TODAY, OCT. 31 The Right of Way Vigil will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Centennial Park in Nashville. Local riders will meet at Charley’s BBQ on Sparta Street at 4 p.m. For information call 1-866-go-abate. Brown Chapel Baptist Church will have an afternoon of music with the Clouds of Heaven from Nashville…

By JAMES CLARK Missing explosives in Iraq. An Osama bin Laden video tape. Hundreds of lawyers ready to pounce on any flaw in the voting process. The final days of the presidential election have provided a minefield of obstacles as President Bush and challenger John Kerry battle for the country’s most prominent job. With political…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Visitors to Cale Madwell’s haunted house were treated to a gruesume evening at his horror movie themed presentation Saturday night. This is the teen’s third year of scaring local residents out of their wits. Cale Madewell enjoys scaring people. That’s why the 17-year-old WCHS senior put together his third annual haunted…

By WILL STEWART From the presidency to the mayor’s race, incumbents retained their offices in a mock election conducted at Warren County High School last week. President George W. Bush squeaked out a narrow victory over Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry, garnering 488 votes to Kerry’s 442. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader came in third…

By AMY SATTERWHITE Tennessee First Lady Andrea Conte is in the midst of a 650-mile walk that will take her across the state. She is scheduled to make a November stop in Warren County. Children’s Advocacy Center program coordinator Anita Moore has been on the job for just a year, but that year has brought…

Amy Satterwhite photo Children’s Advocacy Center program coordinator Anita Moore prepares a sign in anticipation of Tennessee First Lady Andrea Conte’s walk through Warren County, which is set for Nov. 11-12. Conte’s walk is a fund-raising effort for centers that provide services for child abuse victims.

Chuck Shepherd After trials in two separate cases in September (in the Chinese province of Henan and the city of Zhuhau), four men were found guilty of defrauding government banks and promptly executed. According to figures released by China’s Supreme Court in September, more than 4,200 people convicted of fraud in the last five years…

Letters to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: It seems many Americans are going to have to do some deep soul searching this election. This letter is mainly to Christians and people with Christian moral principles. It is past time for us to stand up and fight! Romans 1:18 says, “The wrath of God is revealed…

Letters to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in response to one printed in your paper on Friday from Alex Smartt. Bless her heart, but she is taking this situation over me not signing her paper way too far, most likely at the urging of her father, George Smartt. Last Sunday at our…

Our Viewpoint War means sacrifice. It always has. The men and women who fight for our freedom leave their families and their homes to travel to foreign soil and lay their lives on the line for all of us who stay behind. They endure lonely days and nights far away from their loved ones. They…