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Halls board disputes zoning issues, tax vote
(Local News ~ 04/03/07)
HALLS - A routine ordinance to readopt the town's official zoning map created controversy when local businessman Randy Hutcherson challenged aldermen to correct an error on the town's map. The disputed land is marked on the current Halls map as being inside Halls city limits, when Hutcherson states it has never been in the city. ...
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Checkpoint rules eyed for police
(Local News ~ 04/03/07)
HALLS -- Members of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen here voted to approve a policy and procedure manual for traffic checkpoints to be adopted into the police code after a recent incident in Ripley ended in the death of a Dyersburg man. "Obviously, with things that have happened in the county, (this is needed,)" said McManus. "We do have several checkpoints."...
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Board debates mayor's tiebreaking vote over hours for liquor sales
(Local News ~ 04/03/07)
HALLS -- No change has been made to city beer laws to reflect the hours that packaged liquor sales may be sold, despite an OK in August 2006 from voters. Since the election that voted in packaged liquor sales, the mayor and aldermen here have been debating - often heatedly - how many liquor stores may be established within the city limits and their location...
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Petition against pre-fab home dominates meeting
(Local News ~ 04/03/07)
A plea by neighbors for city leaders to prohibit a prefabricated home from being placed on a lot on Johns Street dominated the Trimble board meeting on Monday. Resident Roger Owsley presented to Mayor Jim Stark a petition signed by several people concerned over the structure...
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DHS Mock Trial team competes in state contest
(Local News ~ 04/03/07)
After winning the district title last month, the Dyersburg High School Mock Trial team traveled to Nashville last weekend to compete in the 27th annual Tennessee State High School Mock Trial Compet-ition. Members of the group conducted the fictional trial of Casey Nefflen, a former assistant district attorney charged with murdering Adam Day, a defense lawyer who opposed him in a trial. ...
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Board tackles grass clippings, noise law
(Local News ~ 04/03/07)
The Dyersburg City Board on Monday approved the purchase of a new extricating device for the Dyersburg Fire Department in the only voting action during the 40-minute meeting. Mayor John Holden opened the meeting with a moment of silence for the one-year anniversary of the tornado that killed 16 people in Dyer County...
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Literacy program chief's firing upheld
(Local News ~ 04/03/07)
The former director of the Dyer County Literacy Program on Monday lost a request to overturn her 2003 dismissal from Dyersburg State Community College in an opinion from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in Cincinnati. Sharon Bessent, a former supervisor of the college's adult education program, had appealed the ruling after a U.S. District Court in Memphis in 2006 upheld the college's action was legal when Bessent was fired...
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