By Rob Nunley / Columnist NUNLEY Think about your current job.If you’re like most people, you have an immediate supervisor, or perhaps several of them. And, again if you’re like most people, you’ve worked under these people for a fairly large amount of time.Now imagine that in a span of a mere four years, you’ve…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) TIDWELL Warren County head football coach Gerald Tidwell returned to the field Wednesday afternoon, his first practice with the team since being suspended Sept. 16.After five weeks away from the Pioneers, Tidwell and the WCHS players agreed his return Wednesday was met with…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard BROWNYARD Warren County High School head girls soccer coach Alan Brownyard has announced he has stepped down after five years with the varsity program.Brownyard will walk away from his position with three District 7-AAA tournament finals appearances, including one tournament victory. During his tenure the…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard McMinnville’s fourth annual Walk for the Cure last Saturday raised more than $20,000 for breast cancer research, bringing local commitment over the years to more than $80,000, organizers said.Co-organizers Jane Flatt and Diane Stanley said about 400 to 450 walkers participated this year, which was…

Margaret Snipes Elliot, Mary Elizabeth Fuson, William Harvest Jackson, Dr. Kenneth C. Richmond Margaret Snipes Elliot, 90Pleasant Hill community resident and Warren County native Margaret Snipes Elliot, 90, died Oct. 22 at her home.A homemaker and a member of Bates Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church, she was the daughter of Harmon and Sinda Anna DeBerry Snipes;…

TO THE EDITOR: It is sad but true that political campaigns seldom remain clean and honest. Gone are the days where voters are presented with the facts, allowed to support their choice on an issue and the best side wins.One side or the other often resorts to methods which are unethical or in some cases…

TO THE EDITOR: I recently received a flier, as did most people in McMinnville, in reference to the proposed sales tax increase. It states that if we vote for an increase in sales tax, then we vote for a lower property tax.I believe it was printed in the Southern Standard the state election people told…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist There’s a sign in our town’s only Laundromat, “No Horse Blankets in the Washing Machines, Please.” Good advice at home, too, I would think. But there’s a difference between people who own horses and everyone else.I was talking to a friend one day about a neighbor who owns a horse.…

By James Clark / Columnist When thinking about the sniper, and all the innocent people who have been senselessly murdered, the harsh reality is this is exactly what America has been asking for. And I hate to be the one to say so.Want proof? Just look at what we call “entertainment” in the greatest nation…