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Updated road list gains committee's approval
(Local News ~ 01/17/07)
The Dyer County Commission's highway committee accepted an updated county road list at its quarterly meeting on Tuesday. The list will be recommended to the full commission for approval. Only two roads - Grace Lane in Bogota and Ennis Lane off Highway 210 between Fowlkes and Highway 412 - were added to the list this year. Roads must be on the list before the county highway department is allowed to work on them. The list is updated each year...
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YMCA chief Grueser resigns
(Local News ~ 01/17/07)
When Tom Grueser accepted the position as the chief executive officer of the YMCA of Dyer County almost seven years ago, he saw an organization with potential. "When I got here, I wanted to take it to the next level," he said during an interview last year...
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Board approves police requests
(Local News ~ 01/17/07)
The purchase of two drug dogs and the training necessary for two handlers for the police department was approved by the Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Tuesday. Also given the nod was the purchase of a forensics drying cabinet to preserve blood and other liquid evidence...
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Vacant city land on Vendall Road receives little interest
(Local News ~ 01/17/07)
The city Finance Committee will have to figure out what to do with an acre of city property no one seems interested in purchasing. Purchasing agent Greg Williams told the mayor and board on Tuesday the land once planned as a site for a new fire department on Vendall Road was advertised, but received a single expression of interest and no bids...
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Warrants dog man who fled from Halls police stop into Dyersburg
(Local News ~ 01/17/07)
A Dyersburg man was arrested in the city on Tuesday night after he was pursued from Lauderdale County, where he had fled from a Halls police traffic stop. Jose Antonio Morales, 33, of 1321 St. John St., was apprehended by Dyersburg Police as he entered the city near the Deals R Us auto dealership, 1240 U.S. Highway 51 Bypass South...
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Landfill questions dominate meeting
(Local News ~ 01/17/07)
Alderman Shannon Walker referred to scribbled notations to demand answers on why the city has failed to take action for dwindling landfill use by a major customer. "How can we make sure we can pay on the bond if we keep having decreases in use of the landfill?" he said. "This doesn't make sense."...
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2 escorted from board meeting by police chief
(Local News ~ 01/17/07)
Newbern Mayor K.W. Dennison ordered Police Chief Harold Dunivant to escort two residents from the city board meeting on Tuesday after they continued to try to speak during the meeting. Gerald Mangum and Jeff Harrison, both longtime visitors to the Newbern board, were told by Dennison they could not speak because they were not on the agenda for residents to take up issues with the board...
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