Emily Kay Yoder and Derek Wayne Adkisson will be married May 7 at Washington Avenue Baptist Church in Cookeville. (Photo provided) Emily Kay Yoder and Derek Wayne Adkisson of Coalfield are announcing their engagement. The couple will say their vows May 7 at Washington Avenue Baptist Church in Cookeville.She is the daughter of Leon and…

Ralph McCain appears as Wining Boy in the Tennessee Repertory Theatre production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” “The Piano Lesson,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson, provides the dramatic finish to the successful 2004-2005 season of Tennessee Repertory Theatre.Starring Nashville native Barry Scott, the play has already had show times and runs through…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard The community received a special treat Saturday morning for the Mini Standard’s annual Kite Day. There was actually a breeze.Kites were soaring and spirits were high during the eighth annual event at Hickory Creek Elementary. The temperature was also just a bit nippy, but the folks…

By LEONARD DELANEY / Special to the Southern Standard Sam Grissom’s Rock Island store is pictured in 1967. Behind the store was a 10-unit motel. (Photo provided) The year 1938 was filled with many momentous events: Congress authorized funds for a two-ocean Navy; Britain’s Prime Minister Chamberlain signed that infamous and worthless document with Adolph…

By TIM DAHLBERG / AP Sports Columnist Dick Pound has a question he’d like asked when NFL executives take their turn Wednesday before a congressional panel investigating steroids. “If I were a member of the panel I’d be saying, ‘Tell me how it is, with everybody knowing things are going on, why can’t you catch…

The Warren County Church League will be holding its annual fundraiser invitational tourney for men’s and women’s teams on Saturday, May 7, at the W.C. Fairgrounds fields. Entry fee is $125, hit your own 44 or 47 cor balls, teams pick 0-10 home runs. Deadline to enter is Wednesday, May 4, at 9 p.m. Call…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The NFL’s drug-testing policy was held up as a paragon when subpoenaed Major League Baseball players and officials were met with withering criticism from Congress at last month’s hearing on steroids. The NFL strengthened its program ahead of its own trip to Capitol Hill — and even that might not be enough…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard On Monday the Lady Pioneer softball team traveled to Manchester for a border battle with the Coffee County Lady Raiders. A four-run sixth inning for Coffee County secured the shutout as the Lady Raiders downed Warren County 4-0 in non-district action.Warren County had its chance…

By JIM LITKE / AP Sports Columnist The BCS is holding its annual meeting this week at a luxury hotel in sunny Arizona. As exercises in futility go, it is rivaled only by UFO conventions. And right now, it’s an even-money bet whether aliens will be regular visitors to the planet before college football gets…

By Dale Stubblefield / Columnist Without the wonderful world of sports, life for most of us would be very dull and boring, and I wouldn’t be writing this column.Turn on your television just about any time of day and you can flip through the channels and find some type of sporting event.Thank goodness for ESPN.…