Latest stories by Perla Trevizo
- Dalton: Music reflects culture
- Saturday, July 4, 2009
- DALTON, Ga. — Nine-year-old Glendi Reynosa carefully plays the drums while her sister Noemi handles the electric keyboard and her dad Santiago and brother Wilson strum their guitars.
- Family tradition
- Saturday, July 4, 2009
- Last week, Julio Chamorro enjoyed a morning game of soccer at McCallie School's sports camp, continuing a family tradition that goes back more than 50 years.
- Area veterans worry about future of cemetery
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
- With new burial methods, Veterans Affairs officials foresee having space at the Chattanooga National Cemetery for about 30 more years, but some veterans remain concern about the lack of a long-term solution.
- Foreign farm worker pay rises
- Monday, June 29, 2009
- Judy Cooper hired temporary foreign workers to help out at her Flat Top Mountain fruit and vegetable farm for three years, and this year she received a break on their wages because of a regulation from the closing days of the Bus hadministration.
- Customer service is key for small business survival
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- For Shaan Khan, who manages the India Bazar on Lee Highway, focusing on one community and on customer satisfaction has been a way to help the business stay afloat during the difficult economy.
- Georgia cutting back on roadside mowing
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
- A decision by the Georgia Department of Transportation to reduce the number of times it mows the grass and picks up litter has some local officials concerned about the image the state is projecting.
- Session offers help in immigration law
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
- It's an all-too-common occurrence, says immigration attorney Terry Olsen.
- Community of faces
- Sunday, June 21, 2009
- Yuraisy Caldebila arrived in Chattanooga with her husband, Ernesto Gonzalez, almost four months ago from Cuba.
- 50th anniversary celebrated same as on wedding day
- Sunday, June 21, 2009
- Fifty years ago Glenn Barker didn’t kiss his bride Patsy Barker after the Rev. Don Hubbard married the young couple in a small country church in Concord, Tenn.
- Dalton State book traces roots of Hispanics
- Saturday, June 20, 2009
- Over the last 30 years Dalton has become a new border town, according to a new book by past and present Dalton State College faculty and community members.
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