Regular Sanitation Service on New Year’s Day

December 31, 2015 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

The City of East Ridge will provide regular garbage service to its residence on Friday, Jan. 1, officials said.

According to Melvin Petty, supervisor of sanitation, people who normally have their trash collected on Friday will have it picked up.

Recycling on the north side of Ringgold Road will be collected as usual, despite it being a holiday, officials said.

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.