By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard It’s never too early to start molding a top-notch workforce, says West Elementary School counselor Judy Anderson. In an effort to do so, she organized her school’s Career Day earlier this week.“We’ve been doing this for the past seven or eight years as a way…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 65-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court.Included in court action:• Scott St. Clair was bound over to the grand jury on charges of criminal attempt to manufacture drugs and driving on a revoked license.• Daniel John Pendergraph was…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard HENDRIX By third grade, Jana Hendrix knew she wanted to teach. A couple years later, she was tutoring her peers and teaching others to swim and roller skate, thus beginning a calling she still hears today.“My mom, who was teacher, inspired me, but it was…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Failing to pay child support for his three children brought a six-year sentence to a local man who was two years behind on his payments.The defendant, Michael Woods, 30, was sentenced to serve 90 days of a six-year sentence by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A local couple faces federal charges after they were busted with a meth lab for the third time in a year Thursday morning.The suspects, James Riley Stacy, 49, and his wife, Edna Elaine Stacy, 52, were reportedly in possession of their third meth lab when…

DAVIS Warren County veterans and active-duty servicemen and women will be remembered in a special tribute Saturday evening as local Democrats and friends gather for a rally and fund-raising dinner.U.S. Congressman Lincoln Davis, a Fentress County Democrat, will be the keynote speaker for the event at Bobby Ray Elementary School, beginning at 6:30 p.m. with…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The stage is set for this weekend’s Pork and Bands, the traditional end-of-the-year fund-raiser for the Warren County Music Department featuring good food and good music.Now in its 33rd year, Pork and Bands includes a barbecue dinner and an assortment of entertainment including performances by…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Kaylee Jade Hillis, 5, poses with a copy of Vegetarian Baby and Child magazine, for which she was the cover model in the March-April edition. Hillis is pursuing success in the modeling field and hopes to one day become an actress. (Amy Satterwhite photo) Little…

Hester Nettie Davis, 91McMinnville resident and Putnam County native Hester Nettie Davis, 91, died April 30 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of West Riverside Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Joseph and Clara Richardson Sliger; and was preceded in death by her husband, Paul A. Davis…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist Last fall, my big city cousin Bernice brought her 4-year-old son up to the farm for a visit. One afternoon we were out under the apple trees in the backyard taking in the mountain view. The ground was littered with ripe apples that had fallen off the trees. Little Billy…