By Mark Halcomb TNLA’s annual winter educational meeting will be Feb. 4’5, at the Music Road Convention Center in Pigeon Forge. The registration deadline has been extended. Schedule for the meeting’s events will be as follows: Monday, February 4 7:30-8 a.m: Registration 8-8:15 a.m: Welcome & Announcements, Steve Bennett, TNLA President, with Marshall Allen and…

Gaillardia pulchella, or Indian Blanket, is an annual flower that happens to be the state wildflower of Oklahoma. Even though it is native to Oklahoma, it also occurs from Virginia to Florida, west to New Mexico, and north to Colorado to Nebraska. The 2 foot (60 cm) tall plants have oblanceolate to spatulate leaves that…

By J. Dale Beaty What would it be worth to know exactly what the weather will do for the rest of the year? Unfortunately no one knows for sure, but for five dollars Middle Tennessee grain farmers will have the opportunity to hear one of the leading expert’s predictions at the Coffee County Fairgrounds on…

Dan and Edith Billings Foutch of Knoxville, and formerly of McMinnville, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a trip to Charleston, S.C. They lived in Charleston the first year of their marriage while Mr. Foutch was stationed there with the U.S. Navy. They were wed Dec. 26, 1957 in the parsonage of Magness Memorial Baptist…

Where can you play the stock market, run your own lemonade stand, or put your face on a million dollar bill? In Moneyville, that’s where! This brand new traveling exhibit is at Creative Discovery Museum Jan. 19 – May 8, 2008. “Money is a great way to make math skills and economic literacy a lot…

By Dakota Tinney The root of the word self-esteem comes from the word self-image. Self-image is an image we make ourselves in our heads that gives us a self-evaluation of how good, or how bad, we think we are. It’s that inner voice that says you are so fat. You are so ugly. You are…

NEW YORK (AP) ‘ Oprah Winfrey is getting her own TV network. Discovery Communications and Winfrey announced a deal Tuesday where the Discovery Health network will be turned over to Winfrey next year, becoming OWN ‘ the Oprah Winfrey Network. The cash-free transaction involved Winfrey turning over her Web site to Discovery, while the communications…

Tullahoma resident and Warren County native William Howard Carr, 57, was born Aug. 26, 1950 and died Jan. 11 at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. A nursery worker, he was the son of Pearlie McKinley Mount of McMinnville and the late William Eugene Carr. In addition to…

Antioch resident and Warren County native Ruby Evelyn Barnes Sullivan, 85, was born June 10, 1922 and died Jan. 12 at her residence following an extended illness. A professional baker with the Davidson County School System and a member of Antioch Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Rice Sewell and Willie Marie…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Morris Whitlock, 63, was born Nov. 19, 1944 and died Jan. 15 at River Park Hospital following an extended illness. A self-employed construction worker and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Casey Lee and Maude Frances Alley Whitlock. In addition to…