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New jail may be ahead of time and under budget: Hill
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
Dyer County's new jail, now under construction on Cedar Street in Dyersburg, should be completed ahead of schedule and slightly under budget, County Executive Richard Hill said Friday. "I really believe it will be completed before the March target date," Hill said. "And I believe it will be a little under the money we projected. It won't be over it."...
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Send the community Christmas greetings, support the Mission
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
Want to wish Dyer Countians a merry Christmas and at the same time help the Dyer-Dyer County Union Mission make the holiday season brighter for those in need? The Northwest Tennessee Academy of Medicine Auxiliary is taking donations for its annual Christmas card. Checks should be received to Mary Legan, 1135 Hurricane Hill Rd., Dyersburg, TN 38024 by Wednesday...
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School board approves 2003-04 calendar
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
The Dyersburg School Board unanimously approved the school calendar for the 2003-04 academic year during its regular meeting on Tuesday night. The new calendar includes two snow days. If excessive days are missed due to inclement weather, they will be made up between March 15 and 19...
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Help the Salvation Army ring in the holidays
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
Dora Daniels is looking for a few good volunteers. Folks who can spare an hour, or more if they like, on Fridays and/or Saturdays to help the Salvation Army make someone's year a little merrier. "We're really desperately in need of volunteers to ring bells," she said...
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Fed's mandate to track foreign students left to local colleges
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
Bush Administration spokesmen have promised that the new Department of Homeland Security won't become another massive federal bureaucracy, but some administrators at regional colleges assigned the task of tracking foreign students are beginning to have their doubts...
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Deborah Magee, the mother of Dyersburg Middle School students Wesley and Wynton Magee, volunteers two days a week to read to students.
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
DMS seeks reading volunteers Special to the State Gazette Could you spare just 40 minutes a week for a child? Dyersburg Middle School needs parents or community volunteers who can spend 40 minutes or more a week reading with a child. No matter the student's age, reading aloud builds his/her vocabulary and increases comprehension. It also models the character personalities and mood...
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Drainage districts OK railroad bridge plans
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
Tennken Railroad expects to start two multi-million-dollar renovation projects in Dyer County next year. The first project, which is scheduled to begin in January, will remove a firebreak in a floodplain bridge about 1,000 to 1,200 feet north of the Obion River. The project also calls for replacing some of the bridge's weaker wooden trestles with steel supports...
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Yields down slightly in late-season harvest
(Local News ~ 12/09/02)
Farmers wrapped up a slightly depressed harvest just before last week's ice storm arrived. Yields for almost every crop were lower this year than they were last year. Blame it on the weather. Tim Campbell, Dyer County Extension Service county director, said he believes the wet spring and dry summer hurt the crops. Then, a wet fall hampered the harvest, forcing some farmers to complete the job after Thanksgiving for the first time in years...
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Chatham, Trojans finally beat Dyer County
(High School Sports ~ 12/09/02)
It was three years in the making, but Friday night was a special one for Dyersburg High School center Daniel Chatham. The 6-foot, 9-inch senior poured in 18 points, including the game-winner, and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Trojans past the Dyer County Choctaws, 44-41, in boys' high school basketball play at the Dyersburg High School gym...
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Dyer County girls beat struggling Lady Trojans, 46-44
(High School Sports ~ 12/09/02)
Round One goes to the Lady Choctaws. Whitney Faulkner and Suzanne Seat each sank a free throw in the final 39 seconds Friday night as the Dyer County Lady Choctaws held on for a 46-44 victory over the Dyersburg Lady Trojans in girls' high school basketball action at the Dyersburg High School gym...
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Douglas keys second-half rally in DSCC men's win
(High School Sports ~ 12/09/02)
The Dyersburg State Community College Eagles subscribed to an age-old theory to pull out their latest win on Saturday -- do unto others as they would do unto you. Or maybe it was he who laughs last, laughs best. The Eagles countered a 33-point performance by Hiwassee Junior College forward Brad Deshazor with a solid performance by guard Leroy Douglas to beat the Tigers, 102-95, at Lannom Gymnasium...
