By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) Joey Haston laces an RBI double to right field during the first inning of the Pioneers’ victory over Cascade Thursday night at Coffee County High School. The Pioneers won, 8-5. MANCHESTER — The Pioneer baseball team faced a familiar foe Thursday night, when…

By Chuck Shepherd According to a police report in January on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Web site, a driver in the Newfoundland district of Bonavista-Clarenville denied he had an illegal radar detector, claiming the black box on his dashboard was a “moose detector” that indeed had so far kept him safe from moose.• Joseph Hubbert,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Twenty-five people were indicted Friday by the Warren County grand jury.Included in grand jury action:• Tammy Lynn Davis was indicted on 76 counts of forgery. She is charged with writing hot checks at numerous businesses, some of which were written on the account of her…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 28-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court.Included in court action:• Douglas Condren was ordered to serve 45 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence, pay $600 plus costs and forfeit his driver’s license for two years for second-offense…

Gath Baptist Church is once again broadcasting its Sunday morning worship services live.WCPI 91.3 FM has begun airing the services on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. This is a ministry to those in the community who are sick, homebound, working, or otherwise unable to attend services at their local church.Pastor Ray Gilder will begin a…

One of Warren County’s oldest churches welcomes its newest minister to the pulpit in special services today. following the departure of Kirk Brothers, who served the downtown congregation some four years prior to accepting an associate minister’s position in Columbia, Tenn., last fall.Parish comes to McMinnville after a four-year tenure as preacher at Hartsville Church…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard HASTON McMinnville’s severe weather warning system may be activated for not only tornado warnings, but severe thunderstorm warnings, according to a protocol adopted by city officials Monday.Warren County’s 911 director Chuck Haston said the city has requested the 911 center sound the alarm for both…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Members of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted on first reading Monday to change the times of their regular session.If given final approval, meeting times would occur on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month instead of the first and third Mondays. Aldermen…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard HARVEY A native Roane countain, Dale Harvey has announced his candidacy for the 4th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.Harvey, 46, is a graduate of Roane County High School and has an associate of science degree in general technology with a chemistry emphasis…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard While reading is the cornerstone of learning, it is usually not taught after the sixth grade. By this time, most students have a fairly good grasp of the language, but there is a small minority whose reading skill is still not up to par, even…