Lane Closures at Night on Ringgold Road

East Ridge city officials said that resurfacing of Ringgold Road will be performed at night early next week.

According to a press release by ERPD Chief J.R. Reed, construction crews will begin placing surface mix this Sunday Night (6/10/18) on SR-8 (Ringgold Rd.) and this work will be performed between 7 p,m. and 6 a.m. the following morning. The work will require lane closures in both directions along Ringgold Road.

Construction personnel anticipate this work to take between two and three nights to complete. Motorists should expect delays and use extreme caution while driving through the work zone, especially during the night time operations.

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.