Gorge Ranch News Today

Chattanooga developer John "Thunder" Thornton appeared at the March meeting of the Marion County Commission to defend his high-end residential development from critics who have expressed concerns about old coal mines inside Aetna Mountain.

Sales at Big Daddys Fireworks, an iconic stop on the Haletown exit of Interstate 24 in Marion County since the early 1990s, had been slowly fizzling for nearly a decade. So when the option to lease the space to Thunder Enterprises came about, the Loyd family welcomed the change.