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  • Refunds are arriving into the bank accounts of Southwest Airlines customers who were billed multiple times for promotional fares booked on Friday. In other business news, the Financial Times reports Wall Street banks are moving to prevent "redenomination risk."
  • Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla posted on Facebook about the water main. A magazine reports that in the comments section, a nice compliment appeared but it came from the mayor's own account.
  • The Alton Park Connector - an extension of the Tennessee Riverwalk here in Chattanooga - has been a long time in the making. Construction recently took a step forward, as William Newlin of Chattamatters tells us.
  • For music that matters, you’ll hear the medicine in Northwest Georgia. This weekend, WoodSongs Dalton - an Americana concert series for a cause - returns on Saturday.
  • Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, soon after the turn of the last century. A Black modernist painter, he is remembered for his works during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City and after his move to Paris. Stephen Wicks of the Knoxville Museum of Art is curator of the Delaney exhibition now on display at Chattanooga's Hunter Museum of American Art.
  • For more than twenty years, the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti - a nonprofit based here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley - has helped women and families to break the cycle of malnutrition in a remote, mountainous area of southern Haiti. But ever since the summer of last year, CNP’s work has been disrupted by shock after shock for the Caribbean nation.
  • Here in Chattanooga, the Three Sisters Festival of Bluegrass Music is tuning up for its crystal anniversary - crystal with a c, that is. The festival, free for the public, returns for its 15th year on Friday and Saturday at Ross’ Landing on the Tennessee River. I spoke with George Bright, son of Fletcher Bright - and George’s daughter, Eleanor.
  • The White Oak Connector Trail project links Stringer’s Ridge Park in Chattanooga with White Oak Park in Red Bank. In the past few years, the trail’s development led by the Trust for Public Land yielded the existence of an African-American cemetery, forgotten by many - unknown to many more.
  • In downtown Chattanooga this weekend, a jam for the Juneteenth holiday at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center. The holiday - which is Monday - commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans after the end of the Civil War. On Saturday, the Bessie will host its celebration.
  • Near the end of August, the City of Chattanooga under Mayor Tim Kelly’s administration released its first-ever Housing Action Plan. As the City Council weighs in on the plan, so are community groups such as the nonprofit CALEB.
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