s rains. Tonight’s concert features the Collins Brothers and headlin
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories on Cleveland residential construction up and increasing, storm debris trucks rolling today, the successful prescription drug return, on recent drug sweep resulting in arrests, “Operation Care” set to h
• Temporary housing and debris removal remain uppermost in the minds of those Bradley County families whose homes and property were ravaged by at least five tornadoes that churned through the community April 27, an epic spring day that will be long remembe
• The city of Cleveland building permit report for April shows a significant increase in residential building, according to the numbers released this week.
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• Mark Lowry to Headline Concert for Local Tornado Relief
• Mayfield Elementary Celebrates Arbor Day at Lee
• Baseball Flames Advance in National Tournament
• Golf Team Headed to National
• Today’s Banner highlights stories about FEMA disaster debris removal to start Friday, a banquet honoring emergency workers, recent relief efforts relied on unpaid workers, shipped disaster supplies missing, the Bradley Central High School commencem
• Volunteers have been crucial in virtually every aspect of aid after the deadly April 27 tornadoes that ripped across several areas of Bradley County and Cleveland.
• Disaster debris removal will begin in storm-affected areas in Cleveland and Bradley County on Friday and will continue “for a period of several weeks” on Mondays through Saturdays, according to announcements by Bradley County Mayor D. Gary Da
• Flames Ready to Host Opening Round
• Wednesday’s Banner features stories about a new group to guide the area’s long-term recovery, a storm victims tax relief bill eyed, Life Bridges recognizes business partners, Sarah Beaty and Jordan Willcutt will lead WVHS graduation, county l
• An ad hoc committee charged with the responsibility of overseeing Bradley County’s long-term recovery from the unprecedented waves of April 27 tornadoes and storms will be formed.
• An ad hoc committee charged with the responsibility of overseeing Bradley County’s long-term recovery from the unprecedented waves of April 27 tornadoes and storms will be formed.
• Women's Tennis Earns National Tourney Berth
• Men's Basketball Inks Ravenwood Guard
• Tuesday’s Banner highlights stories about the county and city signing storm debris removal contracts, the City School Board to help storm victims, storm cleanup progressing, reneging on Amazon could hurt Tennessee, the Mel Bedwell Small Business Pe
• Work is continuing in Bradley County and Cleveland as storm victims clean up, repair damage and re-establish themselves after deadly tornadoes coursed through the region April 27.
• Bradley County and the city of Cleveland have signed contracts with debris removal and debris management companies to handle such work following Federal Emergency Management Agency guidelines.
• Lilly Receives Community Involvement Award
• Today’s Banner highlights stories about the CU crews completing reconnections, local leaders saying Amazon legislation is misguided, the tornado recovery gets thank you from VEC, Sunrise Rotary Gala will redirect relief to the area, FEMA continuing
• Ten days after multiple waves of tornadoes and damaging storms plunged Bradley County into its worst disaster aftermath in modern history, the lights are back on — all 17,000 of them.
• A Nashville effort to override a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could result in the loss of more than 1,500 prospective full-time jobs and hundreds of other seasonal positions for residents of Bradley, Meigs and Polk counties will face stiff opposition f
• Summer Camp Opportunities
• Jackson, Shores, and Dirksen Receive CWC Award
• Volleyball Goes West to Sign Orozoo
• Yes, there are two. One starts at 6:30 p.m. with the 17th annual Evening Shade Concert Series at Johnston Memorial Park downtown. A second concert sponsored by the American Cancer Society's annual Bradley County Relay for LIfe will start at 9 p.m. i
• Friday’s Banner features stories on FEMA setting up its headquarters in downtown Cleveland, storm relief gift being studied, music events to offer respite from recent storms, finish line for restoring electricity now in sight, judge suspending cour
• Cleveland Utilities’ storm recovery costs have climbed to $2.5 million as 28 local and out-of-town line crews continue to restore in a few days a complicated electric grid system that took years to build, members of the Cleveland Board of Public Ut
• Federal Emergency Management Agency crews are on the ground and operating in a former bank building in downtown Cleveland at the corner of Inman and Church streets.
• New Healthcare Administration Major Graduates Two Students
• Women's Golf Headed for NAIA National
• The FEMA Disaster Response Center is now open in the old First Tennessee Bank building at #10 Church St. between 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Applicants are asked to use the Church Street entrance. Storm victims can visit the center to appl
• Thursday’s Banner highlights stories about FEMA eyeing an operation site in downtown Cleveland, attorneys assisting with FEMA paperwork, 435 homes still without power, insurance claims continue to climb, a seventh arrest is made for looting, Steve
• The storm continues as the number of insurance claims mount from tornadoes that struck Bradley County one week ago Wednesday.
• Federal Emergency Management Agency lead teams met Wednesday evening with local officials to inspect the site which may be set up as the point for Bradley Countians to get federal help.
• Lindeman Named 2011 Presser Scholar
• Autism Symposium and Summer Camp
• Volleyball Camp Dates Announced
• Today’s Banner contains stories about when the county schools will reopen, Bradley/Cleveland Services new name, tornado response partnering as a team, Howard Thompson getting suspended sentence, two arrested in looting charge, FEMA officials arrivi
• Bradley County Schools will be back in session Monday.
• Bradley/Cleveland Services has officially changed its name to Life Bridges. At a name-changing ceremony Tuesday night at the Museum Center at Five Points, Chief Executive Officer Dr. Luke Queen said the change will help reduce confusion between other loc
• It took only hours for people in Cleveland and Bradley County to begin working together to help the many in the community devastated by last Wednesday’s tornado outbreak.
• Areas of frost could be present Thursday morning as temperatures drop into the 30s. A high today of 67 is forecast.
• Wacker Spirit of Innovation Scholarship Awarded
• Graduation Streaming Live, With Improvements
• A representative from FEMA will be in Bradley County on Wednesday, followed by other FEMA personnel, informing the community about the application process. Until then, disaster victims can pre-register at 800-621-3362. Online registration also is availa
• Today’s Banner highlights stories about the county launching plans to help impacted residents, a thank you to volunteers by a Bates Pike family, FEMA assistance now available, Santek lowering landfill’s gate fees, CU crews down to the final 1
• A BATES PIKE FAMILY has found a heartwarming, and appropriate, way of recognizing Cleveland and Bradley County volunteers who have worked together, and are still working, to help their neighbors who were impacted by last week’s deadly, tornado-spaw
• Relief for those directly impacted by last week’s storms was put into effect by the Bradley County Commission during a meeting Monday.
• 2011 Tharp, Lee, and Conn Award Winners Announced
• Today’s Banner is filled with stories about the recent Bradley County storms and tornado damage and people trying to help. Read stories about the disaster declaration signed, volunteer contacts listed, CU and VEC line crews continuing to restore po
• The loss of nine lives from tornadoes last Wednesday became painfully evident Sunday afternoon when a funeral procession escorted the remains of Kandice Satterfield from Jim Rush Funeral Home to Ironsburg Cemetery in Polk County.
• In a consolidated, combined front to coordinate volunteer, donor and other relief efforts in response to last week’s tornado-spawning storms, several organizations and the Cleveland/Bradley Emergency Management Agency have doled out responsibilitie
• The prescription drug take-back program scheduled for Saturday at the Judicial Center was canceled because of the tornado devastation, according to the Bradley County Sheriff's office. GRAAB Coalition, however, will accept out-of-date or unneeded pr
• clevelandbanner.com will have all updates.
• posted by: Habitat Cleveland Calling all CLEVELAND!! We are in desperate need for Large Tarps. Habitat is working Bradley Baptist Association to get homeowners roofs that have been affected by the storm covered for these upcoming storms. If you have a ta
• Alumna Pressley Director at Wheaton College
• Campus and Students are Safe After Tornado Devastation
• According to Fox News and Geraldo...Osama Bin Laden is dead.
• Federal help is on the way...In a Tweet from Rep. Kevin Brooks, Sen. Bob Corker has reported affected areas of Tennessee has been declared a disaster.
• Bradley County Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Spence is appealing to organizations and individuals wanting to donate resources, to do it in a coordinated manner to prevent overlapping much needed resources. Read more: Cleveland Daily Banner
• Lee Students are Finalists at NATS Singing Competition
• Today’s Banner features many stories about this week’s storms, such as Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam pledging state’s support for Eastern Tennessee, county schools remaining closed, victims of the recent disaster listed, aerial views and m
• “Whatever we need to do,” were the words today of a Cleveland fireman as he and all other emergency first responders continued to clean up the mess left by what has been confirmed as EF-4 tornadoes that ripped through Bradley County on Wednes
• Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam followed the path of Wednesday’s tornadoes across East Tennessee in a helicopter on Thursday to get a firsthand look at the devastation.
• The fourth gallery can already be found by clicking on “News” on the left side of the home page and scrolling down until you see the title “Aerial views.” The other three will move into this “News” folder after their t
• Today, readers can access storm photos in a new way. Go to the Banner’s home page and click on the top story titled “Local residents.” In two hours, at 4:15 p.m. today, a second new gallery of photos will be available titled “Prop
• Confirmed by the National Weather Service late Thursday evening, between five and seven tornadoes hit this area, with up to an EF-4 strength, with 170 mph winds, one among them. The path of the tornado was 35 to 45 miles long and left a footprint of over
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• Strike, Willcutt, and Murray Take Rymer Gold
• Big and important news in Friday's Banner...I have the info on just what these storms are to be rated. It will surprise you!...kaylor
• OK. Several questions have been asked about where to find the aerial shots. There are about 15 in all. First, go to and click on view slide show under the first photo in the series.
• Message from Tom Wheeler, general manager of CU: I appreciate the effort everyone is making to help restore power to everyone. We are now getting considerable calls from people who want to know when the power will return. The best answer we can give at
• Gonna take just a little break...busy day...please encourage all to stay off the roadways and out of areas affected...crews are having issues with sightseers. Visit clevelandbanner.com for aerial photos from a Blackhawk helicopter I took this morning....
• CHECK OUT THESE FOLLOWING LINKS TO STORIES WITH SLIDE SHOWS: and
• Sixty-two photos of the storms are now available on the gallery.
• Today’s Banner has the most recent and up-to-date information available on the recent storms, tornadoes and damage reports. Stories can be found on the tragic loss of life, how people are uniting together to help their neighbors, and more particula
• A community always first to step up to help neighbors in times of need is itself accepting aid from those same neighbors. Two confirmed tornadoes, and potentially three others, ripped through Bradley in five separate waves Wednesday and throughout the ni
• Preliminary reports from Tim Troutman, a warning coordinator meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said five tornadoes touched down inside Bradley County Wednesday and into early Thursday morning.
• Just finished an aerial view of the county with mayors, sheriff, TEMA and others...pictures will be posted on www.clevelandbanner later today.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Unbelivable devastation in the county...aerial views ...kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Getting ready to go aerial with officials...damage overview...kaylor
• All Emergency Services are diligently working to search and rescue areas affected by at least five tornadoes, two which were confirmed EF2. Nine people reported dead so far in Bradley County. Please stay out of affected areas, according to EMA.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: MEDIA OUTLETS WILL BE GIVING UPDATES ON CONDITIONS...kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: AS OF 10 PM...BRADLEY COUNTY-CITY GOVT. ANNOUNCED UNDER A STATE OF EMERGENCY. CURFEW UNTIL 6 AM...STAY PUT. CURFEW COULD BE EXTENDED DUE TO WIDESPREAD DAMAGE, POWER OUTAGES ETC. HELP IS ON THE WAY. PEOPLE STILL TRAPPED AND
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: AS OF 10 PM...BRADLEY COUNTY-CITY GOVT. ANNOUNCED UNDER A STATE OF EMERGENCY. CURFEW UNTIL 6 AM...STAY PUT. CURFEW COULD BE EXTENDED DUE TO WIDESPREAD DAMAGE, POWER OUTAGES ETC. HELP IS ON THE WAY. PEOPLE STILL TRAPPED AND
• Grosch has Played all Nine Positions
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Red Cross has shelter for victims set up at St. Therese Catholic Church.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Tornado warning issued until 7 p.m.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: 50-75 Homes damaged or destroyed Bradley Co. today due to two EF 2 cofirmed tornadoes. Emergency crews continue to work while Red Cross setting up shelters...kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Freewill area homes damaged...trees blocking...
• EXCLUSIVE TO THE BANNER, Tim Troutman, a warning coordinator meteorologist with the National Weather Service, confirmed that an EF2 tornado touched down in northern Bradley County between the hours of 9:30 and 10 a.m. He confirmed that the tornado touche
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Tornado warning ti 4
• BAROMETRIC PRESSURE IS DROPPING AGAIN.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: no new warnings yet...winds are picking up...
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Accd. to reports, at least 10 homes destroyed/damaged due to uncofirmed tornado. Power out in No Pone Valley area possibly until tomorrow...kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Second round of rebuilding storms will enter Bradley and surrounding area in two to three hours. Please monitor and be safe. Emergency responders taking a breather at present while managers assess damage in No Pone area...k
• Read the Banner’s latest about storms ripping homes in the area. Also read about agencies saying the “hidden homeless” is an issue in this area, renovation chugging along on the old depot, Bill “Chief” Robertson passing away
• Cleveland and Bradley County residents have spent much of the day watching the skies as a deluge of rainfall poured into the community by mid-morning.
• The “hidden homeless” were the topic of conversation at a recent panel discussion hosted by the local chapter of the North American Association of Christians in Social Work.
• INFORMATION JUST IN ABOUT THE CLOSINGS OF THE CLEVELAND CITY SCHOOLS. It will close the elementary schools now, at noon, and the middle and high schools at 1 p.m. today.
• Here’s the latest on the Bradley County Schools. All Bradley County Schools will dismiss today at 12:30 p.m. Buses will follow the inclement weather protocol transporting middle and high school students, followed by elementary schools. All aftersch
• AS A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY, THE BANNER IS PASSING ON THIS ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE BECAUSE OF TODAY’S POSSIBLE THREATENING WEATHER: The Bradley County Sheriff's Office has suspended inmate visitations today due to
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Unconfirmed tornado strike in No Pone area...houses damaged...trees down, power out....crews onscene...At least one injured...homes destroyed...kaylor
• A Thunderstorm Warning just issued for us is mainly for damaging winds, hail, and torrential rainfall. Winds in particular could be dangerous, with speeds in excess of 70 MPH according to the National Weather Service.
• Bradley County is now under a TORNADO WARNING until 9:30 a.m. this date, according to 911 and the National Weather Service.
• Bradley County is under a TORNADO WATCH until 2 p.m. this date. Please monitor conditions, be aware and stay safe. A watch means conditions are present for the possibility of a tornado. Bradley County EMA and others are staying on top of the situation an
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Two vehicle crash on North Lee Highway is tying up traffic. Detour if possible.
• Tuesday’s Banner warns of the strong storms today, and also highlights stories about the Cherokee Chapter of the IAAP, gang activity the focus in BICC forum, the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War, Howard Thompson’s court date set
• A rousing speech indicating division within Cleveland and Bradley County is heard. A flag bearing 33 stars flaps in the wind as it is displayed over the Bradley County Courthouse.
