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Police interrupt burglary
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
Rtwo Dyersburg police officers interrupted a burglary in progress at Dixie Liquor early Monday morning when they drove up on two men breaking into the store. The two men, identified as Jonathan Briggs, 20, of Fakes Avenue and Ronald Haycraft, 20, of Circle Drive, took off running when they saw the patrol car approach. Both were apprehended after short foot chases...
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City board responds to complaints about sewer odor
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
Responding to citizen complaints of foul odors emanating from the direction of the wastewater treatment plant, the Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted Monday on a series of measures designed to cure the problem while protecting an increasingly cash-strapped city treasury...
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Dyersburg "mothballing" wastewater equipment
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
There are city governments across the U.S. that would envy the peculiar situation in which Dyersburg finds itself today. Local officials, however, wish they weren't faced with the predicament. Following the loss of Dyersburg Fabrics, the city's wastewater treatment facility is handling about half its former volume. ...
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Doing his part
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
Since Sept. 11, Americans of all ages have been helping each other in ways great and small. Justin Jernigan is no different. So far through penny drives and bake sales, he's collected more than $500 to send to the United Way Sept. 11th Fund, which supports the victims and their families in New York City and Washington, D.C. ...
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County commission votes to oppose legislative redistricting plan
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
A legislative redistricting plan that would split Dyer County and Dyersburg in two prompted the county commission Monday night to vote to form a committee to combat the plan. "I've been very concerned all weekend since I heard of this plan," commission Chairman Milton Magee told fellow commissioners during a called meeting. "I hope you'll let me make a proposal about this during this meeting which was called for other matters."...
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Policy change on compactors approved
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
The Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a policy change Monday night that gives apartment complexes the option of installing large trash compactors rather than relying on dumpsters. The change was in response to requests made by Peachtree Apartments...
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Literacy Program, DSCC join ESOL forces
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
For years, Dyersburg State Community College and the Dyer County Literacy Program have worked together - with DSCC as the physical agent of the Program's many grants, handling the money while the Program does the work and provides the facility. Thanks to the English Language and Civics Grant just received by the Program, that role is reversed...
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Commission approves revised county district map
(Local News ~ 09/18/01)
The Dyer County Commission redid Monday night the redistricting it did just a week before, but the vote was closer. Voting on a new redistricting map was made necessary by a computer software problem discovered by the state planning office in Jackson after Dyer County commissioners voted for the new map a week ago...
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UT-Florida on Dec. 1 good, bad
(High School Sports ~ 09/18/01)
Monday, the Southeastern Conference announced its rescheduling of games in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks. Most noteworthy was the shift of the Tennessee game from this upcoming weekend to Dec. 1. There was talk that the SEC might have Tennessee and Florida play this weekend, move the Florida-Kentucky game to Nov. 24, when neither team has a game and try to fix things that way...
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DMS takes two in three-way
(High School Sports ~ 09/18/01)
Dyersburg Middle School captured two volleyball matches while hosting a three-way event with Three Oaks and Newbern. DMS outlasted Three Oaks 15-12, 12-15, 15-7 in the varsity match and won 15-9, 15-10 in the B-game. In the second match of the evening, Three Oaks topped Newbern 15-1, 15-6. In B-team action, Three Oaks won 15-1, 15-6...
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Zelda Taylor
(Obituary ~ 09/18/01)
Zelda Taylor, of Dyersburg, died Monday, Sept. 17, 2001 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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William Swift
(Obituary ~ 09/18/01)
William Swift, 78, of Dyersburg, died Friday, Sept. 14, 2001 at Ripley Health Care Rehabilitation Center. He was a retired employee of P.H. White. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Salters Chapel AME Church with Pastor James Pete Fifer officiating. ...
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Constructing pride
(Community News ~ 09/18/01)
Three Oaks Middle School eighth-grade teacher Kelley Daniel, left, stands with some of the 60 students in her classes who participated in making the 7x12-foot American flag that is on display in the lobby of the school. The project was Daniel's idea as a way for the students to demonstrate their pride in America during the current trying times of coping with feelings brought on by the terrorist acts of Sept. ...
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