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Clean water regs could impact city fees
(Local News ~ 03/21/02)
Dyersburg residents could pay additional sewer fees next year if the city is to comply with tougher federal and state stormwater drainage regulations. At least, that has been the experience of Chattanooga residents. Robert Haley, an environmental protection specialist in Nashville, said the new requirements grew out of the 1987 Clean Water Act and are designed to significantly decrease urban area discharges of silt, oil, heavy metals and other contaminants into Tennessee streams and rivers. ...
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Bettie Woods shows 'There's really no need for anyone not to have their high school diploma'
(Local News ~ 03/21/02)
It was a call that Gale Warren never expected to receive. But she sure was happy to get it. "Gale, I have a question for you," said her mother Bettie Woods that day in early September. "You're always telling me about the people in your GED classes. When can you help me get mine?"...
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Garden clubbers plead with power board
Garden clubbers plead with power board Garden clubbers plead with power board Garden clubbers plead with power board
(Local News ~ 03/21/02)
Members of the Good Earth Garden Club pleaded their case about tree trimming and metal power poles to the Dyersburg Electric System's board of directors Wednesday, but no changes resulted. Club president Kay Fowlkes seemed satisfied with the opportunity to make the plea, however, saying the club probably will take its concerns no further. ...
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Should the Arctic refuge be a wilderness or oil-drilling field? You decide
(Local News ~ 03/21/02)
Toya Howard of Dyersburg doesn't like the idea of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. So, when she found out Wednesday that Congress is considering that idea this year, she immediately wrote a letter to U.S. Sens. Fred Thompson and Bill Frist. She asked them to vote against the proposal...
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Working to make the grade
(Local News ~ 03/21/02)
With the critical Gateway Tests looming on the horizon for students in the Dyersburg City Schools, remedial work in critical areas like Algebra, Biology and English will be the focus of this year's Spring Intersession. According to Judy Hickman, coordinator of the Intersession program, classes will take place March 25-28 at all four of the city's schools...
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Weekend bowling tourney to benefit local youth
(High School Sports ~ 03/21/02)
A strike, a spare and a gutter ball will all be of equal importance this weekend when JC Bowling Lanes and the Dyersburg Bowling Association host a tournament to raise money for a youngster in need of a lung transplant. Bowlers will toe the line on Saturday and Sunday to raise funds for Odell Terry, nine-year-old son of Rodney and Lana Terry, of Dyersburg. He is the grandson of Charlie and Phyllis Vaughn, also of Dyersburg...
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Carl Jowers
(Obituary ~ 03/21/02)
Carl Jowers, 89, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, March 21, 2002 at Wesley of Dyersburg.
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Opal J. Hastings
(Obituary ~ 03/21/02)
Opal J. Hastings, 77, of Finley, died Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis. She was a homemaker, a volunteer at the Union Mission and a member of Middle City Church of Jesus Christ.
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Hazel S. Balthrop
(Obituary ~ 03/21/02)
Hazel S. Balthrop, 79, of Newbern, died Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at her residence. She was a retired employee of Morris Manufacturing
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Edward Beavers
(Obituary ~ 03/21/02)
Edward Beavers, 33, of Gates, died Sunday, March 17, 2002 at Baptist Hospital in Ripley.
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