By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Court Square statue Hebe will be taken down tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m. and is not expected to return downtown until next year. (James Clark photo) After tomorrow, the circa-1915 statue Hebe won’t be seen around town for awhile.That’s because volunteers have come up…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard With city officials taking a more aggressive stance toward cleaning up junk, Volunteer Market on Beersheba Street might be targeted. The city’s junk ordinance may be getting some more muscle after city leaders said they wanted to step up enforcement efforts.Enacted in 1998, the law…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard McMinnville Police Investigator Lt. Derwin Adcock inventories an alleged meth lab found inside a residence on Bell Street Wednesday evening. (Duane Sherrill photo) Three people were arrested Wednesday evening when police raided a Bell Street residence, seizing a methamphetamine lab consisting of several components lawmen…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Drowning has been listed as the official cause of death in the case of Dr. Kumar, whose body was found by fishermen this Sunday – more than two months after he apparently took his own life by jumping into the Collins River.The preliminary autopsy report…

By DAVID CRARY / Associated Press Writer The biggest bombs dropped on Baghdad so far — two 4,700-pound “bunker busters” — struck a communications tower Friday in an intense U.S. bombardment. In the south, British officers said Iraqi fighters defending the besieged city of Basra fired on hundreds of civilians trying to flee. The British,…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) A Tomahawk land attack missile is launched Sunday from the guided missile cruiser USS Cape St. George stationed in the Mediterranean Sea. Warren County resident Jesse Webster is aboard that ship. Jesse Webster is a long way from home. A sailor in the U.S.…

Dr. K.P. Prasannakumar (Dr. Kumar), 52Memorial services for noted local physician and philanthropist Dr. K.P. Prasannakumar (Dr. Kumar), 52, were held Wednesday at Hermitage Funeral Home in Nashville. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Sri Ganesha Temple, P.O. Box 210705, Nashville, Tenn., 37221.Dr. Kumar had practiced medicine along with vascular and general…

To the Editor: When passing through downtown McMinnville, we tend to forget the historic aspects we actually possess.What was once a crowded Main Street with people lining the sidewalks from the library to the old Brown Hotel is now a few yards shy of a ghost town. The reason for this is the slow deterioration…

TO THE EDITOR: Once again, our young men, and now young women, are being called up to fight, this time in the Middle East. This war didn’t just start there. It has been going on since father Abraham went to choose a bride in this foreign country.Saddam Hussein is a power-hungry idiot. Like Hitler and…

TO THE EDITOR: I am a sailor on the USS Cape St. George, currently deployed in the Mediterranean Sea, performing my duties as asked by the leader of our country. I am not sure which scares me the most, the fact we are at war and I am a part of that, or the fact…