By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Twenty-five people were sentenced Wednesday by Judge Bart Stanley in Circuit Court.Included in court action: Eugene Grayson was ordered to serve six years and pay $2,000 plus costs for sale of cocaine. Dean Grayson was directed to serve 150 days of a four-year sentence and…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Local, state and federal officials broke ground on a $1.5 million off-farm labor housing complex in Morrison Wednesday said to be the first ever such complex in Tennessee.Designed to assist migrant farm workers in Warren County, the housing units are planned to be built next…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard BROWN Industrial Development Board members are disappointed at their financial allotment from the city for the 2005-2006 fiscal year, a city appointee to the IDB told McMinnville officials Monday.Mark Brown said IDB members were disappointed to learn the city would fund the same amount as…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Architect Derrick Clemow of Upland Design Group shows the preliminary plans for the new Centertown School at the School Board meeting Thursday night. (Charles W. Johnson photo) The new Centertown School project is now one step closer to reality after the Warren County School…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard This is a shot of Abrams M1A tanks on the move to Baghdad. Trey Kirby was among the first wave of soldiers that overthrew Saddam Hussein’s palace. Dr. Homer E. “Trey” Kirby has packed an abundance of experience into his 43 years.He has served…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MATHIS Claiming daycare owner Sherri Mathis engaged in a pattern of abuse which culminated in the death of her 6-year-old daughter, the birth mother of Cheyenne Delp is suing the accused murderess for wrongful death.“(Cheyenne) died of asphyxiation due to strangulation and smothering,” claimed Roxanne…

By Charles W. Johnson / Columnist Since my column is about words, phrases and old sayings, every now and then a reader will call me with some obscure term, phrase or saying they have heard over the years. It’s always fun when they do that. Sometimes I can find out something about where it comes…

BABY GIRLMary and Stoney Craver of this city announce the birth on May 29 of Jaida Michelle Craver at River Park Hospital.She weighed 6 pounds, 14-1/2 ounces at birth and is welcomed by brothers,Kody Warden and Michael Craver.Grandparents are Patricia Carter and the late Henry Carter of Rodessa, La., and Phyllis Craver and the late…

By Margo Howard / Columnist Prudie: I met a woman in 1999, we were immediately attracted to each other, and I asked if she was married. She said yes, but she was getting a divorce. From then to the present, she has had one excuse after another why her divorce is being delayed.Her husband earns…

Michelle Dawn Shelton and William Lewis Stewart exchanged vows in a beautiful sunset ceremony on the island of Santorini, Greece on May 9. (Photo provided) Marriage vows were exchanged by Michelle Dawn Shelton and William Lewis Stewart in sunset ceremony taking place May 9 outside the Chapel of Profitis Elias on the island of Santorini,…