TO THE EDITOR: This is in response to the article “Matheny wants to keep community safe” in the July 14 edition of the Standard.Brad Ferrell, being in Matheny’s custody since December, has been in probably 10 to 15 fights (which the jail should have records of) and had 11 staples in his head and two…

TO THE EDITOR: I write today to heartily agree with Mike Vinson’s column, which appeared in the July 21 edition of the Southern Standard.The recent accounting scandals we’ve seen unfold at various companies have made us all a little leery of the stock market in general. It’s sad to say but these “malefactors of great…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist Saturday was certainly a day of extremes. One minute I’m talking to former Vice President Al Gore, the next I’m lying on my back in an open field in the blazing sun, chiggers nibbling on my carcass and bullets whizzing by.In you missed Sunday’s edition, detailing, with pictures, the armed…

Our Viewpoint For the third straight year, the Tennessee Board of Regents has raised tuition for its 45 institutions of higher learning. The decision, reached last week, does nothing but make it more difficult for Tennesseans to earn degrees after high school.That’s not the direction this state needs to move as we fight to recruit…

By Dale Stubblefield / Columnist STUBBLEFIELD Over the past several years, there has been considerable debate in baseball over the use of aluminum bats, which are used from the college level all the way down to T-ball.The question has been, does the ball come off the bat faster and travel farther, thereby posing a danger…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Sundrop’s Ben Dunn takes a cut during his team’s game against Central Oil Monday night in the Babe Ruth 13-14 year-old tournament. (Rob Nunley photo) The 13-14 year old Babe Ruth tournament got underway Monday night at the Edley Newman Field, with two games scheduled.In…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Moore Properties and Sonic stayed alive in the Boys Training League Tournament Monday night, while Union Planters, Woodcarver and Quality Mold saw their postseason runs come to an end.In the first game of the night on Monday, Quality Mold used a six-run third inning to…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard The Warren County High School football boosters held a four-person golf scramble Monday at McMinnville Country Club to raise funds. WCHS assistant football coach John Dryden putts on No. 12, while basketball coach Doug Keil waits his turn. Golfers hit the links at McMinnville Country…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 59-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court. Included in court action:• Robert Caldwell was directed to serve 90 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence, pay $750 plus costs and forfeit his driver’s license for three years for…

Frances Wood, Mable Louise Coppinger, Jerry Adam King, Minnie Deliah Overall Frances Wood, 79McMinnville resident and Warren County native Frances Wood, 79, died July 23 at NHC Healthcare.A homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of James Harrison and Ethel Adeline Garmon Davis; and was preceded in death by…