• A strong cold front moving in during the ever-changing spring season could present problems this evening and overnight. Strong storms associated with a weather system moving from the west caused destruction Monday and is heading toward the Tennessee Vall
• Habecker to Deliver Spring Commencement Address
• Dates for Lee Softball Camps Released
• Softball Signs Allen, Goldsmith
• Today’s Banner features stories about understanding appliance energy use the key to keeping down energy bills, annual rabies clinics starting today, BICC leaders taking next step tonight in developing strategies for a major campaign on the impact o
• FATHER MITCH BAKER, pastor of Emmanuel Fellowship, raises the sacraments Sunday morning during Easter sunrise service at Mountain View Inn. Cleveland and Bradley County residents throughout the community observed the occasion throughout a beautiful weeke
• It’s not just any dirt. It’s big dirt and it belongs to the city of Cleveland. And it’s free to one and all takers who care to provide their own transport, shovels and manpower in loading it into trucks, trailers, wheelbarrows or bucket
• Thunderstorms are possible this afternoon as temps reach 84 degrees. A low of 63 is expected tonight.
• Haiti Chosen as Next Missions Week Focus
• Rymer Scholarship Finalists Announced
• Today’s Banner highlights the Boys and Girls Clubs Empowering Women banquet Thursday night. Winners of its three awards included Maria Hernandez, the Empowering Women Junior Award; Collette Murray, the Empowering Women Global Award; and Debbie Ledf
• Three local women Thursday night earned the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland’s top 2011 empowerment honors during the annual Empowering Women Banquet held at the Cleveland Country Club.
• The sales tax dispute between the Cleveland City Council and Bradley County Commission is on hold until Chancellor Jerri Bryant issues a written decision.
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• Homicide suspect captured. Read all about it in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. More tomorrow. Other stories today include actions defended in sales tax lawsuit case, TDDA award honors State Rep. Kevin Brooks, government views differ on tax lawsuit
• It was only hours after Sheriff Jim Ruth said he hoped to soon have the suspect in Tuesday’s double-homicide in custody that his hopes came true.
• Councilman David May said Wednesday morning a decision from a third party is needed to settle a sales tax disagreement between the city and county.
• The Ladies of DZT Provide an Afternoon of Easter Festivities
• Suspect in custody...Hamilton Co.
• Aaron Dean Lawson, 32, is 5-feet 10-inches tall and weighs 210 pounds. He has red hair and brown eyes. Last seen driving a '97 maroon Ford Explorer with a black tailgate. License 676 RVH. Contact 728-7311 and choose option 8, or dial 911 or 728-7272
• No new details released. The Banner's comprehensive report today covers all aspects of investigation so far regarding a double-homicide at 184 Leathea Lane. Charles 'Eddie' Phillips and wife Debbie were shot to death. Aaron Lawson is the
• A press conference at the Bradley Co. Sheriff's Office regarding a double-homicide is set for 1 p.m.
• Bradley Co. deputies and CSIs on scene Leatha Lane...unconfirmed double-homicide. Suspect at large according to 911 and LE...may be enroute to Meigs Co.
• Butler Golf Slated for May 4
• Lady Flames Upset Lady Hawks
• Flames Beaten by No. 15 Shorter
• Tuesday’s Cleveland Daily Banner highlights stories about the joint meeting to settle the sales tax dispute is set, an interpreter allegedly watched porn during court, a suspected meth lab seized, the People First chapter takes its first step to or
• Peggy Meyer submitted a photo of a nest full of blue eggs she found in one of her trees.
• The Bradley County Commission will meet with members of the Cleveland City Council at 5 p.m. today in the Commission Room of the Bradley County Courthouse.
• A public awareness campaign by CU on how reduce energy use is highlighted in today’s Banner. Other stories include a lack of a quorum canceling the Council meeting, a profile on Jennie Kirkpatrick and her art, the Signal Center giving area parents
• Children in local church congregations have helped raise money to assist homeless families in the Cleveland area as part of a new project by Family Promise of Bradley County to raise awareness of the plight of homelessness in the area.
• As Cleveland Utilities residential customers prepare for the impact of TVA’s new time-of-use rates in two to three years, the local utility is working closely with a public awareness campaign aimed at ways to help reduce energy use by altering hous
• Per Bradley Co. 911 transmission: BOLO '93 white 'vette. Reportedly stolen Florida. Occupied white male Rondell Reed. Wanted for questioning homicide. May be armed and dangerous. Forensic tech indicated he was on I-75 southbound, contact 911 if
• Percussion Ensemble to Perform
• Friday’s Banner features stories about radiation traces within the Chattanooga water supply, a zoning member explaining her vote, “CNN Heroes” honoring local lady, a workshop to discuss homelessness, real-life coach Herman Boone inspire
• Johnny Evans was happy to be spending his 67th birthday taking care of his 2010 income taxes with his tax accountant, Harry Trewhitt, CPA, with the Fritz Harris, CPA, firm, Wednesday.
• Elevated levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water sample taken from an undisclosed source within the Chattanooga drinking water supply provided by the Tennessee American Water Co.
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• Symphony Orchestra Presents Spring Concert
• Healthcare as Sustainable Development Lecture
• Women’s Rugby Team to 2011 South Collegiate Championship
• Tomorrow’s Banner will include our monthly Cleveland Life, featuring stories on Cruise-In, how Cleveland’s infrastructure has changed over the years, what geocaching is and more. Don’t miss it.
• The city of Cleveland has been offered an 18-acre site for a new school. Read about it in today’s Banner, along with stories about drain grates being taken for scrap metal, no UN funds going to the BCC 2035 plan, the ESMTF revising its organization
• Scrap metals similar to the material two alleged thieves took Monday afternoon are often a source of legitimate income — when they are scrap metals.
• A Cleveland real estate agent representing the Joe Stuart family on Wednesday offered an 18.02-acre site on Hardwick Farms as a potential building site for a new Cleveland City Schools elementary school.
• Strong storms could penetrate the Tennessee Valley Friday but today, highs in the upper 70s and lows in the 50s tonight.
• McCroskey Inks Pact With Basketball
• Volley For Cure Raises Record $19,000
• Today’s Banner highlights Whirlpool adding 50 jobs to its Cleveland call center, oak trees saving a house and family from a fallen hickory, Mayor Tom Rowland vetoing court-delaying city resolution, IDB group eying an 18-acre lease, Charles Towler g
• It was only a few inches, but it made a world of difference to George Lessig and his wife, Martha. “Nobody got hurt,” George Lessig said, thankfully. That includes their cat Sheba, who can sleep through anything — and apparently did.
• A Cleveland-based Whirlpool Corporation call center employing some 500 workers will get a little bigger following Tuesday’s announcement by the global appliance maker that it will close a call center in Yakima, Wash.
• Sunshine should produce a high of 75 today and an overnight low of 43. A slight north wind will shift easterly.
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• Softball Splits with No.9 Brenau
• Today’s Banner highlights stories about the county possibly bumping some projects to fund others, the median digging on 25th St. to be finished in two weeks, mutual projects at risk, the Tea Party repeats Agenda 21 concerns, the Community Advisory
• UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt was the guest speaker at the Trousdale School luncheon and golf tournament Monday at Cleveland Country Club. Summitt, at back center (above) said, “It touches my heart,” after
• An option for gaining needed funds was presented during the Bradley County Commission work session Monday.
• A chance of showers exists today along with a high of 67 degrees. Tonight, partly cloudy with a low of 42.
• School of Music Presents Masterworks Concert
• Hazardous weather could be expected within the next hour or so...Bradley Co. under a Tornado Watch until 3 a.m. Stay tuned for updates.
• Tornado watch in effect for the Bradley County area... watch for updates
• TVA’S time-of-use peak periods defined in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Also highlighted today is Whirlpool’s plant progressing, Easy Auto has purchased buildings and land locally, Timothy L. Moody was identified as the person killed
• While construction progresses on Whirlpool Corporation’s new 1.4 million square-foot manufacturing facility and distribution center in Cleveland, another of the company’s abandoned factories has been purchased and should have new tenants with
• Cleveland and Bradley County households that heed Cleveland Utilities’ advice to reduce electrical power usage during peak periods will be those least impacted down the road during a gradual transition to TVA’s new time-of-use rates.
• A High Wind advisory is included in a Hazardous Weather Outlook today as storms begin to move into the area later. An incoming cold front could produce large hail and storms this evening. Tornadic activity could also be possible, according to NWS. A high
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• Winners announced for the 65 Roses 5K
• Tennessee Highway Patrol and Polk County Sheriff’s Office officials were on the scene of a reported fatality involving a pedestrian and a CSX train Saturday evening. The time of the initial call was 9:04 p.m. The incident occurred on the tracks nea
• Flames Win Opener Against Brewton-Parker
• Wacker Chemie officially broke ground at the site of its Tennessee polysilicon plant in Charleston. Read all about it in today’s Cleveland Banner. Also read about the history of WACKER leading up to today. In addition, read stories about even more
• Wacker Chemie AG officially started construction work on its single largest investment in the company’s nearly 100-year history this morning with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by area business, state and local government representatives.
• Knowledge of the plant reached the public Dec. 8, 2008, when Bradley County commissioners voted unanimously in special session to approve $5 million in incentives for an unknown and unnamed company, and details were also unavailable.
• Davis and Reuning Receive Honors
• Jazz Concert on Tuesday
• Business Advisory Council Celebrates 25 Years
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• SSAC Streaming Baseball and Softball
• Today’s Banner highlights the Cleveland Civil Air Patrol and its upcoming 25th anniversary, the sales tax mediation failing in a lawsuit, John Wilkins indicted in cycle fatality, finance leaders uncertain how to address ongoing problems and moistur
• Mediation between the city and county failed to settle a disagreement over sales taxes. The argument now proceeds to Bradley County Chancery Court on April 21.
• The Cleveland Civil Air Patrol was launched in 1986 and will be celebrating its 25th anniversary July 7.
• Plenty of sunshine is expected today as the temperature is expected to hit or exceed the 80 degree mark. Tonight, a cooling to 56 is forecast.
• Schrock Publishes Articles
• Today’s Banner highlights stories about how the Tea Party feels about the county’s strategy vote, a new Chevy dealership is moving back into Cleveland, Sheriff Jim Ruth seeking to protect the seniority of officers of a certain rank, Brown Bag
• Don Ledford Automotive Center, in Cleveland almost 30 years, has been notified by Chevrolet that it is now this area’s Chevrolet dealer, adding the brand to its existing list of GM products — Buick, GMC and Cadillac.
• Tea Party of Bradley County founder Donny Harwood said Tuesday evening a tax increase of any amount would be brutal on the average family.
• Another Successful Lee Day
• Unity Dance Troupe to Perform
• “Tea with My Fair Lady” Presented by Lee's Theatre
• The Cleveland Daily Banner is highlighting the Bradley County Commission’s delaying its vote on growth strategy, former church leader Dr. Ray H. Hughes Sr.’s passing at age 87, recent storms nothing like the “Super Outbreak” in Ap
• Attorney Matthew Coleman is the son of Dr. Ron Coleman, the well-known humanitarian who bought Hardwick Woolen Mill in 1999 with the vision of preserving the Hardwick name and its importance in the development of the city of Cleveland.
• The Bradley County Commission on Monday night delayed approving the BCC 2035 Joint Strategic Plan until its sales tax dispute with the Cleveland City Council is settled.
• Squires Hall Recital Concludes with “Ning and Friends”
• Softball Series Rained Out
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Flood watch also isssued for area
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Bradley Co . under TORNADO WARNING
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Severe Thunderstorm watch isssued by NWS until 10 p.m.
• Today’s Banner highlights stories about MARS to invest $60M in its Cleveland plant and hire 50 more employees, street lighting being a new focus in energy savings, the YMCA targeting health on Kids Day, Junior Achievement rolling a strike in bowl,
• Parent company MARS will invest $60 million over the next two years to install two new assembly lines for its M&Ms and Twix products and to expand an existing line for its newest candy, Pretzel M&Ms, at the Cleveland plant.
• Keeping up with Bradley County’s unprecedented growth while also maintaining its own equipment and infrastructure is costing Cleveland Utilities a lot of money, but the nonprofit public utility is also honing in on ways to save dollars and energy.
• Lee Launches Community Camp Calendar
• Lady Flames Blast Columbia
• Cleveland Police confirmed shortly before 6:30 p.m. that a man has died after being shot earlier today at Daybreak Suites. Police detectives remain on the scene and according to Lt. Mark Gibson, "There is a high probability this is a homicide so we
• A Munich, Germany-based international manufacturer is bringing its Wacker Polysilicon North America plant to Bradley County because of multiple community strengths — local talent base, transportation access, power supply and the proximity of needed
• Friday’s Banner highlights stories about the new TVA time-of-use rates now in effect, how Bradley’s strengths attracted WACKER, what the community legal forum advised attendees, TCPS honoring a commitment to education, how the Neely murder ch
• There was a little bit of seriousness, some boasting and a whole lot of laughter at the Tennessee Christian Preparatory School’s Fourth Annual Presidential Celebration Thursday evening at Cleveland Country Club.
• Cleveland Utilities electric customers won’t feel an immediate impact on their monthly bills following today’s start of TVA’s new time-of-use rates, but the pricing jump will be significant in two to three years for households that don&
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• Breaking News — De De Neely was charged with second degree murder and arrested by the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday on a Meigs County warrant. Deputies assigned to the Sheriff’s Targeted Area Response and detectives found
• Today’s Banner highlights stories about the Merger Task Force nearing the end of its mission, meth lab cleanup a growing issue for property owners, only two schools sites still in the running for a new elementary school, the library progressing on
• It can cost thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars to homeowners, landlords and motel and hotel operators when it comes to ridding the toxins left behind by meth cooks.
• The Emergency Services Task Force is nearing the end of its mandate to study merging the city and county fire departments and emergency medical services into a single organization.
• THE DECISION IS IN!!! Meeri Shin, Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland Youth of the Year, was in the top six at the state competition, which was held in Nashville between Monday and Wednesday of this week. Meeri is now a sophomore at Walker Valley High Sc
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• Lee Day This Weekend
• Today’s Banner highlights articles on the Bradley County Education Association opposing the newly proposed teacher tenure legislation, a motion for the Bradley County Juvenile Court to keep revenue it generates, Dr. Martin Ringstaff is excited abou
• Former Cleveland postmaster, community servant and popular Bradley County farmer Robert Easterly, 95, died Tuesday at the family residence.
• The Bradley County Education Association is not in support of a bill changing the probationary period for teachers to receive tenure from three years to five.
• Cherokee Nation History Course a Success
• Pope Receives PhD
• Tuesday’s Banner reveals who the next city schools director is, along with stories on the city rejecting a sales tax compromise, three county commissioners who feel snubbed, the council giving OK to growth strategy, the county disappointed over the
• Three Bradley County Commissioners who walked into a City Council work session Monday afternoon said they felt snubbed after Council members rejected a compromise to an ongoing sales tax dispute.
• Dr. Martin E. Ringstaff was selected as the new city schools director by the Cleveland Board of Education Monday night.
