By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 56-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court. Included in court action: ? James W. Judkins must serve 40 days for domestic assault. ? Ann Bass was handed a six-month probationary sentence and must perform eight hours public service work…

By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard McMinnville?s first urban forester, Nick Kuhn, is leaving after six years to take a job in Albuquerque, N.M. He arrived just in the Nick of time and is gone after six successful years of service. The city?s first urban forester, Nick Kuhn, is saying good-bye to…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard Bobby Cox and Bonnie Collier look over some of the information on the newly proposed Citizens for Progress scholarship program which will provide tuition assistance for WCHS graduates to attend Motlow Community College or Tennessee Technology Center. With the loss of the Carrier plant and…

By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard It?s almost time to make Friday night jump with excitement. Main Street Live is scheduled to begin June 2 with O.J. Cummins Big Band Sound and will continue every Friday night for 13 weeks. During the last few months, Main Street McMinnville has been finalizing the…

LEVENHAGEN Today Connie Levenhagen quips lightheartedly that she was ?depressed since birth.? In fact, her childhood was marked by deep depression. ?When you?re young, people think ?she?s just quiet,?? says Levenhagen. As a result, her sadness went untreated until she was a young adult. At age 23, her life changed suddenly. ?After the birth of…

The eight charges listed against Pamela Rogers on her April 24 arrest warrant: 1. Defendant contacted the victim?s sister by phone and text messages from a cell phone belonging to the Fentress County School Board of Education but used by the defendant. Contact being first made at Gondola Restaurant where the victim?s sister was present…

JONES Recipients of the University of Tennessee?s Neyland scholarships were announced during the East Tennessee Chapter of the National Football Hall of Fame Awards Brunch. The students were then honored at UT?s Fan Day during halftime of the Orange and White football game. Warren County resident, and freshman computer engineering major, Nick Jones, received recognition.…

GILLENTINE Ashley Gillentine, daughter of Gary and Helen Gillentine, earned dean?s list honors for the fall semester at MTSU. She is a sophomore English major.

McMinnville resident Louise Moffitt Hale, 87, was born April 1, 1919 and died April 26 at her home following a sudden illness. A retired nurse with Dr. Wallace Bigbee and a member of Mt. View Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late William Foster and Rebecca Parrett Groves Moffitt. She was married…

By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The first street vendor ordinance proposed by the city made it nearly impossible for vendors like ?The Hot Dog Man? Brian Curran to operate downtown. In what seems to have more twists and turns than a suspense novel, the street vending ordinance has been sent to…