Former McMinnvillian Betty Bryan Haslam has been invited to show a variety of her paintings in oil, watercolor and acrylic during an upcoming exhibition at The Station-Pure Art Gallery, says Vicki Monroe Spivey gallery owner.The gallery is scheduled to officially open the exhibit, “Dreamscapes: Stones, Sand and Time,” with a special public reception for the…

Story by Janice M. Howard Highlighting the 50th annual Warren County A&L Fair were the Baby Show, Little Fairest and Fairest of the Fair pageants, drawing packed audiences at the grandstand. As an added spotlight, all Fairest of the Fair title-holders from 1957 to 2002 had been invited for special introduction on stage to mark…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A Foothills subdivision woman crawled her way to help after her leg was severely injured in a bushhog accident Friday morning.The victim, Sharon D. Hargrove, 51, remains under treatment at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, suffering from severe injuries inflicted when she was run over…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Everyone escaped serious injury Friday night when a Warren County sheriff’s deputy collided with another vehicle on Highway 55 in neighboring Coffee County, totaling both vehicles.The deputy, Stewart Caldwell, was working on the case of a woman who had been set afire earlier in the…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Despite being confined to a wheelchair, Paul Walker still runs his business, Walker’s Tire and Alignment, on Sparta Highway. (Duane Sherrill photo) Anger was never an emotion felt by Paul Walker, even when it appeared the person whose gunshot confined him to a wheelchair nearly…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard(McMinnville, Tenn.) ROBBINS By most accounts, Magness Library director Mary Robbins is a fairly skilled grant writer.Over the last year, that skill has been apparent. Robbins has done work to help the library receive a $11,700 grant for a McMinnville Housing Authority creative writing program. Another of…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard District Attorney General Dale Potter emerges from the residence at Measels Estates where Gina Thompson was doused in gasoline and set afire while she slept Friday morning. Three suspects, all hailing from New York, are charged with the crime. A woman ran burning and screaming…

Velma Leoma Jennings Killian, 90McMinnville resident and Warren County native Velma Leoma Jennings Killian, 90, died Sept. 9 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of Philadelphia The Baptist Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Tom and Sarah Taylor Jennings; and was preceded in death by her first husband,…

TO THE EDITOR: I have just spent a delightful time walking the new trail from Clement Bridge to Riverfront Park. I want to thank all those who have done so much work in planning and doing the construction of this great walking trail.The trail is wide enough for both bikers and walkers. The trail is…