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Last year, SoundCorps - the nonprofit that supports the music community here in Chattanooga - surveyed that community on what it needs most now.

(Aired Tues 10/28/25) Lee Harris, now a professor of music education here at UTC, joined this campus in 1995 - thirty years ago - as Music Director of what is today abc@utc.

Periscope is a business development program at ArtsBuild that connects artists with entrepreneurs in the Chattanooga area. Now in its third year, applications for a new cohort of artists are due by this Friday, August 1st.

For some graduates of public high schools here in Hamilton County, their next steps beyond the classroom are careers in fast-growing industries: lineworking, welding, data analysis and cybersecurity. Viable Pathways to Prosperity is a local effort that connects those graduates with those careers.

As we hear and as we open up about challenges to mental health, we encounter opportunities to learn and to heal together. That’s the goal of Chattanooga Community Circles Day, a free community event on Saturday, August 16th from Noon to 4 PM at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library.

In Dalton, teachers at Eastside Elementary School step into the wrestling ring with costumes, dramatic entrances and death-defying moves for a one-of-a-kind fundraiser to boost school spirit and encourage student engagement.

(Aired Weds 1/08/25) The stories we live shape the stories we tell. Kim Jackson believes - quote - “we are all born storytellers - and we each have the amazing opportunity to share our story and be a part of countless others’ stories.”

An urban trail project is taking shape in South Chattanooga that will link the Alton Park neighborhood with the city’s system of trails. When completed, the Alton Park Connector will stretch more than two-and-a-half miles from the Riverwalk to Clifton Hills Elementary School.

(Aired Weds 5/21/25) In Dalton, Creative Arts Guild is stepping up opportunities for writers and publishers in Northwest Georgia. Dana Shavin is the new program coordinator for literary arts at the Guild.

(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.