By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard McMinnville Aldermen, from left, Jimmy Haley, Bobby Kirby and Michael Chrisawn could face opposition from up to six candidates in November. With the deadline one day away, there are nine potential suitors for the three alderman spots up for grabs in this year?s McMinnville city elections.…

Photo provided Central High School class of 1956 met July 1 for their 50th reunion at McMinnville Country Club. Classmates attending are, front row, from left, Alva Jean Adcock Myers, Mary Lee Ross Lee, Carmine Alexander Golby, Melba Greene Griffith, Sue Higginbotham Hennessee, Addie Lee Elledge Fults, Ellen Hillis Finney, Winona Passons Boyd, Shirley Higginbotham…

By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Ezell-Harding running back Brandon Hardin slips away from would-be Pioneer tackler Conovia Qualls during Friday?s opening defensive series. With one week left to prepare for their season opener, the Pioneer football team took to the Nunley Stadium field on Thursday for a three-way scrimmage against Ezell-Harding…

Joey Wray Tennessee?s hunting season for gray, fox, and red squirrels opens on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006 according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA). The season continues through Feb. 28, 2007, with a daily bag limit of 10. The hunting season for squirrels is one of the longest fall seasons and one of the…

Jake?s Day The Ben Lomand Longbeards, the local chapter of the National Wildlife Turkey Federation, will be holding Jake?s Day, (Juvenilies Acquiring Knowledge Ethics and Sprtsmanship) on Aug. 26, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The day will feature fishing, skeet and trap shooting, .22 rifle, archery and BB guns. Prizes will be given away and food…

CENTER HILL ? Fishing is good. The water temperature is 90 degrees; lake is falling. Lots of walleye are being caught while trolling nightcrawler rigs in 22-to-25 feet of water on flat banks. Some real good fish are being caught near Pates Fort, while trolling deep-running crankbaits in the 20 feet zone. Bass fishing is…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Shea Hyatt takes the ball away from a DeKalb County player. With their first game of the season just over a week away, the Lady Pioneer soccer team held a play day on Saturday at the Warren County High School soccer field. Four teams ? the…

Madison resident and Warren County native Rickey Eugene Tubb, 48, was born July 8, 1958 and died Aug. 11 following a sudden illness. A Church of Christ minister at Corinth and Unity Churches of Christ and a manufacturing specialist inspector with Peterbilt Motor Company in Nashville, he was the son of Bobby Eugene and Helen…

Madison, Ohio resident and Spencer native Lillian Mills George, 84, died Aug. 12 at White County Hospital after an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ in Unionville, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Joe Dennie and Lena Keyt Simmons Mills; and was preceded in death by sisters,…

LONDON (AP) The investigation into a plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic zeroed in Saturday on brothers arrested in Pakistan and Britain, one named as a key al-Qaida suspect who left the family’s home in England years ago and the other described as gentle and polite. British authorities, meanwhile, warned against complacency, saying…