By Thomas Sellers Jr. Anyone paying attention to the headlines off-the-field regarding the NFL got familiar with names like Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy. Some of the best at their positions, that trio missed a majority of the 2014 season because of suspensions. Now the NFL and players like Hardy prepare for the…
Star Staff Reports MEMPHIS — Last week Team Penny captured its second straight AAU National title. The 2015 victory came on the campus of Southwind High School by the Team Penny 15s. Team Penny beat the Michigan Gators 86-66 featuring Brighton Cardinal standout, incoming sophomore Taelyr Gatlin. Gatlin played along side area standouts like TJ…
Star Staff Reports Daylee Barrom, 16, has been barrel racing competitively for four years locally and traveling between Mississippi and Arkansas. She is a member of the BBR, National Barrel Horse Association. Barrom is a NBHA Youth World member and Open qualifier for the past two years. She was the NBHA Youth High Point Champion…
Star Staff Reports Local business owner Kenny D. Crenshaw, president of Herbi-Systems, Inc., geared up for his annual trip to the nation’s capital. This year marks 12 years of patriotic volunteerism and leadership for Crenshaw. In D.C., he serves as a “champion” or leader in the Arlington National Cemetery Renewal and Remembrance project where he…
By Nathaniel Sillin It’s expected to be a hotter summer this year, but don’t confine your money-saving efforts to the thermostat. The warm months can be the best time to focus on cutting year-round energy costs (http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/electricity.cfm). Free of snow, ice and wind, it’s easier to spot problems, do repairs and budget for energy-efficient appliances…
By David Peel Hacking used to mean the covert breaking into someone else’s computer with malicious intent. Remember in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and in War Games when characters hacked into the school’s computer system and changed the records? Hacking. But lately, it has taken on a new, far less-menacing meaning. A hack is anything…
By Otis Griffin How many times have you just sat and wondered how is it that I’m still in one piece? Did you ever fall out of a hayloft accidentally or maybe you had a little assistance from one of your dear friends? We were so small the ground seemed like it was a million…
By Thelma Ledford More than 48 years ago I began studying nutrition because of personal health problems. The medical examinations had uncovered no organic reasons. By using this knowledge I began regaining my health and the health of my family. Let us learn something about the human body. *“You are a collection of moving, parts—atoms,…
Month of July The Millington Lions Club meets at Olympic Steakhouse in Millington every second and fourth Tuesday at noon. The Lions Clubs works around the world for visually impaired and hearing impaired. The public is welcome to join the Club members and to make additional inquiries. The Millington Optimist Club meets at 6 p.m….
Star Staff Reports A Millington Legionnaire was elected to be a delegate to a National Convention. Lee Buchschacher was elected by the Tennessee American Legion State Convention to be one of five delegates to the National American Legion Convention in Baltimore which kicks off at the end of August. Buchschacher, a Past State Commander of…
