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Disaster drill helps Red Cross target goals
(Community News ~ 05/27/05)
American Red Cross volunteers set up an emergency shelter and provided food for hundreds of displaced persons during a flood last week. A flood last week? Well, it was an imaginary flood, but it tested the Red Cross chapter's real ability to respond quickly...
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Committee tries incentives to boost home construction
(Local News ~ 05/27/05)
Members of Dyersburg's Water and Sewer Committee voted Wednesday to take a novel approach to utility expansion that could boost residential construction inside the city limits. Under current policy, developers who design subdivisions outside the city limits are required to pay the cost of running utility lines to the point where they will link to the city system. ...
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Stormwater Appeals Board meets
(Local News ~ 05/27/05)
Builders and property developers who object to sanctions issued under Dyersburg's new ordinance aimed at cleaning up area streams and rivers will now have a judicial body where they can file appeals. On Tuesday, the Stormwater Appeals Board held its first meeting. ...
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Highway safety program cranks up for Memorial Day
(Local News ~ 05/27/05)
The Dyersburg Police Department is joining law enforcement officers from Tennessee and surrounding states in a safety education and enforcement initiative that will be launched prior to the Memorial Day holiday. At a news conference on Wednesday at the I-155 Tennessee Welcome Center near Dyersburg, plans were formally announced for increased safety patrols and sobriety checkpoints on both sides of the Mississippi River. ...
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Ford formally files for Senate race
(Local News ~ 05/27/05)
Congressman Harold Ford Jr., a Memphis Democrat, kept his word Wednesday and confounded many Republican critics who said he wouldn't run by officially filing to run for the U.S. Senate. Ford, 35, is running for the seat to be vacated by Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who is retiring from the Senate in 2006...
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Locals graduate from Citizens Police Academy
(Local News ~ 05/27/05)
Local residents who graduated from the Citizens Police Academy on Saturday, sponsored by the Dyersburg Police Department, said the experience gave them a new perspective on problems faced by local law enforcement officers on a daily basis. "I wouldn't want to work every day having to carry that kind of responsibility," said Joe Robinson, director of WDYR, Channel 33, the Christian television station based in Dyersburg. ...
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Edward Roy
(Obituary ~ 05/27/05)
Edward Roy, 59, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at his residence. He was a retired contractor. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Julian Huey officiating. The family will receive visitors at 5-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home...
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