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Debris from tornado-struck homes found 80 miles northeast
(Local News ~ 04/10/06)
Fred Patterson was weed eating around his home Tuesday when he discovered a check stub that belonged to a Newbern man. He might not have considered that unusual save for the fact that he lived 80 miles away. The check stub, dated 1992, was part of the tax records of Jerry Seratt when he worked for the local farmers cooperative on East Court. Seratt's home on Cobb Road was completely destroyed by Sunday night's tornado...
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Tornado leaves a wake of debris
(Local News ~ 04/10/06)
The April 2 tornado didn't just demolish homes. It also created a huge mess, strewing debris for miles. So what do you do with all the splintered lumber, pieces of insulation and items that used to be family treasures? Some of it is going to local landfills. Harold Thurmond, Dyersburg's sanitation superintendent, said he knows the landfill accepted higher-than-normal volumes in the week after the storm...
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Eighty file for local offices in Aug. 3 election
(Local News ~ 04/10/06)
Dyer County voters have some homework to do before they cast ballots in the Aug. 3 county general and state primary election. Eighty candidates for local offices filed qualifying petitions to run in the election before the Thursday cutoff. As the qualifying deadline for the election passed at noon on Thursday, several countywide offices drew more than one candidate, including Circuit Court judge, General Sessions Court judge, circuit clerk, county clerk and sheriff...
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Life at its worst, people at their best
(Local News ~ 04/10/06)
Steve and Pattye Williams, owners of Johnson Funeral Home in Newbern, will never forget the night of Sunday, April 2. A funeral visitation was in progress. Between 40 and 50 people were gathered inside the chapel when the town's tornado sirens wailed a warning of imminent danger. ...
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FEMA to open disaster center at Fairgrounds
(Local News ~ 04/10/06)
A joint federal and state disaster information center is scheduled to open Monday to take questions about the assistance programs available to residents in Dyer and Gibson counties affected by the April 2 tornado. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) will open the center in Dyersburg at the Family Life Center at the Dyer County Fairgrounds from noon to 7 p.m. The Gibson County center will be at the Trenton Fairgrounds...
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Katrina victims send aid to county
(Local News ~ 04/10/06)
Last Thursday the Rev. Jack A. Rogers got a shock when he opened his mail. "There was a check inside and a card from Christ Episcopal Church in Bay St. Louis, Miss.," the rector of Dyersburg's St. Mary's Episcopal Church said. "I was overwhelmed because those folks down there were hard hit by the hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast and yet they took the time and effort to think of us in the tragedy of our tornado damage in Dyer County...
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'Time capsule' of church history found in rubble
(Local News ~ 04/10/06)
From the rubble of the destroyed Christ United Methodist Church in Millsfield last week came the surprise discovery of a time capsule of sorts, placed decades earlier in a cornerstone of a church addition. Broken free from the building's walls in the April 2 tornado that totaled the church, a book was found in the rubble. Heavily taped and secured in tough plastic wrap, the relic was opened Sunday night among some in the congregation, 30 of whom met at Lock's Grocery for the event...
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