By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren countians make less than the state average and there are more people in the Nursery Capital living under the poverty level than most of Tennessee.The revelation comes as part of the recently released economic census report compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau based on…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard JOHNSON Recognizing his efforts to promote mental health care in Warren County, W.L. Johnson was honored with CHEER’s Bell Ringer Award Thursday night.Johnson has been involved with CHEER and the Mental Health Alliance for some time and is a member of the CHEER board.…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard ROGERS Life-long resident and community leader Kenneth Rogers is seeking the office of county executive for Warren County.Rogers, who lost the race by 20 votes in 1998, said he went back to work the next day preparing for this year’s race. Rogers served as a…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard LLEWELLYN When the city came close to potentially losing its state-shared taxes last week on the heels of the state budget crisis, the city administrator started to worry.A proposed amendment to a bill that would have made all state-shared taxes subject to annual appropriations happened…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard LifeForce and ambulance personnel rush Joseph Madewell to the waiting helicopter after he fell from his delivery truck on Highway 70 near Campaign Friday afternoon. A Cookeville man was near death at press time after falling from his moving FedEx delivery truck on Highway 70…

Dollie Maynard, Leonard Whiteaker, Lloyd William Bouldin, Judy Fay Matthews Dollie Maynard, 87McMinnville resident and Warren County native Dollie Maynard, 87, died June 5 at her home after an extended illness.A retired employee of Stewart’s Plaza Pharmacy, a volunteer worker with various organizations and a member of Arlington Church of Christ, she was the daughter…

By Joseph Perkins / Columnist Frank Eugene Corder spent the evening of Sept. 11, 1994, drinking booze and smoking crack. Then he went to the Aldino Airport in Churchville, Md., stole a Cessna P150 plane and took flight. Hours later he crashed onto the White House lawn just south of the Executive Mansion.The National Transportation…

By George Plagenz / Columnist A mother whose daughter had died when she was 4 years old wondered whether she will recognize the little girl when they meet again in the resurrection.“It was 30 years ago when Emily died,” she wrote her minister. “Will she still be a little girl when I see her again…

By James Clark / Columnist I was never the smartest kid in my high school graduating class. But based on today’s standards, there’s a pretty good chance I could have been class valedictorian if I graduated in 2002.I say this after Boyd Christian School recently crowned four valedictorians in its graduating class. As ridiculous as…

Our Viewpoint Since it is Adopt a Cat Month at the Warren County Animal Shelter and an abundance of quality animals are available there, now is as good a time as any to check out the pets which are up for adoption.It’s no secret the animal shelter deals with an overcrowding problem on a regular…