Environment And Nature

'Bark in the Park' set for Saturday at Okeena (04/30/08)
Saturday's weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with daytime temperatures in the 70s -- a perfect day for people and people's best friends to gather at Okeena Park for the annual 'Bark in the Park' celebration. The event coincides with National Pet Week. The Dyersburg/Dyer County Humane Society, Animal Care Hospital, and Dyer County Animal Hospital are sponsoring the day and invite everyone to bring their dogs to the fourth annual festivities...

Board gets update on wireless gas meter reading (04/22/08)
Dyersburg utility chief Mike Morgan updated members of the city board on the benefits of the wireless reading of gas meters using the Datamatic company's "Firefly" technology at the regular meeting on Monday. Morgan said that about one-third of the city's gas meters have been converted to the wireless reading system. The rest are slated to be complete by mid-summer...

Benefit slated for local family who lost home in tornado (04/21/08)
It took only a matter of moments for a tornado to destroy the home of Josh and Brianna Hendren in the Elizabeth community in Crockett County. But in the aftermath of the devastation, their family and friends have rallied around them, with plans in place for a benefit dinner on Saturday, April 26...

More roads closed as water rises in rural areas; more citations (03/31/08)
The 1.5-inch rainfall since Friday swelled already bloated streams to overtop their banks Saturday and Sunday, prompting a flash flood warning for Dyer County. Highway 105 south of Trimble, Tatumville Road south of Tatumville and Hogwallow Road northeast of Dyersburg were closed on Sunday, adding to the closed roads leading to the floodwaters in the western third of the county...

Contractor wants city as partner to finance subdivision (03/27/08)
If the city of Dyersburg would like to offer a new subdivision of "affordable housing" to residents of the area, it will have to foot part of the bill, said local developer and contractor Billy Escue. Escue met with members of the city's Finance Committee on Tuesday with a proposal for Westbrook Subdivision, a project that will offer 53 lots for new houses in what Escue called the middle-income bracket...

Animals moving inland ahead of flood (03/27/08)

Work against rising water ongoing (03/23/08)
The projected high-water point of the Mississippi River at Caruthersville on Saturday was dropped by a half-foot, to an even 40 feet, but was forecast to arrive on Friday instead of Tuesday. Thirty-two feet is flood stage. "As long as it stays on the other side of the Dyer County Little Levee," said farmer and local levee district member Jimmy Moody. "We should be OK. There's no reason to panic."...

Flood stage forecast to hit high Tuesday (03/21/08)
Dyer County's western half is forecast to suffer from one of the highest flood levels in history in the next few days. On Friday morning, the Mississippi River at Caruthersville measured 35.9 feet. Flood stage is 32 feet, with a forecast crest early Tuesday of 41 feet or higher...

Tri-county region easily meets state waste reduction goal (03/21/08)
Dyer, Crockett and Gibson counties produced less wastes in 2007 than the year before, and they sent a smaller percentage of those wastes to municipal landfills. The tri-county solid waste region easily surpassed a state-mandated 25 percent waste reduction goal. ...

Alderman voted to approve rezoning of his son's land (03/20/08)
Newbern alderman Bill Parks voted to approve rezoning land his son owns along Highway 77. "I didn't even think about it," said Parks. "He does own that land." Parks's son, farmer and building contractor John Parks, owns 53.59 acres on the north side of 77 immediately east of the Graystone Subdivision. Of that parcel, 7.2 acres is inside the Newbern city limits; the northern remainder lies in the county...

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