By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Beginning this fall, city fifth-graders will have the chance to play school-sponsored basketball as the Warren County School Board voted Thursday to allow the students to try out for the middle school’s sixth-grade teams.“We need to be consistent,” said school board Athletic Committee member Larry…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard MOFFITT Magness Library is set to receive the largest donation in its long history with a bequest that may amount to around $1 million as set out in the will of local resident Gentry Ward Moffitt.According to the will, after some other bequests, the…

By Jim Glenn Oftentimes government statistics can simply bore you. But there are some statistics that may surprise you. Here is one example.The Administration on Aging reported that in 2001 there were more than four times as many widows as widowers. And, perhaps even more surprising, the statistics show almost half of all older women…

By Beth Furbush There’s no shortage of scams out there today. Consumers of all ages and nationalities are targeted by con artists whose primary goal is to part you from your money. The best way to avoid being taken advantage of is to know more about an offer than what is presented to you.One consumer…

By James Clark McMinnville Lanes employees Barbara Bouldin, left, and Dena Foster hold up a Mean Gene’s pepperoni pizza. The bowling alley opened its new pizza parlor with several TVs this weekend. (James Clark photo) I bring you this week’s Business Pulse immersed in the emotional scars that come with failing, yet again, to fly…

One of America’s most famous grand piano concerts, Dorfman and Katahn, will take place April 30 at 7:30 p.m. on the stage of the Cumberland County Playhouse. Enid Katahn and Amy Dorfman appeared at the Playhouse last year and are back by popular demand.They play 12 feet apart from each other on two 11-foot Steinway…

The Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, the state’s premiere arts service organization for craft artists, announces the return of its popular crafts fair with a new look and new name. Now referred to as TACA Spring Craft Fair, the popular event is scheduled April 30 through May 2 in Nashville’s Centennial Park. Admission is free.Visitors…

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McMinnville resident and Overton County native Lula M. Martin Basham, 75, died March 23 at Hospice House in Cleveland, Ohio.A receptionist with UCHRA and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Foster Winton and Sally Elizabeth Qualls Norrod; and was preceded in death by son, Glenn Martin and six siblings.She is…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native James Laverne Bouldin, 76, died April 23 at his home after an extended illness.A retired Carrier employee and a member of Central Church of Christ where he was a longtime elder, he volunteered at the nursing homes, playing the organ there and at Warren County horse shows, weddings and…