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Ridgely Care and Rehabilitation Center honors local mayors
(Community News ~ 11/11/04)
Ridgely Care and Rehabilitation Center recently hosted a dinner to honor several local mayors. The purpose of the dinner was to both strengthen the bond between the facility and the community as well as to say thank you to these local officials for donating their time and energy to making the community a better place...
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Finley sings the blues
(Community News ~ 11/11/04)
The children of Finley Elementary School were singing the blues last Friday and loving every minute of it. The Tennessee Arts Council gave the children of Finley a unique opportunity to learn about the genre of music that made the city of Memphis famous around the world -- the blues...
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Mistletoe Market to be open Saturday, Sunday
(Community News ~ 11/11/04)
Santa's coming. Santa's coming. He's arriving Saturday morning, Nov. 13, to have breakfast with area children and to kick off Mistletoe Market, a shopping extravaganza that lasts only one weekend. Santa is scheduled to arrive at 10 a.m. in the Dyersburg Mall Center Court. Although the breakfast is free, persons planning to attend are asked to make reservations by calling 286-5426 or to pick up a free ticket at the mall's customer-service booth...
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Dyersburg hostage crisis on TV Friday night
(Local News ~ 11/11/04)
The hostage crisis at Dyersburg State Community College that took place more than a year ago will be the subject of a Lifetime Channel program scheduled for Friday at 11 p.m., according to Dana Incrocci, a math teacher who lived through the ordeal. Incrocci and several students were held hostage at gun and knifepoint for nine hours in a classroom of the Eller Administration building. ...
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Tour of Reelfoot leaves group with questions; TCWN vows to pursue answers
(Local News ~ 11/11/04)
Members of the Tennessee Clean Water Network took full advantage of Saturday's beautiful weather and toured Reelfoot Lake. Nine members - most of whom had never been to Reelfoot - paddled canoes and kayaks down the Bayou du Chein. Later, they climbed into a motorboat to compare maintenance techniques used in two navigational channels...
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College Foundation holds annual meeting in Newbern
(Local News ~ 11/11/04)
Dyersburg State's fund-raising Foundation held its annual meeting in Newbern on Tuesday and learned that $258,000 of its $700,000 goal for new scholarship dollars had been achieved. Members also got an early look at preliminary drawings for the new library expansion that is expected to get under way in March...
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School burglary plea nets man two-year prison sentence
(Local News ~ 11/11/04)
A Dyersburg man who pleaded guilty Tuesday in Dyer County Circuit Court to stealing computer equipment from Fifth Consolidated Elementary School was sentenced to serve two years in prison. Joseph Warren Ellington, 19, of 1705 Browning St., will be furloughed to a long-term drug rehabilitation program after serving six months in the Dyer County Jail. To receive the furlough he must not have been taken into custody by the state correction department or the local court loses jurisdiction...
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Vesta Bunnell
(Obituary ~ 11/11/04)
Vesta Bunnell, 87, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 at her residence. She was a homemaker. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home with Pastor Don Layman officiating. Burial will be in Sorrell's Chapel Cemetery...
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Virgie Lee Culbreath
(Obituary ~ 11/11/04)
Virgie Lee Culbreath, 82, of Elkhart, Ind., died Monday, Nov. 8, 2004 at Elkhart County General Hospital. She was a homemaker. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Luke Baptist Church in Covington with the Rev. Dexter G. Moragne officiating. Burial will be in Sharpe Cemetery in Covington...
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Tommy Hedgepath
(Obituary ~ 11/11/04)
Tommy Hedgepath, 48, of Ridgely, died Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a farmer. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Ridgely chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Ed Endsley and Dorothy Rogers officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery in Ridgely. Johnson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Vera Lee Crabtree Kuykendall
(Obituary ~ 11/11/04)
Vera Lee Crabtree Kuykendall, 84, of Spring Hill, Fla., formerly of Ridgely, died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004 at Springhill Health & Rehabilitation. She was a retired factory employee and a member of Russwood Baptist Church in Paris. Services will be at 1 p.m. today in the Ridgely chapel of Curry Funeral Home with Brother Parks Thurmond officiating. Burial will be in Elbridge Cemetery...
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Joseph Reed
(Obituary ~ 11/11/04)
Joseph Reed, 82, of Dyersburg, died Friday, Nov. 5, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a member of Womack Temple Church and Les Gentile Homes in Dyersburg. Services will be at noon Friday at Salter Chapel Church in Dyersburg with the Rev. James A. Williamson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery...
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Dorothy Autry
(Obituary ~ 11/11/04)
Dorothy Autry, 79, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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