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Outdoor classroom certified by wildlife federation
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
The Dyersburg Middle School outdoor classroom is now certified as a National Wildlife Federation Schoolyard Habitat. The designation was one of the goals teachers Betsy Jones and Terry Cook set when they began planning the outdoor classroom five years ago...
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Homecoming for citizen-soldiers draws hundreds
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
"I don't believe it could have been any better," a beaming Mayor Bill Revell said as he left the Family Living Center at the Dyer County Fairgrounds Saturday afternoon following the Patriot Day celebration. The statistics were truly impressive. Nearly 1,300 people, including Tennessee National Guardsmen and their immediate family members, area veterans and local citizens, crowded into the center. ...
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County to get touch screen voting machines
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
Reports of the survival of Dyer County's punch-card voting machines are greatly exaggerated. "Last month in Jackson we asked (State Election Coordinator) Brook Thompson about that and he said 'You can keep them, but you can't use them,'" said Dyer County Election Administrator Jane Heathcott. "We're in the process of choosing a new electronic voting system now."...
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Citizen irked about sanitation uniforms
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
A local citizen's charge that Dyersburg sanitation workers on garbage runs in the city wear clothing too close to that of Dyer County Jail trustees led to a review of the departmental dress code by the Tennessee Municipal League. "The complaint was that our sanitation crews look too much like jail inmates when they go into the back yards of local citizens to collect the trash," Dyersburg Mayor Bill Revell told members of the Street and Sanitation Committee at a called meeting Monday morning...
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Salvation Army sends call for volunteers for Christmas season
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
Dora Daniels and Linda Thurmond busily worked putting together the last touches to Thanksgiving dinner. At noon, the doors were opened and the first of 60 grateful folks started going through the line. The Dyer County unit of the Salvation Army provided its annual Thanksgiving lunch on Nov. 18 at its Soup Kitchen...
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Reelfoot refuges to close
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
State Gazette Visitors to Reelfoot and Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuges are reminded that the public access gates were closed on Nov. 15 and will remain closed through March 15 to provide winter habitat for waterfowl and eagles. Grassy Island waters, including the boat ramp, are closed to public access through Jan. 31. Long Point and Lake Isom waters are closed through March 15...
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City board sets hearing for Parks memorial
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
The Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday night called for a special meeting and a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, to establish a memorial in the city for the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks. Parks died Oct. 24 at the age of 92. ...
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Beloved musician Fisher dies
(Local News ~ 11/22/05)
It was shortly after the March 15, 1998 day in her honor that Charline Fisher made one thing perfectly clear to Mark Locke, then-choir director at First United Methodist Church of Dyersburg. "She said, 'I was playing before you came and I'll be playing after you leave,'" Locke recalled Monday afternoon with a laugh...
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