• Clouds should give way to sunshine later today producing a high in the lower to mid-60s. A 90 percent chance of rain or thunderstorms are possible tonight and Wednesday. A high near 61 is predicted Wednesday.
• Lee Welcomes Dr. Dani Smith as Guest Lecture
• Monday’s Banner highlights the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Meeri Shin - this year’s Boys & Girls Clubs Youth of the Year, a seminar focusing on health insurance, the city of Cleveland set to name its new director at tonight’
• One month from now officials will kick off the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a series of events set to take place in Charleston and Bradley County over the next five years.
• The Cleveland City Schools system could have its next director after tonight’s special called meeting of the city school board.
• The high today is expected to reach near 60 degrees as skies remain cloudy. Over 4-inches of rain fell in Bradley County during the weekend and to date. Tonight, a low of 39 is expected. On Tuesday, a high of 63 is forecast.
• Saxophone Program to Present Concert
• Dr. David Jones to Give Lecture
• Another round of heavy rain and lightening has entered the county.
• Small hail reported in Hunt Road area.
• Per Bradley Co. 911 and NWS...Bradley County is under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. High winds could be associated with the storm.
• State legislators adopt a teacher tenure bill. Read all about it in Friday’s Banner, along with stories on an update on the status of the airport with a possible October 2012 completion date, weather spotters gearing up in class, beavers back in to
• “It’s mother nature at her best and she’s finally got the best of us,” Royal Oaks resident Barbara Gilbert said this morning about the beaver infestation across from the Cleveland Municipal Airport on Michigan Avenue Road.
• The Tennessee House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday largely along party lines to make it harder for Tennessee teachers to get and keep tenure.
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• Honor Recital 2011
• One More Evening of Writer’s Festival
• Baseball Camp Dates Announced
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Two in custody after alleged stolen vehicle chase. Details in Friday's Banner.
• Today’s Banner highlights stories on law enforcement debating meth cleanup, Congressman Chuck Fleischmann mopping up at Burgess Feed and Farm, Bradley County’s finance committee saying ‘No’ for now to an excess fee toward a buildi
• “Out of the skillet and straight into the fire.” Those are the words of Tennessee Meth Task Force Director Tommy Farmer as he met with Bradley County Sheriff Jim Ruth, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and others in response to a notice on federal
• Congressman Chuck Fleischmann mopped the floor and, occasionally, leaned on the mop handle to talk to constituents in his 3rd Congressional District when they came into Burgess Feed and Farm Supplies on Highway 411.
• Cooler today with highs in the 50s and an overnight low in the mid-30s.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Tornado watch extended til 2a.m.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Upgrade to WARNING until 10 p.m....kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Severe Thunderstorm watch ti 10 p.m....Bradley Co.....kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Bradley Co. under tornado watch until 10p.m....kaylor
• Today’s Banner features Cleveland Utilities contracting Osmose Utility Services Inc. to do a periodic inspection at a cost of $571,862, a survey about the urban forest, 43 years of gold for Bradley Central High School’s FFA, the local library
• The Bradley Central High School FFA Organization has been recognized by the Tennessee House of Representatives during a legislative session for receiving the National Chapter Gold Medal Emblem for 43 consecutive years.
• A periodic inspection and remedial treatment of Cleveland Utilities’ roughly 23,000 transmission wood poles throughout its service area have been contracted to Osmose Utility Services Inc. at a cost of $571,862.
• An update on a fire which injured a Cleveland man Thursday evening. See today's Banner for details.
• A possibility of thunderstorms exists today. Daytime high will be in the mid 70s and the nighttime low will be 47 degrees.
• Dave Ramsey Simulcast
• WACKER and Chattanooga State Community College join together to start the WACKER Institute to train future employees. Also in today’s Cleveland Banner, read stories on the county approving a sales tax proposal, Lee University’s dual concert f
• CHATTANOOGA — WACKER and Chattanooga State Community College sealed their agreement Monday to work together to provide qualified and well-trained employees for the local Wacker Polysilicon North America plant being built by the Munich-based company
• A possible solution to a two-year legal debate between the Bradley County Commission and the Cleveland City Council which might also provide funding for an industrial park was passed at Monday’s County Commission meeting at the courthouse.
• Plenty of sunshine is in store for today as temperature possibly climb into the mid-80s. An overnight low of 56 is expected.
• Lee Day Fast Approaching
• Smith Named Golfer of the Week
• Today’s Banner highlights the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s approval of wetlands relocation so CU can begin work on the construction of a substation to service the new Whirlpool plant, scientist and explorer Roger Cro
• Cleveland Utilities’ request to relocate a small wetlands area for the construction of a substation to service the new Whirlpool plant and distribution center has been approved by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
• Roger Crouch had wanted to be an explorer ever since he was in third grade.
• Hrushka Wins Two Events at Emory
• Lee Theatre to Present My Fair Lady
• Jazz Legend to Perform with Jazz Ensemble
• Read about Cleveland Utilities and its plans to bring Whirlpool’s new facility online and the walls going up at the new Whirlpool plant in Friday’s Banner. Also read articles on the Fine Arts Center being completed soon, State Sen. Mike Bell&
• Work is now under way on the new 1.4 million square-foot Whirlpool manufacturing plant and distribution center on Benton Pike at the Michigan Avenue Road intersection. The facility is expected to be completed by third quarter 2011 with production kicking
• Hooking up the future 1.4 million square-foot Whirlpool manufacturing plant and distribution center to Cleveland Utilities power and water is charging ahead with a series of approved contracts taking the spotlight Thursday.
• School of Music to Host Benefit Concert for Japan
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• Today’s Banner features stories about the census and how much Bradley County has grown, St. Patty’s Day, the BEST partners honored, the Bradley County Sheriff’s officers possibly getting a step pay plan, Senior Master Sgt. Joe Jackson a
• HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY — These Irish shamrocks were among many that were sent out recently by Tennessee Valley Bone and Joint to business partners and customers in recognition of Saint Patrick’s Day. These were waiting to be packaged
• Both the city and county mayors were surprised the population of Bradley County numbered less than 100,000, according to figures from the 2010 Census released Wednesday.
• Former Sheriff Tim Gobble is named Deputy Chief at Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Corrections. See related story in today's Banner.
• Sunshine and warmer temperatures are in store for today as the high reaches 74 degrees. Tonight, temps will drop to 38 degrees. A slight chance of fog is possible Friday morning.
• String Theory Benefit Concert
• Shannon Thomas to End Lee’s 2010-11 Presidential Series
• Today’s Banner highlights articles on the state budget providing $35M to WACKER, Leggett murder defendants found guilty, Airmen feature soloist Technical Sgt. Paige Martin, a grant to fight south, east side crime, Cleveland Board of Education to ke
• The jazzy sounds of the Airmen of Note will be filling the air of the Cleveland State Community College’s L. Quentin Lane Gymnasium on Sunday afternoon.
• Wacker Polysilicon North America is one of two industrial development projects to receive funding in the new budget presented by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
• Lee Partners with IRS to Provide Free Tax Prep
• The Industrial Development Board seeks $6M for a new industrial park. Read about it in today’s Banner, along with stories on Wacker Chemie to break ground on April 8, the Cleveland City Council delaying a budget decision, the Johnston Park future h
• ON-SITE GROUNDBREAKING — A morning and early afternoon of activities have been scheduled for Friday, April 8, which will include the official on-site groundbreaking ceremonies near Charleston for the Wacker Polysilicon North America plant. All enve
• The Industrial Development Board submitted a request for funding a publicly owned industrial park to the Bradley County Commission on Monday.
• Students Present at Sociology Symposium
• Softball Games Cancelled Due to Rain
• FREE concert by the United States Air Force AIRMEN OF NOTE at Cleveland State Community College at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 20, at the L. Quentin Lane Gymnasium at CSCC. Tickets are required. No reserved seats. First come, first seated. Mail coupon from pag
• WACKER groundbreaking set for April 8. Read all about it in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner, along with other stories on the county and Santek Environmental partnering for Green event, Life Bridges leader Luke Queen attending the Department of Int
• Tennessee residents struggling with developmental disorders now have a strong voice in the state capitol following Gov. Bill Haslam’s induction of Jim Henry as the first commissioner for the newly developed Department of Intellectual and Developmen
• Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will keynote groundbreaking ceremonies Friday, April 8, for the new $1.5 billion Wacker Polysilicon North America plant to be constructed in north Bradley County.
• Baseball Moved Up to 5 p.m.
• Clocks "Spring" forward at 2 a.m. Sunday...Don't forget!
• Tsunami hits U.S. Read about it in today’s Cleveland Banner. In other news, Mike Huckabee came to Cleveland, the airport project earns an award, Kaye Smith is named “Citizen of the Year,” a volunteer fireman is killed in a wreck, and re
• “I’m sick of you,” a woman said to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as he entered Books-A-Million Bookstore on Thursday. Without hesitation, he feigned sympathy for the woman’s well-being and replied, “I’m sorry, I&r
• “I’m sick of you,” a woman said to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as he entered Books-A-Million Bookstore on Thursday.
• He was described by his peers as a leader and by one member of the Bradley County Election Commission as his mentor. Harlan White was honored Thursday at the Kiwanis Club by his fellow Kiwanians and local government leaders.
• 53 degrees is the forecast high today but a warmer 68 is in store for Saturday. Tonight, temps will drop to 34 under clear skies. Daytime temps are expected to progress into the 70s through next week with a chance of rain midway.
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• Great Strides Set for April 9
• Flood waters are reported in the area due to the recent rains. Read about it in today’s Banner, along with stories on the school board approving a budget, raises and bonuses, the swim center support being denied, the total assets of the emergency s
• Several Bradley County roadways were flooded during periods of heavy rain overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday afternoon.
• The Cleveland Board of Education approved the 2011-12 general fund budget and a one-time bonus for all full-time employees at a called meeting Wednesday.
• Slightly cooler temperatures will be evident today. A high between 43 and 48 is possible. Partly sunny skies are expected Friday with a high near 52 degrees. An overnight low of 34 is forecast tonight.
• Wood to Deliver Lecture on John Milton on the Liberal Arts
• Moyen Releases Book
• Rain is moving out of the area. Nearly 2.5-inches of rain has been recorded at the Banner offices and Emergency Operations Center. Polk County Schools are to be dismissed at 1 p.m. today.
• Reports of Walker Valley/Goodwin, Old Alabama, Spring Meadow Lane/Dalton Pike, Bates Pike/Lake Drive, Dockery Lane, Smith Drive/Huff Ave, Moreland/Harrison Pike, Bower Lane, Lower Chestuee, and Harris Circle all being flooded and all are being investigat
• The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the area. Read about this in today’s Banner and other stories about finance leaders beginning to look at school needs, Wacker Chemie hiring eight engineers, six men indicted in a license sch
• Wacker Chemie has hired eight engineers and extended offers for procurement and logistics managers as the company’s staffing efforts continue moving full-steam ahead.
• “Turn around — Don’t drown.” Those are the words being spoken by National Weather Service officials as a strong system moves through the Tennessee Valley today.
• A FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BRADLEY COUNTY TODAY. DRIVERS AND RESIDENTS NEED TO BE AWARE OF CONDITIONS WHICH MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS AS RAINS CONTINUE, according to Bradley County Emergency Management officials.
• Roads affected by high water are; Lower Chestuee, Corvin, Dockery at the railroad tracks, Dalton Pike at Spring Meadows, Bates Pike at Lake Drive, Blythe Ferry and Bower Lane. Emergency Managers urge motorists to exercise caution. TURN AROUND-DON'T
• Today’s Banner covers stories on how the county is seeking meth cleanup funds and a letter to U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, on the Board of Education receiving a proposal on an aquatics center, on a night of recognition for the Board of Education, o
• HONORED — Director of schools Dr. Rick Denning hands a certificate to Mildred Maupin. The Cleveland Board of Education officially changed the name of the annual spelling bee to “The Mildred Maupin Annual Spelling Bee” during the board&r
• Information about a possible aquatics facility was brought to the Cleveland Board of Education during its regular meeting Monday.
• Rain is expected to move in during the evening and overnight hours and a Flood Watch has been issued. Today calls for mostly cloudy skies with a high near 60 and gusty winds. Tonight, showers are likely along with an overnight low of 49 degrees. On Wedne
• Zawadzki Grabs Royals' Spotlight
• Adriana Kim is the new “Distinguished Young Woman” of Cleveland 2012. Read about her in today’s Cleveland Banner. Also read about the 100 BMBC honoring area youth and mentors, the international honor of the Summit Award to the local Ju
• Junior Achievement of the Ocoee Region has completed a pair of award-winning performances, including another prominent recognition by its corporate headquarters as well as a locally successful “Bowl for Education” fundraiser titled “Bow
• A celebration honoring those who have committed time, diligence and energy into the area’s young people dominated Saturday night’s 16th annual Scholarship and Mentoring Banquet of 100 Black Men of Bradley County at Lee University’s Deac
• Clouds will be present today along with sunshine peeking through. A high of 58 is forecast. An overnight low of 38 is expected. Partly cloudy again on Tuesday with a high of 61 degrees expected.
• Clouds will be present today along with sunshine peeking through. A high of 58 is forecast. An overnight low of 38 is expected. Partly cloudy again on Tuesday with a high of 61 degrees expected.
• Squires Hall Recital Features Alumna Sarah Kate Walston
• Baseball Rescheduled For Monday at 4
• Today’s Banner highlights the quick growth coming to Cleveland and Bradley County, the love of country theme in speech given by State Sen. Mike Bell, the Lord Mayor personally inviting Walker Valley High School to London for its annual New Year&rsq
• Walker Valley High School was invited to return to the annual New Year’s Day parade in London for the fourth time during a visit by the 2010 Lord Mayor of Westminster on Thursday.
• Growth is coming quickly to the Cleveland and Bradley County community and surrounding area, and it will require jurisdictional cooperation, a lot of work and plenty of patience.
• Blocker Named Player of the Year
• McKinnon Earns Highest SSAC Award
• Today’s Cleveland Banner highlights a story in which the Tennessee Department of Transportation knows that Exist 20 is “bad.” Read about it in Thursday’s Banner. Also read about Sheriff Jim Ruth seeking the return of the meth fund
• Three employees from Life Care Centers of America locations in Tennessee recently returned from a trip to Haiti to deliver shoe box gifts of toys and personal items to children as part of Operation Christmas Child with representatives of Samaritan’
• The project manager for one of the larger Tennessee Department of Transportation projects in Bradley County empathized with commuters who use Exit 20 on Interstate 75.
• Sunshine is very prominent in today's weather outlook. A high near 70 or greater is predicted. Winds could become gusty as the day progresses. A low of 38 is expected overnight. Clouds will begin to move in and a 20 percent chance of rain is forecas
• Gray Releases Book
• Flames Baseball Moved Up
• United Way pledges hit $2.4M. Read about it, as well as United Way’s new award winners in today’s Banner. Also read about the county planners approving the BCC 2035 plan, area storm damage, a Cleveland doctor charged after allegedly signing b
• Stephen Crass, publisher and editor of the Cleveland Daily Banner and a longtime supporter of United Way of Bradley County, has been named the 39th recipient of the organization’s William F. Johnson Sr. Community Service Award.
