By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Deputies raided three alleged meth labs recently, finding one of the labs inside an outbuilding which had been raided two times before.The first of the labs was found Feb. 10 outside the Comer Road residence of James Robert Weismore Jr., 42. According to Sheriff Jackie…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard LLEWELLYN McMinnville residents may soon get another chance to vote on a 3/4-cent local option sales tax.Even though the same proposal was defeated in November by a 2,009-1,679 margin, members of the Finance Committee said Tuesday they are willing to place the issue on the…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard BRANDON WILEY One brother will go free while the other will remain in state custody after Juvenile Judge Donna Scott rendered her decision this week in the case of G.W. and Brandon Wiley, who were accused of attacking their father with a hammer.Her decision acquitted…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Reports of an animal dumping ground in neighboring Grundy County led reporters from Nashville’s Fox 17 to interview Warren County Humane Society employees Thursday as part of a segment.Tom Hillis, a Grundy County resident, said he discovered the dead and abandoned animals, which included…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Raleigh Miller, current owner of the William “Rock” Martin house off Old Rock Island Road, talks about his experiences there after his great grandfather, W.V.D. Miller, purchased the house in 1901. Raleigh Miller has no qualms about calling himself a grounds keeper.In fact, he sees…

Walter Thomas Hankins Sr., 73McMinnville resident and Williamstown, Ind., native Walter Thomas Hankins Sr., 73, died Feb. 18 at Baptist Hospital in Nashville after an extended illness.Retired as a first sergeant following 21 years of service with the U.S. Army where he served in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and a major with the Louisiana…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist I have been thinking about where President Bush got the idea that the American people have the attention spans of 2-year-olds at a birthday party. He seemed oddly confident we wouldn’t notice the illogic of responding to Al Qaeda’s Sept. 11 attacks by fighting Iraq. Or the illogic of cutting…

By Morton Kondracke / Columnist If terrorists set off a dirty bomb in New York harbor or poison the Midwest’s milk supply, killing thousands, will Democrats and Republicans in Washington respond by pulling together as they did on Sept. 11, 2001?Or will Democrats start pointing fingers at the Bush administration, accusing it of short-changing homeland…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard WALKER Bobby Ray Elementary teacher Teresa Walker likes change. During her 24-year career, she has changed positions numerous times and has taught every grade, from kindergarten to 12th.“I’ve done it all and it’s given me a perspective of the education system as a whole that…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A discussion about the current state of the draft led local resident Jeane Phillips on a merry chase to find information on whether young American males still had to register for the selective service.“We were talking about the Selective Service,” Phillips said, “and we…