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STATE WARNS OF POTENTIAL DISASTER AID CONTRIBUTIONS FRAUD
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers and Secretary of State Riley C. Darnell are warning consumers to be cautious when it comes to financially assisting victims of the Sept. 11 disaster. Although there are many legitimate organizations working hard to help victims and their families in the tragedy, state officials urge Tennesseans to use discretion when making donations...
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Patriotism shines quietly at DPS
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
"Look, our flag is still sad," was the reaction of one young student at Dyersburg Primary School Wednesday morning as he passed the American flag hanging at half staff. It has been difficult for DPS teachers to know exactly what to say to young children about the terrible events that have shaken the United States this week. ...
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World Trade Center tragedy touches Dyer County
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
Sometimes it seems so far away, those horrific images of collapsed buildings and grief-stricken people in New York City. But Tuesday's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has even reached Dyer County. Like thousands of other family members around the United States, Jo Anne Escarcega, Spanish teacher at Dyer County High School, sat with her son Thursday in a small hotel room in New York City waiting for word on the fate of her daughter-in-law. ...
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Dyersburg airport re-opening was short-lived
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
The Dyersburg Municipal Airport was open Thursday morning and one of the pilots stranded here actually took off for a couple brief moments. The pilot was ordered to return to the airport about two minutes after he became airborne, Betty Davis, Dyersburg Avionics office manager, said. The airport was then closed again...
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Local talent headed to Mid-South Fair
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
Dyer County Talent will be making appearances next week during the Mid-South Fair in Memphis. Five participants from the Sept. 13 Dyer County Fair Youth Talent Show have been invited to compete in the Mid-South Fair Talent Show. Amanda Daily, who won the Dyer County Fair Youth Talent Show's sweepstakes award and female vocal soloist category, received an automatic invitation to the Mid-South Fair Talent Show...
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Burglary, forgery pleas bring prison term
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
Guilty pleas in Dyer County Circuit Court Tuesday to two burglaries and one count of forgery landed a man in prison for three-and-a-half years. Kevin Ray Reeves, 33, no address available, pleaded guilty to burglaries at Southside Baptist Church and White and Associates Insurance Agency in March. ...
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Church collecting items for New York victims
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
RoEllen Baptist Church, located on Highway 104 E., is accepting items today and tomorrow to be taken to victims of terrorist bombings and rescue workers in New York. Items needed include picks and shovels, men's leather work gloves, flashlights with batteries, blankets, paper towels, bottled water and Gatorade, non-perishable canned goods and hand-held can openers...
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County not responsible for maintaining abandoned road: judge
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
Dyer County is not responsible for maintaining an abandoned road that crosses private land in the west central portion of the county, Circuit Judge Lee Moore ruled Wednesday. "The proof is clear that the road, though I think it once was a public road, has been abandoned and the county is not responsible for it," Moore said near the end of a five-hour trial of a complaint filed by Bert Viar Jr. in August 1996 and amended last week...
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Man stabbed in crowded bar Thursday night
(Local News ~ 09/14/01)
One man is in custody and another was hospitalized after a stabbing incident in the crowded Touchdown Club, 2675 Lake Road, Thursday night. A man who had no identification, but gave police a name of Timothy Miller and an address on Millsfield Highway, was charged with aggravated assault for the attack in which the victim was stabbed five times: in the left front of his head, his left hand, his upper left shoulder in the back and twice in the upper left arm...
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Lady Trojans back to winning ways
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/01)
Dyersburg took another step closer to wrapping up the top seed in the Distict 13AAA soccer ranks Thursday afternoon. Jackson-North Side succumbed to a Dyersburg team ready to break out after suffering a pair of setbacks in Paris this weekend. The Lady Trojans won 6-0. ...
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Tigers offer tough challenge
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/01)
Maybe last Friday night's 49-27 loss to McNairy Central may have served notice to Dyer County that it can be beat if it doesn't play well. And the Choctaws took that notion to the practice field this week, starting with the 49 sprints the team had to do, one for every point against...
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Trojans to visit winless Munford
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/01)
A month into the 2001 season, it appears that Dyersburg High School will finally field a football team at full strength physically when it visits Munford tonight. Terrorist attacks earlier in the week in New York and Washington, D.C., however, have been a mental distraction for the Trojans...
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DMS girls serve way past Haywood
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/01)
More consistent serving helped lift Dyersburg to a 15-6, 15-0 victory over visiting Haywood County in middle school volleyball play Thursday afternoon. The DMS B-team claimed a 15-2, 13-15, 15-10 win. "We started off slow, but we only hit one bad serve the whole day," said Lady Trojan coach Bubba Cobb. "We've worked the tip drills and in my whole time of coach, we maybe have hit 10 of those at the net. We did that and more tonight; the kids are really playing well at the net."...
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Newbern's Shane Hinson finds running room
(High School Sports ~ 09/14/01)
Newbern's Shane Hinson finds running room Thursday night against Fulton Co. Hinson scored four touchdowns in the Cherokees' 44-26 triumph.
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New, borrowed, tried and true win red, white, blue at Rudy's Sausage Contest
(Community News ~ 09/14/01)
Area cooks put together dishes that were new, borrowed and tried and true in hopes for something blue Sept. 4 as they competed in the fifth annual Rudy's Farm Country Sausage Cookoff Contest during the Dyer County Fair. Coming out on top were Mary Stevens, who won first place for her Southwestern Casserole; Wilma Smith's Rudy's Sausage Supper placed second; and Heidi Baker's Easy Sausage Casserole took third...
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Depot fashion show nears
(Community News ~ 09/14/01)
Karen Greek, center left, of The Enchanted Bride and Natalie Young, center right, of Cloye's discuss with Rose Tillman, left, and Pattye Williams some of the fall fashions that will be highlighted on Saturday during the annual Depot Days Fashion Luncheon. The luncheon, sponsored by the City of Newbern Beautification Committee, will be held at noon in the historical Newbern Depot...
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