• UNITED WAY AWARD WINNERS — Sandra Rowland, who co-chaired the 2010 United Way of Bradley County campaign with her husband, Tom, poses with the “Big Chief” award given to the campaign co-chairman whose team of divisions raised the most i
• A high of 69 is expected today under sunny skies. Winds should be calm. A low of 38 is forecast tonight and skies are predicted to be sunny again on Thursday. Enjoy!
• Doctor charged with alleged professional violations. Details in today's Banner.
• Lady Flames Ready for SSAC Tourney
• Storms ripped through the southern half of county; one man’s death related. Read about this and the following stories in today’s Cleveland Banner: the Cleveland City Council says OK to study of south; County eyes sales tax use for industrial
• A Polk County man died after Monday afternoon’s severe storms caused a tree to fall on his residence. No sign of trauma to his body was found but his death is still classified as storm-related, according to officials.
• There might be a settlement in a two-year-old dispute between the city and county over the distribution of sales tax collections after voters passed a .5 percent sales tax increase in 2009.
• Cooler temps today and windy after storms raced through Bradley County. A death was reported in Polk County due to the storm. A high of 62 is forecast today and low of 33 overnight. Slightly warmer Wednesday as the thermometer reaches toward the 70 degre
• Bernhardt, Lee’s New Artist-In-Residence
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Polk fatality possibly storm related. Home struck by fallen tree and power lines. Details in Tuesday's Banner...kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Old Chattanooga near Old Alabama blocked too thru traffic.. trees blocking roadway and train ...kaylor
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Warning extended til 3:30 trees reported down...all BC Law enforcement active monitoring.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Hail APD 40
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Bradley Co. Tornado warning until 3p.m....per 911
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Per 911- Tornado watch extended til 8:30 p.m.
• Today’s Banner highlights Scott-Richmond, a music teacher with passion. But also don’t miss other stories in the Banner, including those on the wetland decision delaying the Cleveland Utilities crew, the area being 4.41 inches below its rainf
• Struggling through life with intellectual disabilities leaves thousands of aging adults around the country at the tender mercy of family members or caregivers who too often are hopelessly challenged to provide for their special needs.
• The students smile as they file into the room, but the teacher’s smile is wider. Her passion and enjoyment of her subject is evident to all.
• The possibility of severe weather is in today's forecast. A Tornado Watch has been issued until 2 p.m. Damaging winds and heavy rains are forecast along with a high of 74 today. Winds could be gusty at times. Thunderstorms are expected before 10 p.m
• Furey Named Lee Men's Soccer Coach
• Holsinger Premiers “Reagan of Illinois” in Dixon, Ill.
• Do you know who the winner of the Tennessee Association Utility District’s water tasting competition is this year? The answer is in today’s Banner. Or do you know which company’s sales volumes continue to soar? Who cited people as culpr
• Mounting congestion at several traffic “hot spots” and heavily used intersections inside the city has prompted Cleveland Utilities to begin a comprehensive three-phase corridor study that will begin with the hectic Paul Huff Parkway and branc
• Cleveland Utilities customers face a recommended 5 percent rate hike in water and wastewater usage if a proposed $120 million budget is approved for fiscal year 2012 by the Cleveland Board of Public Utilities.
• A Wind Advisory remains in effect today until 3 p.m. after a High Wind Warning was allowed to expire. Gusts could still be strong in some areas but according to NWS, as the front moves, winds will relax. It's 54 degrees with an expected high of 59 t
• International Women’s Day Celebrated at Lee
• Line of storms moving into Bradley County withing just a short while..NWS has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect until 2 a.m. for the area. A thin line of storms will move quickly but could cause damage to structures, trees and utilities...
• Line of storms moving into Bradley County withing just a short while..NWS has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect until 2 a.m. for the area. A thin line of storms will move quickly but could cause damage to structures, trees and utilities.
• Seniors Direct Lee Past Shorter
• Local officials toured Lake Forest Middle School and Walker Valley High School to address recently requested funding. Read about this and other stories in today’s Banner: Directors of Coordinated School Health met with state legislators; a 1820s-er
• History lay in a pile of rubble last weekend where a link to Chief John Ross once stood in the form of a deteriorating log cabin victimized by the elements of nature and human neglect.
• Members of the Bradley County Board of Education and the Bradley County Commission toured Lake Forest Middle School and Walker Valley High School to inspect and discuss problems the board is seeking to address with recently requested funds.
• It's a gray day in Bradley County and Cleveland. Today, expect a high of 67 degrees and possible thunderstorms tonight. A low of 54 degrees is forecast into Friday morning. It's currently 56 degrees at the Banner offices and Emergency Operation
• Bradley County law enforcement is looking for answers in an assault and possible shooting this morning which occurred at an Old Georgetown Road address. Details are forthcoming.
• Bradley County law enforcement is looking for answers in an assault and possible shooting this morning which occurred at an Old Georgetown Road address. Details are forthcoming.
• Furey Named Lee Men's Soccer Coach
• Today’s Banner highlights a story about the Bradley County Commission not passing a resolution concerning the director of schools and/or board-appointed administrators. Other stories include ones on the cell tower ordinance talks delayed, merger se
• Tennessee is one of a handful of states leading the charge to prepare for what could become the transportation wave of the future — electric vehicles.
• Three anticipated discussions originally listed on Tuesday night’s agenda for the Cleveland Municipal Planning Commission were delayed for a month so what could have been a potential two-hour session was condensed into a brief, 15-minute visit.
• Saxophonist Murphy to Perform at Squires Recital Hall Series
• Flames, Hawks in Key SSAC Battles
• The biggest issue of the year — 126 pages — is today’s Cleveland Banner INNOVATION & PROGRESS 2011 edition. Read about our community, its people, their accomplishments and their future goals. The front page also highlights stories a
• AIRPORT DEVELOPING — While new businesses and industries took center stage in 2010 in the community, work on the new Cleveland Municipal Airport continued ahead of schedule. This aerial photograph, supplied by John Miles, shows the continuing earth
• “INNOVATION & PROGRESS 2011” IS NOW AVAILABLE. THE YEARLY PROGRESS EDITION IS IN TODAY’S CLEVELAND DAILY BANNER. THIS 126-PAGE SPECIAL EDITION CONTAINS THE LATEST ON AREA UPDATES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS, LOCAL VOLUNTEERS AND LOCAL GROWT
• If economic development and community progress were measured in miles then Cleveland and Bradley County may have circled the globe in 2010.
• On this day 55 years ago, Kathleen Anita Wrinkle lost her life when she apparently drove her car into Parksville Lake. It took 53 years to solve her disappearance. I'm thankful to have played a small role in helping her find her way back to her fami
• It's 53 degrees at the Banner offices and Emergency Operations Center. A high today of 61 is forecast under partly cloudy skies. Tonight a low of 31 can be expected.
• Symphonic Band Presents Annual Concert
• Today’s Banner features the State Wrestling Champions — The Cleveland High School Blue Raiders! Check out their story in today’s paper. Also read about how the Red Cross needs chapter volunteers, about how TACIR backs growth strategy, a
• A statewide report supports many of the conclusions of the recently completed local strategic plan initiated by Bradley County and the cities of Cleveland and Charleston.
• It’s all about saving, and changing, lives and sometimes it falls pretty close to home.
• It's 65 dgrees at the Banner offices and the Emergency Operations Center. Today, expect partly cloudy skies and gusty conditions as the day progresses. A 50 percent chance of rain exists as the high tops at 68 degrees. A high of 61 is forecast Tuesd
• HDCOE Sends Student Teachers to Thailand
• School of Music Presents Opera Performances
• The Bradley County Schools system has named its three Teachers of the Year in today’s Banner, as well as reporting on a suspect arrested in Florida wanted in Bradley County for marijuana cultivation, Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor John G. Mo
• Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor John G. Morgan used the world as a backdrop to explain the need to improve education to remain competitive in the global economy.
• A suspect wanted in connection with a marijuana cultivation investigation in Bradley County was apprehended in Florida and has been turned over to Bradley County Sheriff’s authorities.
• Chamber Orchestra to be Next PCS Guest
• Anthropology Lecture Series to Conclude with Gardner
• Reported first in the Banner, a suspect in the cultivation of marijuana arrested in Miami — A continuing investigation by Drug Enforcement Unit detectives for the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office led to the apprehension and arrest of 31-year-o
• Five juveniles charged in school vandalism. Read all about it in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Also, read about the Cleveland City School Board is continuing its interviews for a new director, BCEA seeks a $1,000 bonus, Trousdale Troopers and the
• When Susan Turner and Katie Bolden left Trousdale School with program director Tasya Woodard on Monday, they had no clue they would soon be on the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” build site.
• A 32-year-old Bradley County man was captured and taken into custody Wednesday morning following a robbery at the Central Drug Pharmacy on Peerless Road.
• Five students have been charged with vandalism and theft in connection with damages discovered earlier this week at the construction site of the new Cleveland High School Science Wing.
• A high near 70 is expected today as the sun shines on Cleveland and Bradley County. Cool tonight with a low near 46 is forecast. Friday includes warm sunshine again but gusty southerly winds.
• Read about local leaders eyeing the county school system’s needs in today’s Daily Banner. Also read about the airport case to be set for the grand jury soon, the roadscaping on 25th St., the next candidate for a new director for the Cleveland
• Motorists are asked to consider an alternate route during the next four to six weeks while city crews work in the median of 25th Street between Keith Street and Peerless Road.
• The case of three individuals charged in Bradley County with destruction of earth-moving equipment at the Cleveland Municipal Airport construction site is expected to go to a Bradley County grand jury at any time.
• A suspect is in custody after a robbery at a pharmacy located at Peerless Crossing. Bradley County and Cleveland law enforcement raced to the area to search. A Bradley County Criminal Interdiction Agent captured the suspect nearby.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: On the scene of a daring daylight robbery at a local pharmacy...details later. Kaylor
• The Hiwassee Chapter of the American Red Cross needs help. Five area fires affected families. The organization needs volunteers and always can use donations. See additional information and details in today's Banner.
• International Percussion Clinician Hosted by Lee
• Nine Faculty Members Earn Tenure
• Ed Johnson is a man of memories. Read all about him in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Other articles in today’s paper include one about the opening interview for the director of the Cleveland City Schools begins today, and another about the
• Cleveland Police Department detectives and crime scene technicians responded to Cleveland High School this morning after the discovery that the new Science Wing addition still under construction had been vandalized. Lt. Robert Harbison, Criminal Investi
• LOVE IN THE AIR — Today is Valentine’s Day, a cherished time for young and old loves throughout the Cleveland Bradley County area. Assuredly, office lobbies everywhere are filling with bouquets of bright red, pink and white balloons, roses an
• Today the interview process for the next director of Cleveland City Schools begins with Dr. Damon Cathey.
• Westerly winds could cause problems today as dryer conditions have prompted possible outdoor burning issues. The National Weather Service has issued an advisory discouraging burning because of a steady and sometimes gusty wind today. A high of 64 is expe
• Dorm Wars Competition Gives Back
• Anthropology Lecture Series at Lee
• As first reported in the Cleveland Banner website, four individuals are charged after deputies find meth lab on Spearfish Lane, according to Bob Gault, media and public relations coordinator for the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office. Warrant team dep
• CAIRO (AP) — Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square and Egypt exploded with joy and tears of relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Mubarak, who until the end seeme
• Friday’s Cleveland Banner highlights stories about Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Sharon Lee and her opinion on justices being selected by popular election rather than by appointment, warmer days coming to the Tennessee Valley, the impact of the t
• PROMISES OF A NEW DAY — This beautiful sunrise, caught earlier this week on a partly cloudy early morning by Cleveland resident Angie Parris, seems to be offering the promise of warmer days ahead. If weather forecasts are correct, that’s exac
• Abcor Packaging LLC is at an advantage in the business world. It’s at an advantage because working there is one of the best employees any company could ever ask for, Dustin Crumbley.
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• Community Action Network Launched at Lee
• Green Named Dean of School of Music
• The American Uniform site is considered for conversion into an indoor swimming complex and community center. Read about it in today’s Banner, along with stories about State Rep. Eric Watson’s bill to help generate funds for S.E. Tennessee Vet
• If the city could make all of the capital investments it wants between fiscal years 2012 and 2017, the price tag would be $64.05 million or $1,590 for each city resident, based on the 2009 census estimate of 40,261 Cleveland residents.
• The site committee of the Cleveland Board of Education discussed potential plans and drawings for converting the old American Uniform building on Parker Street into an indoor swimming complex and community center on Wednesday.
• Sunny skies and warmer temperatures are in the forecast through the weekend. A high of 38 is expected today after about an inch of snow fell across the area. Temps will dip into the low 20s tonight.
• Murray Joins Elite Group
• Softball Tournament Cancelled
• The Emergency Services Merger Task Force voted on what to use as the basis for its research on the cost of merging the Cleveland Fire Department and the Bradley County Emergency Medical Services. In today’s Banner, also read about snow possible aft
• It would cost more than $2,700 per person to pay for all of the infrastructure projects in Bradley County if a “wish list” of capital improvement projects was ever completely funded. Based on July 2008 population estimates, the per-capita cos
• The Emergency Services Merger Task Force voted unanimously Tuesday to establish the current salary and benefits of the Cleveland Fire Department as the basis for its research on the cost of merging the Cleveland Fire Department, Bradley County Fire Rescu
• Snow should move into Bradley County by 7 p.m. Drivers are urged to use caution Thursday morning. Complete weather details in today's Banner.
• Holsinger to Receive Phi Beta Mu’s Outstanding Bandmaster Award
• Today’s Banner features stories about President Barack Obama and his recognition of Cleveland and Whirlpool, the county rejecting a resolution to establish an ad hoc committee to study the Whitfield County (Ga.) Fire Department, infrastructure impr
• BRYMER CREEK — The Bradley County Road Department is replacing the bridge across Brymer Creek Road. Work began Jan. 24, and is expected to continue through early March. These are the types of infrastructure improvements and expansions that will con
• A marijuana grow operation which law enforcement discovered late Saturday evening was worth an estimated $193,000. Nearly 200 plants were found.
• → Cleveland Daily Banner: Per 911/NWS in Morristown, conditions overnight could cause black ice to form on roadways. USE EXTREME CAUTION.
