By CHARLES W. JOHNSON If you want to share a fun and elegant Mother?s Day with your children, then here?s an event that should literally be your cup of tea. It?s the inaugural Families in Crisis Mother?s Day Tea to be held at Falcon Rest in the Victorian Carriage House this Saturday, May 12 at…

Highland Rim Cycling Classic race volunteers Tom Ward and his grandson Cameron Furbee, 12, log in some spare tires for racer Patrick Britton.

By DUANE SHERRILL What began as a nightmare brought on by watching a scary movie became a real-life nightmare when a 7-year-old girl said she was molested in the very bed in which she took refuge from her bad dreams. The molester and family friend, Raygan Presley, was convicted by a jury this past week…

By LISA HOBBS McMinnville elected officials have agreed to fund a program called Citizens for Progress that could give up to 1,000 teens a chance to go to college. The pilot program could begin this fall in Warren County. The idea for the program came from the Education Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON The Highland Rim Cycling Classic is one of the premier events in Warren County every year, bringing in considerable revenues, generating regional attention and increasing tourism, all of which are important to our community. But while the racers on their fleet machines are the most visible aspect of the competition, it?s…

By LISA HOBBS The writing is on the wall for graffiti artists. They might find their lives easier and more cost efficient if they save their drawings for paper, not private-owned or city-owned property. McMinnville Police Chief Charlie Sewell began drafting a new ordinance that will deal with the problem of graffiti in the city…

By LISA HOBBS The family of Jackson Dunlap, 3, will be holding a blood drive in his name this Friday beginning at noon at McMinnville Civic Center. Jackson was born Feb. 3, 2004 with Down Syndrome and was diagnosed one week ago with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer of the white blood cells.…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Local nurseryman Russell Milstead shows some of his tree form althea plants damaged by the freeze, noting those frozen below the ground, like the one he is holding, won?t survive. While the unexpected late April freeze sent many Warren County residents scurrying to dig out their coats, it left local nurserymen…

Norman, Okla., resident and Plano, Ill., native Frances Elaine Sauer Porter, 91, died May 4 at River Park Hospital after a brief illness. A homemaker and a member of McFarlin United Methodist Church in Norman, she was the daughter of Leigh and Verna Foster Sauer; and was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Gerald…

CHICAGO (AP) ? A high school senior arrested for writing a violent essay for an English class can return to school and will be allowed to graduate with his class, his attorney says. Allen Lee wrote the essay April 23 at Cary-Grove High and was arrested the next day on two misdemeanor charges of disorderly…