By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Twenty-four people were indicted Friday by the December session of the Warren County grand jury, including the man accused of stalking a Mullican Street family and tapping their phone.The defendant, Dickie Sanders, was indicted on eight counts including stalking, wire tapping, theft and aggravated burglary.…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard An apology appearing in today’s edition was not enough to stop the wheels of justice for a Waffle House waiter accused of spitting in the food of a police lieutenant.The defendant, Homer Disher, 18, was indicted Friday by the Warren County grand jury on charges…

By LISA CHAPMAN / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Sandy Haston and Arminta Woods are well known to McMinnville city employees. Without these two working as a team, no city employee would get paid and nothing would get done financially.“We receive and disperse the city’s money,” said Haston, general accountant.“We do anything that needs…

After 30 years of working for Morris Newspaper Corporation, including 25 years as publisher of Southern Standard, William R. (Ron) Fryar has announced his resignation.Fryar is accepting a job with Nashville-based American Hometown Publishing as senior vice president of operations. American Hometown Publishing, a two-year-old company, owns five newspapers. Fryar’s main responsibilities will be overseeing…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The crowded races got even more crowded while some incumbents are still waiting to see if they will have any competition in the upcoming 2006 elections.“They’re getting started early this year,” said Election Administrator Donna Yates of the ground swell of candidates considering a run…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Should we just sit back and bemoan the exodus of American jobs offshore to countries like India and Taiwan?County Executive Kenneth Rogers doesn’t think so. In fact Rogers is making an unprecedented trip to China this week at the invitation of the Chinese government,…

McMinnville resident and Davidson County native Lonnie Dale Pease, 26, died Dec. 3 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville.He was preceded in death by maternal grandfather, Arthur Fisher; and paternal grandparents, L.B. and Nomma Mae Pease.He is survived by his parents, Clarence and Shirley Fisher Pease of McMinnville; maternal grandmother, Geneva Fisher of Rock Island;…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Junior Nunley, 60, died Dec. 3 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A mechanic with the city of McMinnville and a member of the Church of Christ, he was a past president of the McMinnville Lions Club and served his country in the U.S. Army.The son of Willie…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Members of the 278th proudly marched in the parade as grand marshals. The Warren County High School marching band was in top-notch form while playing Christmas songs in Saturday’s parade. When American soldiers are deployed on foreign soil one of the most important things…