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City Beautiful to judge decor for Christmas
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
The Dyersburg City Beautiful Commission will be judging holiday decorations this weekend. Judging in Dyersburg will take place at dark Dec. 17-18. Members will be scouting within the Dyersburg city limits looking for yards that best fall into one of the following categories:...
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How your United Way gift helps Dyer Co.
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
It's United Way time in Dyer County, and you have likely heard something about this year's effort. You have hopefully been given the opportunity to give at your workplace, but do you know how your money is invested to help people in Dyer County? As vice chairman of the 2005-06 Dyer County United Way board, Larry White, of White & Associates, is the 2006 leader of this process...
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Natural gas lines to be reinforced over school vacation
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
The Christmas holidays that begin for public school students at 11 a.m. Friday will give maintenance workers an opportunity to improve the earthquake safety of county schools. According to Dr. Dwight Hedge, superintendent of the Dyer County school system, natural gas lines to several schools will be shut down during the break in order to install seismic valves. The valves cut off the supply of gas to the school during a major earth tremor...
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Land buys begin for port
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
The Northwest Regional Port Authority on Tuesday sent a $69,000 payment to the U.S. Corps of Engineers to begin property acquisition for the Cates Landing river port north of Tiptonville. Jimmy Williamson, chairman of the port authority, said the Corps had been contracted to acquire land since it would also be responsible for the actual dredging of the channel. ...
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Two suspended after handgun sold at school
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
Two Dyer County High School students were suspended yesterday after police and administrators discovered one had sold a handgun to the other earlier in the day at the school. The two 16-year-old boys -- a junior from Newbern and a sophomore from Obion -- were taken into custody by school administrators after receiving an anonymous tip that a student had a gun...
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Power out after driver strikes pole
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
Residents near the intersection of McGaughey Street and Lake Road were out of power for several hours Wednesday morning after car hit an electrical pole. According to police reports, Phillip Martin, 45, of Millington, struck the pole shortly before 7 a.m. when the 1990 Chrysler New Yorker he was driving east on McGaughey left the roadway and struck the Dyersburg Electric System pole about halfway down the block on the south side...
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Convicted drug dealer out on parole arrested
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
A Tiptonville man and convicted drug dealer was arrested Tuesday in connection to the October arrest of two people dealing out of a house across from Newbern Elementary School. Steve Reed, 33, of the 500 block of Church Street in Tiptonville, was arrested without incident at 4 p.m. Tuesday, said Newbern Police investigator Greg Barr. He is being held in the Dyer County Jail on a $40,000 bond on charges of sale of a Schedule II drug (crack cocaine) in the amount of more than a half-gram...
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Child porn cases defer to federal charges
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
A man and woman charged in Dyer County Circuit Court with eight counts each of rape of a child on Tuesday had their cases continued until April 11. Katherine Sue Jones Pratt and Walter Franklin Vowell were scheduled for appearances in Circuit Court on Tuesday, but District Attorney General Phil Bivens asked Judge Lee Moore to postpone their cases...
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Armed robber strikes at hotel
(Local News ~ 12/15/05)
Dyersburg Police are investigating a reported robbery of an individual at a south Dyersburg hotel by two men armed with handguns that occurred Wednesday morning. According to the DPD report, the incident was reported at 2:44 a.m. at the Sunrise Motel, located at 1170 U.S. Highway 51 Bypass South. The victim reported an undetermined amount of cash was taken in the robbery...
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