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Dyersburg landmark demolished
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
The white-brick building at the southwest corner of Cedar and South Main street that for years was known as the oldest liquor store in West Tennessee was demolished Tuesday. Pete's Liquors, a Dyersburg landmark, took 40 minutes to fall into a pile of rubble. Robert Singleton, owner of the firm that bulldozed the two-story building, said only the bricks will be salvaged. Several passersby yesterday afternoon asked to take a piece of the fallen brick pile...
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Airplane's fatal crash inquiry adds facts
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
The National Transportation Safety Board found no mechanical problems with a Civil Air Patrol plane that crashed and killed three men last year. Fred Vatcher, commander of the CAP's Dyersburg Senior Squadron and a passenger in the plane, and two CAP pilots from the Knoxville area died. They were on a training exercise Aug. 10 when their plane crashed into Cross Mountain, which is about 2 miles northwest of Lake City in East Tennessee...
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Dyersburg State hosts convention
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Dyersburg State Community College will host Phi Theta Kappa's Regional Convention this weekend, Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22 at the Dyersburg campus. Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society for community colleges and is dedicated to scholarship, leadership, service, and fellowship. ...
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Nation goes to Orange alert, Dyersburg returns to Yellow
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
As the Bush administration prepared for military action in Iraq, the Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announced that the national terrorist alert status was being raised from yellow to orange, high alert for terrorist attacks. In Dyersburg, the status was raised from the second to the lowest level, Blue, to Yellow, where it sat for about 10 days during a national alert in February...
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DHS Trojan catcher playing in USA Baseball Junior Olympic Championships
(High School Sports ~ 03/19/03)
With the Wright ancestors, it's easy to see how baseball could be in Cody Simmons' blood. But the 16-year-old is beginning a baseball legacy of his own. Simmons is preparing to participate in the 2003 USA Baseball Junior Olympic Championships in Tucson, Ariz...
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Farris Alford
(Obituary ~ 03/19/03)
Farris Alford, 77, of Hornbeak, died Monday, March 17, 2003 at Baptist Hospital in Union. He was a farmer, a member of Hornbeak Baptist Church and was an Army veteran. Services will be at 1 p.m. today in the Ridgely chapel of J.W. Curry & Son Funeral Home with the Rev. Ernest Mayo and the Rev. Houston Northcutt officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery in Ridgely...
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Dora Pearl Kee
(Obituary ~ 03/19/03)
Dora Pearl Kee, 87, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a retired cafeteria worker for Dyersburg City Schools, a Baptist and an avid quilter. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Fairview Cemetery with the Rev. James Branscum officiating. The family will receive visitors at 5:30-9 p.m. today at Dyersburg Funeral Home...
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Grover C. Allen Pope
(Obituary ~ 03/19/03)
Grover C. Allen Pope, 73, of Dyersburg, died Monday, March 17, 2003 at West Tennessee Transitional Center in Jackson. He was a nurse and a member of Phillips Street Church of Christ. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in the chapel of J.W. Curry & Son Funeral Home with Brother Tim Fuqua and Brother Dustin Forthum officiating. Burial will be in Yorkville Cemetery...
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Dyer County NAACP Youth Chapter hosting dinner theater
(Community News ~ 03/19/03)
The time is the early 1960s. The place is Any Town, USA. The setting is a segregated neighborhood that's being integrated. Dyer County NAACP Youth Chapter will host a dinner theater at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Dyersburg Middle School cafetorium. The play, "The Good Times Are Killing Me," will begin at 8 p.m...
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'Joseph' tickets are going fast
(Community News ~ 03/19/03)
Tickets to the Masquerade Theatre's production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" are go-go-go-going. According to play director Mike Dickerson, the entire final four weekend performances are within single digits of selling out. The musical, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in 1968 and based on the biblical story, stars Jared Poore of Kenton in the title role, Melissa Heck of Dyersburg as the narrator and Bill Parmenter of Dyersburg as Jacob, Joseph's father...
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John James Audubon and the 'Citizen King
(History ~ 03/19/03)
By the early 1820's the rivers bordering Dyer County were thriving with traffic, from the poorest of the poor to the royalty of Europe. One of the notable people traveling on the Mississippi was the famous naturalist, John J. Audubon. In 1820 he and his companions decided to spend the night on Island Number Twenty, but when they settled in a group of Indians landed at the other end of the island. ...
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RANDOM NOTES MARCH 19 2003
(Column ~ 03/19/03)
Saddam and Hitler The comparison is apt -- except Saddam has five times the killing power of Nazi Germany in 1939 By the time you read this, war may be under way against the tyrant Saddam Hussein. It is a just war, a fight to bring democratic change to lands traditionally bound by autocratic rule...
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