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County in quandary over voting rules for election
(Local News ~ 12/12/03)
Pending opinion of state Attorney General, county could offer 'supersites' open to all locally registered voters Members of the Dyer County Election Commission are hoping to hear within the next few days if Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers will approve a concept that might be used to save thousands of taxpayer dollars: "Super" voting sites...
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Nell Haire Beard
(Obituary ~ 12/12/03)
Nell Haire Beard, 73, of Collierville, formerly of Dyer County, died Monday, Dec. 8, 2003 at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. She was a homemaker and a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Vicksburg, Miss. A memorial graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Yorkville Cemetery. Dyersburg Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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James Lawrence Hicks Jr.
(Obituary ~ 12/12/03)
James Lawrence Hicks Jr., 82, of Friendship, died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He was a retired materials superintendent for Ford Construction and a member and trustee of Friendship United Methodist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Friendship Funeral Home. Burial will be in Bellevernon Cemetery...
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Rosie May McCaig
(Obituary ~ 12/12/03)
Rosie May McCaig, 73, of Dyersburg, died Monday, Dec. 8, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a homemaker and a member of Mount Vernon Baptist Church. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home elder Johnny Harris officiating. Burial will be in Palestine Cemetery in the Bruceville Community...
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Debra Gordon
(Obituary ~ 12/12/03)
Debra Gordon, 46, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003 in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Grace Pugliese
(Obituary ~ 12/12/03)
Grace Pugliese, 93, of Cloverdale, died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Iva Dell Trimble
(Obituary ~ 12/12/03)
Iva Dell Trimble, of Yorkville, died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson Funeral Home.
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Dyersburg State takes run at talented Cougars
(High School Sports ~ 12/12/03)
Dyersburg State is coming off a couple of tough defeats in their last few outings. However, the Eagles have no time to hang their heads. They will need to be on top of their game this weekend as the beast of the East comes to town Saturday for an inter-divisional contest with the Eagles...
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Titans defense first against rush, last against pass
(High School Sports ~ 12/12/03)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Measuring a defense is easy. The NFL produces pages and pages of statistics detailing and ranking teams by yards and points to satisfy almost any question about yards allowed through the air, on the ground, by down or by quarter...
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Cemetery placed on national, state historic places registry
(Local News ~ 12/12/03)
The historic Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Finley, in recent years the focus of an intense restoration effort, on Thursday was announced as a listing of the U.S. and Tennessee Registers of Historic Places. "I'm very pleased, said Marshall Goad, president of the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association. "There are a lot of good people who put a lot of sweat into this."...
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Food poisoning cases traced to grocery deli
(Local News ~ 12/12/03)
Five Dyer County residents sought medical treatment on Thanksgiving after consuming dressing prepared by a local grocery store. The Tennessee departments of health and agriculture are investigating the food poisoning incident. Testing revealed that the same type of bacteria was present on the bodies of two food handlers at CountryMart, in dishes of dressing prepared in the store's deli and in the patients who sought help that night in the Dyersburg Regional Medical Center's emergency room...
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Happy holidays
(Community News ~ 12/12/03)
The Dyer County Office on Aging celebrated the holiday season with an open house on Dec. 11. Marking the occasion were, from left, seated, aerobics instructor Regina Childers; standing, DCOA director Ike Peel, Tennessee State University program assistant Dianne Starks who is over the arts and crafts department, nutrition coordinator Rosa Gipson, service coordinator Tina Safaeih, director of youth services Eddy White and DCOA service coordinator Deliah Frazier. ...
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