By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County’s boys tennis team dropped two contests before picking up its first win of the year, while the Lady Pioneers went 0-3 during their first week of action.Both WCHS squads were swept by Shelbyville on Monday, then fell to Blackman on Tuesday before splitting…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Clarksville Wildcats soccer team visited McMinnville Friday, bringing with them a No. 3 ranking in the state, and proved why they are ranked so high as they defeated the Pioneers 5-0.“This is a very good team,” WCHS coach Charlie Hardee said of the Wildcats.…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Lady Pioneers softball team improved to 2-0 in their District 7-AAA campaign Thursday against White County. The Lady Pioneers picked up only two hits to edge the Lady Warriors 1-0.WCHS scored its run in the top of the second. Tara Wood reached first on…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County’s Todd Gilley (8) is congratulated by teammates John Morrison and Jacob Bratcher after scoring the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning Friday night. The Pioneer baseball team’s game against Tullahoma Friday night came down to a wild finish — literally.After…

Dorothy Grizzell Womack, 84Rock Island resident and Warren County native Dorothy Grizzell Womack, 84, died unexpectedly March 12 at River Park Hospital.A retired school teacher with the Warren County School System and a member of Rock Island Church of Christ, she was the daughter of I.J. and Julia Sanders Grizzell Sr.; and was preceded in…

TO THE EDITOR: This is to the person or persons who killed our pets. Do two beautiful dogs named Sassy and Beauty mean anything to you? Well, they did to my husband, myself and to my two girls.Unfortunately, with you being the cruel, heartless, cowardly and gutless person you are, my family and I had…

TO THE EDITOR: I would like to respond to Roger Cook’s article “All responsible for own actions.”Yes, that is true. I would like you to know I am the grandmother of the one you are talking about. We expected at least someone in society to give my grandson, Mandel Martin, a job – at least…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist Representatives of my daughter Jessica-Ashleigh will be in the office today selling Girl Scout cookies. Of course, no one should feel any pressure to buy from her just because she’s the boss’s daughter. I know there’s a rumor going around that Roberts was fired last year for not placing an…

By George Plagenz / Columnist In a column a few months ago in which I talked about some preachers I admired and respected, I mentioned the Rev. Bernard Clausen, a Baptist minister from Cleveland and one of the best preachers I ever heard, but I forgot to tell you this story about him:A teetotaler, Clausen…

By James Clark / Columnist In the 1980s, the Rubik’s Cube and break dancing were the big trends. The 1990s brought us Beavis and Butthead, and that singing purple dinosaur we know as Barney.In 2003, the great American craze is hating France.After those pesky French declared they are in no way supporting the U.S. government…