Beverly Carroll
Beverly A. Carroll joined Nooga.com in 2011 as a staff writer, covering government and politics.
Beverly has more than 20 years experience as a journalist, working for the former Chattanooga Times and later the Chattanooga Times Free Press. A veteran reporter, Beverly has covered police, courts, politics, education, business and real estate. She was the first woman to cover the police beat for the Chattanooga Times in the 1980s.
Beverly's background includes freelance work for area publications, work at the UT College of Medicine located at Erlanger Medical Center, and McGraw-Hill F.W. Dodge, a construction news information service.
Beverly, a Tennessee native, earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in English and American literature and in rhetoric and composition, respectively.
ARTICLES BY BEVERLY CARROLL
Temporary court order blocks music, concert events at Club Fathom
Downtown church Mosaic will remain open but the musical events that Chattanooga officials called "violence-producing," and church leaders called youth outreach have been halted, at least temporarily. The conditions are part of a restraining order requested by Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield earlier this week. The mayor sought to have the club closed after nine people were wounded by gunfire while leaving the Market Street venue Christmas Day. Police said gang members started fighting and shooting into the crowd of about 400 teenagers after a concert ended around midnight on Christmas Eve. Littlefield said he was pleased with the outcome, though the agreement approved Friday by Hamilton Cou…
Stringer's Ridge to offer mountain biking, hiking trails amid urban setting
Cyclists ride up a trail on Stringer's Ridge. The Trust for Public Land received donations to build a 10-mile trail. Contributed photo. For many area commuters, Stringer's Ridge is the tunnel they pass through to and from work each day. But to Chattanooga area preservationists, it's a feature unique to the city-a 100 acre forest minutes from 50,000 people. " has something unique, I've not seen anything like this any where else," Jim Johnson, a local conservationist, said. "It's an urban forest, virtually untouched, within three miles of 50,000 residents." An avid bicyclist, Johnson recently donated 50,000 to fund plans for a 10-mile trail system for the 100-acre site that runs along Highway …
Chattanooga building, fire inspectors cite Club Fathom
The "E" team-Chattanooga building inspectors and fire marshals-paid a visit to Club Fathom Thursday and reduced the building's capacity, citing the number of exits and toilets as inadequate for more than 100 people. The Market Street facility was the site of a gang-related shoot out Christmas Day that wounded nine people. An off-duty police officer, Jacques Weary, fired his weapon after one of the youths pointed a gun at him, a Chattanooga police spokeswoman said. Fathom operators said the club is part of the Mosaic church's youth outreach. Pastor Tim Reid and a board member are scheduled to appear in Hamilton County Circuit Court Friday at 9 a.m. for a hearing on a request from the city of …
Tennessee Temple rings in 2012 with new leadership, master plan
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City asks court to close Club Fathom, stop New Year's Eve event
Attorneys for the city of Chattanooga on Wednesday filed a request in Hamilton County Circuit Court to close Club Fathom, a downtown operation that the founders say is the youth outreach of the local Mosaic church. Mayor Ron Littlefield said an early Christmas morning shooting outside the Market Street facility that ended with nine people wounded is the culmination of years of problems, which he said were given special consideration because of the church status.Tim Reid, pastor of Mosaic church, talks about problems at Club Fathom, which he said is the church's youth group. Nine people were wounded by gunfire outside the club Christmas morning. Staff photo. "This place is a low-grade busines…
Court ruling on S.C. voter ID law heartens repeal efforts in Tenn.
Hamilton County Democrats heralded the first successful strike against state photo ID voting laws and pledged to step up efforts to repeal a similar Tennessee law, set to go into effect next month. A federal judge last week rejected the South Carolina voter ID law, labeling it discriminatory against minorities. State Rep. JoAnne Favors, D-Chattanooga, said the decision gave Tennesseans "much needed leverage of our efforts to repeal the law." In a statement released Sunday, Favors, who founded the Tennessee Voters Assistance Coalition following passage of the GOP-sponsored bill, said the law was spurred by the large increase of minority voters in the 2008 election. "Preventing voter fraud was…
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