By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard The county budget may scarcely make it in under the wire this year, with some commissioners predicting talks will run into September with the finished document barely meeting the state?s October deadline. At a meeting last Friday, Budget and Finance Committee chairman George Smartt said…

By NORA WILSON Special to the Southern Standard Jaime Chavez has spent three years in college at Sewanee. Imagine walking into a room full of people you?ve never met before. Maybe you?d be a little nervous, anxious and possibly shy. Now, imagine you don?t look like them, you don?t speak the same way they do,…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Charges were dismissed for lack of evidence after a woman said her brother tried to crush her with a front-end loader full of dirt. The defendant, Charles Stewart, had charges of assault with a deadly weapon dismissed Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross, with the judge saying…

By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard NUNLEY ?Cut your budget or we will? was the warning sent to other committees from Finance Committee chairperson Patti Nunley after a look at the estimated McMinnville budgets Tuesday night showed too much of an increase. ?Based on my calculations,? said Nunley, ?I expect that where…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard McELROY A Van Buren County teacher and minister has been indicted on nine felony counts for allegedly carrying on a sexual affair with a 14-year-old female student. The defendant, Johnny Lee McElroy, 54, was indicted recently by the Van Buren County grand jury on nine counts…

By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard LAWRENCE McMinnville?s Fire Department was recognized as No. 8 out of 710 fire departments in the state of Tennessee. The recognition came during the annual Tennessee Association of Fire Chief?s Conference last week. McMinnville Fire Chief Kevin Lawrence attended the event and was presented with a…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard County commissioners and animal control employees officially announce the opening of the new county-run Animal Control Center. Pictured, from left, are Ken Martin, Charles Smith, Joey Williamson, Carl Bouldin, Bill Yancy and Wayne Pryor. Warren County?s Animal Control Center, located at 169 Paws Trail, is…

Students may not have enjoyed the luxury of shoes but that didn?t keep them from getting an education at Morrison School. While the students in the photo are not known, the teacher is Irene Wood, who taught in the 1930s. From a deadly bank robbery in 1933 to a highly heralded factory in 1968, the…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Roy Mai Warren, 86, was born May 27, 1920 and died July 23 at her residence following an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Central Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Roy and Veta Mai Vanhooser Hardcastle. She was married first…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Roy Mai Warren, 86, was born May 27, 1920 and died July 23 at her residence following an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Central Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Roy and Veta Mai Vanhooser Hardcastle. She was married first…