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Lady Eagles still learning in loss to Hiwassee
(High School Sports ~ 12/09/02)
The goal at the beginning of the season for the Dyersburg State Community College Lady Eagles was to continue to learn and improve. While those goals haven't changed, a new challenged has emerged for the Lady Eagles and first-year had coach Elijah Taylor -- remain positive...
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Ruby Mae Kee
(Obituary ~ 12/09/02)
Ruby Mae Kee, 93, of Friendship, died Friday, Dec. 6, 2002, at Crockett County Nursing Home in Alamo. She was a homemaker. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Friendship Baptist Church, where she was a member, with Dr. Billy Murphy officiating. Burial will be in Friendship Cemetery...
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Flagg Lee
(Obituary ~ 12/09/02)
Flagg Lee, 80, of Henning, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002, at Baptist Lauderdale Hospital in Ripley. He was a farmer. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at New Bethel Baptist Church in the Cherry community near Henning with the Rev. Larry Dixon officiating. Burial will be in the Garden of Everlasting Life in Covington...
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Gracie Robeson Peacock Northcutt
(Obituary ~ 12/09/02)
Gracie Robeson Peacock Northcutt, 76, of Tiptonville, died Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002, at Reelfoot Manor Nursing Center. She was a retired business owner, land owner and a pastor's wife for 31 years, a member of Lakeview Baptist Church, foreperson of the Grand Jury for Lake County for 17 years, a member of Tiptonville Junior Women's Club, active in missions work, active in the Parent Teacher Association, an avid genealogist, and a member of Methodist UMW and Baptist WMU...
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Georgia Fowler Parks
(Obituary ~ 12/09/02)
Georgia Fowler Parks, 80, of Newbern, died Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002, at Wesley Care Center in Dyersburg. She was a retired employee of Dyersburg Fabrics and a member of Dyersburg First United Methodist Church. Graveside services were at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Fairview Cemetery in Newbern with Dr. Phillip Cook officiating. Johnson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements...
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J.L. Franks
(Obituary ~ 12/09/02)
J.L. Franks, 63, of Ridgely, died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2002 at his residence. He was a farmer and a Baptist. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. today at Curry's Ridgely Chapel with the Rev. Bobby Barnett and the Rev. Rob Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Minnick Cemetery. Johnson Funeral Home of Newbern is in charge of arrangements...
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David Morris Peacock
(Obituary ~ 12/09/02)
David Morris Peacock, 62, of Winona, Miss., formerly of Dyersburg, died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2002 at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis. He was an engineer for Krugher International in Winona and had worked as a broadcast engineer for numerous radio stations in Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Illinois since the 1960s. He was a member of the Broadcast Electronic Association and the Toastmasters in Dyersburg...
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Habitat celebrates a successful 2002
(Community News ~ 12/09/02)
The Habitat for Humanity in Northwest Tennessee family gathered together Dec. 5 to mark the holiday season and take a look back at 2002. "We've had a successful year," said president Howard Guthrie. It was a year that saw the completion of two houses -- the Larry Caldwell home on Habitat Cove in Dyersburg's Bruce community and the Mary Jo Anson home in Dyersburg's Evansville community -- and the paperwork to begin two others in the coming year...
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Couple marks 'their wedding day plus 75 years'
(Community News ~ 12/09/02)
As church family and neighbors came by Thursday morning with their congratulations, Lee Morris had a question on his mind: how many other folks in Dyer County have marked their 75th wedding anniversary? "It was the best day's work I'd done," Lee Morris said of Dec. 5, 1927, when he married Bertha Hill...
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A product of his times
(Community News ~ 12/09/02)
Alan Burchfiel never considered any other job than farming. "I can't remember thinking about doing anything else," he said during a recent interview. "I even left college after just a little while to come back to Tatumville to farm." Burchfiel has seen many changes during his more than 40 years of farming...
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