By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 64-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court.Included in court action:• Jerry Biles and David Biles were bound over to the grand jury on the charge of manufacture of meth.• Michael Lance was ordered to serve 60 days of…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard HOLLAND A proposal which could save the school system almost $400,000 by eliminating the equivalent of nine full-time custodial positions and requiring additional time on the job before becoming eligible to receive benefits was presented to the School Board Wednesday night by chairman Mike Holland…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard POTTER A crackdown on meth traffickers has landed 15 local dealers behind bars for more than 12 years in the federal penitentiary.The sentences, announced Thursday by District Attorney General Dale Potter, come as part of a round-up conducted last September by an 18-county meth task…

Glenn Elton Casey Glenn Elton Casey, 71Corpus Christi, Texas, resident and Coffee County native Glenn Elton Casey, 71, died May 27 at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Corpus Christi.A retired department store manager and a member of Asbury United Methodist Church, he served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.The son of…

To the Editor: What a wonderful Memorial Day ceremony at the Warren County Airport on the morning of May 27. Congratulations and a hearty “thank you” to Charles Norton and his most efficient staff for a wonderful and most meaningful tribute to our fallen comrades from previous wars.It was a most inspiring program, and the…

Junior Tanner, Caroline Seals, Ralph Edward Becker, Wilma Louise Wiseman Pepper, Rubin Thomas Fults, Elsie Maureen Green Junior Tanner, 57McMinnville resident and Warren County native Archie Elmer Tanner Jr., 57, died unexpectedly May 21 at his home.An auto dealer and a member of the Baptist Church, he was the son of Opal Jewell Holland Tanner…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist Less than three weeks ago, Robert and Susan Levy stood in front of their daughter’s Washington, D.C., apartment, saying they had a feeling, a hope, she was still alive.“We haven’t abandoned that,” Robert Levy said on the anniversary of his daughter’s disappearance.As he spoke, Chandra’s body was four miles away…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist Signs, signs, everywhere signs. You can’t sling a dead cat without hitting a political sign this year, asking you to vote for candidate A or candidate B.For me, signs never really had much impact on how I’d vote. Just because Billy Bob has a sign in his yard telling folks…

Our Viewpoint Area schools will soon be without the services of two long-time educators with the retirements of Warren County High School principal George Bolding and Motlow College president A. Frank Glass.Bolding is retiring at the end of this school year after 32 years in the Warren County system. With graduation ceremonies scheduled this Friday,…

The Nashville Symphony will bring its 2001-02 season to a close with a pair of concerts featuring the vividly contrasting Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler and the most frequently played of all Beethoven’s piano concertos – his radiant Piano Concerto No. 3.Leif Bjaland, artistic director and conductor of the Florida West Coast Symphony and…