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Walk Across Tennessee registration packets available; registration ends Friday
(Local News ~ 01/25/07)
On your mark. Get set. Go get a team together and join the fourth annual Walk Across Tennessee exercise competition. The contest challenges teams of eight to exercise for two months and to report their mileage each week. Walkers count the number of miles walked; a conversion chart is used to calculate mileage for other forms of exercise...
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Habitat hosting open house Saturday at Lock Road site
(Local News ~ 01/25/07)
For two Dyer County families, things are beginning to return to normal after their homes were destroyed in the April 2006 tornado. For Beverly Jackson, that normalcy will begin this weekend. Northwest Tennessee Habitat for Humanity will have an open house at her newly constructed home, located at 295 Lock Road, at 10 a.m. Saturday...
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Activist says DCHS should consult with Choctaw nation on mascot
(Local News ~ 01/25/07)
The Chattanooga American Indian activist who is calling on the Tennessee Human Rights Commission to support a statewide ban on Indian mascots says that Dyer County High School is among those schools that need to rethink its image. Tom Kunesh, the activist planning to address the commission on Friday, told the State Gazette on Tuesday use of a Choctaw mascot without the permission of the Choctaw tribes in either Mississippi or Oklahoma is inappropriate...
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Hilliard, 81, retiring from health department
(Local News ~ 01/25/07)
William Hilliard wanted to be a teacher. He became a farmer, a sergeant, a businessman, the founder of a public utility, a restaurant inspector and, in a roundabout way, a teacher. Next week, the 81-year-old gentleman from Nauvoo plans to pursue a new occupation -- that of a retiree. On Wednesday, Jan. 31, he will leave the Dyer County Health Department, where he currently works as an environmentalist...
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Trespassers plucked from icy rooftop of Baird-Brewer building
(Local News ~ 01/25/07)
Three people were detained by police after they were caught on the roof of the Baird-Brewer building on Tuesday night. Tony Swanner and Andy McDaniel, both 18, and a juvenile, 17, were cited for trespassing after Dyersburg police, assisted by two ladder trucks from the Dyersburg Fire Department, removed them from the icy roof at about 11 p.m...
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Man arrested after kidnapping ex-wife
(Local News ~ 01/25/07)
A man was arrested Saturday on kidnapping and other charges after threatening to shoot himself and his former wife while he drove the woman around the county and refused to let her out. Benjamin Wade Burns, 23, of 4 Bruceville Slab Rd., was released on a $4,000 bond after he was jailed for kidnapping, aggravated assault, evading arrest, domestic violence and unlawful possession of a weapon...
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Teenage offender sentenced to 10 years
(Local News ~ 01/25/07)
A Dyersburg man who pleaded guilty Tuesday in Dyer County Circuit Court to charges of sale of cocaine and vandalism was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison. Brandon J. "B.J." Wilson, 19, of 1515 Byron St., pleaded guilty to four charges of sale of more than .5 gram of cocaine and vandalism of property worth less than $10,000. ...
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