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Arrival of high school yearbooks spans months
(Local News ~ 05/16/07)
School yearbooks for the Dyersburg High School graduating class of 2007 will be available a month into the student's freshman year in college this September, while Dyer County students have been scribbling notes in their annuals since April. Lake County students received their books in May, but Halls students have to wait until mid-August for the arrival of their annuals...
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Y Knot Road Race on Saturday?
(Local News ~ 05/16/07)
If you've walked across Tennessee or even not participated, Y Knot Road Race? The second annual event sponsored by the YMCA of Dyer County and First South Bank will kick off at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the corner of Main and McGaughey streets in downtown Dyersburg...
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Yarbro tapped by governor to education board
(Local News ~ 05/16/07)
Dyersburg City Schools Family Resource Center Director Joetta Yarbro was recently given the nod from Gov. Phil Bredesen to serve as a representative for alternative education at the state level with an appointment to the newly formed Advisory Council for Alternative Education...
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Halls mayor fires senior center chief for misuse
(Local News ~ 05/16/07)
Wendi Henry was terminated from her position as director of the Halls Senior Center on Monday after being summoned to a called meeting with Mayor Trent McManus and aldermen Mike Moore and Stan Young. According to a letter written by Henry, she was called to the meeting after making comments in the State Gazette concerning the cancellation of the Smile and See Program, which was set for this weekend. ...
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Suspect who bit deputy kicks out police car window trying to escape
(Local News ~ 05/16/07)
An unruly man kicked out the back window of a police car on Tuesday and attempted to crawl out a window as the vehicle was moving before police were able to restrain him. Ronald Williams, 24, of 634 Perry Circle, was arrested for causing a disturbance at Professional Counseling Services, 2380 Henry St., at 11:25 a.m. Tuesday...
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Palmer, dean of local GOP, dead at 95
(Local News ~ 05/16/07)
The man considered for decades to be Dyer County's "Mr. Republican" died on Tuesday at the age of 95. Moody Palmer for decades was a confidant of several senators and governors. He was a World War II veteran, worked for a time as a young man as professional wrestler, was a rural letter carrier from 1956 to 1976 and was a planter, maintaining an orchard at his Bruceville home for many years...
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Man shot after hotel room argument
(Local News ~ 05/16/07)
A man shot near midnight Tuesday at a hotel is in critical condition this morning at a Memphis hospital. Willy Hines was shot once in the head, the police report said, in room 58 of the Sunrise Inn, 1170 U.S. Highway 51 Bypass South, at about 11:30 p.m. A suspect, Toni Tyrone Hayes Jr., was jailed on a charge of aggravated assault...
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