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City employee retirement funds to be used for purchase of building
(Local News ~ 04/30/03)
With cash reserves for the city of Dyersburg at near record lows, city employees are being asked to invest about 10 percent of their retirement fund to complete a loan package that would be used to purchase the former Dyersburg Fabrics facility on Hoff Road...
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Neurosurgeon's clinic to remain open in Dyersburg
(Local News ~ 04/30/03)
Kellett, Brophy & Lovell Neurosurgery Clinic has decided to keep its Dyersburg office open. Dr. Gary Kellett, the neurosurgeon who opened the Dyersburg clinic in the mid-1970s, died Sunday when his ultralight plane crashed in Fayette County. Dr. LaVerne Lovell will begin serving patients in Kellett's Dyersburg clinic beginning next week. ...
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Medical records advertisement raises questions
(Local News ~ 04/30/03)
An advertisement in today's Dyersburg News offering medical records from the now-closed Carter Clinic is raising suspicions as to its appropriateness. The ad states "If you are in need of your medical records from Carter's Clinics please call 731-589-1713. There will be a $30 recovery fee. It will take two or three days to obtain your records." Both instances of the words "your" in the ad are underlined...
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Free mulch from city
(Local News ~ 04/30/03)
The City of Dyersburg Landfill is offering free mulch to anyone who is willing to bring a shovel and truck or trailer to the landfill located on Sorrells Chapel Road. According to Harold Thurmond, superintendent of the landfill, the city's Street Department picked up leaves along the roadsides and street corners during the winter months. These leaves were taken to the landfill and deposited in the compost site set aside for recycling into mulch...
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County Commission approves loan for industrial development
(Local News ~ 04/30/03)
A loan of up to $3.9 million was approved by the Dyer County Commission Tuesday night to be used to purchase the Hoff Road plant of the bankrupt Dyersburg Corporation. The loan is to be offered to the Dyer County Industrial Development Board so the property can be sold to a prospective industry that promises to create 627 jobs here by the end of its second year of operation...
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NTSB: CAP pilot failed to follow procedures
(Local News ~ 04/30/03)
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed pilot error for a plane crash that killed three Civil Air Patrol pilots last summer. One of those pilots, Fred Vatcher, was the commander of the CAP's Dyersburg Senior Squadron. He was a passenger in the plane and was not at the controls when the Cessna 182 four-seater crashed into Cross Mountain, about 2 miles northwest of Lake City in East Tennessee...
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Small tremor felt across region
(Local News ~ 04/30/03)
A handful of local residents felt a small earthquake centered beneath the Blytheville, Ark. area shortly before midnight. Dyersburg Police dispatcher Leigh Ann Hallum said two calls came into at about the time of the tremor. No calls were reported by the Dyer County Sheriff's Department dispatch...
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White's home run lifts Choctaws over Lake County
(High School Sports ~ 04/30/03)
Chris White was batting lead off for Dyer County, but was moved down to the eight spot to see some better pitches. The senior designated hitter sure found one he liked Tuesday against Lake County. White cranked a 325-foot, three-run blast over the left field fence in third inning in an 8-2 win over the green-clad Falcons of Lake County. The homer highlighted a six-run third that saved the home standing Choctaws from an early two-run deficit...
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Trojans finish season at .500 on senior night.
(High School Sports ~ 04/30/03)
Ask any optometrist ... 20-20 is about as good as it gets. Dyersburg baseball coach Tom Mathis sure isn't complaining. Mathis' Trojans finished the regular season Tuesday with a 9-3 win over Humbolt, boosting his team to 20 wins and a .500 season...
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Mac H. Alphin
(Obituary ~ 04/30/03)
Mac H. Alphin, of the Cool Springs Community, died today at his residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson Funeral Home.
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James Edward Luther
(Obituary ~ 04/30/03)
James Edward Luther, of Trenton, formerly of Dyersburg, died Friday, April 18 at his residence. He was a retired electrician of 26 years from Electric Motor Services. A memorial service was held at 2 p.m. April 26 at Shelton-Hunt Funeral Home in Humboldt...
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Experience 'The Songs and Symbols of America!' Sunday with the Dyersburg Choral Society
(Community News ~ 04/30/03)
Just as the American population is a melting pot of cultures, so is its music. That variety can be heard when the Dyersburg Choral Society presents its spring concert, "The Songs and Symbols of America!" at 3 p.m. May 4 in the Dyersburg High School Little Theater...
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June banquet to benefit Theus-Mays scholarship
(Community News ~ 04/30/03)
Those who knew her remember Ida Mae Theus-Mays as a devout believer and supporter of education. That's why her family and members of Faith Deliverance Apostolic Church established a scholarship at Dyersburg State Community College in her memory. To help fund that scholarship, the church will host the first Ida Mae Theus-Mays Scholarship and Graduate Banquet at 6:30 p.m. June 7 at the Lannom Center. The dress is semi-formal/Sunday...
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RANDOM NOTES April 30 2003
(Column ~ 04/30/03)
There were several letters to the editor from local resident complaining about the Dyersburg High School drama troupe's performance of "Voices from the High School," mostly complaining about the so-called "adult" content of the play. Well, from someone who on Sunday afternoon watched the performance, the content was not the usual farcical kind high school plays usually portray. ...
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