Magness Library will celebrate National Library Week, along with Young People?s Poetry Week, Tuesday evening, April 17, at 6:30 p.m. with a ?Poetry Fest? at the Chamber of Commerce Community Room. Students from various schools, including Mrs. Carol Neal?s reading enrichment class, will recite their favorite poems, some of which will be original works. Joining…

TODAY, APRIL 15 A gospel meeting will be held April 15-18 at Bybee Branch Church of Christ with Larry Acuff at 6 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. weeknights. MONDAY, APRIL 16 The Warren County?s FFA award program will be held at Warren County High School with rib dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by awards at…

By LISA HOBBS Stop the clock and beat the record at McMinnville Civic Center as the SilverSneakers Program is celebrating its fourth annual National Active Adult Achievement Week. During this week, which ends today, program members will be exercising with a mission of stopping the hands of time while beating last year?s record for most…

By DUANE SHERRILL Twenty-four people were among those sentenced this week by Judge Bart Stanley in Circuit Court criminal division. Included in court action: ? Roger Joseph Pledger was ordered to serve 230 days of a 10-year sentence and must make restitution for 26 counts of burglary stemming from his role in the break-in of…

By LISA HOBBS Warren County High School?s JROTC Pioneer Battalion Awards Ceremony was held Thursday night and proved the program has taken the advice of Dylan Thomas, ?Do not go gentle into that good night ? Rage, rage against the dying of the light.? The program that seemed to be slipping into that good night…

You could say McMinnville?s Public Works Department really rocks. The department has been busy placing large rocks at various corners around town. The rocks act as a barrier to keep motorists from cutting corners. The rocks will be popping up in other areas that have the same problem. Pictured is the rock on the corner…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON McMinnville Civic Center rang with the tuneful talents of local performers as the seventh annual Songwriter?s Night took center stage Friday. The first of these events sponsored by the new board and staff of Families in Crisis was deemed a success, raising $3,900 for the organization. The crowd was treated to…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON WastAway?s contract with Warren County to process the county?s household garbage is coming up for renewal on May 31, and county officials are in the process of preparing a revised contract for approval by the County Commission at its May meeting. The original contract was signed in October 2002, but the…

By DUANE SHERRILL In a Saturday session dominated by revelations about the poor state of the Winkler family finances, prosecutors sought to show Mary Winkler?s involvement in an illegal check kiting scheme which came to a head the day she shot her husband to death. ?It would deem suspicious,? testified Regions Bank fraud investigator April…

By DUANE SHERRILL WINKLER Mary Winkler said she must have just snapped and acknowledged she knew she would get caught in a pair of confessions made in the days after her arrest for killing her husband. Those confessions took center stage Friday during the second day of her trial for the murder of Matthew Winkler.…