City of East Ridge Holiday Schedule

East Ridge city offices and services will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, December 24 and 25, 2018, in observance of the Christmas holiday, and Tuesday January 1, 2019 for the New Year’s holiday.

The following schedule is for Sanitation Services:

For those with trash services on Monday, December 24, trash will be collected on Wednesday, December 26 and those whose trash is collected on Tuesday, December 25, their trash will be collected on Thursday, December 27.

For the New Year’s Holiday, those with trash to be collected on Tuesday, January 1, their trash will be collected on Monday, December 31. Recycling will be picked up as regularly scheduled both holiday weeks. There will be no bulk, brush or leaf pickup those holiday weeks. All services will resume as regularly scheduled the week of January 7, 2019.

The following schedule is for East Ridge City Court:

Court will not be held on December 25, 2018 and January 1, 2019. The following dates and times will be for in-custody cases only:

Thursday, December 27 at 9 a.m.

Thursday, January 3 with the time to be announced.

There will be no traffic court cases heard until the regularly schedule court date of January 8, 2019

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.

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