Golfers from around the state tested the greens at McMinnville Country Club yesterday as part of the high school’s 16th annual invitational golf tournament. Through the years, this tournament has grown into Tennessee’s premiere preseason golf extravaganza. Boys and girls teams from 18 schools – from Knoxville to Cleveland all the way up to Warren…

Cokie & Steven Roberts Dick Cheney made an affectionate gesture toward his daughter, Mary, when he admitted recently that she is a lesbian. “People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to,” he said. “Freedom means freedom for everyone.” But the Republican Party platform adopted last week directly contradicts…

Our Viewpoint The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 awakened the world – especially Americans – to the hatred and deadly capabilities of terrorists. Now that malice has surfaced again. Russia has felt the pain and suffering of one of the cruelest terrorist acts in recent history when bombs and gunfire at a school gymnasium resulted…

Mark A. Halcomb UT Area Nursery Specialist I have visited two field nurseries recently with oaks with yellow foliage. The leaf veins were green with yellow interspaces. It is a classical symptom of iron chlorosis or iron deficiency. The yellowing had come on gradually and slowly gotten worse. (Root rot can cause similar symptoms.) Iron…

Steve C. Stubblefield CFSA Director Minority farmers and ranchers now have the option of joining a new voluntary register to ensure they receive the latest farm program information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA).? ?Louis E. Buck, state executive director for FSA and current chair of USDA agencies in Tennessee, said…

J. Dale Beaty Extension Leader Stockpiling is a simple practice that reduces the amount of hay needed to feed cattle through the winter. Fescue is a strange plant. It grows a bunch in the spring, slows down in the hot summer weather and then grows again throughout the fall. To take advantage of the fall…

BABY BOY Jon Thomas McGee, first child for Jennifer and Jeff McGee, was born July 19 at River Park Hospital, weighing 8 pounds, 2-1/2 ounces. He measured 20-1/2 inches in length.Grandparents are Glenda Cox and the late Jimmy Cox; Tony and Tina Jones of Lewisburg; Jerry and Phyllis Barnes; and Russell and Kay McGee. BABY…

When Classical Mystery Tour, an astonishing Beatles tribute band, takes to TPAC’s Jackson Hall stage Sept. 10 and 11 with The Nashville Symphony, you won’t believe you’re not witnessing the Fab Four themselves. From their classic black suits, haircuts and Sgt. Pepper uniforms to their uncanny sound and performance style on all-time greats like “Hey…

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