Lookout Mountain News

Rochelle Oxford of Nation Taxi said there's a stark difference between the old downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee with litter and graffiti on buildings, and what visitors see today.

The Music Department of Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church will present their annual evening of music, ChristmasFest 2013: How Great Our Joy, to celebrate the birth of Christ on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 6:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary.

The Ivy Rose Foundation of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will host the Fashionetta Debutante Ball on Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Chattanooga Convention and Trade Center.

Now let us consider Hamilton County. Senator Todd Gardenhire represents part of it, including Lookout Mountain.

Although the Civil War would not finally end until the spring of 1865, a strong argument can be made that its outcome was sealed during three days of fighting around Chattanooga in late November, 1863.

"There They Crucified Him" will be Dr. Gary Phillips topic for the 11 a.m. message on Sunday, at Signal Mountain Bible Church, 4872 Shackleford Ridge Road.

After 28 years of service to the people of Sts. Peter and Paul, The Most Reverend Richard F. Stika has appointed Msgr.

A video featuring Lewis Armistead longboarding down Scenic City Highway on Lookout Mountain this past summer has been making the rounds on social media networks this week.

TIM ISBELLUnion soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland made a charge against orders to defeat Braxton Bragg's Confederates at Missionary Ridge and win Chattanooga for the Union.

A Lookout Mountain community Thanksgiving Day service will be held at Lookout Mountain United Methodist Church on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Father Tom Shular from Our Lady of the Mount Catholic Church will be speaking.

Something for the weekend. The Chattanooga Boy's Choir singing The Battle Cry of Freedom.

The topic for the worship services Sunday at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, 310 North Bragg, will be "Are You Boasting in the Flesh or the Cross," with text from Galatians 6:11-18.

This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, Union troops scaled Lookout Mountain southwest of federally held Chattanooga, Tenn., and ousted Confederates dug in with artillery on the heights.

This painting by Thure de Thulstrup depicts the Battle of Missionary Ridge during the Chattanooga Campaign, circa 1880.

The speaker on Sunday, at the 9:15 a.m. Adult Forum at Christ Episcopal Church, McCallie at Douglas, will be a speaker to lead a discussion on Islam.

The Chattanooga Bach Choir will perform Music in Honor of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, a concert with guest artists, on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at Second Presbyterian Church.

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a Christmas Open House at the Cravens House located on Lookout Mountain.

In 1969, Walter Cronkite reported Chattanooga, Tennessee , to be the "dirtiest city in America."

There will be a craft show at Frawley Baptist Church at 510 Frawley Road, East Ridge, Tn.

As evidence, an article by Warren Herring in the Nov. 16, 1963, Chattanooga News-Free Press pointed out that FM radio had arrived here.