By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Jay Hutchings (32) and Hector Labrada sandwich a Macon County ball carrier during the WCMS football team’s third varsity scrimmage Saturday at the DeKalb County Jamboree. (Rob Nunley photo) SMITHVILLE — The WCMS football squad hit the field for a full day of action Saturday,…

McMinnville resident Kris Kirby recently made a trip to Washington, D.C. to participate in the National Young Leaders Conference. He was one of approximately 400 high school scholars from around the country selected for the program. Kirby is shown shaking hands with U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis.

Two Warren County High School graduates are currently helping to bring democracy to Iraq from their posts in Baghdad.Lt. Col. Cory Gipson and Col. Max Haston are both assigned to the Multinational Corps-Iraq XVIII Airborne Corps. The group is operating out of Camp Victory in Baghdad.Haston is chief of reserve components for all of Iraq.…

A young man and his teen-age accomplice face burglary charges after allegedly breaking into two country stores in the pre-dawn hours Friday morning.The suspects, Russell Ashbury, 21, and a 15-year-old boy whose name has not been released by authorities, are charged with burglary, vandalism and theft, with the teen facing his charges in Juvenile Court.They…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Twenty-two people were sentenced Wednesday by Judge Bart Stanley in Circuit Court.Included in court action: George D. Wade was ordered to serve 100 days of a five-year sentence, pay $2,000 plus costs and perform 24 hours public service work for sale of cocaine. Charlie Leverett…

School system officials look over information about Gov. Bresesen’s new pre-K program. The county will be holding two such classes, one at West Elementary and the other at Eastside. Pictured are, from left, Bonnie Collier, Bobby Cox and Laura Miner. The Warren County School System is making preparations for its first year of involvement in…

Charles W. Johnson photo Mini John Deere fan Anthony Lester, 5, pulls his own style, and size, of hay wagon in the Viola Valley Homecoming parade yesterday, and it didn’t set him back $2.45 a gallon to do it either.

Cumberland Lumber employee David Thrower, left, and company president Buzz Spivey, center, accept the Governor’s Award from Commissioner James Neeley. Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development Commissioner James Neeley has announced Cumberland Lumber and Manufacturing was chosen to receive the Governor’s Award of Excellence for Workplace Safety and Health.The Governor’s Award honors Tennessee employers…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Sherri Mathis makes a court appearance alongside District Attorney Dale Potter. Mathis will face first-degree murder charges in a trial scheduled to begin Feb. 1. (File photo) There will be no trial this year for the former daycare owner accused of murdering her court ward…