• Lady Flames Host Southern Wesleyan
• Read about the Dream Keeper being set at Lee University to celebrate Black History Month in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Also read about Cleveland’s Edwin “Buck” Davis, Bradley Central Bears becoming state champs, Habitat for H
• THE TRADITION CONTINUES — The Bradley Central Bears are all smiles after winning their fourth straight state duals championship in Franklin late Saturday night at the Williamson County Agricultural Expo Center. The local athletes handily defeated S
• Local observances of Black History Month involving government, civic and business leaders, and crowds of area residents, take center stage over the next few days in a pair of celebrations scheduled for the Lee University and Cleveland State Community Col
• Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland is hoping to double the proceeds raised in last year’s inaugural event with the 2011 Toyota of Cleveland Bike to Build fundraiser scheduled to begin from the Bradley Central High School parking lot Saturday, April
• Bradley Sheriff's ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) Unit will be speaking to parents at Walker Valley High School tonight at 7, during a grade-level meeting. Internet Safety, Cyber Bullying, and Sexting from a parents point of view will be the
• Snow chances loom in the forecast later this week. Rain is likely tonight along with gusty conditions. A high of 54 is expected today with an overnight low of 29. Tuesday's high should be near 42. Wednesday, a slight chance of snow enters the foreca
• Big marijuana grow operation busted in Bradley County. Details in today's Banner.
• Lee Writer’s Festival: Another Successful Year
• A preliminary sketch of the new industrial site is unveiled. Two morning robberies hit Cleveland. And, the two men charged with the shooting death of a Cleveland teen were convicted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday. The upcoming “Extreme Makeover
• The two men charged with the shooting death of a Cleveland teen were convicted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday.
• ROUGH DRAWING — The initial drawing shown was prepared by Tennessee Valley Authority technical services to show a very rough depiction of the 343-acre Spring Branch Industrial Site that was formerly the Bob Zeige farm. The drawing, provided by the
• As first reported in the Cleveland Banner, Cleveland Police are looking for two suspects wanted in connection to two early morning business robberies today. The first robbery was reported at 7:17 a.m. at the Design 1000, located at 2328 Georgetown Road.
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• Lee’s PRSSA Chapter Hosts Regional Activity
• NAIA Ranks Men's Tennis No.23
• Women's Tennis Opens at No.17
• Cheap Eats Planned for Lee-Emmanuel Games
• The Long Range Transportation Plan has been sent to TDOT. Read more about it in today’s Banner, along with stories on the burial of airman, Berthold Chastain, who died in WWII, a man who was arrested, flees and is recaptured, about the possibility
• The death story of a World War II Army flyer began tragically on a mountainside of a South Pacific island in 1943. It ended peacefully Wednesday afternoon in a small hilltop cemetery near the Tennessee River.
• CAUGHT — Wesley Patrick Scott, 22, allegedly fled the Bradley County Judicial Complex Wednesday morning, leading to a city and county law enforcement manhunt. An officer was filing paperwork when Scott reportedly fled the complex. He was caught by
• NWS officials have issued a Special Weather Statement and Hazardous Weather Outlook for Friday. Some snowfall is possible and light accumulations can be expected. Today, sunny with a high of 42 and blustery winds up to 25 mph. A low of 33 is forecast ove
• Linda Starcher will be covering the trial in Bradley County Criminal Court today.
• Brendel to Present at New Zealand Conference
• Testimony ends for the day. Read details in Thursday's Banner. More trial coverage on Facebook as testimony resumes.
• Baseball Scheduled to Open Saturday
• Two more witnesses expected to provide testimony before recessing for the day.
• TBI Firearms Specialist Don Carman on stand. Speaking of the "mechanical fingerprint" of a bullet after it passes through the barrel of a weapon.
• TBI Forensic specialists testifying to fingerprint and GSR evidence.
• Today’s Banner features stories on Rev. Vincent Jackson as the keynote Dream Keeper address, on Cleveland Board of Ed OKing five finalist names, on satellite property tax sites identified, on what Voices of Lee experienced after returning from a co
• Some residents along Mouse Creek Road are upset about the before-sunup to beyond-sundown construction schedule at Amazon.com., about the smoke from burning trees, about the noise from heavy equipment and property values, but there are others who are not.
• The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Keeper Award Ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 10 in the Lee University Dixon Center. keynote Dream Keeper
• Thompson describing cause of death and specifics about reported gunshot wound.
• Forensic Pathologist Dr. Sandra Parrish Thompson on stand. She has performed or helped with over 600 autopsies during her career.
• CST Shane Clark on stand. Describes documenting a 9mm shell casing found in parking lot of Mosby Park.
• During testimony, a man being booked into custody escaped, running through the Judicial Center and out a north door. He worked through a fence to an adjoining property. Deputies continue to search for the alleged escapee.
• Lunch break. Then questioning continues with CST Wattenbarger testifying on evidence recovery.
• Crime Scene Technician Andy Wattenbarger on the stand, explaining evidence findings and collection process along with elevations and nearby buildings hit by alleged gunfire which occurred from parking lot of Mosby Park.
• The temperature at the Banner offices and Emergency Operations Center is 33.3 degrees. Windchills are fluctuating into the upper 20s.
• Darius Twitty, Terrance Armstrong 2009 shooting trial of Aston Smith is underway in Bradley County Criminal Court. CPD detective Brian Pritchard on the stand.
• Melton to Deliver Lecture on Melanchthon on the Liberal Arts
• Join “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and builder Vision Homes as they gear up for their local build in the Greater Chattanooga/Tri-County area at a pep rally Thursday, Feb. 3. The pep rally and food drive, benefitting the Chattanooga Area Fo
• The city school board screening committee gets a five-candidate list for the position of director. Today’s other lead stories in the Banner include the Merger Task Force work beginning and Sullivan elected its chair, WACKER training is a multicultu
• The Emergency Services Merger Task Force elected its officers Monday during the group’s organizational gathering held at the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce.
• The trial of two people reportedly involved in the shooting death of a 17-year-old man at Mosby Park in 2009 is expected to get under way after jury selection is made today.
• Swingle Singers Return to Lee
• The possibility of dangerous winds exists Tuesday. A high of 57 is forecast today along with rain. Tonight, a low in the mid 40s is expected.
• Lee Hosts Dream Keeper Award Ceremony
• Dates for Lady Flames Basketball Camp Announced
• It's 65 degrees at the Banner offices and Emergency Operations Center. Sunshine continues today and Sunday, with temperatures possibly climbing to 70 degrees during the afternoon hours. ENJOY! Now — Go play outside!
• Update on Thompson charges — As first again reported in the Cleveland Banner, Bradley County Commissioner Howard Thompson, who was indicted by the county grand jury on charges of theft and filing a false report, was booked in the Bradley County Jai
• As first reported in today’s Cleveland Banner, Bradley County Commissioner Howard Thompson turned himself into the Bradley County Judicial Complex today. Read more about it on our website and in Sunday’s paper. Also in Friday’s edition,
• After months of practice and hard work, local male youth chorus Cleveland Scream Machine will compete at the International Youth Chorus Festival in Las Vegas, during the 2011 Mid-winter Convention of the Barbershop Harmony Society on Saturday.
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Shelley D. Rucker permitted Rebecca McKenzie to express her dissatisfaction over legal fees and treatment of her husband, Steve “Toby” McKenzie on Thursday.
• As reported first in the Cleveland Banner, Bradley County Commissioner Howard Thompson turned himself into the Bradley County Judicial Complex today on charges of allegedly buying stolen property and giving false information to law enforcement officials.
• Plenty of sunshine today as temps reach 51. Tonight a low of 30 is forecast. Saturday and Sunday is expected to be sunny with highs approaching 60 degrees each day.
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• Today’s Cleveland Banner highlights stories on Dewey Woody’s recovery being on track, building permits totaling more than $1.5 million, the BCEA opposing House Republican Debra Maggart’s proposal to end teachers’ unions from negot
• Building permits issued by the city of Cleveland for the month of December totaled more than $1.5 million for residential, commercial and industrial projects.
• Although very weak, Bradley County Fire Rescue Chief Dewey Woody continues to recover after he fell on ice recently, breaking his leg and experiencing complications during surgery to repair the damage.
• Partly sunny skies are dominate today as highs will reach into the mid-40s. Overnight, temps fall to the low 30s. Sunny again Friday with temps in the upper-40s. Weekend forecasts include sunshine and highs near 60 by Sunday.
• Sunshine and warmer conditions during the daytime hours are on the way as the weekend approaches. Details later.
• Flames Face Temple Tonight at 7
• Today’s Banner highlights the mixed reaction to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, the Chamber of Commerce honoring local professionals, the cell tower review delayed again, Dr. Tammy Johnson and LUDIC, and how the city plan
• “Probably one of the best-kept secrets in Bradley County” is how Dr. Tammy Johnson described the Lee University Developmental Inclusive Classroom (LUDIC) to the Bradley County Health Council Tuesday.
• Dr. Edward M. McIntire, urologist and partner with Tennessee Valley Urology Center, received the Robert W. Varnell Jr. Leadership Award during awards presentations at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce.
• The temperature is rising and skies are clearing. It's 35.3 degrees at the Banner offices. The barometer is on the rise and radar indicates moisture and snow is moving out of the area. Thanks to all area readers for your input!
• It's 34.4 degrees at the Banner and Emergency Operations Center. Barometric pressure is fluctuating and humidity is at 93 percent with a dewpoint at 33 degrees.
• It's snowing in areas of Bradley County. Today's temperature should reach into the low 40s with winds becoming blustery. Snowfall could be heavy at times. A low of 26 is forecast overnight into Thursday as skies become sunny. A high near 45 is
• Snow at the Banner offices on 25th Street.
• Light snow being reported in some areas of Bradley County. Light sleet was also reported at the Post Office on Keith Street earlier.
• New Dance Team Steps Up at Lee
• Billingsley Signs Hoop Grant With Flames
• In today’s Banner, the Cleveland City Council agreed to changes in the Merger Task Force. Also read about At-Large Councilman George Poe recommending the hiring of a local candidate to replace the outgoing Director of Schools Rick Denning, the dire
• MORE SURGERY — The giant pin oak tree in front of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church on the corner of Church and 2nd streets in historic downtown Cleveland survived an initial major surgery in November 2005. Recently, a crew returned for follow-u
• At-Large Councilman George Poe recommended on Monday that the Cleveland Board of Education hire one of the local candidates to replace Director of Schools Dr. Rick Denning. Denning is retiring June 30.
• A high of 46 is expected along with a 90 percent chance of rain today and expected to continue overnight with a low of 37 forecast. Rain and possibly snow is in the forecast Wednesday. Gusty conditions may also be present with a high of 44.
• Today’s Banner features stories on what possible weather we have to look forward to, what the area’s financial outlook maybe in 2011, how the Reality Check program was received at the Teen Learning Center, about Blythe-Bower Elementary School
• Junior Achievement of the Ocoee Region recently took its student-popular Reality Check program to the Teen Learning Center to reinforce the message that success is a choice.
• Uncertainty remains in the weather forecast this week as another impending system approaches Tennessee, but how it could affect the Cleveland and Bradley County area remains a mystery.
• Today’s Banner features stories about Mayor Tom Rowland’s speech on the healthy state of the city of Cleveland, a second chance for life story for a local resident, Peggy Pesterfield voted as chairman for the Cleveland Board of Education for
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland took the opportunity Thursday afternoon to do what he loves best — brag on the city where he has been chief executive for the past 19 years, four months and 11 days.
• The Cleveland Board of Education voted to keep Peggy Pesterfield as chairman for 2011 during the board meeting Thursday.
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• Fry Street Quartet Kicks Off Spring Semester PCS
• Basketball Face Two Tough Tests
• As first reported in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner — On Nov. 26, 2010, Cleveland resident Diane Fox’s heart literally stopped and she technically died. But, Fox was resuscitated by Bradley County EMS paramedics and given a “Seco
• Read what Mayor Tom Rowland said in his annual State of the City address to the Kiwanis Club of Cleveland today. Also, find out what Mayor D. Gary Davis feels about the task force to merge fire services. In addition, other articles feature Dr. Rick Denni
• He doesn’t agree with it, but he’ll support it. That’s what Bradley County Mayor D. Gary Davis said about the recent decision of the Bradley County Commission to implement a task force for the purpose of merging Bradley County Fire Resc
• Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland presented the annual State of the City address to the Kiwanis Club of Cleveland this afternoon during a luncheon at Mountain View Inn.
• Balanced JV Scoring too Much for Scots
• In today’s Cleveland Daily Banner, find out more about the man who was arrested and charged in the school break-ins. Also, read about the County oking a resolution for the merger of the city and the county fire districts, about the public works emp
• Street crews of the Cleveland Department of Public Works were snowed under last week when the skies dumped about 8 inches of the white stuff on their roadways which had to be cleared for the safety of public motorists. Somebody had to do it, and it was t
• A Cleveland man was arrested recently and charged with 25 counts of burglary and multiple counts of theft at two Bradley County schools.
• In breaking news, as first reported on the Cleveland Banner website, the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Unit is investigating a hit-and-run incident involving a county schools special needs bus. Read more about it in today’s Clevelan
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• As reported first on the Cleveland Daily Banner website, Brian Everett Gladson Jr., 26, has been charged in break-ins at Lake Forest Middle School and Bradley Central High School. Check out the follow-up story in Wednesday’s Banner.
• Yep. The weather. It’s one of the area’s topics again. Read more about it in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Also read about the education report that verifies the military’s concerns, the trimming of trees by Cleveland Utilities/
• Routine tree-trimming practices by Cleveland Utilities, and by its Big Orange contractor Asplundh Tree Expert Company, are called “preventative maintenance” in the utility industry.
• The Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland ReStore has a problem. It’s a good problem, but a problem nonetheless.
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• Spring Convocation to Begin
• Today’s Cleveland Banner is informing readers of high electric bills across the area, how ice has caused CU to trim more trees, that the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. annual is event has been delayed, that the traffic safety blitz has saved lives, and
• Firstof 2 Parts Christmas Day and early January snowfalls that blanketed Cleveland and Bradley County with as much as 8 inches or more of the white stuff point to a justification for the longtime Cleveland Utilities tree-trimming program.
• An annual community breakfast to celebrate the life, work and message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., originally scheduled for this past Saturday on the Cleveland State Community College campus, will be re-scheduled for February to coincide with Black His
• After a slightly warmer weekend, rain is expected to move in tonight. A high of 48 degrees is forecast today. Overnight, temperatures are expected to drop to 34 degrees as rain chances increase to 80 percent by Tuesday. A high of 48 is expected Tuesday a
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• Mark Harris to Perform Benefit Concert
• Ministry Seminar with Paul Walker Begins this Month
• Weather conditions causing increased CU bills. Read all about it in Sunday's Cleveland Daily Banner. Also read about newly inaugurated Gov. Bill Haslam's (Rep-Tenn.), quilters' goal of 100 lap quilts, a boy's best friend, Callais wins
• Prolonged cold temperatures in December and January followed by unforgiving icy roads for the past week have created a perfect storm of conditions for higher-than-normal Cleveland Utilities bills that are already hitting customers’ mailboxes.
• Seven women gather once a week in the basement of Old Tasso Methodist Church with the goal of making 100 lap quilts, one for every resident in the planned Southeast Tennessee Veterans Home by the time it is built.
• Ed Callais was the big winner Friday on “The Price is Right” TV game show. He came within $13,000 of the actual retail value of his showcase.
