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Man found dead in hotel room; three suspects sought (05/05/08)

Fight over nightclub settled by consent (05/05/08)
The partnership operating Club 51 will dissolve by June 28, but the nightclub itself is expected to remain open. Tasha Roberson, 420 Fairbanks, intends to become the club's sole proprietor. Roberson sued her partners, Ebonie Strayhorn, 2125 Joshua Loop, and Brenda Jackson of Peachtree Apartments, for extortion, failure to pay their share of the rent and turning off the utilities. ...

'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...

Budweiser's Clydesdales to appear on Mall lot (04/30/08)
The world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales, the symbol of quality and tradition for beer-maker Anheuser-Busch since 1933, are scheduled to make an appearance at the Dyersburg Mall. The eight-horse hitch will be harnessed and hitched to the famous red beer wagon from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7 at the Mall parking lot...

Crockett TVA megasite no longer available (04/29/08)
Unveiled with much fanfare in September 2005 as TVA's fifth certified megasite in the Southeast U.S. for automobile production, the 1,600-acre West Tennessee Auto Park in Crockett County is no longer. Options on the property were not renewed in December 2007, said Crockett County Chamber of Commerce director Melissa Cox...

Pipeline extension proposed into county (04/29/08)
An Arkansas natural gas company is measuring interest from users to build a pipeline into Tennessee that would link to existing pipelines in Dyer County. Ozark Gas Transmission, headquartered in Fort Smith, Ark., on April 25 began an "open season" to gauge customer needs for the pipeline expansion...

Powered parachute caravan to debut at Halls airport for national quest (04/21/08)
The Halls airport is slated to host a group of several powered parachute enthusiasts on Monday, April 28 though Wednesday, April 30. Twelve machines are expected, said airport manager Ralph "Neil" Doolin, though more could be seen when the group arrives at the historic air base...

College unveils new user-friendly Web site (04/02/08)
Dyersburg State Community College went live with an updated version of its Web site on Tuesday. The new site provides a more user-friendly format for potential students to learn about the programs and classes offered by the college. DSCC Director of Public Information Jane Pate Vondy said the site contains nearly 400 pages of information and links for future students, community and business leaders and friends of the college to access information. ...

Woman ordered to repay child's transplant fund (03/25/08)
A Dyersburg woman must repay $10,590 missing from her grandson's transplant fund, a circuit court judge declared Monday afternoon. Phyllis D. Vaughn, 57, 711 Wendell Ave., was charged with theft of property in excess of $10,000. She and her husband, Charles Norman Vaughn Sr., were in charge of a fund to benefit their grandson, Odell Terry, a teen-aged cystic fibrosis patient...

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. ...

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