By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) PEZZIMENTI Warren County High School head football coach Gerald Tidwell turned himself in to the Shelbyville police Monday on assault charges stemming from an incident which occurred during halftime of the Pioneers’ Aug. 30 game.During his halftime speech, Tidwell threw a football helmet,…

Charles Dodson, Zora Pauline McDowell, Oma Lea Womack, Dillie White Elkins Joines Charles Dodson, 84Former Southern Standard writer Charles Dodson, 84, died Sept. 13.A Hixson resident and Eastland native, he was the son of the late John Charles and Martha Goodwin Dodson II. He was a retired U.S. Army sergeant first class in the 28th…

By Beth Furbush Dear BBB: “A friend of mine who is notorious for her bad credit says she bought a new and better credit report from a company she saw online. Is this legal?”BBB: Everyday, companies nationwide continue to appeal to consumers with poor credit histories. For a fee, they promise to clean up your…

By Bruce Williams DEAR BRUCE: We have had a wonderful little dog for almost three years. For whatever reason, he has suddenly taken to nipping people when they approach him, so we are concerned about liability. He hasn’t done any damage, but there’s always the possibility. How do we handle this? Don’t tell us to…

By Jim Glenn Retirement planning is a mystery for too many Americans: They don’t know how much money they will need, where it might come from, or when they should begin saving.A national Save for Your Future campaign, set to begin in spring 2003, will help answer these questions and educate Americans about the importance…

By James Clark While I was scarfing down some apple cobbler at the fair Friday night, the guy next to me hollers over to one of his buddies.“Hey, did you hear the Warren County football score?” he asked.His friend yells back, “It was 50 to nothing with about 10 minutes left. That’s the last I…

Sherry Roberts Langston, Robert McCullough Russell Jr., Willie (Lucille) Hayes Rains Kennedy, Lowell Grissom Sherry Roberts Langston, 46Warren County resident and native Sherry Roberts Langston, 46, died unexpectedly Sept. 13 at her home.A case worker for the Department of Human Services and a member of Pioneer Baptist Church, she was preceded in death by her…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist The nearest movie theater to our farm is thirty miles away. That sounds worse than it is. When we lived in Manhattan, it often took us thirty minutes or more to get to an uptown theater from downtown, or vice versa. And for a hit movie, you’d always have to…

By Ed Kimbrell / Columnist From pop culture to the highest brow, the nation last week sought to come to some better understanding of the tragedies of Sept. 11.The most beautiful one I have seen develop is the Rolling Requiem, where professional and volunteer choirs sang Mozart’s Requiem starting in Australia and ending in American…

Our Viewpoint The story and picture on page 2-A of today’s edition is a welcome sight.In the photo, three female inmates from Warren County Jail are working alongside Urban Forester Nick Kuhn to perform a landscaping project near the city water plant. The story indicates the inmates are on loan from the jail and are…