By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MOORE Rock Island State Park has resumed full-time operations after receiving one-time funding from the state legislature.Eight of 14 state parks completely closed last fall due to Tennessee’s budget crisis reopened Friday. The rest are set to open April 22. Rock Island and other partially…

McMinnville’s post office will be open till the stroke of midnight Monday.According to postmaster Bobby Miller, in keeping with recent tradition, the post office will be open until midnight to provide last-minute tax filers the opportunity to receive an official April 15 postmark. Miller added, however, the best course of action is to mail early…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard HALE After the Tullahoma and Putnam County school systems announced they would not rehire non-tenured teachers due to feared state budget cuts, Director of Schools Dr. Jerry Hale said Friday there are currently no such plans here in Warren County.“That is something we won’t do…

JEWELL Four Heather Farms Nursery workers were involved in a head-on collision which killed a Morrison man Friday afternoon.William Jewell, 57, died at the scene after his 2002 Dodge Dakota pick-up crashed head-on into a one-ton nursery truck carrying three Heather Farms workers. Jewell was also a Heather Farms employee but was off duty and…

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 173 announces four delegates and four alternates for Volunteer Girls State, a leadership and citizenship training program for students who have completed 11th grade.Among the delegates are: Rebecca Boyd, Cynthia Huber and Megan Miller of Warren County High School and Amber Hodge of Boyd Christian School. Alternates are Ashley Anderson, Stacy…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard If you like good food and good music, the Warren County Music Department invites you to attend Pork and Bands, the annual end-of-the-year fund-raiser for the band program.This year’s Pork and Bands will be a perfect ending for an exciting year for the band program,…

By Margaret Hobbs / Columnist Attending the 55th Annual Tennessee 4-H Congress in Nashville proved to be a trip full of surprises for me, a mother of a 4-H member, children’s newspaper editor and volunteer leader.Not knowing what to expect from an experience sometimes makes it more interesting. I didn’t have a clue what I…

By EMILY HOBBS / 4-H Congress reporter Tennessee 4-H Congress was a wonderful experience we will never forget. I learned more than I ever expected and, of course, met new fun people.Mary Beth Gribble and I took the opportunity to run for state 4-H Congress offices, she for speaker of the house and me for…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard From left, Christopher Gross, Shawna Gross, Aaron Taylor and Kelcy Tate enjoy the booth of Custom Fireplaces and More at the Home Show Saturday afternoon. (James Clark photo) If you have anything to do with homes, whether its building, buying, or just looking, this…

By Bernard Smith / Columnist What would NASCAR be without controversy?This week’s biggest controversy is coming out of the Busch series, and it involves the purse to be paid out in Saturday night’s Nashville race.Last year the Nashville Busch race paid $721,496. At that time it was implied, if not promised, that this year’s purse…