By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Saturday the WCHS Lady Pioneer softball team broke in its new on-campus field in style, capturing a 6-5 win over Franklin County.FCHS scored first, with two hits and some home-opener jitters from the Lady Pioneers in the form of two errors which gave FCHS one…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Bottom left, WCHS principal George Bolding, left, and Hale are joined by Lady Pioneers Jasmine Ware, Brittany Patterson, Erica Warren, Kendra Savage and WCHS athletic director Andy Jacobs for Opening Day ceremonies. The long awaited opening of the new on-campus field at Warren County Senior…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Two survivors of a head-on crash last year, which claimed one life, have sued the alleged drunk driver of the other vehicle for $300,000.The plaintiffs, Thomas I. Hodges and Paul H. Ward, were critically injured in a wreck on Victor J. Young Road near Rock…

Elaine Dorothy McCormick, Martha Evelyn Martin, William Price Basham, Rev. Mabel Drake, Herbert Lawrence Foster, Willard McKinley, Jack Reed Elaine Dorothy McCormick, 75McMinnville resident and Detroit, Mich., native Elaine Dorothy McCormick, 75, died April 7 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro after an extended illness.Self-employed in the nursery industry and a member of the…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard He wasn’t officially a medical doctor, yet he practiced medicine. He claims he never killed anyone, yet was convicted of first-degree murder.Fletch Woodward was certainly a different character, an “eccentric genius” in the words of county historian James Dillon. Saturday morning at Riverside Cemetery, Woodward’s memory…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County, along with 31 surrounding counties, has been granted federal assistance to help offset damage costs for a pair of floods this year which left about a quarter-million dollars in damage to county roads.The declaration issued by President Bush last week declared the region…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard REYNOLDS True to its name, the Literary Club of the local branch of Motlow State Community College recently completed a service project in which it collected close to 1,000 ink pens for the children of war-torn Afghanistan.English teacher Annette Hale, the club’s faculty sponsor, said…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard TORRES A missing court tape could mean problems in the case of a teen convicted for shooting a clerk during an attempted convenience store robbery in 1999.The defendant, Abel Torres, who was 16 at the time of the crime, is serving a 36-year sentence for…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard ATNIP Forget subtle messages. Abstinence-only education provided through Warren County’s schools will be taken to a new level in honor of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Week next month.Promoting abstinence as the only method of safe sex in a global environment of teen pregnancy, AIDS and other…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County High School principal George Bolding will be retiring after 32 years and several different positions in the school system. Top among his list of plans are buying a boat and going fishing. (Charles W. Johnson photo) After some 32 years in the…