By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MATHENEY Local legislators are downplaying rumors the state may attempt to take the unclaimed portion of the local option sales tax should it not pass in tomorrow’s city referendum. However, they admit nothing is impossible given the state’s budget crisis.McMinnville voters will go to the…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard ADKINS By all definitions, country music singer Trace Adkins is a star.His latest album, a greatest hits CD, debuted at No. 1 on the country charts in July. His current single “Then They Do” is No. 9 on the Billboard Country charts. And last week,…

By DENNIS STANLEY / Publisher/Editor for the Smithville (Tenn.) Review ENOCH Natural gas customers can expect to pay higher bills this winter, but for customers of Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, the hike likely will not be as much as predicted on state and national levels.Middle Tennessee Natural Gas CEO Less Enoch has said if the…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Deborah Brown enjoys her evening at Jack’s Club in this photo taken the night she was arrested for public intoxication and child neglect. Brown said she thought her 9-year-old was in the capable hands of her mother. (Photo provided) Using lounge singing to help mak…

Roy Walker Fitts Sr., 81McMinnville resident and Warren County native Roy Walker Fitts, 81, died Sept. 1 at River Park Hospital.A retired Chrysler employee and a member of McMinnville Primitive Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Sam and Ethel Hendrickson Fitts; and was preceded in death by brothers, Kenneth, Hoyt, Jasper, George,…

TO THE EDITOR: WastAway Services LLC is a company, evolving from seven years of research and development by a locally owned company, to develop a process that addresses one of the oldest and largest problems. Our patented system recycles household waste.WastAway Services LLC opened its first facility in an existing building (previously AquaTech) in the…

By Hope Hines / Columnist Some things you never forget.Till I die I won’t ever forget the smell of mama’s cooking. Especially Saturday dinner.Now, dinner in South Georgia was what you ate at noon. Supper was anything after 5 p.m. Every Saturday, from the time I can remember, dinner at the Hines house consisted of…

By Joseph Perkins / Coumnist Federico de Jesus owes Victor David Hanson an apology.De Jesus, a staffer for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Cal., falsely accused Hanson, the distinguished author of the just-published book “Mexifornia” (Encounter, 2003) of racism and xenophobia at a recent Capitol Hill briefing.During his introduction, Hanson, a scholar of ancient Rome…