By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Garrett Martin, a member of Boy Scout Troop 631, shows one of the American flags that will be retired in a Sept. 10 ceremony in the grandstand area of the Warren County A&L Fairgrounds. (Charles W. Johnson photo) Garrett Martin, a local Boy Scout…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Patty Sue Haston, a full-time substitute at Hickory Creek Elementary, was named Kelly Educational Staffing’s National Substitute Teacher of the Year. (Will Stewart photo) Former Warren County teacher and current substitute, Patty Sue Haston, was honored as the National Substitute Teacher of the Year by…

PALLAS Members of the growing Park Theater Group have extended the deadline for charter memberships.Theater group members initiated a charter membership drive in July, hoping to receive at least 50 replies, but ended up with a lot more, Park Theater Group Chair Pam Pallas said.“By the end of July, we had well over 50 and…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard REED An eighth suspect was arrested Wednesday as part of Operation Cleanup, an operation which has targeted repeat drug offenders, many of whom were mainstays in the epidemic growth of crack cocaine in the mid-1990s.The latest to be arrested is Robert (One-Eyed Bob) Reed, 26,…

Sarah L. Haynes, James Leland Higginbotham, George Haywood Holder Jr., Frances S. Nunley Sarah L. Haynes, 66Murfreesboro resident Sarah L. Haynes, 66, died Aug. 20 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro.A member of Cedar Grove Primitive Baptist Church, she is survived by sister and brother-in-law, Mary E. and Charles Smith of Murfreesboro; brothers and…

TO THE EDITOR: Very recently, I had the occasion to watch the McMinnville Board of Zoning Appeals go about its work as it considered a request for a zoning variance that impacted upon my family’s property. While the particular details of that request are not important, I would like to make a point or two…

TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in response to the article that was in the Aug. 14 edition of the Southern Standard titled “Eating at the game takes guts.”I know it is easy to sit back and criticize the work of another, however, you need to take a moment to evaluate your own work. Obviously…

By George Plagenz / Columnist What this world needs …It’s something we don’t talk much about at this low point in the world’s history when the operative words in our vocabularies are words like cruelty, hatred and suspicion.Yet without a spirit of reconciliation, both in our personal lives and in our national life, civilization is…

By Morton Kondracke / Columnist President Bush has a three-part reply to Americans’ increasing economic anxiety, but polls indicate it’s not enough to stop a voter drift toward the Democrats.Bush’s message, delivered in various forums over the past week, is: “I care”; “I inherited this”; and “Things will get better if Congress supports my economic…

By James Clark / Columnist So now they’re telling me I don’t need to drink eight glasses of water a day. This comes after I’ve heard my entire life about the need to carry my own water supply with me every time I leave the house.Those folks you see on street corners dragging bottled water…