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Organizers revamping Waterfowl Festival
(Local News ~ 08/21/06)
A new date, a ready-made crowd and significantly higher prize money could bolster the Reelfoot Lake Waterfowl Festival. The Reelfoot Lake Callmakers and Collectors Association hosts the festival, which features waterfowl calls, wildlife art, antique decoys, call-making and call-collecting books, modern hunting and fishing supplies and the annual waterfowl calling championships...
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Festival, banquet to aid Qualls scholarship fund
(Local News ~ 08/21/06)
When members of the Dyersburg Christian Center began giving the Pearlie M. Qualls Scholarship, their intention wasn't to provide one-time assistance to students. Instead, the student's scholarship assists them all through his college years. And that assistance, along with the assistance of other students, adds up...
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Lauderdale election fraud remains under investigation
(Local News ~ 08/21/06)
The Lauderdale County voter fraud case remains under investigation, the region's top Tennessee Bureau of Investigation official said Thursday. "We're investigating as hard as we can," said John Mehr, TBI special agent in charge for West Tennessee. "But we've made no further arrests."...
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Water tank painting blends brute strength, balance -- and artwork
(Local News ~ 08/21/06)
For the crew painting local water towers, getting the job complete takes balance, art and often, brute strength. "It's not your every day kind of job," said Terry Johnson Jr., who is supervising the painting of the million-gallon water tanks in the Dyersburg Industrial Park, Gordon St. and near Volunteer St...
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Violation of probation lands man in jail
(Local News ~ 08/21/06)
A Dyersburg man who pleaded guilty Tuesday in Dyer County Circuit Court to violating his community corrections behavioral contract was sent to jail for 90 days. Sedrick D. Moses, 28, of 735 Tucker St., had pleaded guilty in October 2004 to a charge of possession of contraband in a penal institution and been sentenced to three years of community corrections (house arrest)...
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State says city worker unjustly fired
(Local News ~ 08/21/06)
The state on Monday agreed with fired Newbern electrical lineman Jerry Irby that he was unjustly terminated on July 5 by the city. Irby said he appealed the decision through the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. At an appeals hearing in July, three of the Newbern officials expressed opinions that Irby had been impaired during an emergency standby callout on June 24. ...
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County sales tax collections show steep increase in June
(Local News ~ 08/21/06)
When Dyer County Trustee Judy Patton received the August sales tax report from the state, she couldn't believe her eyes. "I had to sit down and look back through prior years' reports and look at this one real hard before I believed it," Patton said...
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