County officials realize importance of talking: Want to form council to discuss issues with McMinnville aldermen
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A proposal to form an intergovernmental council in Warren County and a move to establish authority over the display of historical documents in the County Administration Building dominated the regular monthly meeting of the Warren County Commission.A recent joint meeting between the Building and…
Read MoreWCHS announces top 10 of 2003
By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) STUBBLEFIELD The results are in as Warren County High School has announced the top 10 students of the 2002-2003 graduating class.Earning the honor of class valedictorian is Amanda Christine Stubblefield, daughter of Larry and Patricia Stubblefield. She is followed closely by salutatorian Stacy…
Read MoreRelay for Life begins tomorrow
By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) CATHCART Everyone is invited to participate in tomorrow night’s kick-off party for Relay for Life, the largest cancer-fighting event in the nation.Sponsored by the American Cancer Society to raise money for cancer research and the development of new prevention and detection programs, Relay…
Read MoreBredesen will give millions to increase teacher pay
NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee’s poorest counties will get “tens of millions” of new dollars to improve teacher salaries and meet a state Supreme Court mandate, Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday.The governor told the Tennessee School Board Association that he couldn’t discuss specifics until other parties reviewed the plan, but he vowed to keep teacher pay…
Read MoreBank robber’s mother claims her son couldn’t get a job because of his record
By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Mandle Martin’s mother, Kathy Rackley, along with his wife, Sarah Martin, and her baby, Caitlin, display art sent from prison by Martin during his 10-year stay for robbing the Northgate branch of First National Bank in 1992. Unable to adjust to his few months of…
Read MoreObituary Report for Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Katherine Harper York, 74McMinnville resident and Warren County native Katherine Harper York, 74, died Feb. 16 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness.A retired factory worker and a member of the Methodist Church, she was the daughter of George and Lorene Holt Harper; and was preceded in death by sons, Larry and Ronnie Dean Frisby;…
Read MoreIt was God’s will to take Manuel
TO THE EDITOR: Many people have wondered where God has been in the recent death of my brother, Manuel Madewell. Well, I can tell you for sure that He was with Manuel and our family through it all. We have seen the very love of God shown through many different acts of kindness throughout the…
Read MoreChoice in life, choice in death
By Joan Ryan / Columnist Sixty-eight-year-old Peggy Sutherland of Portland, Ore., watched her sister die of the same cancer that had been spreading through her own body. Her sister lost bodily functions. Toward the end, the morphine was no match for the pain.“That’s not the way I want to die,” Peggy told her children.One morning,…
Read MoreThe Village Idiot: Team nicknames a touchy subject
By Jim Mullen / Columnist “Readers of the sports pages may notice a change in the newspaper’s style beginning today: We have stopped using the nickname ‘Redskins’ to refer to the professional football team of the nation’s capital. When we’re reporting on that team, we’ll call it Washington.” — The Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska,…
Read MoreVinson’s Variety: Discrimination of all forms must stop
By Mike Vinson / Columnist With February being Black History Month, a great deal of media coverage will be devoted to the subjects of affirmative action and discrimination in America.This theory should hold particularly true given the recent Trent Lott incident, as well as the ongoing University of Michigan controversy.Concerning the University of Michigan, it…
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