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Rock slide closes Scenic Highway

By Adam Crisp and Joy Lukachick Chattanooga Times Free Press: Sunday, December 13, 2009 http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/dec/13/rock-slide-closes-scenic-highway/ As workers continued to dig out loose rock beneath Signal Mountain Boulevard on Saturday, another Hamilton County mountainside began giving way and fell to the road along Lookout Mountain’s Scenic Highway. Three times in about the last month, rocks and earth gave way and [...]

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Chapelbrow–Good Concept, Bad Location

By Helen Burns Sharp The Chapelbrow development would bring a mixture of housing types and an assisted living facility to Lookout Mountain. The project sponsors have answered the questions dealing with the “who, what, when and why” of the project. They haven’t answered the “where” question satisfactorily. The current site under consideration is in a steep, [...]

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Mudslide at Covenant calls into question the wisdom of development on steep slopes

At approximately six o’clock early Monday morning, September 21, a large slide of mud and rock broke loose from the mountainside just below Covenant College and crashed across Scenic Highway. The landslide exposed gaslines, almost destabilized important college electrical equipment, and came close to the foundation of the newly opened Brock Hall. Both the Chapel [...]

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Rock Slide Shuts Down U.S. 64

By Randall Higgins Chattanooga Times Free Press: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/nov/11/rock-slide-shuts-down-us-64-through-polk-county/ U.S. Highway 64 through the Ocoee Gorge will be closed for a week, maybe more, after a series of rock slides crashed across the highway Tuesday. Julie Oaks, Tennessee Department of Transportation spokeswoman, said geologists haven’t yet been able to assess conditions in the slide area, which [...]

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High risk from rocks

By: Adam Crisp Chattanooga Times Free Press: November 18, 2009 Thirty-five locations in Tennessee are ripe for a rock slide — including three in Hamilton County, according to a Tennessee Department of Transportation report. But funding and the motivation to shore up the problems appear to be low. The fragile Ocoee Gorge mountainside that collapsed and closed a scenic [...]

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Another Rock Slide: Scenic Highway Closed

By Adam Crisp Chattanooga Times Free Press: Monday, December 14, 2009 North Georgia residents who found a key Lookout Mountain route to Chattanooga closed over the weekend will be allowed on Scenic Highway this morning following a weekend rock slide. In total, three geological mishaps have closed roads, caused millions of dollars in damage and rerouted motorists. The [...]

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Repair Equipment falls off Signal Mountain

By Adam Crisp Chattanooga Times Free Press: Monday, December 14, 2009 A Trachoe being used in repair work on Signal Mountain Road fell off the side of the mountain. The worker operating the equipment was uninjured, said Jennifer Flynn, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The equipment’s fall did not delay the work, she said. Workers are fixing [...]

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LOOKOUT FOR SMART GROWTH candidates win big !

MAYOR: Bill Glascock: 361. Tommy Gifford: 267. CITY COUNCIL: David Bennett: 566. Sandy Gothard: 518. Blair Ramey: 360. Dennis Eischeid: 309. . [...]

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LOOKOUT FOR SMART GROWTH endorses candidates

The upcoming election is probably the most important citizens of Lookout Mountain, Georgia, will see in a lifetime. The following candidates have advocated smart growth principles for the city in the past and will, we believe, in the future. For Mayor: BILL GLASCOCK For City Council: DAVID BENNETT, SANDY GOTHARD, and BLAIR RAMEY We urge voters to cast [...]

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