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Bond set at quarter million dollars for Oklahoma fugitive
(Local News ~ 09/17/02)
An Oklahoma man who led Dyersburg police on a high-speed chase into Lauderdale County last week was ordered held on $250,000 bond in city court on Monday. Mark Allen Stacey, 31, is charged in Dyersburg with felony evading arrest, theft of property worth more than $500 and theft of property worth less than $500...
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City board sets hearing on annexation
(Local News ~ 09/17/02)
A proposal for a planned business development along Highway 78 northeast of I-155 took a step forward Monday night when the Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to set a public hearing on annexation. The hearing will take place Oct. 7. The site encompasses approximately 40 acres and is located across the highway from the local radio station. ...
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Choctaws smashed by Crockett County
(High School Sports ~ 09/17/02)
NEWBERN -- The Crockett County High School Cavaliers volleyball team had a smashing good time Tuesday night at the expense of the Dyer County Choctaws. The Cavaliers utilized strong setting from its front line and hard smashing from Brittany Johnson and Erica Smallwood to hand the Dyer County Choctaws a 15-10, 15-3 loss Tuesday in the Dyer County High School gym...
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Grizzlies' coach Lowe, GM West pay visit
(High School Sports ~ 09/17/02)
Look for a much-improved Memphis Grizzlies team this season, with better perimeter shooting, an up-tempo offense and much better defense. That was the message delivered by head coach Sidney Lowe and new General Manager Jerry West when the two stopped by the Dyersburg News and State Gazette office for a visit on Monday...
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Schweikert wins again, leads Trojans' x-country to third-place finish in Lexington Invitational
(High School Sports ~ 09/17/02)
LEXINGTON - Nik Schweikert won his second consecutive race Monday to lead the Dyersburg High School Trojans to a third-place finish at the Lexington Invitational Cross-Country meet here. Schweikert, who also won last week's University School of Jackson Invitational finished the three-mile, three-loop race in 17 minutes, 29 seconds. Tim Hawthorne finished with a personal-best 21:08 for the Trojans...
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Evelyn Kinsey Bailey
(Obituary ~ 09/17/02)
Evelyn Kinsey Bailey, 85, of Dyersburg, died Friday, Sept. 13, 2002 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Mount Vernon, Ill. She was a retired seamstress, a member of Sesser, Ill. First United Methodist Church, member of National Association of Retired Federal Employees and a volunteer for Methodist Children's Home in Mount Vernon...
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Thomas Eugene Parker
(Obituary ~ 09/17/02)
Thomas Eugene Parker, 58, of Tiptonville, died Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002 at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Tiptonville chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with Ruth Green officiating. Burial will be in Lake Memorial Gardens...
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Amanda James
(Obituary ~ 09/17/02)
Amanda James, 99, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002 at Oakwood Manor Nursing Facility. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at H.H. Hudson Funeral Home with the Rev. Ernest Haymon officiating. The family will receive visitors from 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home...
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Melvin 'Neb' Corder
(Obituary ~ 09/17/02)
Melvin "Neb" Corder of Dyersburg died today at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by J.W. Curry and Son Funeral Home.
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Frankie Lee Mays
(Obituary ~ 09/17/02)
Frankie Lee Mays, 66, of Memphis, formerly of Ridgely, died Monday, Sept. 16, 2002 at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Cosmopolitan Funeral Services.
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Banks to compete in 'Walk a Mile'
(Community News ~ 09/17/02)
Employees of the four local banks plan to count more than money for the next eight months. They'll also count the number of miles they walk for cardiovascular fitness - and they'll try to out-do each other in a little healthy competition. The banks are competing in "Walk a Mile," a contest that pits each bank against the other. The contest began last week and will run through the end of April. The bank that walks the most miles will win bragging rights for the year - and possibly more...
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Roadway to be named after music icon Turner
(Community News ~ 09/17/02)
A church house gin house A school house outhouse On highway number nineteen The people keep the city clean They call it Nutbush, oh Nutbush They call it Nutbush city limits Twenty-five for speed limit Motorcicle not allowed in it You go to store on Friday...
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'A Sacred Duty' - Tennessee volunteers invade Florida
(History ~ 09/17/02)
Today, many of us have at least one family branch that descends from a Native American tribe and so we see the "Indian Wars" in a different light than our forebears. It was not that everyone wanted to condemn the Native Americans to oblivion, but on the frontier where the two cultures clashed there was precious little regard for their welfare. ...
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RANDOM NOTES September 18
(Column ~ 09/17/02)
The political pundits on television talkshows are so full of it sometimes it makes me want to toss the box out the window. But when someone who at one time was an expert in a field makes a complete, 180-degree spin to the opposite view, I wonder if there could be something wrong upstairs...
Stories from Tuesday, September 17, 2002
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