By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 90-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court.Included in court action:• Albert R. Cantrell was bound over to the grand jury on charges of third-offense violation of habitual traffic-offender status, seventh-offense driving on a revoked license and possession…

By Tracy Neal Angie Collins’ main influence to become an educator, oddly enough, was a bad teacher she had in early grammar school.“I was humiliated by that teacher,” she says, “and I knew then I wanted to become a teacher who would support the students, and help them learn.”She began college at Motlow and finished…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Buildings and Grounds Committee Chairman Edwin Grissom announced the three men who have been selected to appraise the proposed acreage for jail expansion at a meeting of the committee Thursday night.Tommy Foster, David Maynard, and Bill Haston were the three who received approval. They…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard BUMPUS A woman who has traveled the state for five years trying to have the Ten Commandments put in every courthouse, and a pilot who began his service to others by preaching on the streets of New York City were just two of the little-known,…

Warren County High School principal George Bolding announces the pre-registration schedule for those students entering the ninth grade in the 2002-03 school year.Dr. Haskell Greer and Jeff Martin will lead a team from the high school to assist this year’s eighth-graders and their parents in pre-registering for the ninth grade. Dates and times for pre-registration…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Bobby Ray Elementary students were technically “out” this week, but several of them checked in to a special intersession program administrators hope will enrich their educational experiences.Intersession Director Shirley Luna said 119 children participated in a week-long series of activities as part of their three-week…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Republican Van Hilleary says if he is elected Tennessee governor, there will not be a state income tax passed during his term. Saying a state income tax would be equivalent to pouring water in a bucket with a hole in the bottom, Republican gubernatorial candidate…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Drew Tanner, 7, is learning to enjoy his life again after undergoing surgery at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital last year. Before surgery, Drew was reliant on heavy duty pain killers. (Photo courtesy of Dana Johnson/Vanderbilt) For years, Drew Tanner, 7, has lived with pain.That pain has…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard RAMSEY Doing good works. This is something most of us aspire to and would like to make a part of our busy modern lives. Many of us donate our money and our time to various charities and organizations, but sometimes it isn’t very easy…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard CRUZ The fate of over $36,000 seized by authorities in a recent raid on a Skyline store is back in question as the store owner is asking the court to return the money.The money, seized this February from Mi Pueblo, is presently sitting dormant in…