By LISA HOBBS Currently there are 10 designated handicap parking spaces downtown. Of those, five are van accessible but none are van accessible only. Two weeks ago Carolyn Cantrell approached officials regarding her disapproval of the 7 cent tax increase. During her statement to officials, she asked that they look into a particular handicap situation…

By DUANE SHERRILL City officers are taking the Click-It or Ticket program seriously, issuing 10 times as many tickets this year for not wearing seatbelts as they did just one year before. ‘We know that wearing a seatbelt can help prevent serious injury or even death in a crash,’ said McMinnville Police Major Bryan Denton…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Visitors to Magness Library in the past week or so have been treated to an artistic revelation of the first magnitude with the vividly colorful, inventive and thought provoking artwork of Warren County native Jerry D. Walker, which has been put on display as part of the grand opening celebration of…

By DUANE SHERRILL A man angry because an ATM machine ate his card is charged with destroying the after-hours banker after he tore into it with a screwdriver trying to retrieve his card. The suspect, J.C. Martin Baker, 23, told police the ATM located at U.S. Bank on Chancery Street took his card when he…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Residents in Warren County, and across Tennessee, will experience some major savings this weekend as Tennessee holds its second Sales Tax Holiday for 2007. Consumers will be able to purchase school supplies tax free thanks to Gov. Phil Bredesen and state legislators who passed the legislation to make the tax-free weekend…

Sarah D. Robinson, 91 years of Tullahoma, passed from this life Wednesday, July 25. Mrs. Robinson was a native of McMinnville and a daughter of the late Walter Raymond and Elizabeth Melton Danielson. She was retired from Lina’s Apparel in Nashville, and a member of the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Murfreesboro. She was preceded…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Lannie Clemons, age 77, was born Oct. 5, 1929 and died July 27 at River Park Hospital following an extended illness. A retired test driver for the Department of Defense, a United States Army veteran of Korea and a member of the Westwood Church of Christ, he was the…

McMinnville resident Geraldine McClure, 77, died July 26 at DeKalb Community Hospital. A retired factory worker, she was the daughter of the late Raymond Brice and Ophia Elizabeth Johnson McClure; and was preceded in death by sister, Diana Rainwater, and brother Marion Brice McClure. She is survived by sister, Wanda Bond of Smithville, several nieces…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Betty Sue Powers Rowland, age 76, was born July 19, 1931 and died July 29 at her residence following a sudden illness. A retired seamstress with Findlay Industries and a member of the Cumberland Chapel Free Will Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Hubert and Clara…

A memorial service for Adiren Melia Neal, age 29 of Tullahoma, will be conducted at 6 p.m., Aug. 2 at Highland Hills Church of Christ with Shane Hines officiating. Ms. Neal passed away Saturday at Harton Regional Medical Center. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Jesse Crumbley, Roland Vaughn, Charles and Sarah Benner,…