By Dale Stubblefield / Columnist Another year has passed, and 2003 will bring many great things.Well, not all things will be great. Most of us will be a year older, but I know a few people who will stay at 39 again. I don’t know what their secret is, but I wish they would tell…

SPECIAL REPORT / By the Southern Standard sports staff (McMinnville, Tenn.) TIDWELL In a normal year, the top sports story from any community would likely involve a championship, a coaching change, or some other celebrated achievement by one of that community’s athletes.But 2002 in Warren County sports was far from a normal year, especially when…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Civic Center officials are planning to ring in the New Year with a wellness and fitness coordinator, expecting to have someone on board by mid-January.The new position will primarily be centered around wellness and aquatic activities, Parks and Recreation Director Carlene Brown said.The position pays…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County tunesmith Jason Gillentine, shown with his first CD, titled “Whispers in the Wind” has penned a Christmas tune that is creating quite a bit of local buzz and has received a respectable amount of airplay on area radio stations. As many local…

Staff Report of the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) At least two McMinnville restaurants are expected to offer liquor by the drink by March after voters approved a liquor by the drink referendum in November. Americans breathed a sigh of relief when 2002 came and went without a tragedy the magnitude of the Sept. 11, 2001…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Patrolman Mike Hainey, right and Lt. John Wayne Hollandsworth, middle, tell patrolman Jason Craighead how they crawled through a window to pull twin girls to safety Sunday morning. (Duane Sherrill photo) Police rushed into a burning home to pull out a pair of twin toddlers…