By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard The Lady Bronco soccer team traveled to Smith County for its second district game of the season Tuesday, and came away with a scoreless tie. Boyd’s girls took the field without their only senior, Jennifer Laxton, but first-year head coach Gina Cleek said the team’s younger…

By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County’s Joshua Paz is sandwiched between a pair of Chattanooga Central defenders during last Friday night’s game. The 2004 Pioneer football team will hit its home field for the first time tonight, and will field a slightly altered lineup when it plays host to perennial…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Brittany Frazier puts up a set during the Lady Pioneer volleyball team’s win over White County Tuesday. The Warren County Lady Pioneer volleyball team did something they have been trying to do for six years — beat White County — Tuesday night, when they defeated the…

Rob Nunley Every year, Beloit College in Wisconsin releases to its faculty and staff the annual “Mindset List.” The list, which the college uses to hopefully slow the “hardening of the references” used by its professors, describes how the year’s freshman class views the world around it. The list has become a popular item on…

Charles W. Johnson photo Leadership Warren’s Alicea Weddington and Vickie Dodd present a check to Magness Library manager Mary Robbins donated from part of the proceeds from Back to School Movie Night. Pictured are, from left, Sandra McGuire, Robbins, Weddington, and Dodd.

By AMY SATTERWHITE Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard What is known as Cookeville’s “courthouse sidewalk” is shown post-construction. Pictured is a view down Washington Avenue from the Putnam County Courthouse, which also shows stamped cement and brick pavers, planters and decorative lamp posts. It may not be a pretty sight on Main Street right…

Will Stewart photo Hickory Creek kindergartner Hunter Rowland, 5, is in the loop as roper Ray Kozack does his stuff at last night’s Title 1 Round-up at the school.

By WILL STEWART Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Normally, Shari Owens runs around McMinnville for exercise. But next month she’ll be running in San Francisco to help find a cure for leukemia and lymphoma. The Warren County High School special education teacher is set to participate in the Nike 26.2 Marathon, an inaugural marathon…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 51-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court. Included in court action: • Nathan Junior Fisk was ordered to serve 60 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence and have his probation extended by six months for assault on an officer…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Freedom had a high price for a local teen who will end up serving roughly two days for every minute he was on the loose during his dash from officers at the courthouse last week. The escapee, Courtney Martin, 18, entered a guilty plea Tuesday to…