By CHARLES W. JOHNSON For Warren County Middle School student Jerry Forsythe, the fight against meth in McMinnville has become a personal mission. This enterprising young man has even begun a project to create handmade T-shirts with anti-meth slogans, which he hopes to sell to raise funds to aid local law enforcement in its fight…

By LISA HOBBS Centertown Elementary students got an unexpected day out of school Friday when the new facility experienced a lack of water, but not due to the drought. According to Mike Green, general manager of Warren County Utility District, telemetry on the tanks indicated the water line broke a little after 4 a.m. At…

By LISA HOBBS McMinnville officials will be discussing the purchase of a voice stress analyzer. The device will be used by McMinnville Police Department as a lie detector. The department plans to use the device as just one more tool to help officers provide the most effective law enforcement possible. ‘We strive to offer the…

By DUANE SHERRILL The August drought was broken with a bang Friday night as prayers for rain on the 101-degree day were answered just after sundown with over 1 inch of accumulation reported in some parts of the county. However, with the rain came damaging winds which toppled trees from Morrison to McMinnville as thunderstorm…

(AP) ‘ For all the big words and life lessons Roger Goodell included in his booming reaction to Michael Vick’s admission of involvement in dogfighting, the NFL commissioner’s message seemingly could have been whittled to two words: Nice try. Goodell suspended the Atlanta Falcons quarterback indefinitely without pay Friday, just hours after Vick filed a…

The McMinnville Swim Team recently held a picnic and awards ceremony at the Gilley Pool. Pictured are the team’s first-place winners from individual events from the Championship Swim meet, during which the local squad took third place. Pictured are, from left, John Phillips (25-meter breaststroke), Misaki Kimura (25 -meter butterfly), Ben McCrary (50 -meter breaststroke),…

Monday, Aug. 27 WCHS JV football, at home vs. Cookeville, 6 p.m. WCHS golf, at Champions Run vs. Blackman and Siegel, 11 a.m. WCHS volleyball, at Coffee County, 4:30 WCMS soccer, at home vs. Westwood, 6 p.m. Boyd golf, at Collins River vs. Cannon County, 3:30 WCMS volleyball, at home vs. Whte County, 4:30 Tuesday,…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Results from this week’s scrambles at the Collins River Golf Course saw the team of Ron Kucharsky, Yogi Bratcher and Wade Farley win on a scorecard playoff with a score of 6-under par. M.W. Duke, Gay Smith and Ashley Freeze finished second in Monday’s round. Kucharsky, Charles Talley and Charles Boatman won…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Sometimes the final score doesn’t always reflect a team’s quality of play. Thursday afternoon in Manchester that’s what happened to the Lady Pioneer soccer team when they took on Coffee County in non-district action. Warren County out-shot and out-played its counterparts for most of the 80-minute contest, but the final score was…

By ROB NUNLEY Landy Curtis is forced out of bounds after hauling in a first-quarter pass in Thursday’s freshman win over Manchester. Curtis left the game with an injured wrist later in the period. Warren County’s class of 2011 still knows a thing or two about winning football games ‘ especially against their counterparts from…