By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard SLATTON After four years, the fierce competition is over as Warren County High School recently announced the top 10 members of the 2001-2002 graduating class.Finishing at the top is valedictorian Lindsi Mayfield, daughter of Gordon and Nancy Mayfield. Closely behind her is class salutatorian Ty…

Dick Blankenship, Annie Maude Hurtt, Helen J. Davis, Ernest Richardson, William Luther (Luke) Merriman Jr., John Wiley Thomas, Ona Mae Davis, Catherine Gaffin Lynn Dick Blankenship, 75McMinnville resident and Sarasota, Fla., native Wallace Dean (Dick) Blankenship, 75, died March 4 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville.A retired truck driver for Batesville Casket Company and a…

Gary Steele Karate Studio’s team won gold in Murfreesboro recently at the “Battle of Tennessee” Open Karate Championship Tournament.Tough opponents from across the southeast and midwest competed in the tournament, making winning gold even more difficult.Young black belt instructor and competitor James O. Morgan led the way for GSKS, with a first-place win in black…

By Rob Nunley / Columnist There are people who argue that too much emphasis is placed on sports in this country.Parents groups, civic leaders, educators, principals and others both near and far have often remarked how we all should be ashamed of ourselves for placing what a child does on the football field or basketball…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Another former Pioneer standout has moved on to the coaching ranks, and is doing his part to help today’s WCHS baseball players share his experience of success.Brent Whitlock, who played with WCHS assistant coach J.W. Holt on the 1992 state champion Pioneer squad, has joined…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard DAVENPORT City officials talked with special attorneys in a private meeting about annexation and Public Chapter 1101 Monday after conducting their regularly scheduled business.The city’s annexation attorney, Susan Marttala, and the city’s recently hired 1101 attorney, George Dean, were both asked to attend. McMinnville Mayor…

J.B. Higginbotham, David Michael Stalcup, David C. Hampton J.B. Higginbotham, 77McMinnville resident and Warren County native J.B. Higginbotham, 77, died March 4 at his home after a six-week illness.A farmer, he was the son of Marion Samuel and Lettie Scott Higginbotham; and was preceded in death by his wife, Theta Rose Arney in 1979; and…

To the Editor: On behalf of the African American Athletic and Scholarship Banquet, I would like to thank each business that supported us this year whether through door prizes, goody bag items, student meal sponsorship, advertisement purchase or a contribution to the Christopher Todd Boyd Memorial Scholarship Fund.Thanks to your generosity, and other individuals, we…

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By Duane Sherrill / Columnist It’s brother versus brother. North versus South. Godzilla versus King Kong. It’s a civil war the likes we haven’t seen since the infamous fence behind the old William Biles School a few years ago where the city partitioned “ours” from “theirs.”Recent moves by the city to enact a two-tiered fee…