This week, December 3-9 is National Hand Washing Week in the United States. The awareness week started due to the flu vaccine shortage to educate the public about hand washing as the first line of defense against the flu or flu-like illness. Hand washing is the single most important means to prevent the spread of…

Holiday shopping can be not only stressful but a daunting task. Many are turning to online shopping this year to save time, money and to cut down on their frustration. Use these tips to shop smart and save online: ? Use an Online Comparison Shopping Site: Try a site like Shopping.com, where you can easily…

Margo Howard Dear Margo: I confided to my cousin, with whom I’m very close, that I’d become intimate with my boyfriend of one year. My parents, who are very conservative, did not know. Quite frankly, I was not ready to tell them. I’m still going to college, and although I would have told them eventually,…

Southern Standard readers are invited to extend happy birthday and anniversary best wishes to friends and loved ones through this weekly column. Please submit your messages by our noon deadline each Thursday. No more that three wishes to any individual, please. Happy Birthday Wishes: Dec. 1 ? Bobby Terry, happy birthday from Dad and the…

Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Can you give me the recommended health screenings for seniors and which ones Medicare (Part A or B) pays for? Healthy at 64 Dear 64, Outside of eating a healthy diet, regular exercise and not smoking, health screenings (tests or examinations that help find health problems early on, when they?re…

Instructor Gail Gentry assists students, from left, Trayton King and Dakota Bennett with the rinsing of their marbled paper.

By MARGARET HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard It?s all in the design, as third-grade student, Breanna Forth finds, as she works on a collage on the cover of her book. She and almost 500 Bobby Ray Memorial students took part in the two-day craft session. Bobby Ray Memorial students had the unique opportunity…

By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard The ball comes loose as Warren County?s Jaylen Mount finds himself surrounded by Eagles during Thursday night?s Central Tennessee Conference matchup. Mount recovered the loose ball, and scored on the play. Warren County Middle School opened its Central Tennessee Conference schedule Thursday night with a split,…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard If you?re going to match up against a team that has a lot of speed and quickness, then you have to either be as fast or out-shoot your opponent. Thursday night the WCHS freshman boys had troubled converting on the offensive end of the floor, and…

On championship Saturday, Wake Forest was first to break into the BCS. Just minutes before Southern California started playing for the day’s biggest prize ? a matchup with No. 1 Ohio State in the national title game ? the surprising Demon Deacons closed out a 9-6 victory over Georgia Tech in the ACC title game…