By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard STEWART Peg Stewart has announced her candidacy for circuit court judge for Warren and Van Buren counties.Stewart has been an attorney in McMinnville for 14 years and was formerly a partner with Harry W. Camp in the law firm Camp & Stewart.Stewart attended David Lipscomb…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard DAMRON Having trouble with your Espa?ol? You are not alone.Citing numerous requests, the Warren County Community Education Program will offer its first community class, conversational Spanish, beginning next month.“This type of class is more in demand everyday,” said adult education director Ron Martin. “Ours will…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A McMinnville man was killed Wednesday afternoon when his car strayed into the path of a tanker truck on Harrison Ferry Mountain.The victim, Gary W. Tate, 41, of Morningside Drive was killed when he was partially ejected from his vehicle upon impact with the 1997…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) Jeff Gordon’s No. 24 Chevrolet Nearly halfway through the Winston Cup season, there still hasn’t been a winner in the Standard’s NASCAR Picks Contest.That’s bad news in one respect, but good news in the fact the jackpot has continued to grow. The jackpot has…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A day at the swimming hole turned into terror for a Monterey couple when their son was struck by lightning at Rock Island State Park Wednesday.“It was like a laser beam coming from the sky,” said Maria Chavez, mother of lightning victim Raul Steven Chavez,…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard COX After a long process, including rejected efforts to purchase the land from the current owners, work on the Warren County Jail expansion could begin in as little as two weeks.Condemnation proceedings have been officially filed by County Attorney Larry Stanley on five acres…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MINER Warren County High School summer English students under the tutelage of teacher Laura Miner recently had a transcendental experience.Supplementing their study of the Transcendentalist movement, Miner’s class took a field trip last week to New Frontiers, an outdoor adventure program camp in DeKalb County.“It…

STEWART Heading into the home stretch of her campaign, Peg Stewart says the county’s drug problem is one of her primary concerns.Unable to speak with the other candidates for Circuit Court Judge last week, Stewart gave a 10-minute presentation Monday night before the Democratic gubernatorial debate.“I know there are concerns about how the judicial system…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard City Administrator Herb Llewellyn said he expects McMinnville’s 2002-2003 fiscal year budget to go before the board at its next regular meeting now that the state’s budget problems are resolved.Llewellyn and other city officials had worried about the amount of state-shared revenue McMinnville would receive…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Put on your leis and grass skirts. The spirit of the South Pacific will be in the air tomorrow night as Inn at Harvest Farms Lake hosts a Hawaiian luau to raise funds for the McMinnville-Warren County Chamber of Commerce.Billed as the “Party of the…