By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard WCHS senior pitcher Thomas Mullins delivers during Monday night’s district game against Riverdale. Mullins and the rest of the Pioneer seniors were recognized before the game, the team’s final home contest of the 2003 season. (Rob Nunley photo) With the district title still in its…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Twenty people were sentenced Friday by Judge Bart Stanley in circuit court.Included in sentencing action:• Chris Fuqua was instructed to serve 254 days of an eight-year sentence and pay $2,000 plus costs for manufacture of meth.• Prescilla Sisk was ordered to serve 120 days of…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard HILLIS Warren County was recently the recipient of a Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation grant to aid in the county’s recycling efforts. The $22,915 grant will be used to purchase various types of recycling bins to extend the local sanitation department’s recycling program…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Two former local business owners have entered not guilty pleas to charges they defrauded another couple in the sale of a houseboat.The defendants, Glen and Jackie Powers, former owners of Powers Four-Lane Market, entered not guilty pleas before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Local equestrian Amy Mitchell rides her 6-year-old mare Lucy in preparation for the Warren County Saddle Club Open Fun Show to be held at the Saddle Club Arena Saturday, May 3 beginning at 10 a.m. (Charles W. Johnson photo) Animal lovers, and particularly those…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Hickory Creek Elementary Arbor Day art contest winners include, from left, Mayra Castorena, Shanda Ferguson, Daniel Patton, Hunter Hilton, Kristina Tigue and Michael Wells. (Will Stewart photo) Hickory Creek Elementary celebrated Arbor Day in style last week, planting four trees on school grounds and distributing…

WARE One of the founding members of Morrison Ruritan has been named the club’s 2003 Citizen of the Year.Charles Ware, a Warren County native and longtime Morrison resident, is this year’s recipient.“He is the type of person when he sees something needs to be done in the community or someone is in need of help,…

Willie Mae Adams, Ivora McGiboney Walling, Malcolm David Moore, Sarah Katherine Austin, Hollice E. (Bill) Hill, Lorraine Moore Hill Willie Mae Adams, 73McMinnville resident and Warren County native Willie Mae Adams, 73, died April 28 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A homemaker, she was the daughter of John and Willie Risner Fults; and…

To the Editor: This week I drove to McMinnville to attend the funeral of my precious childhood friend of 40 years, Fairy Donalson. To say my heart was broken would be an understatement.As we pulled onto the bypass, I was overwhelmed by the respect I saw from the people of McMinnville. This is the first…

TO THE EDITOR: This Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, will be American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Days in Warren County. All will be asked to wear a poppy. Days are set aside each year in observance of Poppy Day, a voluntary tribute to our dead and disabled servicemen.By accepting one of these poppies from a member…