Child wounded in shooting dies
MEMPHIS (AP) A 13-year-old girl died at a hospital Tuesday a day after she was shot in the head while playing in a Memphis park. Police say Melissa Robertson was a bystander shot during an argument between two groups of young people. “One group got into a vehicle and shots were fired from the car,”…
Read MoreWhat?s so bad about Karl Rove?
William Rusher I missed my chance to establish a valuable connection with Karl Rove when we met, at a Republican reception of some sort, in San Antonio in or about 1999. Everybody was milling around when a portly young man walked up to me, shook my hand genially, and said “I’m Karl Rove.” Rove had…
Read MoreWe are repeating gasoline mistakes
Duane Sherrill It seems we fail to learn from our past no matter how many times it is repeated. Case in point, the oil crisis we are now enduring where gas prices are hovering around $3 a gallon and threaten to go even higher at the first threat of a big wind in the Gulf…
Read MoreThe war for moral superiority
Diana West I can see it now — I think. It’s on the right-hand page of a book by or about Winston Churchill, and it is a quotation by Churchill on the subject on war — specifically, what happens to a civilized society when it goes to war with a barbarous one. I can’t find…
Read MoreRaising the minimum wage not answer to easing poverty
TO THE EDITOR: I respond in opposition to the opinions of your Guest Editorial written by Bill Zechman in Sunday?s edition. Zechman, a Democrat, is a 1st District representative on the Warren County Commission. All due respect to Zechman, but his vicious left-wing politics are extremely obvious. I don’t have a dog in the minimum…
Read MoreTree of the Week: Drooping Leucothoe Leucothoe fontanesiana
Presented by the Department of Urban Forestry, 474-TREE A native shrub from Virginia to Georgia and Tennessee and found throughout the Appalachian Mountains is Leucothoe fontanesiana. Introduced to the plant community in 1793 by famed naturalist William Bartram, Leucothoe is an excellent evergreen shrub for cool, moist, shady gardens especially in the deep south. Drooping…
Read MoreMagazines can be educational
Mark A. Halcomb UT Area Nursery Specialist Thumbing through the June issue of NMPro magazine (Nursery Management & Production) I found a list of crabapple varieties recommended for use in North Dakota and the northern plains. A three year study by Dr. Dale Herman with North Dakota State Univ. based the list on winter hardiness,…
Read MoreWho?s New
Baby Girl Brittany and Jerry Honeycutt, Jr. announce the birth of their daughter, Kaylee Adison Honeycutt. She was born May 29 at River Park Hospital weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces. The infant is joined by big brother, Jerry Wayne Honeycutt, III. Grandparents include Gary Young, Donna and Larry Barnes and Rosemary and Jerry Honeycutt. Baby…
Read MoreServing Up Fun: Standard?s Banana Day draws crowd
By MARGARET HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Standard employees, from left, Teresa Warren, Phyllis Vanatta and Lauren Zechman dish up bowls of ice cream in the banana split assembly line. Banana Day, the Standard?s annual party to kick-off the summer season, treated approximately 800 guests with free banana splits. Many hours of planning…
Read MoreServing Up Fun: More Photos
Kaila Wojciechowsky, at left, and Chole White thoroughly enjoy their banana splits as they sit outside in the balmy weather. The day offered bouts of both rainstorms and sunshine, but didn?t keep the party-goers away, as over 700 of the treats were served.
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