By Lisa Hobbs Main Street McMinnville is sending business owners to boot camp, literally. Several downtown business owners will be sent to a free boot camp from July 19-21 for businesses that depend on walk-in customer traffic. For business owners who want to be better prepared to not simply ride out a weak economy ‘…

Warren County High School students in Sheri Garrett’s and Lori Glover’s classes recently baked cupcakes to raise $305 to donate to the Humane Society to help dogs like Lucas, who reportedly had his teeth filed down by an abusive owner. Pictured are, front row, from left, Devon Qualls, Marisela Rodriguez, Jennifer Truman, Ryan Sanders and…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ The Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government’s emergency reserve. Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is costing more than $120 a barrel and could better be…

This Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, are American Legion Auxiliary poppy days in Warren County. Organizers hope everyone will wear a poppy. Days are set aside each year in observance of poppy day. This is a voluntary tribute to dead and disabled servicemen. The poppy grew on the battlefields of France and Belgium where American…

By JAMES CLARK A Warren County High School senior class packed with 420 graduates is set to walk across the stage and receive their high school diplomas Friday night at Nunley Stadium. As is always the case with an outdoor ceremony, attention is focused on the weather. At press time last night, the forecast for…

By Charles W. Johnson The ever-popular Leadership Warren movie night may be making a move from fall to spring this year, but there will be no change in the fun and excitement. Now called School’s Out Family Movie Night, it will be held this Saturday at the West Lawn of Security Federal with games and…

By JAMES CLARK Curtiss Education, health care and an estimated 2,000 state workers are expected to feel the pain of the state’s economic pinch. According to a budget-cutting plan outlined by Gov. Phil Bredesen on Monday, both K-12 and higher education will receive less funding than expected in 2008-09, along with TennCare. Such cuts are…

By Charles W. Johnson BROWN The county is set to begin construction on a long-awaited connector road in Mountain View Industrial Park and a new spec building. The .8-mile access road will connect a dead-end street in the industrial park to Doyle Frazier Road, an existing county road, which will open up a large section…

LOS ANGELES (AP) ‘ Indiana Jones managed to retrieve the trinket he was after in the opening moments of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ He pretty much wrecked everything else in the ancient South American temple where the little gold idol had rested for millennia. Though he preaches research and good science in the classroom,…

Pauline Yates, 78, of McMinnville died Sunday, May 11 at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. Born on June 28, 1929 in Warren County, she was a homemaker and a member of Locust Street Church of God. Mrs. Yates was preceded in death by parents Edd and Lilly Williams Young, sons Billy Wayne Yates, Jerry Allen…