Spring is in the air, and tomorrow kites will be too, for the Southern Standard’s 11th annual Kite Day. Activities begin at 10 a.m. at Hickory Creek Elementary and Bonnie Bear will be on hand. The annual event usually draws around 100 children to enjoy some clean fun and compete for prizes in categories such…

By Duane Sherrill The National Weather Service has released Doppler radar images showing what meteorologists saw as a tornado cut a path through Warren County last Friday, their warnings coming several minutes before the twister touched down hitting a densely populated subdivision. The storm has officially been classified as an F1 tornado. Doppler radar, which…

By JAMES CLARK Five Warren County FFA students have finished first in the state and are headed to national competition. ‘This has been an excellent group to work with and there’s still a lot of potential on the way up here in Warren County,’ said Future Farmers of America advisor Russell Watson. ‘We have students…

By JAMES CLARK Leann Cordell strolls down one of the furniture aisles at Roses during its first day of business yesterday. She is accompanied by daughters Laura, in the cart, and Emma Cordell. When Roses opened yesterday morning at Three Star Mall, customers were ready. They flooded into the mall’s newest anchor as soon as…

By Gary Clothier Q: One of my favorite actors is Sir Michael Caine. Where was he born? What did he do before he got into acting? ‘ C.S., Gallup, N.M. A: Born March 14, 1933, in south London, Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. left school early, taking on working-class jobs before serving in the British army…

Pastor Jim Jones went home on April 4 with a body weakened by cancer. He was first diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma on Sept. 11, 2001. He was told he might have six months to live, but over six years later God was still using his precious servant to minister to others. Even in his…

Letters to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: We here at Frank Basham Nursery would like to set the record straight regarding the statement by Ms. Melody Fowler-Green in the article in Sunday’s Southern Standard about local nurserymen who participate in the H2-A program. It may very well be that Ms. Green has talked to hundreds…

By JAMES CLARK Most of us have heard about the video ‘When Animals Attack.’ There’s a version of that taking place in Warren County called ‘When Women Attack.’ I say this after I’ve been minding my own business, trying to stay out of trouble, while Standard columnist Lisa Hobbs has gone on a crusade against…

By Gene Lyons Some weeks ago, this column asked a rhetorical question: What could Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama possibly have been thinking about, sitting in a Chicago pew for 20 years listening to the crackpot effusions of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Surely, the one-time Harvard Law Review editor didn’t subscribe to Wright’s delusional view…

By Cokie & Steve Roberts “The thing I like is that he speaks with moral clarity,” said President Bush about Pope Benedict XVI on the way to Andrews Air Force Base. Explaining why for the first time in his presidency he chose to meet an arriving head of state rather than wait to receive him…