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Power board approves rate hike
(Local News ~ 08/21/03)
The Dyersburg Electric System Board of Directors Wednesday unanimously approved a new rate schedule under consideration by the Tennessee Valley Authority board. The 5.9 percent residential rate increase will be effective Oct. 1 if passed by the TVA board at an Aug. 27 meeting. The average DES customer using 1,000-kilowatt hours a month will see a 77-cent-a-month increase, DES Manager Jimmy Williamson said...
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James Robert Pierce
(Obituary ~ 08/21/03)
James Robert Pierce, 66, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Tabernacle Baptist Church with the Rev. Al Seward and the Rev. Louis Hudson III officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Dyersburg. Cosmopolitan Funeral Services will be in charge of arrangements...
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Jewel Flagg Mays Stone
(Obituary ~ 08/21/03)
Jewel Flagg Mays Stone, 46, of Ripley, died Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003 in Robinsonville, Miss. He was a juvenile probation officer for McDowell Center in Dyersburg. Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Holly Grove Baptist Church in Ripley with the Rev. W.L. Reid officiating. Burial will be in Canfield Cemetery in Ripley...
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Vester Dowdy
(Obituary ~ 08/21/03)
Vester Dowdy, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Peggy Newbill Moncrief
(Obituary ~ 08/21/03)
Peggy Newbill Moncrief, 78, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a homemaker and an Episcopalian. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. George Butler officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery...
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Dyersburg Football Jamboree is Friday
(High School Sports ~ 08/21/03)
The prep football preseason ends Friday at Dyersburg High School. The Dyersburg Jamboree will mark the end of scrimmages for six schools set to do battle in the Dyersburg Jamboree. Halls and Ripley will line up first in a battle of two Lauderdale County Tiger teams...
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Dyersburg ready for meaningful Week 0
(High School Sports ~ 08/21/03)
Don't let the name fool you. Week 0 counts just as much as the rest of the football season. Seventy-seven Week 0 games will be staged this weekend to officially open the TSSAA prep football season. Dyersburg High School will help cut the ribbon on a new season by traveling to Murray State University for a battle with Graves County, Ky., in the Pella Progress Bowl...
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Northview wins opener in overtime
(High School Sports ~ 08/21/03)
Hollywood couldn't have written a better ending than the one put together by Northview Middle School Tuesday night. The Newbern-based Mustangs were down 26-6 with five minutes left in their season opener at Trenton before coming back in a 34-32 overtime win...
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DC Choctaws fall to Haywood
(High School Sports ~ 08/21/03)
Dyer County's golf team fell to Haywood County in Brownsville Tuesday. The Choctaws posted a 185, which wasn't enough to top Haywood's 169. The Lady Choctaws weren't in action because the team's only girls' golfer, Lorie French, was out sick. Shane Thurmond had the low round for Dyer County with a five-over 41. He usually plays in the No. 3 spot for Dyer County...
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Trojan golfers top four teams
(High School Sports ~ 08/21/03)
A day removed from finishing third in an 18-hole tournament, the Dyersburg High School boys' golf team dominated a four-team match at Crockett County. Dyersburg improved to 14-3 on the year with a 166, which topped the home-standing Cavaliers (174). Gibson County finished third at 182 and Halls rounded out the boys' event with a 184...
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Satellite TV providers sue state over sales taxes
(Local News ~ 08/21/03)
The nation's biggest providers of satellite TV believe they are being discriminated against. DIRECTV, Inc. and EchoStar Satellite Corporation and its DISH Network, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Tennessee's commissioner of revenue, Loren Chumley, challenging the state's sales tax on direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) customers...
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Congressman John Tanner at Ermco
(Local News ~ 08/21/03)
ERMCO Plant Manager Bob Grunert shows Dyer County Executive Richard Hill, Newbern Mayor Joe Adams and Congressman John Tanner how sheets of metal are stamped and cut into pieces. The pieces of metal are then used to build a variety of electrical transformers. ...
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Sign theft, a growing problem in Dyersburg
(Local News ~ 08/21/03)
Theft of street and traffic-control signs has been a growing problem over the last few years in Dyersburg and the Public Works Department is now asking neighborhood watch groups to add this to their list of crime-stopper alerts. Vandalizing signs around the city may appear to be a minor issue, but it carries dangers for the public and a potential liability for the city, said Public Works Director Freddie Krapf...
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Water loss may come at taxpayers' expense
(Local News ~ 08/21/03)
Gallons of city water spouted tens of feet into the air Wednesday afternoon after excavators working at the former Abilene restaurant on the Hwy. 51 Bypass hit a water line designated for fire use. Evidence of the waterline break was seen as the workers returned from lunch. Yet, the water continued to spout from the wreckage of the abandoned building for nearly 45 minutes because of confusion as to where the water was coming from...
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Student Ambassadors are already on campus
(Community News ~ 08/21/03)
Even though Dyersburg State's fall semester does not begin until Aug. 25, the college's new Student Ambassadors are already on campus. The 11-member group participated in an orientation meeting on the main DSCC campus in Dyersburg. Ambassadors from Dyer County are (from left) Wendy Russell, Diana Whitson, Jodi Grills and Amish Patel. ...
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