By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard VANDER HORST The average person might not ever see the new field representative as construction progresses on Main Street over the next 14 months, but his work will be highly visible for generations.Officials from the Akron, Ohio engineering firm EG&G, Inc. have positioned a field…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The existence of a global economy was unquestionable early this week as six delegates from nurseries located in European nations traveled to the Nursery Capital of the World.Nursery representatives from Germany, the Netherlands and France traveled to the United States in conjunction with international trade…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard FARNHAM After a three-year separation, the Pioneerettes will rejoin the Warren County High School marching band during its halftime performance tonight as the Pioneer football team takes on Livingston Academy in Livingston.“We’re thrilled and excited to be a part of the program once again and…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County’s efforts to better teach its increasing non-English speaking students received a significant boost recently as 15 local teachers became certified to teach English as a Second Language.The teachers comprised the first of two groups of local educators to participate in the ESL Enterprise…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The library’s book drop has been moved, but Reuben and Bernadine Kruize had no trouble finding it at its new home, which is on the corner of High and West Main streets. (Amy Satterwhite photo) While businesses are bracing for changes brought on by street…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) From left, Elizabeth Pease, Bubba Lee and Donna Pease hold protest signs near the jail yesterday as a sheriff’s deputy drives by. (James Clark photo) Two days after being sentenced twice for the same crime, convicted bank robber Russell Pease became violent at Warren…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard County Commissioners honored what many indicated they felt was a promise to Centertown residents Monday as they approved a motion to support construction of a new Centertown school, and to appropriate the money necessary to do so no later than Aug. 31, 2005. The…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard JONES There will be a mayor’s race in McMinnville after all.Former alderman and current Sparta Street Muffler Shop owner Rickey Jones submitted his qualifying papers for mayor to the Warren County Election Commission yesterday just hours before the qualifying deadline, election officials said.A former member…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee’s unemployment rate remained 4.5 percent in the month of July, but manufacturing jobs increased in a 12-month period for the first time in four years, the state Labor Department reported Thursday. The state rate is 1.5 percentage points lower than in July 2003, and remains well below the national unemployment rate…

NASHVILLE (AP) — The deadline for students to apply for lottery-funded college scholarships has been extended indefinitely, officials said. The deadline had been set for Friday, but higher education officials said they wanted every eligible student to have ample time to apply for the new program. “We just wanted to make sure absolutely no student…