By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MILLER Beating her closest opponent by a 10-to-1 margin, incumbent Property Assessor Carolyn Miller breezed into a fourth term Thursday evening.Miller won re-election with 2,415 votes, compared to Independent 5th District Commissioner Michael Martin who placed second with 221 votes, just ahead of Republican candidate…

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Geraldine Chaffin, 88McMinnville resident and Smith County native Geraldine Chaffin, 88, died Aug. 3 at Life Care Center in Sparta.A homemaker, longtime volunteer with River Park Hospital and a member of Northside Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Jimmie and Margaret Henry Gillespie; and was preceded in death by husband, H.C. Chaffin;…

TO THE EDITOR: I recently received notice that a noted native citizen of Warren County died in Corpus Christi, Texas on May 16, 2003. Mr. Allen Wood had been in ill health for some three years. Born Jan. 14, 1906 in the house on Viola Road now lived in by the Neal Cox family, he…

TO THE EDITOR: I have been watching the upheaval over the closing of the animal shelter and would like to add my 2 cents. I’m the shelter manager. Those of us who are at the shelter daily see things our board members rarely see, the commissioners have never seen, and the public could not begin…

By Joseph Perkins A new election-year poll of black American voters intrigues. Only one in four says he or she is “enthusiastic” about John Kerry’s candidacy, according to the survey, conducted by Black Entertainment Television and CBS News, and roughly half say that, if the Democratic presidential nominee supplants the Republican now in the White…

By Cokie & Steven Roberts “Eve was framed!” That bumper-sticker slogan gave us a welcome giggle when we first saw it, but now it seems an important rallying cry in response to a letter from the Vatican attacking feminism. Who knew that women’s quest for equality from “biological determinism” has brought about everything from the…

By James Clark Visions of airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center came to mind earlier this week when Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced specific U.S. targets were at risk for a terrorist attack.The announcement listed five financial buildings by name in New York City, New Jersey and Washington. Employees at those buildings were…

BABY BOYChanda and Jason Hillis announce the birth of their son, Dalton Blake. He was born June 18 weighing 7 pounds, 1 ounce. He is welcomed by brother Hunter Lawson. Grandparents include David Turner; Debbie and Jeremy Drake of Pleasantview and Gary and Gail Hillis of Rock Island. BABY GIRLBethni Reno announces the birth of…

Meredith Anne Higgs, regent of the Lt. James Sheppard Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, has recently been awarded state and national recognition for her work on Women’s Issues and American Heritage and Conservation.Higgs was awarded top honors in two of the three categories in the Tennessee DAR Women’s Issues essay competition. Her…