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Freedom is coming to DSCC
Concert is Thursday
(Community News ~ 10/26/04)
You've heard of the Navy Band from Millington. But did you know they've got a different side? Freedom, the Navy Band Mid-South's premier rock band, will perform at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the E.H. Lannom Jr. Gymnasium on the Dyersburg State Community College campus...
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Club bakes 450 cookies for Guardsmen; packing tips vital to safe shipping
(Community News ~ 10/26/04)
Dyersburg's National Guardsmen will soon be enjoying a taste of home, thanks to the Dyersburg Homemakers Family and Community Education Club. Members gathered Monday morning at First Baptist Church to bake 450 cookies. The cookies were packaged and shipped to the 230th Area Support Group, which is now stationed in Kuwait...
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Holiday postal deadlines approaching
(Community News ~ 10/26/04)
Planning to send holiday greetings to members of the Tennessee National Guard's 230th Area Support Group? You'll need to do it early, if you want to make sure the items arrive by Dec. 25, according to Allyson Hartman, acting customer-service supervisor at the U.S. Post Office in Dyersburg...
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Program to offer free books to children
(Community News ~ 10/26/04)
The kickoff event for the Imagination Library program in Dyer County will be held this Sunday, Oct. 31, at the Dyersburg Mall from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. as part of the mall's annual Trick or Treat event. Volunteers from the Dyersburg Kiwanis Club, local sponsor of the program, will be on hand to sign up children, answer questions about the program, solicit funds, and make presentations that include a video featuring Dolly Parton. ...
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Local teacher wins $25,000 educator award
(Community News ~ 10/26/04)
Dyersburg teacher Terri Kay Pike is $25,000 richer today after she was presented the prestigious Milken National Educator Award by Tennessee Commissioner of Ecucation Lana Seivers during a special assembly at Dyersburg Intermediate School on Monday...
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Sales tax collections increase only slightly in August
(Local News ~ 10/26/04)
Though the latest sales tax collections reported show August was a break-even month in Dyer County, the county's trustee thinks the economy still is recovering. "The (figures reported in October) were just a tenth of a percent increase, but we are still up 6 percent on the year," Judy Patton said Monday. "I think we're pretty much stabilized on our increases."...
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Man charged in federal complaint on 'domestic terrorism charges'
(Local News ~ 10/26/04)
The arrest of a West Tennessee man for chemical weapons and explosives charges was announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on Monday at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Jackson...
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Man wanted for questioning in child exploitation case
(Local News ~ 10/26/04)
Tennessee Bureau of Investigations Director Mark Gwyn on Monday announced a search for a man wanted for questioning in connection with a child exploitation case out of Dyer County. The search is a joint effort of the TBI and the Federal Bureau of Investigations...
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Lefes Abernathy
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Lefes Abernathy, 62, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Dyersburg Christian Center with Pastor Wesley Arije officiating. H.H. Hudson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Estelle McCaslin
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Estelle McCaslin, 96, of Ridgely, died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004 at Ridgely Care & Rehabilitation Center. She was a homemaker and a member of Willingham Memorial Baptist Church. Services will be at 3 p.m. today in the Ridgely chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Dale Mills officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery in Ridgely...
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Hazel Dell Poe
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Hazel Dell Poe, 86, of Hayti, died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a member of Hayti Methodist Church for 77 1/2 years. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hayti Methodist Church with the Rev. Sue Cubbage officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Hayti...
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Helen Louise Stacks
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Helen Louise Stacks, 72, of Tiptonville, died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was an employee of Gray's Camp at Reelfoot Lake and a Baptist. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Tiptonville chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Jimmy Goodman officiating...
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Wilton 'Willie' Sykes
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Wilton "Willie" Sykes, 80, of Halls, died Monday, Oct. 25, 2004 at his residence. He was a retired bakery worker and a member of Mount Vernon Baptist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Lewis Palmer and the Rev. Danny Cates Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Martha L. Cox
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Martha L. Cox, 49, of Dyersburg, died Monday, Oct. 25, 2004 at Oakwood Manor. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Cosmopolitan Funeral Services.
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Laurie Lynn Davis
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Laurie Lynn Davis of Ridgely died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004 at Henry County Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Jimmy Legin
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Jimmy Legin of RoEllen died today at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson Funeral Home.
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Ernest Mills
(Obituary ~ 10/26/04)
Ernest Mills of Tiptonville died Monday, Oct. 25, 2004 in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Good 'D' or not good 'D'? That is the question
(College Sports ~ 10/26/04)
Last week, a caller to the Jeff Fisher Show on radio attempted to soothe the Titan's coach's feelings concerning the Tennessee defense. The suggestion was that the banged-up and bruised Titans were playing decent defense despite the loss of two starting linebackers and the first-team free safety. ...
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