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(Aired Weds 4/09/25) For first-time entrepreneurs, economic opportunity is key to unlocking economic mobility. The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga is one nonprofit that funds opportunities for some of those entrepreneurs to aim for - and achieve - that mobility.

(Aired Weds 4/09/25) Kat Volzer knows a lot about bike safety for kids. As director of programming at White Oak Bicycle Co-Op in Red Bank, she has taught dozens of bike safety programs for thousands of people in the Chattanooga area.

(Aired Thu 4/10/25) Poetry is always in season here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley. Across the country, it’s National Poetry Month. One poet who has joined us here at WUTC from time to time is KB Ballentine. Her latest collection of poems is titled “All the Way Through.”

(Aired Thu 4/10/25) On our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - students manage The SMILE Fund, an investment account that over the years has grown from 250,000 dollars to three million dollars.

(Aired Thu 4/10/25) Walk into the Jewish Cultural Center here in Chattanooga - and you’ll see two exhibits with stars. The Stars of David Project by Jen Lewis symbolizes the millions of Jews who died in the Holocaust during World War II.

(Aired Thu 4/10/25) At the end of May, free live music returns to Ross’ Landing in downtown Chattanooga. This year’s Riverfront Nights is every Saturday evening, starting Saturday, May 31st through Saturday, August 30th.

On Monday, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly - and all nine members of the Chattanooga City Council - were sworn in for their terms of office during a public ceremony at Memorial Auditorium. After his swearing in, Mayor Kelly began his second and final term in office with these words.

On Tuesday evening, at Soddy-Daisy Middle School, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp delivered this year’s State of the County Address - which we bring you here from the County’s livestream.

(Aired Tues 4/22/25) Lorrie Moore - the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University - is the featured author at this year’s Writers@Work, a series of free events from Tuesday through Thursday presented by Chattanooga State Community College.

(Aired Tues 4/22/25) Here in downtown Chattanooga, it’s a new chapter at the Tennessee Aquarium. Andrew Wood joined the Aquarium as its new president and CEO at the end of March. For the past seven years, he served as chief operating officer at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa.