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Recycling program slated for Fort Pillow park
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
Fort Pillow State Historic Park plans to start a recycling program by February or March. The park has ordered recycling bins and signs, said Amanda Sluss, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation public-information officer. Fort Pillow will join a long list of state parks that recycle items, such as aluminum cans, plastic bottles and paper goods. In fact, the Tennessee Recycling Coalition recently named the Tennessee State Parks System as the "Governmental Recycler of the Year."...
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Airpark Inn reopening Jan. 2
(Community News ~ 12/29/03)
The Airpark Inn at Reelfoot Lake State Park will reopen on Jan. 2. Jim Fyke, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation deputy commissioner for parks and conservation, was expected to make the announcement today during a tour of the facility...
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Kabrein Errol Lavar Eastwood
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Kabrein Errol Lavar Eastwood, infant son of Tobi Ann Eastwood of Alamo and Kinte Washington of Dresden, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2003 at Humboldt General Hospital. Services were at 1 p.m. Saturday at Union Baptist Church in Martin with E.T. Echols officiating. Burial was in Bible Union Baptist Church Cemetery. Ronk Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements...
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Billy Dwight Link
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Billy Dwight Link, 65, of Dyersburg, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Born in Yorkville, he was the son of Goodloe Link and Geneva Cole Link, both deceased. Memorial services will be held on Monday at 2 p.m. at Dyersburg Manor. Johnson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Rev. James Hooper will officiate...
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Ida Taylor
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Ida Taylor, 75, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a domestic worker. Services will be Monday at Refuge Temple Church with the Rev. Randy Taylor and the Rev. Bobby Lee officiating. Burial will be in M.C.C.O. Cemetery in Newbern. H.H. Hudson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Michael Fullington
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Michael Fullington of Jackson, 29, died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2003 in Jackson. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Cosmopolitan Funeral Services of Dyersburg.
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Dorothy M. Lewis
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Dorothy M. Lewis, 83, of Ridgely, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Curry Funeral Home.
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Irma Delora Bolding
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Irma Delora Bolding, 93, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a homemaker and a member of Parrish Chapel Baptist Church. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Guy Merriman officiating. Burial will be in Sorrell's Chapel Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Paul Sherman Gregson
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Paul Sherman Gregson, 62, of RoEllen, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003 at his residence. He was a former employee of Dyersburg Fabrics Inc., raised Quarter Horses and was a member of American Quarter Horse Association. Services were at 11 a.m. today in Rehoboth Cemetery with the Rev. Carmen Dennison officiating. Curry Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements...
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Lorene Baker Gurley
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Lorene Baker Gurley, 80, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003 at Dyersburg Manor Nursing Center. She was a retired salesperson of Graber's and Dyersburg Cotton Products, a member of First Assembly of God, where she was a former choir member, Sunday school teacher and Sunday school superintendent, a 1941 graduate of Dyersburg High School, past president of Jennie Bell PTA and president of Dyer County Council of PTA...
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Terry Glisson
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Terry Glisson, of Tiptonville, died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson Funeral Home.
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Return to the sales
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
While many took advantage of a long weekend and slept in for a little while Friday morning, others were taking advantage of after-Christmas sales. Two stores in the Dyersburg Mall opened their doors at 7 a.m. Friday. While several were waiting at J.C. Penney's, it got busy at Goody's a few hours later...
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Local EOC director worries about terrorist alert
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
It goes back to the old tale of the "boy who cried wolf." Tommy Gibbons, director of Emergency Services for Dyersburg is worried the ebb and flow of Homeland Security alert levels is beginning to lull people into a state of complacency and, one day, the wolf could be real and standing at the front door...
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Moose Lodge helps Santa
(Community News ~ 12/29/03)
Not one but 10 Santas helped make Christmas brighter for some local needy children. Guests to The Ten Santas' third annual Whoville Ho Ho Ho Down, held Dec. 13 at the Dyersburg Moose Lodge No. 441, donated hundreds of gifts. The Ten Santas and the Women of the Moose distributed the gifts on Dec. 20 to over 150 children at the lodge...
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