George Smartt recently claimed the Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts (TACD) Conservation Farmer Award for Middle Tennessee. Smartt received the award at the TACD’s Middle Tennessee Meeting held at the U.T. Agricultural Experiment Station in Spring Hill. His farming operation is very diverse and consists of approximately 135 herd cow-calf operation. He has a poultry…

The Warren County Soil Conservation District invites the public and any agencies with interest to participate in a Stakeholder Input Meeting to be held at 811 Faulkner Springs Rd. in McMinnville. This meeting will be on Friday, Sept. 28, at 9 a.m. The purpose of the meeting is to request participation and invite comments from…

By DUANE SHERRILL A registered child molester who was hit with criminal charges when he showed up at the jail with a 12-year-old boy in his car has beaten false report charges. The suspect, Otis Odell Wood, 32, of Campaign, had the charge of filing a false report dismissed following a preliminary hearing before General…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON A panel of local nurserymen voiced their growing disgust with the state of nursery crop insurance in Tennessee while they had the ear of two congressmen on Monday in Lincoln Davis and House Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson, (D-Minn.). Peterson didn’t mince words in expressing his take on recent actions of…

By JAMES CLARK With the goal of bolstering educational opportunities for people in Warren County ‘ and throughout the region ‘ the expansion of Motlow College’s McMinnville campus officially got under way yesterday with a groundbreaking ceremony. The $3.94 million expansion project will more than double the size of the McMinnville campus with an additional…

Loretta Frances Cantrell Wood, 91, of McMinnville died Sept. 25 at her daughter’s residence. Born on Nov. 14, 1915 in Warren County, she was preceded in death by parents George L. and Josie Ann Hardcastle Cantrell, husband of 52 years Chattom A. Wood, and 11 brothers and sisters. She was a retired seamstress and homemaker…

Geraldine Margaret (Grandma Smed) Jenkins, 85, of McMinnville, passed from this life Sept. 23 at River Park Hospital of an extended illness. A homemaker, also security and door greeter at Smed’s Place, she was preceded in death by, her husband, Curtis Jenkins. She is survived by brother, Jack Wolfe Jr., of Michigan; nephew, Jimmy Seibers…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Magness Library has implemented a new program designed to introduce students from Warren County elementary schools, and their parents, to the services the newly renovated library offers. The program is called Magness Library Family Reading Night and is being held in cooperation with the school system, which will be providing bus…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Magness Library has implemented a new program designed to introduce students from Warren County elementary schools, and their parents, to the services the newly renovated library offers. The program is called Magness Library Family Reading Night and is being held in cooperation with the school system, which will be providing bus…

By DUANE SHERRILL A 66-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court. Included in traffic court action: ‘ Brandon Loader was directed to serve 150 days of an 11-29 sentence, pay $1,100 plus costs and lose his license for three years for third-offense DUI. ‘ Michael J. Brower was…