By Dale Stubblefield / Columnist With the start of school next week, football in Warren County is just around the corner. Hopefully September will bring cooler temperatures and a winning season for the Pioneers.Monday Night Football kicked off this week and just like I said I would, I watched the Green Bay Packers and Kansas…

Terry Kidd, owner of McMinnville Ford, follows through on his drive on the third hole at McMinnville Country Club during Saturday’s 17th annual Rotary Golf Tournament. (Dale Stubblefield photo) A field of 21 teams competed Saturday in the 17th Annual Rotary Golf Tournament held at the McMinnville Country Club.The morning and noon Rotary clubs hosted…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard The Pioneer golf team turned in a strong performance in their first outing of the year Monday.Competing in the Murfreesboro High School Golf Invitational, Warren County’s boys brought home a second-place finish in the 10-team preseason tournament, finishing just three strokes behind the winning squad…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Ramsey Black, center, looks for some running room during offensive drills Tuesday afternoon at the WCHS practice field. The Pioneers returned Monday from a five-day camp in La Vergne. With 16 days before they hit the field to kick off the 2003 football season, WCHS…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard TIDWELL While he saw several positives at his team’s recent five-day training camp, Warren County High School head football coach Gerald Tidwell said there is also plenty of work left to be done.The Pioneers returned Monday from five days at the Circle Camp Ranch in…

A mugshot photo of Joe Hamby Sr. was mistakenly inserted into a story in Sunday’s edition where Joe Hamby Jr. was quoted. The Standard regrets the error.

J.R. (Jake) Collins, 77McMinnville resident and Alabama native J.R. (Jake) Collins, 77, died Aug. 4 at his home after a two-month illness.A nursery worker and a member of the Pentecostal church, he was the son of the late Joe and Nannie Turner Collins; and was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Collins; son, Ed…

TO THE EDITOR: I am a member of one of the best courses in the area being McMinnville Country Club. Our facility is one of the most affordable courses in the area and one of the best kept.It was stated in a column by Dale Stubblefield that on the average, out of town weekday fees…

By Morton Kondracke / Columnist If President Bush wants to be a true “compassionate conservative,” he’ll support civil unions for homosexual couples and try to avoid using gay marriage as a “wedge issue” in the 2004 presidential campaign.Civil unions — granting gay couples the legal rights of marriage while avoiding use of the term —…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist There is only one person ahead of me in the “Seven Items or Less” lane — a 60-year-old woman whose items are already past the 18-year-old cashier.This should be a breeze.She opens her purse, rummages around for 20 seconds and pulls out a checkbook.I look around. The woman who had…