Lucky Homemakers FCE met Aug. 27 at the Lucky CIC building, with Elsie Fugate serving as hostess. Club president Sherry Salamon conducted the meeting, welcoming two new members, Amy Wooden and Ann Stevens. She said the prayer, and Gladys Womack read from Psalms for the devotional. The group discussed decoration ideas for their booth at…

By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: My sister, “Jenny,” and her husband have been married 10 years and have two children. For nine of those years, Jenny has been miserable. The two of them fight constantly, and normal conversations turn into disagreements. They are so loud the neighbors can hear them. Jenny and…

Baby Girl Anna Gloria Smith, daughter of Carrie Smith and Jose Sandoval, arrived at River Park Hospital on July 24 weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces. She is welcomed by siblings, Cora Chaple, Rosa Smith and LaTresa Smith. Grandparents are Bobby and Nancy Miley and Pedro Y. Inocencia Sandovall. Baby Boy Matthew Ryan Farless was born…

Smithville resident Juanita Haley, 90, happily visits with her family and great-great-granddaughter, Lydia, held by Adam Parant of South Carolina. Others representing the fifth-generation family are, from left, Kimberly Parant and Patricia Goff.

By Margaret Hobbs Project Graduation organizers are announcing their sponsorship of the Warren County Princess Pageant, open to girls between the ages of 12-14 years of age. The event will be held Oct. 6 in the Warren County High School auditorium. Olivia Majors is the reigning princess. Applications are available at Memories Bridal, Warren County…

By LISA HOBBS McMinnville Civic Center is scheduled to have a modern geothermal heating and cooling system, a first for the city, by the middle of next year. In January, elected officials began discussing possible heating and cooling options when the 30-year-old facility once again began to experience problems. At that time, officials wanted to…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ Mary Winkler can appear on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ after a judge denied a motion for a gag order from her former in-laws, who are fighting to keep custody of her three young daughters. Winkler was convicted in April of voluntary manslaughter after she shot and killed her husband Matthew, a Church…

By DUANE SHERRILL Arson is suspected in an early morning fire Sunday which heavily damaged the former Stop & Go Market in Irving College. ‘According to the Collins River Fire Department which responded to the blaze, an accelerant was used to start the fire,’ said Sheriff Jackie Matheny in revealing investigators suspect the fire was…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON A meeting of the Health and Welfare Committee last week provided a ray of hope for 13 county businesses after Allied Waste, formerly BFI, sent them a letter announcing the company would no longer offer them trash pickup service. Representatives from several of the businesses affected by Allied’s decision attended the…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON He has been volunteering at the yearly event for over a quarter of a century, so it’s right on target to say county extension agent Dale Beaty has become a fixture at the fair. ‘I came to Warren County in 1981, so I think this is 26 fairs,’ Beaty said. Though…