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Pond Creek restoration project, recaptured flood plain wows locals
(Local News ~ 08/12/07)
Shawnee Brasfield is a believer in stream restoration - especially now that he has physical evidence to prove that it works. Brasfield is one of five landowners who participated in a project to restore natural meanders on a 2,000-foot section of the river in Crockett County...
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New DHS school resource officer accepts post
(Local News ~ 08/12/07)
Dyersburg Police Officer Deanne Mosley has been named the new Student Resource Officer at Dyersburg High School, a move residents should not assume means gang activity or violent situations are rising at the school. Appointing SRO officers to area schools not only addresses dangerous situations that may occur on campus, but also prevents many of those events from happening altogether...
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Board debates time for beer permit hearing, grants license
(Local News ~ 08/12/07)
Members of the Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen did not debate whether to issue a beer permit to Lupo's Italian Restaurant at a called public hearing Thursday morning. Instead, the deliberation centered around the time scheduled for the meeting and setting a precedent for future public hearings...
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Retired teacher Butler dies
(Local News ~ 08/12/07)
The Dyersburg schoolteacher whose love of the Bruce neighborhood led to the establishment in 1995 of a police precinct died in Memphis on Thursday. Sandra W. Butler, 64, a teacher who had taught in Dyersburg, Lake County and Memphis schools, had been ill with cancer for the last few years and moved to Memphis, where she had briefly resumed her profession before retiring in 2005...
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Corker to speak at Chamber meeting
(Local News ~ 08/12/07)
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker is scheduled to be the keynote speaker on Aug. 28 for the annual "Membership Matters" meeting of the Dyersburg/Dyer County Chamber of Commerce. "We are excited to have Sen. Corker join us at our annual meeting," said Chamber board chairman Andrew Harrington. "Our community's progress is affected not only by local issues, but state and federal issues as well. Sen. Corker will be a positive addition to our program."...
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Student collapses on field
(Local News ~ 08/12/07)
A Dyer County High School student was taken to Dyersburg Regional Medical Center on Wednesday evening after suffering from heat exhaustion during football practice. Alex Capps, a sophomore at the school, said he starting feeling ill around 4:30 p.m. after the team took a break to get rehydrated...
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Davis restitution, prison time increased
(Local News ~ 08/12/07)
Former state representative Ray Davis faces paying restitution of $8 million more and a federal prison term of at least three years longer than previously decided after a new report found the wrong federal sentencing guidelines were used to determine his punishment...
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