• Banner photo, DONNA KAYLOR MOVING-IN DAY — As reported first in the Cleveland Banner, new resident Cawthon Bowen, left, along with Bradley Cleveland Services employees Fortino Hernandez, middle, first shift leader, and Kodzo Tepe, technician, give
• Friday’s Banner features stories on State Rep. Eric Watson being named as chair of the Judiciary Committee, John Dye’s funeral set for Saturday, State Rep. Kevin Brooks is now vice chair of Family committee, Sen. Mike Bell appointed to key le
• State Rep. Kevin Brooks was named vice chairman of the House Children and Family Affairs Committee for the 107th General Assembly and chair of the General Subcommittee of Children and Family Affairs. Brooks. He will also serve on the Education Committee
• State Sen. Mike Bell received key Senate committee appointments Thursday, including vice chairmanship of the Senate Government Operations Committee and as secretary of the Judiciary Committee.
• Services for Hollywood actor and former Cleveland resident John Dye have been set for 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in his hometown of Amory, Miss.
• It's just a little over 10-degrees in the city and a county weather station reports 8-degrees. Today's high should reach 38 degrees. Tonight, a low of 22 will refreeze any melting snow and ice. Use caution when walking or driving.
• Lee Partners with IRS to Provide Free Tax Prep
• Today’s Banner features stories on area schools being closed the rest of the week, the city of Cleveland OKing the fire task force resolution, the lengthy debate about the merger of the city and county fire districts, the Cleveland City Council off
• Cleveland City Schools and Bradley County Schools system classrooms will be closed until Tuesday, the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, according to announcements made late Wednesday by each school system.
• One Cleveland City councilman said he would vote in favor of a resolution establishing a merger implementation task force but he would not accept a reduction of fire protection in the city.
• Emergency managers are suggesting residents to clean sidewalks and driveways today to aid in ice and snow melt. Due to sunny conditions, this will aid in ridding dangerous and icy pathways as an overnight freeze is expected.
• Tiny, glittery snowflakes continue to fall across the area today as partly sunny skies prevail. Today, expect a high near 30 degrees and overnight into the low teens or single digits once again and creating dangerous wind chills. On Friday, temperatures
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• It's 19.7 degrees at the Banner offices and Emergency Operations Center. Some roadways remain icy so drive with caution. Also, Bradley County Schools will be closed until Tuesday.
• City and County schools will be closed for a fourth day tomorrow as icy roadways and streets continue to pose problems. Temperatures are not expected to break past the freezing mark until Friday. It's 26.2 degrees at the Banner offices and Emergency
• Today’s Cleveland Banner features Ed Callais who is scheduled to appear on the “Price is Right” show; the convening of the new 107th legislative session; how area motorists are slowly returning to the cold roads; how local budget work i
• Pedestrians are doing the “ice dance” while more and more motorists in Cleveland and Bradley County are now making their way onto city streets and county roadways.
• The price was right for Ed Callais Jr. in mid-November when he became a contestant on “The Price is Right” during a visit to Los Angeles.
• Bradley County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Bob Hancock announced this morning ta scheduled Neighborhood Watch program for the Eads Bluff community has been canceled and will be reset for a later date. Also, Volunteer Orientation at the Bradley County Sher
• Frigid conditions are expected tonight as temperatures will dip into single digits in some areas of the county. A low of 14 is officially forecast but outlying areas can experience lower temperatures. Partly sunny skies today with a high near 28. Wind ch
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• It's 23 degrees at the Banner and the Emergency Operations Center. Temperatures are expected to remain under 32 degrees today. Bundle up. Temps tonight may fall into single digits.
• Children’s Chorale Auditions this Month
• Inside Lee Basketball Starts Today
• City Public Works crews are clearing areas around the Courthouse and other office buildings in hopes governments can get back to business Wednesday.
• Snow. Snow. Snow. Yep. It's still the hot topic of conversation. In today's Cleveland Daily Banner, read about how the cold may keep the snow lingering days into the future, about how crews are working to clear our snow-covered roads, about whe
• Bradley County gained a few extra residents Monday after at least 8 inches of snow kept school children home. The new residents may hang around a few days before temperatures rise to cause them to melt.
• Voices of Lee Director Danny Murray called State Rep. Kevin Brooks Monday to tell him he didn’t feel comfortable taking his vocal orchestra to Nashville to sing the national anthem today during opening ceremonies of the 107th Tennessee General Asse
• Local schools closed again tomorrow per Emergency Management Agency.
• Snowing again in the city, Charleston, Mouse Creek and areas of Hamilton and Meigs counties. An additional one-inch is possible, according to NWS.
• Has your roadway been cleared by city or county crews? Provide us some feedback. Main roads have been either treated with salt/scraped and crews are continuing to reach secondary roads.
• It has reached the freezing mark at the Banner and Emergency Operations Center. Melting of ice and snow will continue, but problems can be expected as refreezing occurs tonight. A low of 20 is expected overnight. Wednesday's high will be near 30 deg
• Schools and some businesses either remain closed today or delay openings as temperatures stayed below freezing overnight. It's 30.6 degrees at the Emergency Operations Center. Bridges and roadways remain icy. Drive with caution or stay off roadways
• Read all about the snow in today's Cleveland Daily Banner. Also read about Lloyd Koester and his Iwo Jima memories, more than 150 Bradley, Polk and Meigs county residents turned out Saturday for a series of town hall community meetings hosted in the
• At 16, Lloyd Koester was a Marine. At 17, he was on the beach at Iwo Jima. For more than 40 years, Koester “could not talk or think about the years of World War II and his involvement.”
• After five days of anticipation and warning, Bradley Countians were among Mid-South residents who awoke today to a significant snow only 16 days following an historical Christmas Day blanket that created the first white Christmas here since the 1960s.
• Also visit www.clevelandbanner.com for updates throughout the day and send your snow photos with information to that and rick.norton@clevelandbanner.com. Subscribers to the Banner E-edition will have the complete newspaper available at the usual time tod
• The Banner will be printing today. Carriers will be delivering papers but some could possibly encounter areas which may be impassable. Please be patient. Some deliveries may not arrive until Tuesday due to the conditions in Bradley County. Please stay sa
• It's 24 degrees at the Emergency Operation Center and the Banner offices. Residents are urged by Emergency Management Office officials to stay put and not travel. Snowfall was quick and has slowed clearing of streets and roadways.
• City and county governments announced they are closing today. Approximately 7-8-inches of snow has fell and continues. Most of the snow fell between 12:30 and 2:30 a.m. Public works crews are out working to clear main roadways but motorists are urged to
• Snowfall reported heavy in Ooltewah
• It's 30 degrees at the Bradley Co. 911 and Emergency Operations Center. The barometer has been steady, but has indicated some fluctuation. Humidity levels are still moderate. According to EMA officials, area emergency services, public works and util
• It's 31.5 at the Bradley Co.911 Center. NWS forecasters predicting Winter Storm will reach the area beginning at 7 tonite. City & county schools closed Monday. Stay tuned.
• Sunday's Cleveland Banner highlights stories on the Arizona shootings, the 230th deploying, the city and county schools earning Good Standing grades, Cleveland City Manager Janice Casteel setting the record straight on the fire services issue, and a
• CHATTANOOGA — At least three of the approximately 300 soldiers who departed for Iraq Saturday from the National Guard Armory in Chattanooga were from Cleveland. The soldiers are with the 230th Sustainment Brigade of the Tennessee National Guard.
• The grades are in. On Friday, the Tennessee Department of Education released its annual Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Report Card for Tennessee school systems. The report card focuses on K-12 education.
• The Grand Jury is set to hear the case of three men accused of vandalizing heavy equipment at the new Cleveland Municipal Airport site, as well as allegedly tossing items from overpasses onto I-75. Read more about it in today’s Banner. Also read ab
• The three men accused of vandalizing heavy equipment at the new Cleveland Municipal Airport construction site and allegedly tossing items from McMinn County overpasses onto Interstate 75 motorists were in Bradley County Criminal Court Thursday. Bonds wer
• Wacker Chemie AG, Whirlpool, Amazon.com and an election — 2010 was the year of announcements in Bradley County.
• Music Ensemble from Lee Tours Japan
• Redeveloping the Whirlpool site being a prime focus this year is one of the featured stories in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Other stories include the possible second snow of the season, a Year In Review about the area’s building and const
• Is Bradley County ready for another round of snow?
• Construction activity in the city of Cleveland began 2010 strong, with a robust February, and ended very strong in November, but the period in between the two bookend months were lean.
• Today’s Banner highlights stories on residents seeking funding plan for BCC 2035, the judge reducing bond for the I-75 trio, three days remaining for trees to be chipped, a Cleveland attorney not getting any farm takers, election leaders talking te
• Now 11 days deep into Christmas Past, area residents still clinging to their live holiday trees have until Saturday to return them to earth as mulch compliments of the annual “Chipping of the Green” at the Bradley County Landfill.
• The three men charged with vandalism in Bradley County, and with multiple charges of vandalism and reckless endangerment in McMinn County, are now at the Bradley County Jail awaiting a bond hearing set for Thursday.
• Rain is likely today and a temperature of 45 is forecast. Tonight, rain chances decrease but skies will remain cloudy and a low of 34 is expected. On Thursday, sunny with a high near 46 degrees is predicted.
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• County Commission passed a resolution to support the development of a Comprehensive Plan. Also read about Howard Thompson stepping down as a member of the law committee, a new quilt for the new 2011 baby, the three men accused of I-75 attacks to be arrai
• A SPECIAL GIFT — Members of the Cherokee Blossom Quilt Guild on Monday presented a quilt to Cleveland and Bradley County’s first New Year’s 2011 baby, Danzlee Roberts. From left are Linda Bodle, Barbara Rogers, Kathay Pegram, Brittany A
• The Bradley County commissioner currently under investigation for allegedly receiving and selling stolen merchandise at his business resigned from the Bradley County Law Enforcement Committee Monday, but will remain a County Commission member.
• With an 11-2 vote, the Bradley County Commission passed a resolution Monday to support the development of a Cleveland-Bradley Comprehensive Plan and the submittal of an application for grant funding.
• A high of 53 is expected today and skies will be mostly clear tonight with a low of 26. Mostly sunny on Wednesday with a high of 48 degrees.
• Writer’s Festival Begins in Two Weeks
• The Cleveland New Year’s baby, Danzlee Brook Roberts, was born at SkyRidge Medical Center at 4:10 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. Also, read stories on how the tax-exempt status will help the Habitat for Humanity, on how the level of care ended the
• IT’S A GIRL — New Year’s baby Danzlee Brook Roberts arrived at SkyRidge Medical Center weighing 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and measuring 20 1/2 inches tall. She was born at 4:10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011, to her parents, Brittany Amos of Dal
• It was a very busy year for events all around, especially in the downtown area as MainStreet Cleveland celebrated its 20th anniversary.
• The top local Cleveland Banner stories for 2010 are featured in its first Sunday paper for 2011. In our continuing Year In Review series, read about how the weather has made 2010 a memorable year. Also read about what building WACKER will use for their
• 2010 was definitely a year to remember as far as weather goes. In fact, remnants of snowmen were still hanging around Saturday after a pretty heavy snowfall a week ago.
• The economy was a major focus during the past year. Bradley County and the area were fortunate to receive announcements of several positive investments. The top three stories of the year reflect the proposed impact of those investments.
• Read the details about the trio charged in the I-75 overpass incidents and the Cleveland airport vandalism in today’s Banner. In other stories, Cleveland is leading the Mid-South area in job growth, area residents talk about their wishes for the ne
• Three men arrested and charged Thursday morning by McMinn County authorities in connection with at least four incidents of tossing objects from Interstate 75 overpasses onto unsuspecting motorists have now been charged by Bradley County lawmen with the v
• Well, it’s that time of year again. The time to make New Year’s resolutions, to look back at the past year and think about what happened in 2010. It also is the time to look forward to what the new year 2011 might hold and what we hope will h
• State employment statistics show the Cleveland metro area has topped the Mid-South charts in jobs growth over the past year with a 4.2 percent increase, according to Mayor Tom Rowland.
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• Read and see more photos of our recent historic snowfall because it’ll be gone soon. Also in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner, read about legislators talking about economic development. Also, read more about stories that made the news this past
• NOW YOU SEE IT — And now you don’t! Cleveland and Bradley County residents are enjoying their final view of the Christmas Day snow that landed from 4 to 7 inches of the white puffy stuff on the community. In these remaining Christmas Day scen
• Industrial development in the area narrowly missed consecutive years of billion dollar investments. Wacker Chemie AG announced in February 2009 it planned to build a billion dollar facility in Bradley County and hire between 500 to 600 employees.
• Rico Helping put Lee in National Spotlight
• In today's Cleveland Banner, read about the County planning to vote on EDA grant funding, the year in review in which elections dominated the 2010 political landscape, firefighting merger costs being projected, lawmakers gearing up for legislative v
• Some legislation expected to be introduced in the 107th General Assembly includes Corridor K, English-only driver’s licenses, open meetings and records, and modernizing the definition of a legal notice for the Digital Age.
• The year of 2010 was filled with elections — local, state and federal.
• After an overnight low of 17 degrees, daytime temps should climb toward the mid-40s. Winds should become calm. Partly cloudy skies are expected tonight with an overnight low of 22 degrees. On Wednesday, sunshine breaks out once again producing a high nea
• New Mini-courses Offered for Spring Encore Program
• Monday’s Cleveland Daily Banner readers can find out about the morning fire on McPherson Lane, as well as an update on our recent historic weather. The weekly Personality Profile today highlights Cindy Mullinax Castelow. Also, find out about how ut
• Mullinax Lincoln-Mercury has been at its 550 1st St. S.W. location since 1964 when Cindy Mullinax Castelow’s dad, grandfather and uncle bought Cleveland Lincoln-Mercury.
• Weather watchers, especially those still watching the blanket of snow that fell on Cleveland and Bradley County on Christmas Day and Sunday, won’t be seeing the grass for a while longer; at least, not today.
• A brisk wind will accompany cold air today as the high reaches near the mid-30s. Tonight, clearing skies will allow temps to drop into the single digits or mid-teens. Sunshine returns Tuesday with a high of 43 expected.
• Women's Golf Signs Alexander
• Yes, Virginia, this was the second snowiest Christmas since 1969!!! And even more snow is possible!!! In other news, Sunday's Cleveland Banner also highlights the state budget is in a pivotal time, Ronald Harris is set to be the MLK speaker, and 4th
• Wake up the kids, pull out the heavy coats, strap on the boots and blow the dust off the old Bing Crosby vinyl album.
• The three state legislators representing Bradley County and Cleveland in Nashville realize they are at a pivotal time in Tennessee history.
• String Theory at the Hunter Ready for Spring
• For those who asked when the last time Bradley County had a White Christmas, according to Emergency Management, it was 1989 since the last significant snowfall was recorded. There could have been some dustings, but officially one-tenth of an inch fell in
• In today’s Banner, area leaders voice their Christmas wishes. Other Cleveland area residents talk about their wishes, their memories and their fondest hopes for this year’s Christmas. Other folks might want to know how to recycle their Christ
• “And what did you learn at church about Christmas?” Papaw asked Nicholas. “Christmas is Jesus’ birthday,” said 5-year-old Nicholas Cottone.
