🌱 How a free 130-acre mill site could reshape downtown Chickamauga
Chickamauga, Georgia Patch AM: a 3 min readWhat's up Chickamauga! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How a free 130-acre mill site could reshape downtown Chickamauga
- State Final Four baseball comes to Chickamauga’s field this Thursday
Also on today's calendar: 52nd Annual Down Home Days Festival Chickamauga GA.
Today's riddle: Why did the chicken cross the road? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Sunny and pleasant, with a high of 73 and low of 47 degrees.
- Friday: Sunshine, temps: high: 81, low: 57.
- Saturday: Intervals of clouds and sun, with a high of 85 and low of 65 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• UPDATE: Chickamauga leaders clarify plans to redevelop abandoned Crystal Springs mill (local3news.com) — Chickamauga leaders are moving ahead with a multi‑year cleanup and redevelopment of the 130‑acre Crystal Springs mill site, backed by a $1.45 million federal grant and more funding requests. Plans include new restaurants, businesses, green space, and a 2.2‑mile trail linking downtown to Chickamauga Battlefield, with town hall meetings coming this summer for public input. 
• Worth County Heads To Chickamauga For GHSA Baseball Final Four (albanyherald.com) — Chickamauga will host Worth County and defending champ Gordon Lee in a best‑of‑three GHSA Class A Division I baseball Final Four starting Thursday, with a possible third game Friday. The article spotlights Worth County’s long trip north, deep pitching staff, and confidence as they head into a high‑stakes series on Chickamauga’s home field.
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Chickamauga Downhome Days →
Gordon Lee High School, 105 Lee Cir, Chickamauga
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Saturday May 16
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52nd Annual Down Home Days Festival Chickamauga GA →
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Saturday May 16
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Awards Day-Juniors/Seniors
Heritage High School Ringgold, GA 30736
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New gym - Volleyball tryouts →
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
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Old gym - Color guard
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
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Forester Smokies Team Training →
Mad House Performance, 1462 Cross St, Fort Oglethorpe
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EOC (Biology)
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742 -
Theater - Class Night
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742 -
Josh Conner →
Mad House Performance, 1462 Cross St, Fort Oglethorpe
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Rebecca Howe →
Mad House Performance, 1462 Cross St, Fort Oglethorpe
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Saturday School
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742 -
Saturday School @ HMS
Heritage Middle School , 4005 Poplar Springs Rd, Ringgold, GA 30
8:30 am
Thursday May 14
Friday May 15
Saturday May 16
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Need recommendations for Apple Care warranty work please?
Have a Mac Pro M1 laptop needing new motherboard. I did find Mobile Kangaroo and Best Buy as certified. Any reviews would be nice (Nextdoor Jada Lane)
- Shaw Industries, Inc. posted a job opening for Entry Level Manufacturing | 12-Hrs Rotating Nights in Chickamauga. Apply here.
- Dollar Tree Family Dollar - Dollar Tree, Inc. posted a job opening for Customer Service Associate I in Chickamauga. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Chickamauga here.
🗞 Nearby News
Fort Oglethorpe
- Send Network One Day challenges churches to embrace multiplication (christianindex.org)
Rossville
- Lester E. Haswell, Sr. (chattanoogan.com)
- Valves (swling.com)
- Terry Grimes Photography LLC Expands Premium Photographer Services in Rossville, GA (express-press-release.net)
Lookout Mountain
- Hang gliding Lookout Mountain: What it's really like to be aero-towed 1,700 feet above Georgia (foxnews.com)
- Rock City's Plan Brings Burdens To Community (chattanoogan.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: To show the opossum how its done! (Thank you Mary Lynn S. for sending it in!)
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