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For years, the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti - a nonprofit here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley - has helped women and families to break the cycle of malnutrition in a remote and mountainous area of southern Haiti - but in the past few years, their work has been disrupted by shock after shock.

Women are the majority of the population here in Chattanooga - but less than a quarter of the city’s IT workforce. On Saturday, the Chattanooga Technology Council - or ChaTech - hosts this year’s “STEM for Her,” starting at 8 AM at the Gerald McCormick Center at Chattanooga State Community College.

When Steve Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on a bluegrass album more than a decade ago, not only did the title song - “Love Has Come For You” - earn a Grammy, but their work inspired a musical: “Bright Star.” On Wednesday, March 14th, “Bright Star” opens at Artistic Civic Theatre in Dalton.

(Aired Thu 2/15/24) On Thursday afternoon, live here on WUTC, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly joined us for our latest conversation. Among the topics: financing for a new multi-purpose stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts; the first-ever citizen-led parks and outdoors advisory committee - and more.

Ten years - and counting - of learning and fun at The Chattery. Kimmie J. Soul - on The African Kings and Queens of Classical Soul. Chattamatters: Sunshine Laws; NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Soon after I arrived here in Chattanooga nearly five years ago, I heard about The Chattery. The nonprofit learning collective – women-founded and Black-led - offers fun, affordable and accessible learning and art experiences for adults, cultivating learners and teachers one event at a time.

Last year, musical royalty graced the Hunter Museum of American Art here in Chattanooga. This weekend, Kimmie J. Soul and the African Kings and Queens of Classical Soul will perform again - on Saturday, starting at 7 PM, at First Baptist Church in Chattanooga.

State sunshine laws aim to increase transparency and protect officials from being excluded by their colleagues. But here in Tennessee, there's a catch - as William Newlin of Chattamatters tells us.

NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge is now in its sixth year - expanding to include a fourth-grade contest. This year’s challenge for students in grades four through twelve opened for entries a few weeks ago, with May 3rd as the deadline for entries.

Richard Winham shares a session by Brownie Lee Hamilton & Friends, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.