By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Warren County’s Adult Education Program held its first GED graduation ceremony in three years Thursday night with 22 of the 91 graduating students in attendance. The graduation included students from both Warren and Cannon counties. Adult Education director Dr. David Walker commended the students for their efforts and on making the…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ Smokers snatched up cigarettes before the cost increased by 42 cents per pack today, retailers said, but they don’t expect customers to go cold turkey. ‘I think they are going to continue to pay, but not without a lot of grumbling and complaining,’ said Gregory Peevey, manager of the Arcade Smoke Shop…

MEMPHIS (AP) ‘ State wildlife officials conducting a statewide sting targeting people selling poisonous snakes, have arrested seven people and expect to net more arrests. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency announced Thursday that authorities confiscated 100 snakes ‘ most of them not native to Tennessee, some of them deadly and some found in houses with…

By Morton Kondracke If Mae West’s famous adage applies to American voters, Democrats should sweep the 2008 elections — if they don’t blow it. The adage, of course, is: “When caught between two evils, I pick the one I haven’t tried before.” The “evil” Americans haven’t tried in a while — since 1994, in fact…

By Thomas Vaughn Wednesday, we celebrate Independence Day ‘ and rightly so.??The rousing rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence rings out across the years to stir us still. The Declaration of Independence was penned mostly by Thomas Jefferson.??A powerful, prolific writer, Jefferson made a cogent case for dissolving the political ties that bound the fledgling…

Letter to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: Me and my daughter who had been beaten with brass knuckles, and me with my own cane, had been waiting for our day in court for two years. Well fellow Warren countians, we got our day in court last week and as of the very day before court,…

Letter to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: The city of McMinnville has a very serious problem ‘ teenagers on street corners soliciting to sell pizza. That is correct. They are made to stand on the busiest intersection in McMinnville to hold a small billboard that states ‘Cici’s Pizza Buffet $4.99.’ Why do they make their…

By Lisa Hobbs I’m really getting tired of seeing people commit crimes that deserve lengthy jail time and instead, they get smacked on the wrist and let loose, more likely than not, to re-offend again. Take the Nick Harrell case. At the age of 17, in 2003, he drank which is illegal at his age…

The Warren County Day Care Association would like to congratulate its three-star day cares on their exceptional ratings on quality care. They are: Anne’s House ‘ Anne Buckner, Babes in Toyland ‘ Terri Foutch, Janice’s Day Care ‘ Janice Broyles, Owen Family Day Care Home ‘ Gayla Owen, Whistle Britches ‘ Glenda Young, and Mrs.…

We now drink more light beer than any other kind, and more varieties have frothed up recently to quench that American thirst. But shoppers beware: There is no standard for light beer, so you will find calories ‘ and taste ‘ all over the lot. That was Consumer Reports’s finding when it pitted newcomer brews…