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City school board members, reporter honored
(Local News ~ 09/19/06)
Members of the Dyersburg and Dyer County school boards and a journalist were honored for their contributions to education at the Northwest Fall District meeting of the Tennessee School Board Association on Monday night. Each year, school board members across the state attend district meetings where they are recognized for the level of training and degree of participation they annually undertake...
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Streets closing for festival
(Local News ~ 09/19/06)
To prepare for the upcoming Mid-South Motorcycle Festival and seventh annual Boss Hoss National Rally on Wednesday, produced in conjunction with the Main Street Dyersburg Fall Festival, a few streets will be closing today. Mill, Market and Main streets will be blocked off beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday...
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Homeless man warned about cat collection
(Local News ~ 09/19/06)
Police on Sunday responded to a report of a homeless man with several cats in a small cage living in a storage container behind the Fred's store on Pennell Lane. According to the report, a passerby notified an officer in a nearby police cruiser that she had seen a suspicious man walk to the rear of the Fred's store after the place had closed...
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Halls man arrested for drugs
(Local News ~ 09/19/06)
Halls Police nailed a suspected drug dealer with a half-ounce of cocaine in a pre-dawn arrest on Thursday. Maurice Curry, 21, a Dyersburg native who listed his address in rural Henning, was arrested at 4:30 a.m. at an apartment, 232 B, Maple St. without incident...
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Woman's car, taken without permission, shredded in scrap yard
(Local News ~ 09/19/06)
A theft charge is pending against a Dyersburg man after he and a friend were reported to have taken a woman's car without permission Thursday and selling to a scrap yard, where it was shredded. Mary Jones, of 412 Fairbanks St., reported to police she had left the residence at 8 a.m. Thursday and returned to find her 1977 Oldsmobile station wagon missing. Jones told officers she had not driven the vehicle in several years, but had not given anyone permission to take it...
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City eyes eminent domain for prospect
(Local News ~ 09/19/06)
The city is negotiating with a property owner near the city's south industrial park to obtain land for a railroad spur, Dyersburg Mayor Bill Revell told the city board of mayor and aldermen at its monthly meeting on Monday. ""We're about to land another new industry," Revell said, referring to last month's announcement of automobile parts maker NSK locating a plant in Dyersburg...
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Tougher vicious dog law sought
(Local News ~ 09/19/06)
A tougher vicious dog ordinance is being crafted to assure public safety, Dyersburg Police Chief Terry Ledbetter told the city board on Monday. "The main issue as I see it is confinement," said Ledbetter. "As it is now, if you've got a vicious dog, you only need to have it on a leash or rope or chain. That's not enough."...
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