By JAMES CLARK If you hate paying sales tax, this is your weekend. The state’s spring sales tax holiday is currently under way and it will last until 11:59 p.m. this Sunday. Dozens of clothing and school-related items under $100 can be purchased without sales tax, in addition to computers that cost $1,500 or less.…

By Lisa Hobbs McMinnville city officials will move forward with annexation in two areas. However, the proposed annexation along the Highway 55 bypass came with a warning from city administrator David Rutherford. ‘When you start down the bypass, I suspect you will end up in court,’ said Rutherford at Tuesday’s Finance Committee meeting. ‘We need…

By JAMES CLARK Annie, played by Jessica Hobbs, and Daddy Warbucks, played by Dr. Lynn England, sing ‘I Don’t Need Anything But You.’ The sun came out at Centertown Elementary this week as the school’s Theater Club presented its production of the world-famous musical ‘Annie.’ After performing one show a day on Saturday, Sunday and…

By Duane Sherrill HOLMGREN Portrayed as a Jekyll and Hyde who flew into uncontrollable rages, former daycare owner Sherri Mathis will remain behind bars for the rest of her life, sentenced to life plus 32 years Wednesday for the murder of 6-year-old Cheyenne Delp. ‘She was like a Jekyll and Hyde, becoming a different person…

By Duane Sherrill Phifer The price tag for the April 11 tornado continues to climb as $1.6 million in residential damage has been reported ‘ with the total expected to increase. ‘This isn’t including outbuildings and barns where we saw some significant damage. So when you add that in, the price tag will be quite…

NEW YORK (AP) ‘ Only a few thousand families in Tennessee were able to see the Gospel Music Channel light when it began less than four years ago. Now it’s television’s fastest-growing cable network ‘ available in some 40 million homes, more than a third of the nation. It reaches a milestone today when it…

Smithville resident Mary Jo Looney, 51, died April 21 at DeKalb Community Hospital. A secretary with the Warren and Rutherford County Farm Bureau for 19 years and a member of Rock Island Church of Christ, she was preceded in death by husband, James Looney and father, George Madison Campbell. She is survived by sons and…

Morrison resident and Warren County native Johnny G. Smoot, 87, was born March 23, 1921 and died April 20 at Kindred Hospital in Nashville following a one-month illness. A retired inspector with Walker Lumber Company, a United States Army veteran of WWII and a member of Trousdale Church of Christ, he was the son of…

Rock Island resident and Murray County, Ga., native Edna Earl Webb, 84, was born Oct. 24, 1923 and died April 20 at NHC Healthcare McMinnville following an extended illness. A stenographer with the state of Tennessee Health and Welfare Department and a member of Fall City Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late…

By JAMES CLARK To discuss a realistic solution to our school violence problem, we must first address the problem squarely in the eye. Our children aren’t getting killed by fistfights in the hall. They aren’t getting murdered by baseball bats, or even knives. The young children of this great nation are getting killed in school…