Wedding plans of Kelly Nicole Bouldin and Joe Matthew Sheppard are being revealed. The couple will be married in a nuptial ceremony taking place June 27 at Rock Island Church of Christ.The bride-elect is the daughter of Jane Bouldin, Bino and Sherry Bouldin of Rock Island. She is the granddaughter of John and Juanita Bouldin,…

Each concert in the Arts Center of Cannon County’s new summer concert series presents two genres of Southern vernacular music by the best current practitioners.The concert slated June 20 in Dillon Park, Woodbury, features “The Song Catcher” with Carol Ponder and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” with The Princely Players. The Southern Heritage Music Concert Series…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Combating mosquito problems is nothing new for McMinnville’s Public Works Department, but this year, officials are trying something new.Public Works Director Bill Brock said in addition to spraying a mist or fog into the air that acts as a repellent and kills some of the…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard HALE A change in state law last week eliminated the need for a school system-proposed 5-cent tax hike, thus ensuring passage of the 2003-2004 General Purpose Schools budget by Warren County Commission’s Education Committee Monday night.“This does give us another option this year,” Director of…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The simple act of giving a friend a cigarette will cost a local man a good deal of cash and some community service time.The friend in this case was a jail inmate who was in court last month. The man who passed the cigarette, Randy…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A local man was killed Saturday when he was thrown from his truck during a crash near Summitville in neighboring Coffee County.The victim, Agustin Sanchez (Junior) Basilio, 25, died at Manchester Medical Center following the single vehicle crash on Manchester Highway just before 8 p.m.According…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard With close to 100,000 people expected to converge on the Bonnaroo festival in neighboring Coffee County this weekend, authorities in Warren County say they will be maintaining high visibility to make sure visitors passing through observe the law.“A lot of the directions to the concert…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A potential change to the city’s nepotism policy was put on hold Monday after members of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen deferred the matter to the city attorney.Although meeting in a called session, aldermen chose not to act on a change they attempted to…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Local municipal and county officials met recently to form a Joint Economic and Community Development Board as a requirement of last year’s 1101 Growth Plan agreement.Present at the meeting were County Executive Kenneth Rogers, McMinnville Mayor Royce Davenport, Centertown Mayor Arthur Lorrance, Viola Mayor…

Rick Wilson Jr. of Class A Auto Center uses his version of a monkey wrench to prepare for the Standard’s Going Bananas celebration this Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. (Margaret Hobbs photo) School is out and it’s time to kick off the summer. If your idea of summer fun includes a free banana split,…