25th Fun Run set for Tuesday
By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard With July 4 less than a week away, it?s time to start thinking about the Stars and Stripes Fun Run. The Fun Run is celebrating its 25th year. This year organizers are hoping to pull even more people downtown for the morning?s events with the addition…
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Southern Group Insurance defeated Colonial Realty 13-3 in the girls teenage league softball tournament. Misty Christian had three hits, Demita Farmer and Lisa Stanger added two hits each for SGI.(June 30, 1991)
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Charles W. Johnson photo Ryan McColloch gets blasted with a jet of water from his own watergun wielded by Josh Watts during Morrison Library?s Summer Reading Program titled Jungle Tales: Hiss, Rumble & Roar.
Read MoreWard to compete in American Miss
CHANDRA ELYSE WARD Chandra Elyse Ward is a National American Miss contestant in a pageant to be held July 9 in Franklin. The pageant is open to girls between the ages of 13 and 15 years of age and will be held at the Franklin Marriott. Chandra?s activities include cheerleading, gymnastics, dance, volleyball and youth…
Read MoreUnited Way feels sting of Carrier?s departure
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard United Way of Warren County needs your help. All the industries that have left the county have hit the organization hard, since it depends on employee deduction programs to fund its efforts. Though the United Way is still working to provide funds to a number…
Read MoreSign vandals cost DA candidates
By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard This campaign sign for Lisa Zavogiannis, located on private property, was cut in two by a vandal earlier this week. While fighting tooth and nail for the same job, the candidates for the office of District Attorney General are in agreement on at least one issue…
Read MoreSchool drug tests get tougher
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County students may soon find it a bit harder to avoid, or tamper with, drug tests when two new policies are put in place by the school system. Currently, only students involved in extracurricular activities can be drug tested. The program began with students…
Read MoreRoss hears 47-person docket
By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 47-person docket was heard Tuesday in General Sessions Court by Judge Larry Ross. Included in court action: ? Corey Clark was ordered to serve 75 days of an 11-29 sentence and must attend anger management for domestic assault, resisting arrest and contempt of court. ?…
Read MoreInvestigators to look into Falcon Rest ghost rumors
By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Almost as old as the house itself, are the rumors that Historic Falcon Rest is haunted. Given a little luck, it?s time to confirm or put those rumors to rest. A team of paranormal investigators will be visiting the mansion July 2 to hopefully catch some…
Read MoreFour-wheeler wrecks lead to terrifying experience
By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Trapped in the wilderness as darkness fell Sunday evening, two of their party injured and their sole link to rescue being a cellphone, the three people found in the isolated mountain region of southern Warren County told their story this week. ?There was one point I…
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