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Enrollment jumps in college's kids summer learning program
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
Students enjoying the hazy, lazy days of summer were offered a break from summertime boredom when Dyersburg State Community College opened its Dyersburg campus this week for elementary and middle school students to enjoy the school's annual College for Kids...
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Farmers market, bluegrass offered Saturday on square
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
After years of planning, the first Downtown Dyersburg Farmers Market is scheduled to start at 7 a.m. Saturday on Market Street, followed with a bluegrass music offering from 5-10 p.m. on the square. Farmers are planning to bring fresh produce from vegetables, strawberries, tomatoes, corn and other crops harvested. ...
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Trespassing teens' truck teeters off bluff
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
Two Ripley teenagers were cited for trespassing on Wednesday after they narrowly averted driving off Chickasaw Bluff south of Lenox. According to the Dyer County Sheriff's Department report, deputies arrived to the 400 block of Chickasaw Bluff Rd., where they saw a red Ford Ranger pickup truck teetering on the edge, with the truck's front wheels over the edge...
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Hospital to open sleep lab, equipment service
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
Patients are going to sleep through a new service at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center -- literally. The hospital plans to open a sleep lab on Sunday, June 24. Two hospital rooms were painted shades of green on Wednesday in an effort to make them feel more like hotel rooms. Patients will spend the night in these rooms while Amy Wilson, a certified respiratory therapist, monitors their brain waves, heartbeats, breathing, oxygen saturation levels and more...
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Man again arrested on meth charge
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
A man who served seven months in jail on methamphetamine charges in 2004 was arrested for the same crime in Finley on Wednesday. Jerry "Bubba" Hudson Jr., 31, of 50 Tulip St., was arrested while attempting to hide behind a trailer from deputies who were there to serve a warrant on drug charges...
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Mahon appointed DHS principal as leaders shifted in schools
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
Officials in the Dyersburg City School System continue to nurture longstanding relationships and lean heavily on tradition as they begin the 2007-2008 school year with new leadership in place. Superintendent of Schools Lloyd Ramer and members of the system's Leadership Team met for a press conference in the district office this morning to name Dyersburg Middle School's Mickey Mahon as the new principal of Dyersburg High School...
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Dyersburg Electric tells Forked Deer to exit city
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
Forked Deer Electric Cooperative has been told by Dyersburg Electric System to remove its equipment by Aug. 1 from Dyersburg's newly-annexed areas. The letter, sent June 6 from DES President and CEO Jimmy Williamson to Forked Deer Superintendent Harold Willis, notes DES "is entitled to require the removal by Forked Deer of its existing distribution lines, equipment and related service facilities from the annexed areas."...
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Mayor seeks redress of delinquent debt
(Local News ~ 06/21/07)
Dyersburg Mayor John Holden is mounting a campaign to clean up the city's books, including an effort to recover more than $360,000 in delinquent debt from water, sewer and gas customers since 2003. "We need to get a handle on this," said Holden. "There needs to be accountability."...
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