By DALE STUBBLEFIELD When it comes to supporting athletic programs at the high school, Warren County fans have always answered the call. The WCHS Lady Pioneer soccer team has been working hard to drum up support for the their program, and on Sept. 11 the team’s booster club will show their appreciation with a tailgate…

By ROB NUNLEY The Pioneers’ Brett Patterson reads his putt on the No. 6 green. Patterson was Warren County’s best finisher, taking second in the overall individual competition with a round of 72. The largest grouping of high school student-athletes in Warren County of the year was held Tuesday, as 85 golfers representing 21 teams…

The third annual Titans of Taste Milk Cap Contest officially begins Friday, Sept. 14, and organizers are encouraging public and private schools in Warren County to participate. Schools can win cash prizes, Titans tickets, and a pep rally featuring Titans quarterback Vince Young. Principals and contest coordinators are invited to gather at LP Field this…

By LISA HOBBS For the Newtown Water and Sewer Expansion Project, McMinnville officials are considering a switch from using the gravity sewer system to a grinder pump system. The old system of using gravity requires the large sewer pipe to be on a downhill slope from where it begins until it reaches a tap into…

McMinnville Breakfast Rotary member Janie Robbins, left, presents a check to 2007 Rotary Tennessee Tech scholarship winner Penny Nash.

By DUANE SHERRILL Ten years after the Warren County Sheriff’s Department began using its eye in the sky, marijuana has almost disappeared from the Warren County landscape as cultivators of what was once one of the Nursery Capital’s biggest cash crop have moved their growing operations elsewhere. ‘We aren’t finding much of anything anymore, and…

Due to extremely high wildfire danger caused by the drought, record high temperatures and low humidity, state forestry officials have implemented burning restrictions. Citizens are now required to obtain a burning permit from the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry before conducting any burning within 500 feet of woodlands, grasslands or forestlands. ‘Although our…

By LISA HOBBS A local wholesale distributor and retail business, B&P Lamp, will be expanding and hiring more employees if something can be worked out with the city to allow the expansion to move forward. The business, owned by Paul O. Barnes, Barry D. Barnes and Paul M. Barnes, has asked the city for a…

By LISA HOBBS What do entertainment, Dottie West, Warren County’s bicentennial year and The Hole all have in common? Not much, but one local businessman would like to see that change. Considering the huge success of Main Street McMinnville’s recent football tailgate party held on Court Square, Warren County Furniture owner Ed Partin would like…

By DUANE SHERRILL A teenager charged with harboring a jail escapee says she was asleep when the fugitive entered her home and that she had no idea he was hiding in a back bedroom when she told deputies he was not there. The defendant, Martina Norris, has been bound to the grand jury on the…