The Southern Standard will kick off its new football contest this Wednesday by publishing an entry blank and rules to what might net up to 1,000 lucky winners a chance at a six-digit prize vault containing $25,000.Folks will have an opportunity to win many other prizes – including cash, which will be up for grabs…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Centertown principal Janie Moore and Director of Schools Dr. Jerry Hale show how the school’s narrow stairwell, where two people cannot walk side by side, constitutes a safety hazard for students. At least twice a year, the classroom of Centertown Elementary first-grade teacher Faye Tinsley…

By MELISSA STOVER / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard With early voting ending Saturday in the city’s local option sales tax referendum, there was an obvious disappointment in voter turnout.Given the fact there are 7,000 registered city voters, election officials had expected a much greater turnout. In all, 597 votes had been cast at…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard CRITTENDEN An essay documenting her triumph over adversity has earned Motlow State Community College sophomore Tammy Crittenden a Townsend Press scholarship award.In winning fourth place in the national essay scholarship competition, she bested approximately 600 students from across the country.Her essay, entitled “Taking Charge of…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The owner of Bridgeside Market was arrested by federal authorities Friday, charged with selling chemicals from his store for use in making methamphetamine.The suspect, Gary Lee Dodson, 54, was arrested along with associate Lester Lee Land, 44, Friday morning by agents with the federal Drug…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Demanding only drugs, a masked gunman robbed Super D drug store Friday morning, dropping his gun as he fled the building.“He didn’t ask for any money,” said McMinnville Police Investigator Lt. Derwin Adcock. “All he wanted was drugs.”According to Adcock, the gunman walked over to…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Lawmen serving a federal arrest warrant against a local man, found him in possession of yet another illegal methamphetamine lab this week.The suspect, Stephen Foutch, 41, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of manufacture of meth and conspiracy to manufacture meth.…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard An 81-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court.Included in traffic court action:• Marcos Acuna was ordered to serve 30 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence, pay $400 plus costs and forfeit his driving privileges for one year for…

Sarah Frances Woods, 68Rock Island resident and Warren County native Sarah Frances Woods, 68, died Aug. 28 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of Clark United Methodist Church, she was the daughter of Jennie Carr Woods of McMinnville and the late Loucis Woods.She is survived by children, Collie L.…

TO THE EDITOR: Clayton Gribble, a retired plant manager of the Oster Corporation, died recently. Oster had a number of managers prior to Clayton, all who brought to the position their unique talents. I was fortunate to have enjoyed a good working relationship with each, but I have always felt it was an extraordinary special…