By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard PRATER County Executive Kenneth Rogers has announced the selection of a new Emergency Management Agency director to replace longtime director Richard Myers, who resigned the position late last year. Rogers chose Phillip Prater, a former county commissioner and Safety Committee member, to take over…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard CLEMINTINE MYERS Jurors slept on the fate of Clementine Myers last night and returned this morning to enter their second day of deliberations in the murder-for-hire case against the 67-year-old grandmother.“I thought a lot of Dianne. She was like a sister or daughter,” said Myers,…

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Kathleen LaFever RoyTullahoma resident and Smithville native Kathleen LaFever Roy, 89, died Jan. 8 at Lynchburg Nursing Home.A homemaker and a member of Tullahoma First Baptist Church, she was the daughter of William James and Sally Webb LaFever; and was preceded in death by her husband, Charlie Floyd Roy in 1981; and daughter, Sally Joyce…

TO THE EDITOR: Let me say I have an issue with the Warren County football program.In the history of the program, no African American kids have been given the chance to play quarterback, no matter how great a player they are. When they express interest in the position, they’re either totally denied the chance or…

TO THE EDITOR: Blackballed? I applied for the head football position two years ago and also again this year without getting an interview for the football position.I probably have more experience than anyone on the staff in Warren County. I have coached players who have gone on to play with University of Alabama, Florida, Pittsburgh,…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist Bob and Beverly came up for the weekend. All she did the entire time was complain about the cockroaches in their new apartment in the city. “You don’t have cockroaches out here on the farm, do you?”“No,” Sue assured them, “They’re not a problem here.” Sue was looking out the…

By George Plagenz / Columnist The day may be coming when you will call your doctor in the middle of the night with an ailment and he will tell you, “Say two prayers and call me in the morning.”Doctors who believe in the power of prayer are increasing.The cover story in a recent issue of…

By James Clark / Columnist President Bush took a step away from the Iraq fiasco on Wednesday when he proposed drastic changes to this country’s immigration policy.Normally, talk of national policy doesn’t seize my attention, but this is vastly different since it hits close to home. Warren County is flooded with members of the Hispanic…

Our Viewpoint It was less than six months ago the Standard informed city residents it was in their best interest to raise McMinnville’s local option sales tax rate from 2.0 to 2.75 percent.The vote, after all, was limited to only registered voters inside the city of McMinnville. Residents outside McMinnville city limits weren’t permitted to…