By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard The Pioneer baseball team used a big third inning and a strong mound performance from Landon Boren to take a lopsided win over Lincoln County Saturday afternoon.Boren worked a complete game, and Warren County posted eight runs in the third on its way to a…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Water pools around home plate at the WCHS softball field Tuesday afternoon. Soggy field conditions after two days of cold and rain resulted in the postponement of every local high school and middle school sporting event. (Dale Stubblefield photo) Mother nature isn’t quite ready to…

By TERESA M. WALKER / AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — Tomas Vokoun won’t call his first postseason shutout his most satisfying win. The Nashville goalie will admit he’s having lots of fun at the Detroit Red Wings’ expense. Vokoun continued his suffocating play by stopping 41 shots and shutting out the Red Wings 3-0…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard A.H. Holt, left, and Magness Library director Mary Robbins pose with Holt’s two books “Silver Creek” and “Kendrick,” which were published when the author was 68 and 69, respectively. (Charles W. Johnson photo) At an age when most people are retired, author A.H. Holt…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard McMinnville officials held a pre-bid conference last week, marking a milestone in the downtown revitalization project that has been in the works for nearly five years.Potential contractors and representatives from area utility companies met with representatives from the engineering firm EG&G Inc. of Akron, Ohio,…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard COPE The faculty and staff of Warren County High School know their students have a wealth of talent. On Friday night, those who attend the seventh annual Black History Club talent show will know too.Long recognized as one of the top talent shows in the…

JACOBS Morrison Ruritan announces Helen Jacobs as its 2004 Citizen of the Year.A close family friend said of Jacobs, “She is one of the most honest, modest and moral people I have ever known.”The former Helen Gilley is a longtime resident of Morrison and the daughter of Jim and Alie Gilley. In 1950 she married…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Those running right up to the midnight deadline tomorrow night will find a light on at McMinnville Post Office as the facility will stay open to accommodate last-minute tax filers.“This will allow last-minute filers the opportunity to receive any services they may need in addition…

Duane Sherrill photo Jeff Green escaped injury Monday afternoon when his van plunged over an embankment and overturned off South Chancery Street near Depot Bottom. Green was traveling toward town when he was run off the road by an oncoming vehicle.