By James Clark / Columnist For the last three decades, Ozzy Osbourne has been frowned upon as a satanic, heavy metal rocker. Now he’s eating dinner with President Bush.It’s amazing how a profanity-laced, reality TV show can change a man’s image — for the better. Fresh off the success of his MTV sitcom, “The Osbournes,”…

Our Viewpoint In what could have been a horrifying scene, we can only count our blessings no children were injured when a loaded gun was found by a child at West Elementary.The Colt .45 handgun was not only loaded – but cocked – when a kindergarten student noticed it on the ground. It doesn’t take…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Bobby Ray Elementary held its Discovery Fair Thursday with approximately one-fourth of the school’s 400 students participating in the event which is the school’s version of a science fair.“We decided not to have judging this year,” said Discovery Fair coordinator Angie Roland. “Instead every…

By Mike Garrison / Columnist GARRISON The Tennessee Technology Center at McMinnville is a lot of things to a lot of people.To the men and women who are enrolled in its programs, TTC is a school or training facility. To the 27 men and women who are employed there, it is a good place to…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard In this photo taken on Sept. 7, 2000, Clifford McClain stands in front of the grandstand named in his honor at the Warren County Fairgrounds. (James Clark photo) The father of the Warren County A&L Fair has died at the age of 84.Clifford Franklin McClain…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard TAYLOR A second court tape is now missing, this time in the case of a convicted armed robber who now contends he was asleep in the car when his friends robbed a Francis Ferry woman at knife point.The defendant, Rongie Taylor, is asking the court…

Flora Elene Mooneyham Myers, James Bud Redmon, Michael (Bernie) Sullivan, Clifford Franklin McClain, Rufus G. Baker, Lawrence A. (Blackie) Mayfield, Carrie Victoria Morrison Flora Elene Mooneyham Myers, 77McMinnville resident and White County native Flora Elene Mooneyham Myers, 77, died May 12 at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member…

TO THE EDITOR: Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18, is American Legion Auxiliary Poppy days in Warren County. All will be asked to wear a poppy.Days are set aside each year in observance of Poppy Day. This is a voluntary tribute to our dead and disabled servicemen. By accepting one of these poppies from…

TO THE EDITOR: I am writing to advise you and the people of Warren County I have decided not to run for the office of Circuit Court Judge. After thinking long and hard about this matter I feel, at this time, it is not likely I would be elected. I, like most of us living…

Wavie Stacy celebrated the occasion of her 90th birthday during a surprise party taking place April 27 at Fairview Community Center. Hosts for the event were her daughter, Jewell Standifer of Oakton, Va., and son, Frank Stacy of McMinnville.The honoree’s son-in-law, Franklin Standifer of Oakton, presented her 90 roses of various hues.Grandson Ricky Stacy and…