By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 28-person docket was heard last Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court. There was no General Sessions Court last Tuesday due to the election.Included in traffic court action:• Antonio Garcia was directed to serve 48 hours of a six-month sentence and…

DAR Regent Dixie Parker, left, and Past Regent Elise Troupe present local resident and educator Meredith Anne Higgs, center, with the Mary Smith Lockwood Founders Medal for Education. (Photo provided) Meredith Anne Simmons Higgs, a local educator, was recently honored by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) for her pioneering efforts in education and…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A local man has been arrested with a methamphetamine lab for the third time in a year, with the latest occurrence leaving him held under a half-million dollar bond.The suspect, Donovan Wood, 40, was charged with manufacture of meth after an alleged lab was found…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Anthony Malone, of Anthony Malone Remodeling, stands at the rear of Mike and Rhonda Galligan’s home on Harrison Ferry mountain. A plan to add an extra bath grew into a 3,000-square-foot expansion. (Charles W. Johnson photo) How did a minor remodeling project originally intended…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County has been identified as one of the trouble spots for drunk driving and as such has been put on the state’s short list for stepped up enforcement by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.The THP’s Impaired Driving Enforcement campaign is targeting 28 counties across the…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) FRYAR Morris Multimedia has swapped two of its major newspapers in Middle Tennessee for a Gannett-owned daily newspaper in Georgia.The deal leaves the Southern Standard and Smithville Review as the only Morris Multimedia newspapers left in Tennessee.“I think it will have very minimal impact…

By MELISSA STOVER / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Two-year-old Eli Buchanan, left, and his sister Araya, 1, have been selected with their parents as Warren County’s WalkAmerica ambassadors for this year’s annual March of Dimes walk. (Melissa Stover photo) Pregnancy is usually a joyous time in a couple’s life. The impending birth brings…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) Yona Baucon, driver of the Ford Explorer, front and Roy Allen Gibbs, driver of the white car, in background, didn’t have much luck negotiating the roads. (Melissa Stover photo) A driving snow storm hit Warren County late Sunday morning, creating hazardous road conditions and…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Sgt. John Streck, a member of the 101st Airborne, poses on a tank in Iraq while awaiting orders to move. Streck was in Iraq almost a year and was part of the raiding party which killed Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday and Qusay. (Photo provided) As…

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