By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) TIDWELL With the support of Warren County High School head coach Gerald Tidwell, the Pioneer Youth Football League is currently revamping its organization.The newly structured league, which will be known as the Warren County Junior Football League (JFL), is being organized with the…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard National Honor Society students at Boyd Christian School are ready to take a heavy load off residents as they participate in Christmas tree recycling for a second year.The effort was started last year as a service project for the group and students will again be…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 57-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in the last docket of 2002 in General Sessions Court.Included in court action:• Billy Ambrose was given a six-month probationary sentence and must pay $50 plus costs and perform 16 hours public service work for…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A Bethany woman remains in critical condition after she struck a tree near her home New Year’s Eve.The victim, Dawn Marie Newby, 24, remained in the trauma intensive care unit at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga at press time. According to her father, Joe Newby,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Two men face burglary charges and lawmen believe the pair may be linked to a string of recent break-ins.The suspects, Anthony Darrell Lafevers, 27, and Michael Lee Rhea, 30, are both charged with theft over $1,000. Lafevers is also charged with aggravated burglary.The men are…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard CANTRELL During her high school days, Eastside Elementary teacher Kim Cantrell had aspirations of attending cosmetology school after graduation. Her father, however, didn’t approve of her plans.“He threw a fit. He never went to college and he wanted something better for me,” Cantrell said. “He…

Local National Guard Family Readiness Group chairperson Joyce Jones, right, accepts her organization’s state charter from Capt. Norman Cunningham, commander of the McMinnville unit. The Family Readiness Group of McMinnville’s unit of the Tennessee National Guard has become the first such group in the 3rd Squadron of the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment to receive an…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) With the threat of war an increasing possibility, the Tennessee Department of Health is developing a plan in case the smallpox virus is used against the United States as a biological weapon.To help guard against this fear, the Warren County Health Department is assembling…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Jesse Reid displays some of the patches he has designed. The three displayed at the bottom are worn locally. One can learn a lot about a police officer by noticing what’s on his or her shoulder.Where they’ve been, who they…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A fugitive in a stolen vehicle led deputies to a hot spot of drug activity Tuesday as lawmen finished off the old year with a drug bust.The suspect, Brent E. Boyd, 24, is charged with vehicular theft, possession of drugs and violation of probation.He was…