By LISA HOBBS Knowledge is one of the most important things people gain on the journey of life. For veterans, knowledge of the benefits they are entitled to tops the list. A local seminar will be held Jan. 13 in an effort to make veterans and their spouses aware of possible benefits they might be…

MONDAY, JAN. 8 Project Parent classes will be held Jan. 8 through March 12, with child care available on request. Cost is $22 for the manual. Registration ends Jan. 15. For information call 668-1728. The Warren County Democratic Party will meet at 6 p.m. at the VFW. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10 A women?s health awareness tea…

Opryland visit – Young Men United sponsored its sixth annual trip to Opryland Hotel in Nashville on Dec. 27 for a Fellowship of Christian Athletes event where kids were able to meet and have breakfast with football players from Kentucky and Clemson. The two teams played in the Music City Bowl. Young Men United took…

Head-on collision avoided – A volunteer fireman takes a report on the Friday afternoon wreck on Old Shelbyville Road near Crisp Springs that sent the truck?s driver, Benny Myers, to the hospital for treatment. Myers crashed and overturned while trying to avoid an oncoming car in his lane. The other car also slid off the…

The Cumberland River Compact will be holding a meeting for citizens living in the Collins River Watershed on Thursday, Jan. 18, from 6 to 8 p.m. at McMinnville?s First United Methodist Church. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m. This meeting is the second in a series of six to eight meetings the compact will…

By DUANE SHERRILL A 67-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court. Included in traffic court action: ? Brian Stembridge was ordered to serve 45 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence, pay $600 plus costs and lose his license for two years for second-offense DUI. ? Joey Smith was…

By DUANE SHERRILL A man was struck by a car in a sequence which allegedly started with a plot to kidnap and kill his wife. The truth of the matter is still under hot debate between the driver of the car and the man knocked to the pavement. The suspect, Jamier Ramerez Lopez Jr., 22,…

Lewis Neal Bandy, Jr., 81 of Rock Island died Friday, Jan. 5 at River Park Hospital in McMinnville. He was born on Feb. 23, 1925 in Nashville. Mr. Bandy was preceded in death by his parents Lewis Neal Sr. and Jessie Layman Overton Bandy, he was a retired service technician with the Nashville Gas Company…

Lynchburg resident Geraldine Rainey Warren, 85, died Jan. 4. Retired from Delong?s Sports Wear in Lynchburg where she worked as a seamstress, she was a member of Marble Plains Baptist Church. She is survived by daughter, Dottie Williams of Tullahoma and Sandy (Larry) Moffitt of McMinnville; sons, Wilburn (Marcie Annette) Warren of Murfreesboro, Billy (Faye)…

Baby Gage Dakota Rubley passed away Jan. 5 at River Park Hospital. He is survived by his father and mother, Michael S. and April J. Rubley, grandparents, Ricky D. and Judy K. Myers, grandfather James E. Rubley, all of McMinnville; uncle, Scott A. Rubley, aunts, Vanessa A. Rubley and Penny S. Myers, cousins, Zachary J.…