The Warren County High School Pioneerette dance team will hold its annual dance clinic next week starting on March 6 and concluding on Thursday. The Pioneerettes would like to invite girls from around the county to this clinic, which will help to hone their cheer and dancing skills. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday sessions will run…

By ROB NUNLEY Mary Kate Fisher throws the ball to second during infield drills at the WCHS softball field last week. The Lady Pioneers will take part in their two allotted play days this Saturday and March 8 This time of year, spring sports teams are busily preparing for their upcoming seasons by not only…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD pitcher Cassie Wanamaker fields a bunted ball. Wanamaker is one of the four juniors who will lead the team into battle this spring. Over the past two seasons, Boyd Christian’s Lady Bronco softball team has made vast improvements which have resulted in Boyd finishing in second place in District 9-A regular season…

By James Clark

By DUANE SHERRILL A 49-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court. Included in court action: ‘ James F. Hopkins was bound to the grand jury on charges of domestic assault, resisting with a deadly weapon, and aggravated assault. ‘ Larry Nelson Pegg was ordered to serve 37 days of…

The old slogan for Tennessee Technology Centers, ‘It’s What We Do,’ aptly describes the cooperative project that resulted in an efficient emergency notification system for TTC McMinnville. Thanks, in large part, to volunteer work performed by five members of Mark Guertin’s electronics technology class at a savings of almost $1,800, all classrooms, offices, break rooms,…

By Lisa Hobbs The 2008 Warren County Patron Luncheon for the Middle Tennessee Council of Boy Scouts of America was held Wednesday. During the ceremony, the Black Fox Distinguished Scouting Award was presented to Dr. Wallace Bigbee. Bigbee grew up in Germantown and has been associated with scouting for most of his life after starting…

MURFREESBORO (AP) ‘ Some Rutherford County parents are asking the school district to put adult monitors on all buses after a bus video tape showed a freshman girl being sexually assaulted by an 18-year-old student. District officials and school board members said they have been flooded with calls, e-mails and stops on the street from…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ The Senate has unanimously passed a bill to require companies contracting with the state to operate toll roads or bridges to be majority American owned. Sen. Tim Burchett, a Knoxville Republican, says he introduced the bill for national security reasons. The Legislature last year approved a pilot program that would allow one…