Jack Edward Campbell, 50McMinnville resident and Warren County native Jack Edward Campbell, 50, died April 8 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.An employee of Burroughs-Ross-Colville and a member of Pleasant Hill New Life Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Roy and Bertha Reed Campbell, and was preceded in death by…

By George Plagenz / Columnist If you think it will do any good, you ladies may want to explain to your husbands that there is nothing frivolous about buying a new Easter outfit. Remind him that it has a long-standing religious significance.If that doesn’t work, remind him that it was once believed that a curse…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist The salesman ran his hand along the front bumper of the shiny 2003 H2 Hummer.“All steel,” he said. “You get into a head-on collision with a Suburban, say, and this will win by a lot.”This here is your own personal piece of shock and awe.The H2s were lined up at…

By Will Stewart / Columnist The following is an open letter to all Warren County Commissioners:Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:We have a problem. No, it’s not the jail or the ownership of the parking area around the courthouse. It’s much more serious than that. Our problem is education, or more precisely the lack of importance we…

Our Viewpoint There is no way to spice up yesterday’s announcement concerning A.O. Smith and make it sound appealing. Any way you flavor it, eliminating at least 300 jobs lands a devastating blow to the local economy.A.O. Smith spokesman Ed O’Conner put it plainly when he said, “There’s no way to make this sound good.…

By Rob Nunley / Columnist If you’re a regular reader, you’ve probably been eagerly awaiting this annual “Robservation.”(Of course, there can’t be that many of you “regular readers” out there, judging by the amount of votes I received in this year’s “Best of the Best” local columnist race… but that’s another matter for another time.)Anyway,…

By STEVE HEATH / Mid-South Sports Network MURFREESBORO — Blackman’s baseball team hit early and often Tuesday.The first inning lasted 52 minutes — most of it while Blackman was batting — and the Blaze No. 2 hitter in the batting order, David Price, hit a three-run homer in the opening frame.Blackman (11-6, 4-1 in District…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Andrea Patterson brings the ball downcourt against Florida Southern in this photo, provided by the Eckerd College athletic department. McMinnville resident and former Motlow Sate Community College basketball player Andrea Patterson was named to the All-Sunshine State Conference first team for her performance this season.Patterson,…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Rep. Judd Matheny, center, talks politics with local resident Ron Champagne in the mezzanine of Legislative Plaza as part of Bologna Day festivities Wednesday. (Amy Satterwhite photo) If it’s free, they will come.That seemed to be the mantra for Warren County’s Bologna Day at the…

Emma Doris Childers, 78McMinnville resident formerly of Coalmont, Emma Doris Childers, 78, died April 6 at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga.A mail carrier in Coalmont for many years and a member of Antioch Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Ed and Emma Knight Childers, and was preceded in death by brothers, Raymond,…