By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Don’t put on your dancing shoes just yet.A law that would have allowed dancing in places where beer is sold in McMinnville city limits has been stopped short and referred to committee.Members of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, who had previously approved lifting the…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard With thousands of people expected to attend the annual Dr Pepper fireworks show around McMinnville Civic Center Thursday evening, police will once again be regulating traffic in the area.According to McMinnville Police Chief Joe Melton, traffic will be routed counter-clockwise in a one-way fashion around…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) KELLEY With Van Hilleary declining to participate, Republican gubernatorial candidates Jim Henry and David Kelley debated Monday night in McMinnville.Henry, considered the primary challenger to Hilleary for the Republican nomination, owns a company called OmniVision that employs around 650 people. He didn’t shy away…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard(McMinnville, Tenn.) HALE With no state funds currently available to operate the school system, the Warren County School Board met in special session Monday to approve a series of cost-saving measures that will remain effective until state legislators approve a budget.The measures are effective system wide…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard After inflicting more than an estimated $10,000 damage to property in the Westwood neighborhood during three nights of vandalism, the destructive youths known as the Westwood Warriors have been apprehended.The boys, ages ranging from as young as 10 to as old as 18, were rounded…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON and AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporters PRICHARD The failure of Tennessee legislators to pass a budget has resulted in a partial shutdown of state government. Some 22,000 of Tennessee’s 42,000 state workers were contacted over the weekend and told not to report to work Monday.The reaction has been universally negative as…

Jewel Mayo Moon, Rev. Carl Huston Bond, Maude G. Turner, Charles Edward Bates, Peggy Sue Bess, Rex Wendell Watts Jewel Mayo Moon, 87Meridian, Miss., resident Jewel Mayo Moon, 87, died June 25 at Anderson Funeral Home in Meridian after a lingering illness.A member of the United Methodist Church, she was preceded in death by her…

TO THE EDITOR: In Sunday’s edition, Terry Henderson wrote to the editor that “Chamber billboards were a conflict of interest”. He specifically mentioned a billboard at mile marker 108 on I-24, depicting Cumberland Caverns and Falcon Manor. He went on to say he did not think taxpayers should be paying for free advertising for privately…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist If you want to understand America, it has been said, you need to understand baseball. Here’s a lesser-known corollary: If you want to understand American teenagers, you need to understand pop music.So I am studying the phenomenon of Eminem.The rapper’s most recent album reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist Funny how these appeals court judges have no problem saying the phrase “One nation under God” is unconstitutional, yet they sure do enjoy spending those six-digit salaries with money emblazoned with the words “In God We Trust.”Once again we see a case where our nation’s judges are totally out of…