• This is the third year Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland has given away buttons proclaiming “In Cleveland Tennessee, It’s OK to say Merry Christmas.” They are, he points out, paid for from his own pocket and do not come at the taxpayers&rsquo
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• Today’s Cleveland Banner features a possible White Christmas for the area, plus another Secret Santa donating more crisp $100 to the Red Kettle outside of Big Lots. Other top stories include Howard Thompson’s home and business being searched,
• ’Tis the season of giving and some are finding creative ways to do it. One way many are giving is by donating to The Salvation Army through its annual Red Kettle campaign.
• The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant Wednesday at the business and home of a current Bradley County commissioner based on allegations the commissioner received and sold stolen merchandise.
• Clouds are beginning to roll in as blustery conditions remain. A high of 45 is predicted today but will fall to 24 tonight. Friday, a high of 50 is expected with partly sunny conditions.
• What is your snow prediction?
• Today’s Banner is reporting on Cleveland Utilities’ heading into a construction project combo, TDOT OKing access roads, Bradley County resident Sherry Neidich excited about the recent announcement by Olin Corporation to eliminate mercury from
• Already steaming ahead in high gear for the past few months to meet deadlines related to the new Whirlpool plant project, Cleveland Utilities just kicked it up another notch by laying plans to service another giant build on the other end of the county &m
• Oceana put an end to its mercury campaign in Tennessee Tuesday evening to publicly announce its gratitude and celebrate Olin’s decision and timeline to go mercury free.
• Another McMinn County overpass incident reported. Details forthcoming.
• Snow chances are increasing and a white Christmas could be in the works! But, blustery conditions are also evident, according to data. Today, rain is expected off and on with a high of 48 and gusty winds. Tonight, a low of 25 and on Thursday, sunny and 4
• Another great story about Amazon.com and how it will benefit the Bradley and Hamilton County areas is featured in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Other features include stories about a mystery Salvation Army kettle donor and challenge, a possible W
• In the words of at least one Facebook reader, “Merry Christmas Bradley County!” The Yuletide greeting came a short time after a major announcement Monday morning that was heard throughout Southeast Tennessee and the rest of the state.
• Voices of Lee came by the Cleveland Daily Banner and treated us today. Enjoy.
• A challenge has been made with only a few days left until Christmas 2010.
• Today is the first official day of winter but the Bradley County area has already experienced bone-chilling temperatures and winds.
• Rain and drizzle will continue today and tonight. A high of 46 today and low overnight about the same, but with a calming south wind. Partly sunny Wednesday and a high of 50 is expected.
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• The Cleveland Daily Banner was the first area newspaper to announce that Amazon.com will construct a pair of 1 million square-foot fulfillment centers in Bradley and Hamilton counties creating 1,400 jobs over the next three years and a payroll for the Br
• Amazon.com today made official what most already suspected — the giant Internet retailer will construct a pair of 1 million square-foot fulfillment centers in Bradley and Hamilton counties which will create an expected 1,400 jobs over the next thre
• Neckties, socks and tools are three of the most popular Christmas gifts for men. But some guys don’t like ties, they’re not fond of socks and they already own lots and lots of tools. What do you get them?
• A high of 48 is expected this day before winter actually begins. Skies should be sunny. Tonight, a slight chance of rain is forecast with an overnight low of 33 degrees. Tuesday, rain chances increase to 50 percent along with a high of 47.
• In Sunday’s Cleveland Banner, read about the case against Younger being dismissed, the United Way saving the local Imagination Library program, the Refuge Community event supplying gifts for the needy, the Basket Fund topping $19,000 and distributi
• The first book that a child receives when he or she enrolls in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library is “The Little Engine That Could.” It is the story of a train that has cars filled with good things for boys and girls, but is unable to make
• It was a Refuge Community Christmas Saturday at the Refuge Community Centre at the Blythe Family Support Center.
• Full details of Friday's 1999 Valentine's Day hearing to dismiss charges against Michael "Money" Younger, in Sunday's edition of the Banner.
• One of the Banner’s top stories today is that TDOT sets road construction plan. Other stories include the city’s schools focusing on nutrition, the county facing an increase in students, construction under way on Lee University dorm, and Clev
• When WACKER first announced its intentions in February 2009 to build a plant along Lower River Road near Olin Corporation, the 850,000 square-foot Eastern Lighting Distribution Center was the only other large industry along Lauderdale Memorial Highway.
• Weathers slideshow Increased student enrollment that has filled classrooms and schools is one of the biggest challenges facing the Bradley County School System, according to Troy Weathers, chairman of the county school board. Read more: Cleveland Daily
• Special hearing regarding 1999 Valentines's Day murder case against Michael Younger in Bradley County Criminal Court. Special judge Jon Kerry Blackwood hearing argument for possible dismissal of charges
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• In today’s Cleveland Banner, the top story is on Wacker Chemical Corporation and its selection of three key executive management personnel. Other stories are on the recent ice storm causing 100-plus road mishaps, the continuing coverage of the fire
• The Cleveland City Council and Bradley County Commission held an open forum Wednesday to discuss the fire protection service options for city and county residents.
• Wacker Chemical Corporation has announced the selection of three key executive management personnel for the company’s future hyperpure polycrystalline plant in north Bradley County, according to Thomas E. Degnan, vice president of Human Resources.
• Rain will continue today after a freeze event left motorists stranded Wednesday evening. Today's high should settle near 50 degrees and the low near freezing once again tonight. On Friday, a high of 43 is expected.
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• It's 28 degrees at the Emergency Operations Center. The barometer is still dropping and another round of icing is possible. Conditions and temperatures should improve after 2 a.m as the system is expected to bring warmer air and allowing melting.
• Car crashes being reported all over county. Icing along Interstate and roadways are keeping Bradley County Fire Rescue, Cleveland Fire and all law enforcement busy. ...Kaylor
• Moderate snow shower reported in south Chattanooga....kaylor
• Don’t miss the story in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner on WACKER and how product demand is causing dramatic growth in its production volume. Also in today’s paper, read about the wintry mix predicted later today for the area, Greenway&r
• Phase 4 of the Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway was officially opened Tuesday afternoon during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Tinsley Park.
• A decision to dramatically bump up planned production volume, total investment and employment numbers by Wacker is a response to improving market conditions for the company’s product, the company’s leader told the Cleveland Daily Banner in an
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• Today's high will be above freezing, settling around 37 degrees. A slight chance of snow exists before evening, progressing into a icy mix later. Chances are 100% for the mix. An overnight low of 33 is expected. On Thursday, rain and a high of 47-49
• Stay tuned to www.clevelandbanner.com and click the FB link for weather updates today. Snow, ice and rain will be moving into the area later today. No travel problems expected for school buses either today or Thursday, but conditions will worsen this eve
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• Brutal cold heading to a weather mix predicted to start Wednesday. Read more about it in today’s Banner. Also, read about the County’s discussion of fire protection services, firemen opposing the county merger, a New Hope East and New Hope Pr
• Cleveland firefighters filled the City Council chambers Monday to thank members for their jobs; but there are a few firefighters upset about the possibility of a merger and the way the fire contract is being handled by the city.
• It was brutally cold this morning as firefighters made their way to a reported chicken house fire on Arrowhead Lane, just off Blue Springs Road. Like a utilities manager stated Monday, “we may not be out of the woods on this yet.” More inclem
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• Cleveland Utilities has been named recipient of a Complaint-Free Certificate by the Better Business Bureau; while this doesn’t mean the local utility never faces disgruntled customers, it does mean the organization is effective in responding.
• Preparing for a future that marketing research shows likely will include an increased demand for cell towers is the driver behind the Cleveland Municipal Planning Commission’s push to rewrite an existing city ordinance governing the placement of th
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• Cleveland State Community College recently received a grant for $2 million from the Tennessee Board of Regents.
• Dec. 11, 1990, marked a dark day in Bradley and McMinn counties. Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the most deadly car-crash event ever recorded in Tennessee.
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• Up-to-date information on WACKER’s growth plans. Olin Corp.’s Chlor-Alkali plant in Charleston will be mercury-free by 2012. Other stories include one on the Fine Arts Center drawing near, AbitibiBowater leaving bankruptcy protection, teachin
• Olin Corp.’s Chlor-Alkali plant in Charleston will be mercury-free by 2012.
• Local officials welcomed the news heard around the world Thursday from Munich, Germany, that Wacker Chemie AG officially stated its intent to build a $1.5 billion plant in northern Bradley County.
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• If building permits are an accurate “tale of the tape” measuring economic growth, then the ongoing economic turnaround in the community is steaming full speed ahead.
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• The story about Olin and Amazon agreements getting the IDB nod is a featured story in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. In other stories, Amazon construction is expected soon. Pearl Harbor Day remembrances are held 69 years after the event. The Red C
• “It’s hard for me to realize it was 69 years ago,” George Allen said Tuesday during a Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony. “It makes me feel real old. I am real old.”
• The Cleveland/Bradley Industrial Development Board approved two resolutions authorizing the issuance of Recovery Zone Facility Bonds for Olin Corporation and entering into agreements with Amazon.com.
• ONLY A FEW MORE HOURS LEFT ON THIS 50 PERCENT OFF HOT DEAL FROM UNDERGROUND SOUND!!! For only $20 you can get 50 percent off of Underground Sound’s $40 Install For Car Radio or Speakers. It'll make a GREAT Christmas gift!!! DON'T BE LEFT
• DON'T MISS THIS HOT DEAL FROM UNDERGROUND SOUND: For only $20, get 50 percent off of Underground Sound’s $40 Install For Car Radio or Speakers. By pairing state-of-the-art and cutting-edge electronics with superior work and expert installation
• After a chilly 18 degrees recorded this morning at the Emergency Operations Center, daytime temperatures are not supposed to climb above 38 degrees under the sunny skies. Winds will continue to be brisk and a low of 18 or colder is expected overnight as
• The Cleveland Banner’s HOT DEAL for the past three days was SOLD OUT!!! So, hurry to get today’s Hot Deal!!! Get $50 worth of services for only $25 at Hollywood Body Spa, conveniently located at 3810 Keith St. NW. The phone number is 790-5562
• Blustery conditions will be present today as wind gusts up to 20 mph are predicted. Today's high will be near 38 degrees. Mostly cloudy conditions are expected tonight with lows in the upper teens to low 20s. Tuesday's high temperture is expect
• This Sunday's Banner highlights the Lee University Flame's third straight NAIA National Championship. Also enjoy the 2010 MainStreet Cleveland Christmas Parade. A local family loses everything in a fire, injured firefighter, Phillip Shelton, ge
• Candy canes and plain M&Ms assured a first place in the commercial float category during the MainStreet Cleveland annual Christmas Parade, but the “Best of Parade” entry was filled with lights.
• Just in time to celebrate his and his wife’s 34th wedding anniversary, Phillip Shelton returned home to a fire department escort and a tearful reunion to his fire department family.
• It's flurrying in Bradley County. Blustery conditions are expected today as a high of only 41 is predicted. Tonight, cold air continues to move in producing frigid temperatures. A low of 32 is forecast and blustery, northerly winds overnight is expe
• Well, the weekend is here and we don’t want you to miss out on any special deals available through the Cleveland Banner’s newest feature: HOT DEALS online!!! Check over the weekend by accessing the Banner’s main website and then clickin
• Bradley Co. firefighter Phillp Shelton returns home after spending over a month recovering from burns in an industrial fire...see more un Sunday's Banner...kaylor
• Today’s Banner features a successful food drive as well as information on education leaders thinking about two new schools, Bradley’s good audit, Olin’s bond hearing, Cleveland’s own Maria Hernandez, and the Civitan’s Handi-
• The Bradley County Board of Education met with the Bradley County Commission’s Education Committee Thursday to discuss the growing needs of the school system.
• We see so many this time of year. Food drives. Area schools, local businesses and churches. They all participate. The need for these food drives in Bradley County and Cleveland is beyond evident. It’s a must.
• The Bradley County Board of Education met with the Bradley County Commission’s Education Committee Thursday to discuss the growing needs of the school system.
• Cooler temperatures will continue through the weekend and into most of next week. Today, mostly sunny skies with a high of 52 expected. Tonight, clouds will roll in and a low of 34 predicted. On Saturday, a 40% chance of showers and a high of 54 is f
• Today's Hot Deal sold out by 9:15am! Log on to www.clevelandbanner.com on Saturday and Sunday we will have Hot Deal's on the weekend. Log on and SAVE!
• Do you want to get $20 worth of groceries for only $10??? Half price??? Who wouldn’t!!! Well, then, you better hurry up because time and coupons are limited!!! Cooke’s Food Store is offering a $20 coupon for only $10 which can be used in the
• TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!! BY THE END OF THE DAY TODAY, YOU’LL HAVE LOST OUT ON A GREAT DEAL!!! Today’s Hot Deal is at GABRIEL’S Real Italian Pie, 2625 Keith St. Pay only $5 but get $10 worth of food!!! Great food, great atmosphere, great s
• Thursday’s Banner features stories about Amazon.com incentives being eyed Monday, Cleveland Utilities sales volumes soaring, a firefighter concert will benefit CPF, the Tea Party and CU debate SmartMeters and the how the weekend promises to ring in
• The stage is set for a busy Christmas weekend in downtown Cleveland. Charleston officials will also be holding an event two nights in a row, beginning Monday.
• Bradley County commissioners are expected to approve a standard tax discount Monday that would bring in almost a quarter of a million dollars in annual tax revenue if Amazon.com locates a warehouse distribution center in Bradley County.
• Hurry!!! Don’t miss out on this Hot Deal at GABRIEL’S Real Italian Pie, located at 2625 Keith St.!!! Spend a little, save a lot! Purchase a $10.00 coupon for only $5.00!!! WOW! What a great deal to keep the family fed and still have more mon
• Nighttime temperatures will remain seasonably cold and daytime highs are not going to be much warmer. A low of 26 degrees was recorded in the city today. A high of 49 is expected today with a light wind. Tonight, temps will dip to the freezing mark. On F
• New information in today's Banner Police Briefs regarding a shooting incident late Wednesday evening.... kaylor.
• It's 26 degrees at the Emergency Operations Center on Guthrie Drive. Icy patches on roadways and frosty conditions are present.
• Update: According to Bob Gault of BCSO, the shooting was possibly self-inflicted and accidental. Investigation underway.
• Shooting - Patterson Road area just off Durkee. Please avoid the area. Bradley County deputies and detectives on the scene. Initial reports through 911 transmissions via deputy Johnny Stokes indicated one person shot through the hand with a .380 caliber
• DON'T MISS IT!!! SAVE 50 PERCENT OFF OF THE GREAT GIFTS AT THE CABIN AT SUGAR RIDGE. GET $40 WORTH OF MERCHANDISE FOR ONLY $20!!! BUT THIS OFFER IS ONLY GOOD UNTIL THE END OF THE DAY TODAY, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1. JUST GO TO THE CLEVELAND BANNER WEBSITE
• Today’s Banner features articles on Cleveland Utilities installing SmartMeters, future mobility projects studied, the debate on the park is ongoing, Internet crimes and rape arrests are made, the holiday benefit concert set for Thursday, the Rodger
• Rain and snow. Reports of snow flurries this morning in Charleston, and in McMinn and Polk counties, and plenty of rain across Bradley County on Tuesday, have kept road and street crews busy.
