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Dyer Fabrics opens amid celebration
(Local News ~ 07/24/02)
The former Dyersburg Fabrics plant on Harrell Avenue once again is buzzing with activity. Dyer Fabrics, Dyersburg Fabrics' successor, celebrated its grand opening Tuesday with a brief ceremony attended by more than 300 former Dyersburg Fabrics employees and interested town folk...
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Federal grant targets health issues
(Local News ~ 07/24/02)
A $1.4 million grant will help document West Tennessee's most prevalent diseases and develop programs to fight them. The federal grant is part of the Mississippi River Delta special initiative. It covers three years worth of work in all of West Tennessee except Shelby and Tipton counties, Keith Curlin told the Dyer County Community Health Council on Tuesday. Curlin is a state health department assessment and planning coordinator who works with health councils throughout Northwest Tennessee...
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Horse put down after accident
(Local News ~ 07/24/02)
A horse had to be put down Tuesday night after it walked into the path of a vehicle on Fort Hudson Road and was hit. According to Dyer County Sheriff's Department reports, two juveniles were driving near the Fort Hudson Road-Valley Road intersection at 8 p.m. ...
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Thacker hearing postponed
(Local News ~ 07/24/02)
A preliminary hearing for convicted murderer Steven Ray Thacker in another murder has been postponed a month. Thacker, 31, of Chouteau, Okla., was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection in February for the January 2000 stabbing death of Dyersburg businessman Ray Patterson. Dyer County Circuit Judge Lee Moore set Thacker's execution for May 31, but the execution was delayed pending appeals...
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Health association wants to empower local governments in tobacco fight
(Local News ~ 07/24/02)
Local governments don't have much say in the regulation of tobacco use or tobacco sales. A little-known law, which went into effect on March 15, 1994, took away city and county governments' rights to do so. The Tennessee Public Health Association hopes that will change next year. The organization plans to ask the Tennessee General Assembly to repeal the "tobacco preemption law."...
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Dyersburg Electric
(High School Sports ~ 07/24/02)
Playing for Dyersburg Electric in Dyersburg Activity Center's 7-and-under softball league are, front from left, Kelly Sellers, Mary Catherine Byars, Lindsey Burpo, Breuqulyn Lovelady; second row, Megan Sellers, Ciara Dycus, Maggie Feith, Elizabeth Hayes, Bethany Corne; third row, Lauren Brooks, Brooke Hall, Lara Beth Cherry, Keilah Baggett, Kimberly Lowe; back row, coach Jay Garza and coach Melissa Sellers...
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Quebecor World
(High School Sports ~ 07/24/02)
The Quebecor World team participated in the 7-and-under softball league at the Dyersburg Activity Center. Players are, front from left, Katlyn Dishman, Adassen Stover; second row, Megan White, Anna Mansfield, Jordan Galewski; third row, Allison Pleasant, Kristen Archuleta, Calin Sizemore; back row, coach Rodger Pleasant, coach Jason Campbell and coach Jerry Fisher. Not pictured: Savannah King, Jaclyn Stafford, Megan Smith, Sarah Ashley and Whitney Ford...
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Andrew Wardell Robinson
(Obituary ~ 07/24/02)
Andrew Wardell Robinson, 89, of Jackson, formerly of Dyersburg, died Sunday, July 21, 2002 at Gibson General Hospital in Trenton. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by H.H. Hudson Funeral Home.
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Helen Moseley Whiteway
(Obituary ~ 07/24/02)
Helen M. Whiteway, 82, formerly of Newbern, died at her daughter's home in Phoenix, Ariz., earlier this month. She was born in Newbern. After completing her education just prior to WWII, she moved to Philadelphia and served in the Red Cross during most of the term of the war. ...
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Ann S. Clicque
(Obituary ~ 07/24/02)
Ann S. Clicque, 88, of Union City, died Sunday, July 21, 2002 at Baptist Memorial Hospital. She was a retired secretary/bookkeeper for Landscape Nursery and Morning Star Nursery, a member of Union City Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Cumberland Presbyterian Women and Sinder Sunday school class and Reelfoot Chapter of D.A.R...
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New ministerial duo serving First United Methodist Church
(Community News ~ 07/24/02)
A couple of familiar faces have assumed new roles in the ministry of Dyersburg's First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Dr. Phillip A. Cook became senior minister of the church on June 18 and preached his first sermon in that role on June 23. He replaced the Rev. Dr. Cecil Kirk, who retired...
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