By JAMES CLARK Lottery scholarships, education in general, and the possibility of another summertime drought were the topics that dominated discussion during Friday’s annual Legislative Breakfast sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. State Reps. Charlie Curtiss and Judd Matheny were in town, along with state Sen. Steve Roller and the governor’s senior policy advisor Pat…

By Lisa Hobbs It ’tis the season for Easter egg hunts. Junior Auxiliary had to postpone its egg hunt scheduled yesterday and will be holding it today at 2 p.m. at Hickory Creek. Next weekend is the Jaycees egg hunt at 10 a.m. at Pistole Park. Whoever said less is more hasn’t been to a…

By Duane Sherrill An Irving College man was found dead in a burning field Friday afternoon, his death, authorities believe, coming not as a result of the fire but due to a heart attack. The victim, James Lofton (Dib) Clendenon, 74, was found by his son late Friday afternoon in a field located on his…

By Duane Sherrill Six families lost their homes Thursday night when fire, sparked by a cooking accident, swept through Skyline Apartments, leaving one block of the complex heavily damaged in a blaze firemen say could have been much worse. ‘We really got lucky,’ said McMinnville Fire Chief Kevin Lawrence, noting the department has fought several…

Irving College community resident and Warren County native James Lofton ‘Dib’ Clendenon, 74, was born Nov. 11, 1933 and died suddenly March 13. A farmer and nurseryman and a member of St. Mary’s Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Lofton C. and Erma Panter Clendenon. He was married June 5, 1954…

Columbia resident and Warren County native Beta Mae Jordan Harris, 88, was born April 4, 1919 and died March 14 at Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia following an extended illness. A retired food service manager with Tullahoma City Schools, a homemaker, and a member of the West Seventh Street Church of Christ in Columbia, she…

By Lisa Hobbs I was recently asked to speak in front of Cub Scout Pack 888 Den 11. My mission: Help these boys accomplish another achievement by answering three questions: Where do I get my articles? How do you write the articles? Where do the articles go after I write them? The boys who attended…

What readers are saying about a proposal to widen the two-lane portion of N. Chancery Street with property owners on that street paying two-thirds of the cost: ‘This may be great from the city’s viewpoint, but nothing in this proposition is fair to the citizens involved. Don’t they work for these citizens? What is our…

By Morton Kondracke The rough treatment Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is giving Sen. Barack Obama may be good, real-world training if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee and gets elected, but in the meantime she’s helping Republican Sen. John McCain. She may well have cut an actual campaign ad for McCain when she said at…

By Thomas Vaughn New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s fall from grace last week stunned friend and foe alike. How could a bright, Harvard-educated lawyer and former crime-fighting Attorney General do such a thing? Sadly, Spitzer’s shenanigans are merely the latest in a pattern of high-level corruption and hypocrisy practiced by public officials. What makes his…