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Horner will not be charged for Cook shooting: special prosecutor
(Local News ~ 03/26/03)
Trimble policeman Robert Horner, accused of fatally wounding Stanley Cook on Dec. 10 outside Trimble City Hall, will not be prosecuted for the shooting, a special prosecutor has decided. Reasons given include a long-standing feud between the two and threats made by Cook against Horner...
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Trees planted in Okeena Park on Tuesday; city board to decide fate of big oaks
(Local News ~ 03/26/03)
Okeena Park will be ablaze in red-orange leaves next fall. Thank Bill Newsom, owner of Stanfield Nursery, who donated four large Autumn Blaze maples to the park Tuesday. The trees are expected to grow fast, provide shade and are known for their brilliant reddish-orange leaves...
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McCright angry over proposed funeral regulations
(Local News ~ 03/26/03)
Dyersburg alderman Charles McCright, chairman of the city cemetery committee, is up in arms about new legislation being voted on in Nashville this week that requires funeral homes to hire security guard companies to escort processions. State Rep. Ben West, D-Hermitage, who owns a security guard company, has sponsored legislation that would require funeral home directors to use only licensed security guard and funeral home employees as escorts...
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Dyersburg 'comeback kid' helps Skyhawks sweep series
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/03)
Dyersburg native Hunter Hart helped the University of Tennessee at Martin Skyhawk baseball team sweep a three-game series from visiting Chicago State this past weekend. The Skyhawks won Saturday's doubleheader 4-3 and 11-5. They then went on to win Sunday's game 10-4 to record their fourth consecutive win. ...
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Eagles off to strong start
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/03)
The Dyersburg State Eagles baseball team is off to one of its strongest starts in the college's history with a 12-7 overall record and 6-5 conference record. The Eagles traveled to Colombia State Community College on Friday to take two games of a three-game conference series...
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DSCC Lady Eagles sweep Northwest Mississippi
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/03)
The DSCC Lady Eagles softball team traveled to Senatobia, Miss. on Friday and picked up two extra-inning victories. In the first game, Lori Johnson, a freshman from Brighton, twirled a one-hitter, striking out five, walked no one and faced 27 batters in eight innings...
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Michael L. Hendricks
(Obituary ~ 03/26/03)
Michael L. Hendricks, 50, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., formerly of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, March 18, 2003 in DeFuniak Springs. He was a former employee for 15 years of Colonial Rubber Inc. and had attended the Church of God of Prophecy in Dyersburg. Memorialization by cremation...
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Rodney Lee Stanbro
(Obituary ~ 03/26/03)
The Rev. Rodney Lee Stanbro, 69, of Branson, Mo., died Friday, March 14, 2003. He was employed with Silver Dollar City, an ordained minister and was pastor of Dyersburg First Assembly of God Church for 10 years until his retirement in 2000. Services were held March 18 at Adams Funeral Home in Nixa, Mo. with the Rev. Don Blansit, the Rev. Lloyd Marsh Jr., the Rev. Cecil Todd and the Rev. Chad Blansit officiating. Burial was in Moorehead Cemetery in Lamar, Mo...
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Janice Browning Robertson
(Obituary ~ 03/26/03)
Janice Browning Robertson, 50, of Dyersburg, died Monday, March 24, 2003 at Baptist Hospital in Ripley. She was a domestic worker. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at New Hope Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ with Bishop Melvin Shaw officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Dyersburg. H.H. Hudson Funeral Home in Dyersburg. The family will receive visitors at 10 a.m. Friday at the church...
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Alden Edward Tatum Sr.
(Obituary ~ 03/26/03)
Alden Edward Tatum Sr., of Finley, died Monday, March 24, 2003 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He was a businessman and U.S. Army veteran. Services will be at 1 p.m. today in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Mac Daniels officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery...
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Get ready to move on up
(Community News ~ 03/26/03)
What some say is the best Never Ready for Primetime Players' Hee Haw show ever is coming back. The Players will present "Movin' on Up" at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the Dyer County High School gym. Tickets are $5 and are available from cast members, DCHS senior and their parents, West Tennessee Communications in Dyersburg or at the door. Proceeds will benefit DCHS Project Graduation for the Class of 2003...
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Keelboats & Flatboats Keelboats & Flatboats
(History ~ 03/26/03)
In the fall of 1825, Davy Crockett set about building two flatboats on Obion Lake and hired men to help him make barrel staves to be shipped down river. Crockett would later recall, "I had two boats and about thirty thousand staves, and so I loaded them, and set out for New Orleans. ...
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RANDOM NOTES March 26 2003
RANDOM NOTES
(Column ~ 03/26/03)
With the seemingly unending scenes of bombings, night-vision images, downtown Baghdad, talking heads and more of the same, this week I thought this space could offer news and photographs reported in the pages of the State Gazette from times past. ***...
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