Area News

By Lisa Hobbs Is the Franklin P. Blue building endangered after standing since 1871? Locally, the answer to the question will differ depending on who is asked. Helping answer that question will be the Tennessee Preservation Trust. On Friday, the organization will announce its 2008 ‘Ten in Tennessee’ endangered sites list during its annual conference…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON The first month on the job has been an eventful one for Warren County environmental officer Tommy Savage, who began work May 1 in an effort to enforce existing regulations governing junkyards, scrapyards and criminal littering. So far Savage has written around 30 tickets in 17 work days, an average of…

By DUANE SHERRILL McMinnville Mayor Royce Davenport addresses the crowd of approximately 200 people at Monday morning’s Memorial Day ceremony at Warren County Memorial Airport. Recalling those he knew who had laid down their lives for their country, Vietnam veteran and McMinnville Mayor Royce Davenport urged Americans to remember the sacrifice made by the servicemen…

By DUANE SHERRILL A man who shot his wife in the neck has been ordered for mental evaluation to determine if he was insane at the time he pulled the trigger. The defendant, William Christopher Foster, 49, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to undergo a battery of mental evaluations aimed at determining…

By DUANE SHERRILL If you aren’t taking note of events out in the Texas where authorities have raided a polygamist sect’s ranch based on claims a man was having illegal contact with a 15-year-old, then you better take notice. The ranch, owned by a Mormon branch called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter…

By Jim Mullen I just paid 80 cents for a not very big apple at the supermarket. A bag of four apples was $3.20. I’m eating one now while staring at that dumb, useless, flowering crab-apple tree we planted in the side yard four years ago. What were we thinking about? Flowering crab apples? If…

By William Rusher The news that Sen. Ted Kennedy has an inoperable malignant glioma in the left parietal sector of his brain is a major development in American politics. We can, and of course do, hope and pray that modern medicine can solve the problem, but the prognosis is, to put it mildly, not good.…

BUSH, La. (AP) ‘ Travel down the winding, two-lane road where oversize houses with names like ‘Beau Regard’ or ‘Ville Belle’ have become the biggest cash crop, and you will come to a little gravel lane leading to some of the last farm land left in an area once known for agriculture. Trellised vines dot…

When the price of a loaf of bread or a box of cereal goes up substantially, but the value of the grain in the product is only a fraction of the cost the American Agri-Women (AAW) is concerned about the public’s perception of just how much farmers are making for their efforts. And when food…

By Steve C. Stubblefield The nation’s premiere conservation program has been the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). For the past 22 years, producers have been provided the opportunity to offer land determined to meet eligibility requirements into the CRP for periods of 10, 15, and even 30 years in exchange for annual rental payments. The goals…