By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard HIGGINS Like many of those in the education field, Morrison Elementary teacher Denise Higgins says she can’t remember a time she didn’t want to teach.“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” she said. “I adored my teachers when I was little and I just loved…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Larry and Anna Morgan work to create another lawn ornament for their growing home-based business in Morrison. The couple fell into the business by accident but has made a living making handmade copper lawn ornaments for a number of years. For the past four years,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard SHELTON Prominent automobile dealer and businessman Joe Shelton died Wednesday at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness. He was 76.His name was synonymous with auto dealerships in Warren County for four decades. Shelton began his business career in 1955 when he started Shelton Motor Company…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard WHITE The man who once headed Caney Fork Development Corporation for Warren County has been charged with participating in a shooting which left an innocent woman wounded in Smithville.The suspect, Richard White, 59, and the boyfriend of his daughter, Tyrone Jackson, 26, have been charged…

MURFREESBORO — More than a dozen fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls — one of history’s greatest archaeological finds — and other religious treasures ranging from a 1455 A.D. Gutenburg Bible page to a 5,100-year-old pictographic clay tablet dating to the dawn of civilization, are part of a Bible origins exhibit expected to draw 50,000…

By Janice M. Howard / Style Editor for the Southern Standard Bonnie Bear gets her boo boo taken care of by River Park Hospital’s surgical services director Gina Brennan as Blake Delong, 2, watches attentively. (Margaret Hobbs photo) Mini Standard’s Bonnie Bear joined a host of children and adults as the 15th annual Women and…

By Dale Stubblefield / Columnist With all the rain last week and the postponement of the first round of the Masters, Augusta National unleashed her beauty and her hidden dangers over the weekend.With hopes of picking up his third green jacket in a row, Tiger Woods barely made the cut as he found himself 11…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County Middle’s golfers took on Cookeville’s Avery Trace Middle School Friday at the McMinnville Country Club, falling just short in both boys and girls play.The Pioneers combined for a team score of 184, just six strokes behind ATMS. Andrew Brock led the way with…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Warren County Middle School softball team traveled to Manchester Monday for a matchup with Coffee County Middle. The Lady Pioneers fell to Coffee Middle 14-2.The Lady Pioneers went down in order in the top of the first, but CCM didn’t waste anytime sending runners…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) The Lady Pioneers dropped a heartbreaker Monday at home against Lincoln County. The Lady Falcons slipped past the Lady Pioneers 5-4.“We are playing better but we seem to be making a few mistakes early in the game that are costing us a run…