• Installation of SmartMeter technology to cut meter-reading costs and to prepare for the 2012 implementation of time-of-use energy pricing by TVA is on schedule and is not a futuristic “Big Brother” approach for controlling customers’ pr
• Blustery but clearer skies are in the forecast today as temperatures will just reach the low 40s. Tonight, mostly clear once again with lows dipping near 20 degrees. Blustery winds will taper to around 5 mph overnight. On Thursday, skies will be mostly s
• DON'T MISS TODAY’S CLEVELAND DAILY BANNER HOT DEAL: The Cabin at Sugar Ridge $40 Coupon for Only $20 ON ALL MERCHANDISE! The Cabin at Sugar Ridge has an eclectic mix of "olde" and new gifts and home accessories. The original designs
• There's still time for a hot deal today. Just go to www.clevelandbanner.com for the "Hot Deal of the Day" with Southern Smokehouse BBQ.
• Find out about the bad weather and when it will end in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Also, find out about Amazon.com possibly moving into two locations, read about local veterans homes moving up in VA priorities, how Young Lee group is doing afte
• Pending the successful negotiation of a local and state incentives package over the next few days, Amazon.com could be coming to Bradley and Hamilton counties while bringing as many as 1,400 jobs with it in two distribution centers.
• Snow! Warmer weather! Rain! Wind! But, the big news is a possibility of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
• A line of strong storms will be moving into Bradley County within the next few minutes. Heavy rains and lightning are possible. There is currently a five-degree difference in temperature from west Hamilton County to north Cleveland.
• SNOW! Rain and the possibility of a severe thunderstorm are expected to continue today and the National Weather Service has issued a Flood Advisory. A high today near 60 degrees and gusty winds. Tonight, temps will plummet to near freezing and a slight c
• Enjoy the many articles in Monday’s Banner, including stories about two incidents on I-75 that lead to traffic ties-ups, a profile on Sharon Westfield and her motto of “Giving Back,” the U.S. Army seeking Junior Achievement support, and
• Potential tragedy was avoided Sunday evening as Lee University’s “Voices of Lee” were traveling home from a singing in Virginia.
• Two incidents on Interstate 75 this morning caused major traffic problems for motorists heading southbound.
• Read about a horrific but good ending to a long trip which Lee University students became the victims of a malicious crime. Only one person was injured as as busload of the Voices of Lee singers were attacked by an object thrown from a bridge in McMinn C
• Showers and thunderstorms are expected to move into Bradley County later today. A 90 percent chance of rain tonight expands to 100 percent. Daytime temperatures today are expected to be 56, with a cooling only to 51 overnight. Gusty winds could also be a
• Sunday's Banner features The Refuge Community Centre's first holiday toy and donation drive, a math facts events set in the schools, the Basket Fund needing $20,000, volunteer "elves" getting bicycles ready for Creating Christmas Memo
• It wasn’t Santa’s workshop in the North Pole. It was Scott’s Bikes shop on Georgetown Road. And, those weren’t elves tinkering on bicycles.
• East Cleveland children and their families living in lower-income neighborhoods will be the primary recipients of a holiday toy and donation drive coordinated for the first time by the Refuge Community Centre.
• In today’s economy, consumers are looking for convenient ways to save money and are more savvy in finding those savings. On Monday, Nov. 29, the Cleveland Daily Banner is launching a new online program called “Hot Deals.”
• Happy Black Friday! Today’s Banner focuses on all the shoppers out trying to find bargain, the Long-Range Transportation Plan, the future of Johnston Memorial Park, the Civil War Trails project being alive and well, and also a special announcement
• Kohl’s Department Store opened at 3 a.m. today but the line waiting to be among the first to get into the Target Store an hour later stretched all the way to Bed Bath & Beyond and beyond.
• Happy Thanksgiving! Today is the perfect day to settle down with the Cleveland Daily Banner for the latest news, as well as the holiday sales flyers!!! Some of stories in today’s edition include one about a Cleveland Thanksgiving, the Oxford Wh
• THANKSGIVING PUMPKIN PATCH — Happy Thanksgiving, residents of Cleveland and Bradley County and all surrounding areas! It’s Thanksgiving Day and that means plenty of family gatherings, catching up with loved ones for lost time spent apart and
• A former Whirlpool cooking products plant in Oxford, Miss., whose March 2009 closure affirmed the company’s continued presence in Cleveland, has been sold to the University of Mississippi for $3.4 million.
• Good morning this Thanksgiving Day 2010. Skies will be mostly cloudy today. A high of 71 is forecast along with warm southerly winds gusting to 25 mph. Rain is expected to move in for Black Friday with winds continuing. An overnight low of 45 degrees is
• Ruby Harvey Elliott Ruby I. Ratcliff Harvey Elliott, 91, of Cleveland, passed away Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. She was a longtime resident of Bradley County. She was co-owner of Harvey’s Grocery for 20 years. She was a member of Four Point Baptist Churc
• Billy M. Crittenden Billy M. Crittenden, 68, of Chattanooga and a former resident of Cleveland, died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in a Chattanooga health care facility. Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced by Fike Funeral Home.
• With it being the day before Thanksgiving, don’t miss out on all the news in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner. Learn all about healthier cooking, the Lillios garage debate, the facility layout shown, a Thanksgiving traffic update, the city&rsqu
• A large warehouse and distribution center on Lauderdale Memorial Highway would be just about centered between Interstate 75 and Mouse Creek Road, according to site layout documentation.
• A new distribution warehouse whose potential owner remains tightlipped about its identity could potentially bring more than 200 full-time jobs to the area, increase local retail revenue by $2.5 million and increase property tax revenue by more than $100,
• Wallace Griffith, 99, of Cleveland, died Saturday evening in a local health care facility. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, at the North Ocoee Chapel of the Jim Rush Funeral Homes, which will announce surviv
• Johnnie Mary Brewer, 91, of Ocoee, died Sunday at the family residence. She was the daughter of the late Janie Franks Hall and John Hall. Her husband, Milburn Brewer, her daughter, Alice Weimotts and her son, Milburn “Mac” Brewer and a host o
• Rain and cold are headed into the area now and even for Thanksgiving day and Black Friday. Read about it in today’s Cleveland Daily Banner, along with stories on the latest 10-year fire contract, 200 possible new jobs in the area, Operation Christm
• Life Care Centers of America and a Cleveland and Bradley County community full of volunteers and donors put the wraps Monday on this year’s local Operation Christmas Child campaign. Final results of the annual drive will be reported once the number
• A new distribution warehouse whose potential owner remains tightlipped about its identity could potentially bring more than 200 full-time jobs to the area, increase local retail revenue by $2.5 million and increase property tax revenue by more than $100,
• Rains and possibly a thunderstorm with gusty winds are expected today as highs reach near 68 degrees. Tonight, rain chances fall from 80% to 60% and a low of 48 is forecast. On Wednesday, skies will clear a bit and a high of 68 is predicted once again. A
• Today’s Cleveland Banner covers a range of important information, including Oceana’s urging to Olin to commit money to their conversion, Phillip Shelton’s progress on the road to recovery, Junior Achievement’s plans to fly in a sp
• Sonya and Brent Crago’s son died of a type of cancer in 2000 at the age of 6. Sonya Crago was diagnosed with melanoma in 2007. Largely because of these tragedies, Crago and her family haven’t just switched back to trying to eat more like thei
• He ate a full breakfast, can talk normally once again and continues to gain a little strength each day. He is also requesting Wendy’s Frostys and family members expect later this week doctors will check progress on a number of skin grafts.
• Sunday's Cleveland Banner contains great features, news, inserts, and sales flyers. Santa has arrived in town for the season! The deadline for helping with Operation Christmas Child is Monday. A tree lighting and carols are planned to open the downt
• Monday is the last day to bring filled Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes to the Distribution Center on the Life Care’s Campbell Center campus. The boxes, which are filled with toys, candy, school supplies and personal hygiene items, are sent to
• MATH INITIATIVE — In a week, Bradley County Schools will implement a major math initiative to build elementary student math skills and increase math scores. The initiative will be a collective effort of school staff, teachers, students and parents.
• To answer some of the questions below about Thanksgiving photos highlighting FACES, no, you do not have to live in Bradley County. And as far as the deadline is concerned, get them to us soon as you can after Thanksgiving Day as possible (or before is OK
• Attention all you photographers out there! Do you want to share your Thanksgiving photos and maybe have them showcased in the Cleveland Daily Banner? Well, we’re looking forward to seeing some great shots. The theme this year is: FACES! Send your p
• Today’s Cleveland Daily Banner features State Rep. Kevin Brooks’ moderation of the Republican caucus, the North Bradley industrial site bound for a hearing, Bradley County to review the Habitat for Humanity tax request, a $6,000 reward for in
• WHO IS THE POWERHOUSE? — Will it be the Hosedraggers of Bradley County Fire Rescue or the Pigs from the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office. Trash-talking and challenges, even predictions are being made for Saturday’s game at Bradley Ce
• There is a local connection to the selection of State Rep. Beth Harwell, who could become the first female to become speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Expect mostly clear and sunny skies today as temperatures remain seasonal. A high of 66 is forecast today and tonight temps should dip into the 30s. On Saturday, sunny again with a high of 67 degrees can be expected.
• United Way of Bradley County edged even closer to reaching its 2010-11 campaign goal with pledge totals over $2 million announced at Wednesday’s report luncheon.
• UNDER CONSTRUCTION — Roofers work on a storage warehouse Wednesday under construction on Sahara Drive for Life Care Centers of America as seen in the photo taken from Saint Therese Catholic Church. Banner photo, DAVID DAVIS Maybe it’s not a t
• United Way currently has reached 96 percent of its goal. Read about the Behavorial Research Institute right here in Cleveland confronts child abuse with parenting classes, etc. Building permits locally drop. The Cleveland High School band heading for Chi
• Sunny skies should prevail today along with moderate temperatures. As the day progresses, a high of 60 degrees can be expected. A slight northerly wind will increase to 10 mph tonight as skies become partly cloudy and temperatures drop to 36 degrees. On
• The Banner’s front page features stories on a reward offered in the recent airport vandalism, Olin’s $14 million reinvestment, a potential fire contract, the Basket Fund reaching the $1,681 mark, how the First Baptist Church of Cleveland will
• A $1,500 reward is being offered for information into a vandalism at the site of the new airport where vandals caused an estimated $100,000 damage to heavy equipment.
• The Cleveland/Bradley Industrial Development Board took the next step to assist Olin Corp. in a possible reinvestment project at its Charleston plant a day after Bradley County commissioners approved a resolution designating the entire county an economic
• Today's forecast calls for some sunshine with a high of 58 degrees. Cloudy conditions are expected tonight with a low of 37. On Thursday, skies are supposed to be partly sunny, producing a high near the mid-60s.
• Spc. Joshua Meeks’ funeral is set for Thursday. Phillip Shelton is showing marked improvement from his burns. Vandals damage airport construction equipment. County eyes fire contract. Olin, and a juvenile center. The Sequoyah drill is set for local
• A Tennessee National Guardsman who was killed Saturday evening will be buried Thursday afternoon with full military honors.
• Vandals struck the construction site of the new Cleveland Municipal Airport overnight overturning heavy equipment and causing other damages.
• Banner Per 911-Bradley County is under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 12:15 p.m. kaylor
• BREAKING NEWS — The site of the new Cleveland Municipal Airport was struck overnight by vandals. Equipment was damaged and investigators are on the scene. Updates will be posted as information becomes availabe. Visit www.clevelandbanner .com. fo
• A slow rain should begin to clear out of the area around 6 p.m. today as temperatures are supposed to climb to 63 degrees. Breezy conditions can also be expected as rain chances hold at 100 percent. Tonight, mostly cloudy with a low of 40 degrees and con
• "The Thanksgiving Spoon - a Family's Journey Through Time"
• Recognition was given in a Sunday ceremony for the service of the 252nd MP Company as the memory of one recently fallen member was uppermost in the minds of all. Also read about Dee Frisbee, a leader who perseveres, two death scene investigators who have
• JOB WELL DONE — Command Sgt. Maj. Terry Scott, 117th MP Battalion, left, waits to greet a member of the 252nd Military Police Co., Sunday afternoon during a recognition ceremony at Westwood Baptist Church. Greeting the unidentified soldier is Tenne
• Although some people might say he’s been through some rough times, Dee Frisbee doesn’t whine. With strength and humor, Frisbee has endured some bad breaks, heart surgery and the after-effects of an atomic bomb. Still, the former Cleveland sch
• The early part of this week is expected to be a wet one. Rain chances climb to 100 percent tonight and Tuesday before dropping to 30 percent Tuesday evening. A high near 56 degrees is expected today with a low of 49 tonight. A high temperature of 59 is f
• Great News! On Monday, Nov. 15, the Cleveland Daily Banner will launch its online edition of the newspaper. Current subscribers can add the E-Edition to their print subscription for only $1 per year. All they need do is call the Banner office at 472-5041
• Recipients of United Way of Bradley County agencies’ services will be assisted through last week’s “Cleveland Helping Cleveland” food drive. For the 12th straight year, Southern Heritage Bank has conducted the event. Thousands of
• Neighbors helping neighbors is the premise behind the William Hall Rodgers Christmas Basket Fund. Monday morning at 8, registration for the annual food baskets will be held at the former First Baptist location on Ocoee Street. The registration will conti
• Great News! On Monday, Nov. 15, the Cleveland Daily Banner will launch its online edition of the newspaper. Current subscribers can add the E-Edition to their print subscription for only $1 per year. All they need do is call the Banner office at 472-5041
• Whirlpool has broken ground at their new Cleveland plant site. Read all about it in today’s Banner. Also, find out about the many veterans and how they were honored this year on Veteran’s Day. Find out about Nicole Reed, one of our Trousdale
• Against an exhilarating backdrop of heavy equipment moving tons of earth in the distance, Whirlpool Corporation leaders and government representatives saluted two groups Thursday in the middle of an open meadow — employees whose work ethic kept a g
• The guest speaker at the Veterans Day ceremony in Johnston Park urged listeners to remember that veterans signed blank checks payable to the people of the United States of America for an amount up to and including their lives.
• 23rd Annual Halloween Block Party
• Cleveland Apple Festival 2010
• Traffic along I-75 north slowed due to a double-fatality. Use caution. Crash occurred just north of Exit 20.
• FOG ALERT: Sunny conditions are expected today after a heavy fog dissipates, but nightfall could produce the fog tonight as well. A high of 73 is expected today before temperatures fall to 53 overnight. A high near 79 is forecast for Wednesday.
• FOG ALERT: Sunny conditions are expected today after a heavy fog dissipates, but nightfall could produce the fog tonight as well. A high of 73 is expected today before temperatures fall to 53 overnight. A high near 79 is forecast for Wednesday.
• FOG ALERT: Sunny conditions are expected today after a heavy fog dissipates, but nightfall could pr
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