Stahl to Have ‘Meet & Greet’

Robert Stahl, a candidate for East Ridge City Council, is having a “meet and greet” on Thursday.

According to campaign officials, the event will be held at 1450 N. Mack Smith Road from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The address is next to Cracker Barrel, according to a campaign announcement.

The event will give voters an opportunity to meet and talk with the candidate. Hors d’oevers will be provided to those in attendance by the candidate’s campaign committee.

The City Council election is Tuesday, Nov. 8. Early voting begins on October 19.

Stahl is one of seven candidates running for council. Other candidates include Jim Bethune, Matthew DeGlopper, Esther Helton, Doris Rogers, Gregg Shipley and Brian Williams.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.