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Restaurant guide available
(Community News ~ 06/08/05)
"Mom and Pop" restaurants across West Tennessee are showcased in a new publication available through the University of Tennessee at Martin. The $5 guide lists by city and county approximately 480 restaurants and will be used to promote area eateries...
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Dyersburg daughter honored at Chatham Hall
(Community News ~ 06/08/05)
Sarah Lannom of Dyersburg, a recent graduate of Chatham Hall in southern Virginia, received numerous honors during the school's recent commencement ceremony. Lannom, who is the daughter of city attorney John M. Lannom and his wife, Martha, was selected by her class to deliver the keynote senior speech during Chatham Hall's baccalaureate ceremony. ...
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Students help hospital, other businesses communicate
(Community News ~ 06/08/05)
Communication is key for Janet Jones, a registered nurse at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center's outpatient surgery unit. She needs to be able to ask patients about medical issues and to give them post-operative instructions. Sometimes she has a little trouble doing that, though. An increasing number of patients don't speak English...
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City board approves school budget
(Local News ~ 06/08/05)
The Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday night approved unanimously a 2005-06 budget of $20.8 million for the city school system. Alderman Lewis Norman, who oversees the finance committee, said that he had reviewed the figures presented by school superintendent Lloyd Ramer and felt they were in line with previous years...
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Ford calls for closing Iraq-Iran border to insurgents
(Local News ~ 06/08/05)
Congressman Harold Ford Jr., just back from a trip to Iraq, says the U.S. military should pay more attention to sealing Iraq's border with Iran. "I found a dispute between senior Iraqi officials and U.S. military intelligence on the ground over whether insurgents and terrorists are coming from Iran," Ford, D-Memphis, said by phone Monday from his Washington office. "Senior Iraqi political leaders said insurgents from Iran are a big problem and the U.S. military says they are not...
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Joe Glen Canada
(Obituary ~ 06/08/05)
Joe Glen Canada, 66, of Parsons, formerly of Newbern, died Sunday, June 5, 2005 at Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons. He was a retired engineer for the state of Tennessee Highway Department and retired first Sergeant from the U.S. Army and a member of Newbern Masonic Lodge No. 285...
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Janice Ruth Grist
(Obituary ~ 06/08/05)
Janice Ruth Grist, 79, of Dyersburg, died Friday, June 3, 2005, at her residence. She was a retired secretary from the National Gypsum Company, a member of the First United Methodist Church of Dyersburg, the Dyersburg Women's Club and the National Secretaries Association...
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Robert Leon Webber
(Obituary ~ 06/08/05)
Robert Leon Webber, 64, of Adamsville, died Friday, June 3, 2005, at the Hardin County Medical Center. Services were Sunday at Shackelford Funeral Directors of Selmer with Bro. Charles Castles officiating. Burial was in Clear Creek Cemetery of Selmer...
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