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Forked Deer brings new unit online
(Local News ~ 12/03/03)
A swath of northern Dyer County was out of electric power for two hours Tuesday afternoon as Forked Deer Electric Cooperative workers brought online a new transmission upgrade to its Nauvoo substation. The $250,000 investment "will basically add another switch for us to use," said Forked Deer general manager Harold Willis. "It doubles our capacity there."...
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Mary V. Taylor Fowlkes
(Obituary ~ 12/03/03)
Mary V. Taylor Fowlkes, 93, of Knoxville and Dyersburg, died Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 at Little Creek Nursing Home in Knoxville. She was a retired elementary school teacher in Georgia and Florida and was a member of Sequoyah Presbyterian Church in Knoxville. She was a graduate of Vanderbilt University and received her masters degree from the University of Mississippi...
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Walter Lee Crawford
(Obituary ~ 12/03/03)
Walter Lee Crawford, 53, of Tiptonville, died Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003 at Methodist Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at 12 p.m. Thursday at St. John #2 M.B. Church in Tiptonville with the Rev. Jeffery Samples officiating. Burial will be in Citizen Cemetery in Tiptonville. Cosmopolitan Funeral Services are in charge of arrangements...
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Leroy Arterbridge
(Obituary ~ 12/03/03)
Leroy Arterbridge, of Dyersburg, died Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 at Wesley of Dyersburg. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by H.H. Hudson Funeral Home.
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Martha Frances Crouch
(Obituary ~ 12/03/03)
Martha Frances Crouch, 91, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003 at Dyersburg Manor Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Charles Johnson
(Obituary ~ 12/03/03)
Charles Johnson, 54, of Tiptonville, died Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003 at his residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Cosmopolitan Funeral Services.
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Lady Choctaws suffer on defense
(High School Sports ~ 12/03/03)
There are not many times when a team will have its best offensive performance of the season and lose by 20. But that is what happened to the Dyer County girls basketball team Tuesday. The Lady Choctaws fell to Gibson County 83-63 in a game in which they had three players score in double figures. "We had a good offensive game," said Dyer County coach Angie Stafford. "Didn't turn the ball over on the press. We did that part good."...
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DHS breaks loose to rout Covington
(High School Sports ~ 12/03/03)
It probably wasn't the conditions Dyersburg wanted to open up its new gym. They came into Tuesday's game coming off a tough weekend tournament and missing several players with the flu and injuries. However, the Lady Trojans still knew, regardless of how they felt they still had to come out and play a quality Covington squad. After a slow start, Dyersburg defeated the Lady Chargers 70-57...
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Trojans work overtime to beat Chargers
(High School Sports ~ 12/03/03)
It's beginning to become a pattern for Dyersburg. Fall behind early, scratch and claw their way back into the game. Send the game into overtime. Watch as players take over in crunch time. That is what the Trojans' coaching staff saw Tuesday in its 79-74 overtime victory against Covington. While it might turn coach Brian Brown's hair prematurely gray, it also shows the type of heart his team has...
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Our region at the crossroads
(Local News ~ 12/03/03)
People choose small-town America because they want to see life in freeze-frame: a comfortable, predictable existence that offers them an intangible called "quality of life." But Small-Town Anywhere, U.S.A., including Dyersburg, is increasingly being pressured to change by the relentless expansion of a global economy and the modern age of information technology...
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Theft from store leads to arrest on meth charges
(Local News ~ 12/03/03)
Dyersburg Police arrested two men Tuesday for attempting to make methamphetamine in their truck after a convenience store clerk reported the pair had stolen several boxes of medication shortly after 2 a.m. Upon arrival at the All In One store at 810 U.S. ...
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Gift certificates to pampering
(Community News ~ 12/03/03)
Clients of Northwest Safeline are getting a special present this Christmas. Thanks to donations from beauty salons in rural West Tennessee, clients can get a shampoo and haircut, massage, facial, pedicure or hair care products. 'This is the time of year when many clients are feeling down,' said director Patty Borden, who is pictured with three of the center's board members, from left, Lottye Huff, Sandy Trevean and Laura Busch. ...
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