By Joan Ryan Laurie Falco wants to die soon. She isn’t sure exactly when, but soon. She underlined the word on the sheet of notebook paper on which she answered my questions recently. Her writing is light and spidery, making it difficult to read. But it is her only means of communicating. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,…

By Will Stewart Imagine: You want to take a day trip to Nashville. But instead of hopping in the car, driving down the highway and then the Interstate, you instead drive to McMinnville Station in Depot Bottom.Here you board a smooth, quiet, high-speed train that in less than an hour has you in downtown Nashville.…

Our Viewpoint When a longtime local teacher such as Anita Lance decides it’s time to pack her bags and head to a Rutherford County classroom because of pay issues, there’s cause for concern.When a teacher such as Lance goes on to win one of the school system’s Teacher of the Year honors – during her…

Our Viewpoint Under the regular six-year cycle, Warren County residents have had their property value reassessed this year. It’s a procedure local property assessor Carolyn Miller tried to avoid by meeting with state officials and asking for mercy.Miller said the county is experiencing difficult economic times, and with Carrier scheduled to close next year, those…

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Monterey resident and McMinnville native Marjorie Mason Wild, 85, died April 16 at Stone Health Care and Rehab Center in Monterey.The youngest of five children, she was raised in McMinnville and graduated from Central High School in 1937. She worked for Dr. B.C. Smoot and then the Warren County Health Department from 1941-48. She moved…

Mobile, Ala., resident and McMinnville native Helen Juanita Cooper, 70, died April 16.Preceded in death by her father, Johnnie McCormick; she is survived by her husband of 49 years, Ollie Cooper; sons and daughters-in-law, William and Pam Cooper of Wilmer, Ala., Jeffery and Tonja Cooper of Destin, Fla.; daughters and sons-in-law, Janet Seaman of Saraland,…

Rock Island resident and Van Buren County native Fred Clay Moore Jr., 74, died April 16 at River Park Hospital after a three-week illness.A trucker driver with McMinnville Concrete and Sullens Transport and a member of Mt. Elim Baptist Church, he was the son of Fred C. and Gertie Blackbird Bishop Moore Sr.; he was…

Bartlett resident and Warren County native Eva Florene Close, 84, died April 17 at Memphis Healthcare and Rehab after an extended illness.A homemaker and member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late L.E. and Edith Jones Bailey and was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Waterman Close in 1982.She…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. board chairman Denny Bottorff says he “moved too quickly” to authorize employee benefits and has called for a halt to vacation and sick leave policies some call too generous. Bottorff and his colleagues approved the policy at the board’s March 29 meeting. “We have been in a hectic…