Our Viewpoint Since one of the greatest trends sweeping Tennessee is the push to post the Ten Commandments, the Standard thought it would be fitting to do a Ten Commandment rendition of our own.This is in no way intended to demean the historical significance of the Ten Commandments or make light of its moral value.…

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince, will begin performances at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville Sept. 25 through Oct. 19. Tickets are now on sale at the TPAC Box Office, Downtown & Davis-Kidd, online at www.tpac.org, and all Ticketmaster outlets. Tickets may also be purchased by calling…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Sharon Puckett, a reporter for Nashville’s Channel 4, attended Tuesday night’s Evening Exchange Club meeting at McMinnville Country Club. The visit was part of a new 6 p.m. news segment the station is doing called “4 Listens” where the reporter will visit local communities…

Teams of employees and their families from over 15 corporations and organizations throughout Warren County took the walk that saves babies Sunday.That’s why the March of Dimes considers these WalkAmerica fund-raisers heroes for babies. By participating in WalkAmerica, these March of Dimes volunteers helped the organization fight to give babies born prematurely a fighting chance…

By Tracy Neal MATNARD Fifth-grade teacher Jennifer Maynard has been teaching at West Elementary since she began her career in 1992. Although she had momentarily considered nursing, it was obvious to those around her she was meant to do something with children.Jennifer’s husband, Rodney, and his mother, Becky, felt Jennifer would make a wonderful teacher.…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Joe Delong poses in his uniform before leaving for Vietnam. (Photo provided) Joe Delong left his Irving College community for Vietnam in 1967 and never came back.And there has been little closure for his family and close friends in the 35 years that have passed…

By Joey Wray / Woods & Water The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) would like to remind all young hunters that Tennessee’s special one day statewide youth-only turkey hunt will be held on Saturday, May 11. This hunt is for young hunters 10 through 16 years of age only. Youths must be accompanied by a…

By Dandy Dave Scott Hall’s drinking problems have come back to get him fired from the WWE.Not all the details are known, but we do know that there were a lot of problems on the trip to England for the WWE. There was a plane incident involving Michael Hayes, Curt Hennig and Dustin Rhodes, but…

By Rob Nunley / Columnist NUNLEY I’ve seen a lot of golf this week.Monday afternoon, I got a little taste while watching a field of over 132 hit the McMinnville Country Club wide open for the Motlow College Foundation scramble.I didn’t get to play in the event, which was a good thing for whoever my…

Rob Nunley photos Thirty-three teams hit the links at McMinnville Country Club Monday to enjoy a fun day of competition while raising money for a worthwhile cause.The annual Motlow College Foundation golf tournament, a four-man scramble, raised over $16,000 this year, bringing the total amount of money raised by the foundation’s tournaments near the $90,000…