Story and photos by Charles W. Johnson Top, Heather Fults, left, and Anna White take a rest on the porch in front of the cafeteria. Bottom, Erica Burch plays in one of the springs near the camp. Every community has its little known enclaves of natural beauty and relatively untouched wilderness areas. Camp Woodlee is…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard This year’s Astro-Auction, benefiting the American Cancer Society, is set to get under way tomorrow at Caney Fork Electric Auditorium and will run through Aug. 8. The auction will be broadcast from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. each day by WBMC, 960 on your…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard COLWELL The impact of domestic abuse often has a permanent impact on the children of abusive parents even when the children themselves are not physically harmed.“Studies have shown that witnessing domestic violence can have more impact on a child than suffering the loss of a…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard SULLIVAN Jurors will not hear the confession a deputy allegedly overheard murder suspect Eric Sullivan make to his attorney, but instead, they will get to hear admissions he made to two jailers during his time behind bars.Sullivan, 38, is set to stand trial this Wednesday…

By Beth Furbush One of the nation’s longest-running scams is taking on new twists. Known as Nigerian letter scams, these fund transfer frauds reach intended victims by fax, letter or e-mail. The sender, who claims to be a government official or member of a royal family, requests assistance in transferring millions of dollars of excess…

By Jim Glenn The next time you are looking in your kitchen pantry or cupboards, pay attention to the number of food packages and household products that say “New and Improved” somewhere on the label. There’s a good chance that more than half of them do.Unfortunately, the phrase has been so overused that many people…

By James Clark Greetings and welcome to a somewhat abbreviated Business Pulse. You may not have realized it, but I spent much of last week vacationing around the state and in parts of North Carolina and Virginia.But you know business news is never far from my mind. If a hot business tip is involved, you…

Bertha Louise Goff, Alvin Russell Fater, James Fate Brown, James Gwyn Stroud, James Leonard Shockley, Willard Lincoln Hayes, Pamela Denise Dobbs Layne Bertha Louise Goff, 84McMinnville resident and Cannon County native Bertha Louise Goff, 84, died Aug. 2 at River Park Hospital.A homemaker and a member of Blues Hill Church of Christ, she was preceded…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist Our T-shirts were sticking to our backs by the time we emerged from the subway into Greenwich Village. New York City in July is like the back kitchen of a bayou diner.But it is still New York, so we happily walked through the Village, down into Soho, Little Italy and…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist Sue and I recently stayed at her sister Mary’s house for a visit. Mary, who is 15 years younger than we are, has a night job, so she sleeps late.Early one afternoon while waiting for her to wake up, I was watching “Young Mr. Lincoln” on her television, with Henry…