By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Jason David Rankhorn was airlifted for treatment after his motorcycle crashed into the rear of another cycle driven by his friend, Jeremy Lee Crouch, on Smithville Highway at Moose Lodge Hill Saturday afternoon. (Duane Sherrill photo) One cyclist was critically injured when a pair of…

By James Clark The big news in McMinnville is there doesn’t appear to be many folks who are eager to challenge Mayor Royce Davenport for his job. The Standard even ran a front-page story in Wednesday’s edition talking about how all the people rumored to be running for mayor have decided not to enter the…

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Archie (Buddy) Madewell, 72McMinnville resident and Grundy County native Archie (Buddy) Madewell, 72, died Aug. 6 at Raintree Manor after a lingering illness.An appliance repairman and a member of the Church of Christ, he served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.The son of Arthur and Ethel McBride Madewell, he is survived…

TO THE EDITOR: You’ve probably heard in the past few weeks the charge that the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would define marriage in the U.S. Constitution as the union of one man and one woman, would write discrimination into our country’s founding document. Don’t believe it for a second.The truth is, the Constitution is going…

TO THE EDITOR: In 1978, a meeting was held in the city hall building to discuss the need for a Humane Society in Warren County. McMinnville residents had recently become aware of the deplorable conditions of the dog pound, and some concerned citizens decided a change was in order.Mayor Franklin Blue, Melba Bonner, Chandra Martin,…

TO THE EDITOR: My family has had the privilege for the past week of hosting one of the students with the Sister Cities program. What a wonderful experience.I will be the first to say that as last Sunday approached I had more than one doubt about hosting a student who for all practical purposes spoke…

By Joan Ryan Former San Francisco 49er R.C. Owens rang me back from Manteca, Calif., minutes after the football organization told him I had called. I asked how the 69-year-old was recovering from his July 4 kidney transplant.“Topnotch! Top of the morning! Top hat and tails!’In other words, the usual. Owens has always been as…

By Fred Kaplan For those hiding in a cave recently, Tom Ridge, the secretary of Homeland Security, warned the nation Sunday of new intelligence — taken from a captured terrorist’s laptop — about Al Qaeda’s preparations to attack five specific targets in three U.S. cities: the New York Stock Exchange and Citibank headquarters in New…

By Will Stewart As November’s presidential election zooms ever closer, Karl Rove and the Republican spin-meisters are doing all they can to label John Kerry a Massachusetts liberal. It’s true: he’s no conservative, but then again neither is George Bush.In fact, the way I see it, George W. Bush about as far from being a…