City Services Holiday Schedule

In observance of Christmas East Ridge City Hall will be closed on Friday, Dec. 22 and Monday, Christmas Day. City Hall will also be closed on New Year’s Day.

According to information posted on the city’s Website, the library will be closed on Dec. 22, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.

The garbage collection schedule through the holidays is as follows: On Friday, Dec. 22, recycling will run as scheduled. For people whose trash is collected on Mondays, if you live on the North side of Ringgold Road your trash will be picked up on Tuesdays (Dec. 26 and Jan. 2). If you live South of Ringgold Road your trash will be picked up on Wednesdays (Dec. 27 and Jan. 3).

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.