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County industrial board makes offer for Hoff Road building
(Local News ~ 06/11/03)
Months of legal and political maneuvering culminated Friday afternoon with the tender of a purchase offer by the Dyer County Industrial Development Board for the vacant Dyersburg Fabrics Building on Hoff Road. If the offer is accepted by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Atlanta later today, the building could be leased to Nordyne, Inc. of St. Louis, Mo. as a manufacturing facility for 15 years. Nordyne predicts employment of more than 600 jobs by 2006...
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City's location key to decision
(Local News ~ 06/11/03)
Dyersburg's central location to Nordyne's markets in the South, Southeast and Midwest was the driving reason to choose the city for a new manufacturing plant, the firm's vice president of manufacturing said Tuesday. "We have a strong presence in the Southeast, the South and Midwest," said Michael Nix, who oversees Nordyne's four plants as vice president of operations. "We are very optimistic and hopeful Dyersburg will play a role in our long-term plans."...
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Compromise apparently reached on county school budget
(Local News ~ 06/11/03)
An accounting maneuver and a new state law apparently will be combined to permit Dyer County Schools' budget to be balanced and county schools to open on time in August. An agreement was reached Tuesday during a noontime meeting of the county commission's budget and education committees with members of the county school board...
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Cardiac Arrest to raise money for American Heart Association
(Local News ~ 06/11/03)
Would you volunteer for a Cardiac Arrest? The American Heart Association hopes so. Cardiac Arrest is a fund-raiser for the organization. Volunteers will be "arrested," taken before Judge Heartless and held until they raise their bail bond money. The Cardiac Arrest will be held June 26 in the First Citizens Annex. ...
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DSCC standout named 'Big Stick' winner
(High School Sports ~ 06/11/03)
DSCC Eagles outfielder Robert Kimbrough recently won the East Central Region's "Rawling's Big Stick Award." Kimbrough, now a sophomore was also selected to the first team TJCAA All-Conference, first team TJCAA All-District, first team East Central All District First Team, and first team East Central All Conference Team...
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Quebecor Sluggers stay unbeaten
(High School Sports ~ 06/11/03)
Somebody had to lose. The only two undefeated teams remaining in the Dyersburg/Dyer County Men's Softball League squared off on Tickle Street Monday night in a battle for first place. It was the Quebecor Sluggers who remained unmarred in a 26-13 assault over the Excalibur, a team sponsored by Crystal Clear Water...
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Dontae Lamont Brown Jr.
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Dontae Lamont Brown Jr., infant son of Trinia Monique Pearson of Ripley and Dontae L. Brown Sr. of Halls, died Friday, June 6, 2003 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Ripley. Services will be at 4 p.m. today in the chapel of Currie's Funeral Home in Henning with the Rev. Terry Barlow officiating. Burial will be in Bethelhem Cemetery in Henning. The family will receive visitors at 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today at the funeral home...
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Scott Allen Lowery
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Scott Allen Lowery, 25, of Adamsville, died Monday, June 9, 2003 at Hardin County Hospital in Savannah. He was an auto repairman at Ted Lowery Body Shop. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with Don Lipford officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Morris McCorkle
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Morris McCorkle, 80, of Halls, died Friday, June 6, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a retired carpenter. Services will be at noon Saturday at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Halls with the Rev. Dennis Chaney officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. H.H. Hudson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The family will receive visitors at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church and after services at 509 N. Wilson Street in Halls...
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Jimmie Anthony Scott
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Jimmie Anthony Scott, 54, of Hometown, Mo., died Saturday, May 31, 2003 at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston, Mo. Services were at 1 p.m. June 7 at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Hometown, Mo. with the Rev. Emmanuel Lofton officiating. Burial was in Hometown Cemetery...
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Eleanor Marie Upson Work
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Eleanor Marie Upson Work, 69, of Tiptonville, died Monday, June 9, 2003 at her residence. She was a retired bookkeeper and real estate agent and a Baptist. Graveside services were at 10 a.m. today in New Haven Cemetery in Ridgely with the Rev. Jerry Leggett officiating. Dyersburg Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements...
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Boyd Dotson
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Boyd Dotson, of Tiptonville, died Tuesday, June 10, 2003 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Steven Workman
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Steven Workman, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, June 10, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Ruth Roberson
(Obituary ~ 06/11/03)
Ruth Roberson, formerly of Dyersburg, died today in Knoxville. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Local students fare well in duck stamp competition
(Community News ~ 06/11/03)
Students from Dyersburg, Newbern and Halls proved once again that they know their waterfowl and they have a knack for depicting it in art. Twenty-three local students won honors in Tennessee's eighth annual Junior Duck Stamp Contest. More than 770 students entered the competition...
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Thanks to Newbern/Trimble Boy Scouts,
(Community News ~ 06/11/03)
After tornadoes and strong storms came through Dyer County in early May, there was a lot of damage. One of those damaged structures has been recycled into homes. Members of Newbern/Trimble Boy Scout Troop 368 have turned George Cole's barn into at least 10 birdhouses for parks in Newbern...
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The Widow & the Wolf
(History ~ 06/11/03)
This week we will continue to follow the story of the Key Corner expedition and their search for an Arkansas Eldorado. The colonists who had migrated from Key Corner and Paris found the region around the White River to be a hunter's paradise. Jessie Goodman had told them that there were so many wild deer that the animals would hardly move as he approached, and that there were "immense flocks of turkeys almost as gentle as barnyard fowls." As William Flippin related, there were no "honey ponds" or "fritter trees", but there was honey in abundance and winter grazing for cattle in the canebrakes that ranged along the river.. ...
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