By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Blair Fisher Warren County Middle School volleyball coach Farrah Griffith held tryouts for her 2007 squad Friday afternoon in the Charlie Dalton Gym at WCHS. Griffith, along with the assistance of WCHS head volleyball coach Franklin Fisher, put over 30 girls through a two-hour session of bumping, passing, serving and hitting. Six…

Don Imus is a cash cow. That explains why it took several days (and a public outcry) before executives at NBC and CBS could bring themselves to punish Imus for his racially disparaging remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. The Imus fiasco, which happened over a month ago, brings to the fore an…

By Duane Sherrill Should government officials be allowed to hire relatives to work under them? I?m pretty sure that if we had a poll here, most people would vote against allowing nepotism in government offices, the logic there being that ?nepotism? is a word closely akin to ?favoritism? and to many people it just looks…

By Steve C. Stubblefield The election of responsible agricultural producers to Farm Service Agency county committees is important to ALL farmers and ranchers with large or small operations. It is crucial that every eligible producer take part in this election because county committees are a direct link between the farm community and the U.S. Department…

HART, Mich. (AP) ? If he can just make it through the end of May without another freeze, fruit grower Dave Rennhack expects to have a good crop this year. ?We don?t breathe real easy until after Memorial Day,? said Rennhack, the owner of a Hart orchard and farm market that bear his family name.…

By Mark Halcomb Update five weeks after the freeze that occurred April 6-9. Many of these entries are based on one account and possibly not witnessed by myself. I typed this May 14, 2007. The wheat that was in the boot stage during the freeze died. Younger wheat survived. There might be some straw produced…

By J. Dale Beaty Several folks had hay down last week and I even know some who got it up before Friday?s rain. It?s hard to get hay cut without getting some of it wet. I?ve also talked with some folks around the county who received the TN Department of Agriculture hay barn grants. Mike…

Baby Girl Halida and Jasmin Salkic are the parents of a daughter, Amela Salkic. She arrived March 27 at River Park Hospital weighing 8 pounds, 1.5 ounces. She is joined by siblings, Samantha, Denis, Danije and Sanel. Baby Boy Dylan Ryan Cantrell, son of Brenda Hale and Chris Cantrell, was born March 30 at River…

By Margaret Hobbs The Senior Ms. Warren County Pageant will be sponsored for the second year by the Lucky Community Improvement Club during their Luckyfest activities. The event is open to ladies 60 years and older, and are encouraged to participate in the prestigious pageant to be held June 16 at the center. ?This is…

Midway FCE met May 2 at the Midway CIC with president Zella Cook presiding. Claudine Ray and Jean Rogers served as hostesses for the meeting. A devotional was presented by Elva Dean Bell, reading Psalms: 100. Guests at the meeting were representatives from Families in Crisis, reporting on the rebuilding of the worthwhile program. The…