By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Commtech employees George West and Bill Brown remove some of the packaging for a siren that is part of the city’s new weather warning system, which is expected to be fully installed within the next couple of weeks. (Amy Satterwhite photo) Just in time for…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard BYARS With the product of his handiwork still beaming around the globe, religious ambassador and mass communications specialist I.D. Byars passed away Wednesday at the V.A. Hospital in Nashville after an eight-week illness. He was 83.“He was always community-minded,” said former McMinnville Mayor and longtime…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard Local doctors are interested in buying River Park Hospital and conducted a meeting to discuss those intentions Wednesday night.But doctors say it’s still very early in the process and they don’t know several pieces of key information from HCA, the hospital’s parent company. Doctors also stressed…