Kimberly Odom claims the Miss Middle Tennessee Teen title during a recent competition. Kimberly Odom of Morrison won the title of Miss Middle Tennessee Teen and will compete in October for the title of Miss Tennessee Teen USA at the pageant being held in Clarksville.Odom is the daughter of Jack and Diane Odom. She is…

The Warren County all-stars took third place at the 10-year-old state tournament, held recently in Martin, Tenn.After falling into the losers’ bracket with a loss to the Nashville Heat in their second game of the tournament, Warren County battled its way all the way to the losers’ bracket finals, but came up short in a…

By Bernard Smith / Columnist SMITH Last week marked the start of the second-half of the NASCAR season. The race was held in Loudon, New Hampshire, which in my humble opinion is the sorriest track on the NASCAR schedule. This is the same track where two years ago Kyle Petty’s son and Winston Cup driver…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard First National Bank’s Mikey Jones slaps a ground ball toward second during Friday night’s game in the 13-14 year-old Babe Ruth League tournament. (Dale Stubblefield photo) Friday night action in the 13-14 year-old Babe Ruth tournament saw First National Bank down Charter Communications 8-2. First…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Warren County High School softball team concluded tryouts Friday and coach David Upton had to narrow the field of 32 girls down to a team of 22.“I was really pleased with the turnout, and everything went well, except for the monsoon and the electrical…

By Jim Glenn Social Security was tops among the 24 largest federal agencies in an annual report card on financial management, released in April by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee.The report by the House Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations grades each agency’s progress in achieving good financial management. For the…

By Bruce Williams / Columnist DEAR BRUCE: I just bought a house for its appraised value of $107,000 with no money down. I want to redo the basement, update the electric and add central air. I can get a five-year, low interest home loan at 3 percent. I need to borrow about $20,000. Is this…

By James Clark / Business Pulse You’ve got to watch out for those personal ads, you know the ones where “a bright, attractive SWF seeks someone to share long walks on the beach and candlelight conversation.”Here at the office, we’ve always had a big laugh about those ads, especially a few years back when a…

Georgia Mae Womack, Lucille Davis Hodges, Jim Daniel Driver Georgia Mae Womack, 87McMinnville resident and Warren County native Georgia Mae Womack, 87, died July 26 at River Park Hospital after a brief illness.A retired Warren County school teacher and a member of Westwood Church of Christ, she was the daughter of George Robert (Bob) and…

To the Editor: Once again, our members of Congress, in both houses and both parties, have shown just how out of touch they are with the American people they purport to represent. With the stock market reeling, the war on terrorism raging, and corporate greed running rampant, members of Congress have awarded themselves still another…