By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The vacation is over as Warren County students and teachers return to their classrooms today to begin the 2004-2005 school year.“We had a pretty good registration day Monday,” said Director of Schools Dr. Jerry Hale. “There are always a few parents who don’t know where…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MILNER Known as the matriarch of one of Warren County’s most beloved families, former Dr Pepper Bottling Company president Hazel D. Milner died Aug. 9 at her home. She was 86.“We moved here from Boaz, Ala., in 1965 and we’ve considered Warren County home ever…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard JANICE CHAMPION With two lawmen and a business owner testifying Monday they saw 17-year-old Stephen Champion strike the hand of a sheriff’s deputy, Juvenile Court Judge Larry Ross found the teen delinquent on charges of assault and disorderly conduct.Ross placed the youth, now 18, on…

By Duane Sherrill The early polls are out and surprise, surprise, USC, Oklahoma and LSU are at the top, with Tennessee sitting at what I believe is a generous 14th.The ESPN/USA Today college football poll, released last week, had USC with 449 first-place votes compared with Oklahoma with 12 and LSU with five. Obviously the…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard TURNER Warren County Middle School’s football team had its first live competition Friday, in a three-way scrimmage at Murfreesboro’s Central Middle School.Taking on Cannon County and the host Tigers from Central, the Pioneers, under the tutelage of new head coach Matt Turner, participated in controlled…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard WATSON While the Pioneer varsity saw the lion’s share of the action in Friday’s three-hour scrimmage with Grundy County, the freshman squad also got a chance to take center stage, as they went through a series of 11-on-11 possessions with the Yellow Jackets.Neither team scored…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County’s Jevon Ramsey heads for the goal line on his way to a touchdown while a Grundy County defender is in hot pursuit during Friday morning’s scrimmage at the WCHS practice field. (Dale Stubblefield photo) After a week of sweating through two-a-day practices, with…

The Humane Society of Warren County is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals in the Middle Tennessee area which ore engaging in organized dog fights and/or cock fights.The identity of the individual or individuals providing this information will be kept confidential. The person providing this information to…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard The American Heart Association has another $42,000 to put toward research after this year’s Heart Walk fundraiser, according to local chairman Steve Otto of River Park, who was quite pleased with the results.“Warren County really stepped up this year and did a great job,”…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Magness Library will be utilizing the facility’s new large-screen TV this week for a special movie to be shown Thursday, Aug. 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Carrier Room. The movie is free, with the only admission being one of the electronic receipts…