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Baby BoyIsaac Donovan Rodriguez was born at River Park Hospital on May 10 weighing 5 pounds, 11 ounces. He is the first child for Karla and Oscar Rodriguez. His grandparents are Robert and Isabel Garibaldi, and Margarito and Silvia Rodriguez of Smithville. Baby GirlAngela and Joseph O’Connell of Smithville are the parents of a daughter,…

By DUANE SHERRILL Write-in candidates need to notify election officials of their plans to seek office if they want their votes counted under a rule designed to prevent Mickey Mouse and Daffy Duck from mounting write-in campaigns.The deadline to notify the election office of write-in candidacy plans is June 18 by filing a certificate of…

By Gene Lyons Samuel Johnson, the iconoclastic 18th-century English essayist, put it best: “No man but a blockhead, ever wrote, except for money.” So, sure, former Bush administration press secretary Scott McClellan compiled his memoirs with an eye toward making a buck. Since when are Republicans opposed to profit?McClellan’s memoir, “What Happened: Inside the Bush…

By Cokie & Steve Roberts What a season! Even as many Americans heave huge sighs of relief that it’s finally over, no one can argue this primary campaign hasn’t been exciting, not to mention instructive. In a nomination process designed by the party elders to end by early February, voters kept getting in the way…

By Lisa Hobbs The Tennessee Preservation Trust has released its 2008 ‘Ten in Tennessee’ endangered sites list ‘ and the Blue Building is included.‘It was wonderful,’ said McMinnville Alderman Jimmy Haley, who traveled to Nashville with several other representatives to attend the announcement.‘It makes it real easy when you are around people who appreciate the…

By JAMES CLARK Warren County teachers worried about the high cost of gasoline could get a free ride to school, provided they live in the district where they teach.The Warren County School System has offered teachers and school employees a free school bus ride to work. In exchange for the free transportation, teachers will be…

Rachel Mathis, 12, has a wonderful idea on how to beat the summer heat. If it is too hot to lounge around the house, lie in the shallow end of Gilley Pool.

TOP LEFT: Fourth-grade Club of the Year honors are bestowed upon Lisa Rowland’s class at Eastside. Representatives are, from left, Lane Yates, Martin Grissom, Samantha Young and Kristen Rowland. TOP RIGHT: Representing Mrs. Graves class as the fifth-grade Club of the Year are, from left, Jarah Anderson, Alex Bell, Aubree Weitzel and Mckayla Todd. BOTTOM…

BY Roger Cook I think it was Porter Wagoner who recorded a song entitled ‘Satisfied Mind.’ As I recall it was sometime during the early to mid 1950s. Some of the words of the song went something like: ‘It would be hard to find one man in ten with a satisfied mind.’ Do we have…

The most famous feud in American history took place sometime during the late 19th century in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky and southwestern West Virginia. This long-standing feud became known as the Hatfield and McCoy feud. Many have asked what initiated the feud, when did it start, and what was the outcome? There are…