By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard MARTIN The Budget and Finance Committee voted unanimously Monday to approve a 2006-2007 Warren County budget of $66.7 million which, in its current state, would require a tax rate of $3.06 to fund, a 75-cent increase over the current rate of $2.31. The budget as…

By JAMES CLARK Editor for the Southern Standard This red Chevy Blazer driven by Candace Jones, 17, was heading toward McMinnville on Old Shelbyville Road when it collided head-on with a Ford van driven by Kenneth Clifford, 42, who died at the scene. A teen-age mother is being blamed for a deadly Monday evening collision…

Will (Bill) A. Peden, Sr., 66, of McMinnville, a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and a member of Oak Grove Church of Christ died Saturday, Aug. 5 after a short illness. Born on Jan. 6, 1940 in Charleston, S.C., he was a quality engineer with Honeywell International. Mr. Peden was preceded in death…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native James Marcus Moffitt, 91, was born March 23, 1915 and died Aug. 6 at Generations Center of Spencer following a lingering illness. A retired parts manager of a Chevrolet dealership and a member of the Westwood Church of Christ, he was the son of the late H.B. ?Fox? and…

Lorella Hale Knaser, 76, of Ashtabula, Ohio died July 31 in Ohio. A native of Warren County, she was born June 20, 1930. She was preceded in death by her parents, James and Leona Burgess Hale, sons Tony and Roy Birman, sister Mary Roberts and brothers James and Eugene Hale. Survivors include daughters Betty Jane…

Rock Island resident and White County native George William Taylor, 86, was born Dec. 23, 1919 and died Aug. 5 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville following an extended illness. A retired construction worker with International Union Operating Engineers and a veteran of the United States Army, having served during WWII, he was the son of…

KNOXVILLE (AP) A prolonged heat wave continues to drive demand for electricity in the Southeast, but power supplies are improving, a Tennessee Valley Authority official said Tuesday. ?We are having about the same amount of demand on the system as last week,? TVA spokesman John Moulton said. ?The difference is that we have nearly all…

TO THE EDITOR: On behalf of the entire Morrison community, I would like to thank Mr. James Clark and the staff of the Southern Standard for their wonderful coverage of our town?s recent 150th birthday celebration. The ?Morrison Memories? special section (July 28, 2006) was a well-researched representation and pictorial of Morrison?s proud and rich…

William Rusher The conviction that the United States ought to pull out of Iraq is growing. It is not (yet) the opinion of a majority of the American people; polls indicating that a majority is seriously dissatisfied with the way things are going there don’t translate readily into a conclusion that we ought to bug…

Duane Sherrill OK, the elections are over. It?s time to clean the place up and leave it like you found it. It amazes me how election-year traces linger long after the dust has settled on an election. It would seem to me that cleaning up would be as easy as pulling a sign out of…