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Stories can be found anywhere, book-festival speakers say
(Community News ~ 11/05/04)
You never know where you'll find stories worth telling. Often they spring from real-life events and real people. Mark Twain often used situations from his own life, weaving together experiences to create classics, such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."...
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Winners named in book-festival essay contest
(Community News ~ 11/05/04)
Winners in The Voices of West Tennessee Essay Contest were announced Thursday night. In the grade-school competition, Matthew Eans, a fifth-grader at Medina Middle School, won first place, and Zachariah Mercer, a fifth-grader at Fletcher Town Country School, won second place...
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A shoebox of blessings
Harvest accepting Operation Christmas Child donations
(Community News ~ 11/05/04)
No matter their circumstances, kids in general love to receive presents. And one way to get them to kids around the world is in a shoebox. For the third year, Harvest Baptist Church is once again a drop-off site for the Samaritan's Purse project Operation Christmas Child...
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Local students recognized for academic excellence
(Local News ~ 11/05/04)
A crowd of more than 1,400 educators, parents and students gathered at Dyer County High School in Newbern Thursday to recognize that school's finest scholars and to name the senior classman voted as the "Most Valuable Choctaw." The annual honors assembly, which took place in the gymnasium, recognized the top 25 percent academically of the sophomore, junior and senior classes. ...
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SBA to open loan assistance center for disaster victims
(Local News ~ 11/05/04)
The U.S. Small Business Administration plans to open a temporary loan-assistance center in the Dyersburg Building and Zoning Department offices. Dyer and Wayne counties have been declared disaster areas as a result of the tornadoes and heavy rains on Oct. 18-19. Persons in these two counties and all of the counties that share a border with them are eligible for low-interest loans...
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Pratt bound to grand jury on sexual exploitation charges
(Local News ~ 11/05/04)
A woman accused of videotaping of her former boyfriend having sex with an 8-year-old girl had the case against her bound over to the Dyer County Grand Jury Thursday. Dyer County General Sessions Judge Charles V. Moore Jr., after a preliminary hearing, found probable cause to bind over three charges of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor against Katherine Sue Jones Pratt, 31, of 174 Coffee Shop Road, Ripley...
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Willie James Bell
(Obituary ~ 11/05/04)
Willie James Bell, 54, of Wolfstein, Germany, formerly of Dyersburg, died Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at Kaiser Slauter in Germany. He was a transport driver and a U.S. Army veteran. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Dyersburg Christian Center with Pastor Wesley Arije officiating...
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Nora Elizabeth Ozment
(Obituary ~ 11/05/04)
Nora Elizabeth Ozment, 84, of Newbern, died Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004 at her residence. She was a homemaker and a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Bogota. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Roper officiating. Burial will be in Dyer County Memorial Gardens...
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No. 14 Louisville 56, Memphis 49
(College Sports ~ 11/05/04)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Eric Shelton scored his fourth touchdown from 1 yard out with 37 seconds left, and No. 14 Louisville held off Memphis 56-49 on Thursday night. The Cardinals (6-1, 4-0 Conference USA) and their high-powered offense did just enough to keep the Tigers (5-3, 2-3) from beating a ranked opponent for the first time since 1996...
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Critics Corner
(Sports Column ~ 11/05/04)
This past week has been a slow one on the local sports scene.. The World Series was supposed to be played last week, but it looked like only one team showed up and by now you know it wasn't the St. Louis Cardinals. As I stated in recent columns I believed the Cardinals would win the series in 5 or 6 games. I believed with the offensive power the Cardinals had, if the pitching held up, they would win. Turns out Boston wanted it a lot more than the Redbirds...
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Lady Trojans defeat Three Oaks in first game
(High School Sports ~ 11/05/04)
Thursday night at Dyersburg Middle School the Trojans played host to Three Oaks Middle School in front of a packed gym at DMS. In the first contest the Lady Trojans faced off against the Lady Golden Eagles. The game began with DMS's Jessica Light nailing a 3-pointer. ...
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DMS too much for Golden Eagles
(High School Sports ~ 11/05/04)
Thursday night at Dyersburg Middle School the Trojans faced off against the Three Oaks Golden Eagles in the first game of the year for both schools. The game began with the Golden Eagles grabbing a quick lead with consecutive baskets from Corrie Barber. With the score 4-2 in favor of TOMS, the Trojans' Rex Pierce went to work, scoring three baskets of his own. Nice passes from Jason Click for scores put DMS in front of the Golden Eagles 9-4 at the end of the first period...
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