-
Do your fall decor shopping in the Pumpkin Patch
The family fun is Oct. 4-30
(Community News ~ 10/04/04)
If you're looking for some fall decorations, First Christian Church has you covered. Its first Community Park Fall Celebration & Pumpkin Patch will be held Oct. 4-30. Available will be pumpkins of all sizes and colors ranging in price from 50 cents to $40, gourds of all sizes ranging in price from 50 cents to $1, bales of hay for $5, bundles of straw for $4, bundles of wheat straw for $3, cornstalks and Indian corn for $3 and yard signs painted by church artists...
-
Career fair at Dyersburg State
(Community News ~ 10/04/04)
About 2,000 children from city and county schools across Northwest Tennessee poured through the doors of the Dyersburg State E.H. Lannom Gymnasium on Thursday to attend a career fair designed to open their eyes to employment possibilities in this region...
-
TSBA holds regional meeting in Newbern
(Local News ~ 10/04/04)
The Tennessee School Board Association chose Dyer County High School in Newbern as the site for one of nine statewide meetings it is holding this fall that will help to set the organization's legislative agenda for the coming year. The event was held Monday evening...
-
Second cocaine possession plea adds four years to prison term
(Local News ~ 10/04/04)
A Dyersburg man already in prison for drug possession was sentenced Tuesday to serve four more years for cocaine possession. Mariko Cheney, 24, pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of less than .5 gram of cocaine with intent to sell or deliver and was sentenced by Judge Lee Moore to a sentence consecutive to the eight-year sentence he received in April after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of more than .5 gram of cocaine with intent to sell or deliver...
-
Ridgely school first to win FEMA grant for tornado safe space
(Local News ~ 10/04/04)
Lara Kendall Elementary School in Ridgely will soon offer more than reading, writing and arithmetic. When the new kindergarten through fifth-grade wing is completed this winter, the school will have a tornado safe space large enough to accommodate 680 persons. The hallway of the new wing will have foot-thick walls, ceilings and floors of reinforced concrete with specialized doors and locking mechanisms...
-
Richard Junior Wilkerson
(Obituary ~ 10/04/04)
Richard Junior Wilkerson, 65, of Friendship, died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a truck driver, a Air Force veteran and a member of Zion Hill Baptist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Friendship Funeral Home with the Rev. Tommy Warner officiating. Burial will be in Zion Hill Cemetery...
-
Brighton, Starks stun the Choctaws
(High School Sports ~ 10/04/04)
Friday night was homecoming for the Choctaws and they were looking for a win to knot their season winning percentage at .500. As the tribe ran onto the field, they looked as if they had a unique fire in their eyes, and the Choctaw faithful stood up and belted out cheers...
-
DHS's Miracle in Munford
(High School Sports ~ 10/04/04)
Friday night the Dyersburg High School football team traveled to Munford in a huge region game for both teams. Dyersburg came in to the contest with a 2-3 overall record, 0-2 in the region. Munford's record was a misleading 1-4 overall and 1-2 in region play...
Stories from Monday, October 4, 2004
Browse other days