Election Day

Today is Election Day across the state of Tennessee.

The polls are open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. To cast a ballot, voters need to show a valid photo identification, such as a drivers license of photo ID issued by the Tennessee Department of safety.

There are three polling places in East Ridge: The American Legion Post 95 at 3329 Ringgold Road; The East Ridge Community Center next to City Hall on Tombras Avenue; and the East Ridge Methodist Church at 1601 Prater Road.

In the East Ridge Municipal election, four candidates are vying for two City Council positions. Those candidates are; incumbent Jacky Cagle, Jeff Ezell, Robert Gilreath, and David Tyler.

Qualified write-in candidate Dick Cook is challenging incumbent Brian Williams in the Mayoral race.

Patricia Cassidy is running unopposed as she seeks her third term as East Ridge Municipal Court Clerk.

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.