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It?s spring! Free your imagination and create sweet treats to surprise and delight the people you love best. Making bright and sunny cupcakes, a cake shaped like a carrot or a fancy Easter egg cookie is a great way to celebrate the new season. Even the youngest child can lend a hand ? and get…

The Warren County High School softball team fell short in its first two games in the Lincoln County Border Battle tournament on Thursday, then won two on Friday. The Lady Pioneers lost to Cascade in their first game, falling by a 5-1 final score, and then lost to Lincoln County 7-1. On Friday the Lady…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard PEARL Boyd Christian?s Spring Benefit will be held Tuesday night at the McMinnville Civic Center, with University of Tennessee head basketball coach Bruce Pearl as the featured speaker. The annual event is Boyd Christian?s largest fundraiser, which helps cover maintenance, library supplies and overall school expense.…

Monday, April 17Boyd soccer, at home vs. MTCS, 5 p.m.WCMS tennis, at Coffee County, 3:30WCHS softball, at Coffee County, 1 p.m.WCHS baseball, at Blackman, 6:30 Tuesday, April 18WCMS tennis, at home vs. Shelbyville, 4 p.m.WCHS baseball, at home vs. Blackman, 6:30WCHS soccer, at home vs. Oakland, 7 p.m.Boyd baseball, at home vs. Community (DH), 4…

Raymond Oscar Miller, member of First United Methodist Church, was born Nov. 22, 1924 to Annette and Oscar Miller in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is survived by his wife Margaret; sons, Richard and John; daughters-in-law, Elizabeth and Angela; three granddaughters, Anne Marie Morris, Laura Beth Miller, and Caitlin Miller and one great-grandson, Hampton Miller Morris. He…

Spencer resident and Van Buren County native Ernest Christian, 78, died April 13 at his home after a nine-month illness. A timberworker and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Walter and Eliza Mooneyham Christian; and was preceded in death by brother, Tom Christian; and sisters, Joann Taylor…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Daniel F. (Frankie) Jones, 65, died April 13 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville after a sudden illness. A bus driver with the Warren County School System and auto-body shop owner of DJ?s Body Shop, he was the son of Isaac Daniel and Martha Jane Freed Jones. He is…

Tullahoma resident and Warren County native Claudette Gardner Wilson, 70, died April 15 at Harton Regional Medical Center after a brief illness. A city judge in Tullahoma for over 20 years, she served the city of Tullahoma in many ways, including being instrumental in the naming of Jack T. Farrar Elementary School after a former…

Chuck Shepherd Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a high-tech device with seemingly a multitude of uses in lessening our crushing overload of banality: a boredom detector. A talker, via a wearable camera and software that measures facial expressions and movements, could know whether he has lost touch with a listener (via…