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Master Gardeners celebrate a blooming year
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
The local Master Gardener association celebrated a year of growing knowledge and blossoming community gardens during its recent member awards program. The Dyer County Association of Tennessee Master Gardeners participated in a number of community beautification efforts this year. Among these are flower beds in Dyersburg's Okeena Park and Newbern's Oakview Park and landscaping at the two new Habitat for Humanity homes...
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Master Gardener registration under way in time for spring seeds
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
Envisioning a spring full of colorful blooms, a summer of fresh vegetables and an autumn of colorful leaves? A series of classes could help your dreams come true. Dyer County Extension plans to start its eighth Master Gardener course on Feb. 5. The course includes 14 nights of classes on everything from basic botany to landscape design, soils to small engines, and raising vegetables to growing the greenest grass in the neighborhood...
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Miss Tennessee has local ties
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
When the Miss America 2008 pageant airs this Saturday, local families will be crossing their fingers hoping that Miss Tennessee will be walking away with the coveted crown. Grace Arnold Gore, Miss Tennessee 2007, is the granddaughter of longtime pharmacist and former Halls mayor Sammie Arnold and his wife, Doris. She is the niece of Leo and Tonya Arnold of Dyersburg and Gay Gregson of Jackson. Her mother, Darlene, grew up in Halls and worked for a while in the Dyer County Schools system...
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Elementary school "voters" gain knowledge about nation's elections
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
Finley Elementary School's second-grade students recently had the opportunity to learn about the voting process by holding elections for two class presidents. Four candidates were nominated, a boy and girl from each classroom. Each nominee selected a vice president to complete their ticket and formed a cabinet out of six classmates. ...
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DSCC woos city board to reconsider opposition against changing name
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
Members of the city board attended a lunch meeting in Dyersburg State Community College's new Learning Resource Center on Wednesday to discuss the pros and cons of a name change for the institution. The board went on record against a name change in its Dec. ...
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Principal offers inspiration at King memorial luncheon
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon and celebration on Friday both remembered an American icon and inspired local residents and leaders to continue dreaming of ways to improve the world around them. Participants who attended were treated to a performance by the DSCC jazz choir, Syncopation, two moving tributes to King and a buffet lunch...
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Federal cases found in family's background
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
The family opening a convenience store in Dyersburg has had run-ins with federal authorities in Wisconsin, court records and interviews detail. Nader Asad, an applicant for the beer license with his Kuwaiti sister-in-law, Fadia Kwairesh, for the Neighborhood Market and Deli at 100 Gordon St., was questioned by federal investigators in September 2002 about violating rules governing food stamps...
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Alderman sought update on permit on clients' behalf
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
Dyersburg Police Chief Terry Ledbetter said Alderman Shannon Walker called him days before the Jan. 7 city board meeting to ask why the beer permit for Naser Asad was taking so long. "He wasn't pressuring me," said Led-better. "But he did ask what the delay was. I told him there wasn't anything I could do about it; a background investigation takes a long time."...
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MedSouth, West Tennessee Healthcare negotiating deal
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
MedSouth Healthcare and Jackson-based health care giant West Tennessee Healthcare are edging toward an agreement to join forces. What kind of agreement -- an outright sale of the physician-owned group or some type of formal cooperation -- is not known, but could be in place by April, said people familiar with the matter...
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Armed robbery suspect sought
(Local News ~ 01/19/08)
Dyersburg police are looking for the man suspected in the armed robbery of a convenience store early Saturday. Ray Michael "Bubba" Orman, 27, 383 Deal Rd., is sought for questioning for the hold-up of the Lake Road Food Shop, 2525 Lake Rd., at about 4:50 a.m...
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Obituaries for Jan. 18, 2008
(Obituary ~ 01/19/08)
Jeffery Allen Anderson, 18, of Westmont, Ill, died Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008 at the University of Chicago Hospital. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Modell Funeral Home. Burial was in Clarendon Hills Cemetery. Survivors include his parents, Rickie Anderson of Downers Grove, Ill. ...
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Obituaries for Jan. 20, 2008
(Obituary ~ 01/19/08)
George Arthur Atchison, 73, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was a retired supervisor for Colonial Rubber Works, attended Phillips Street Church of Christ and was a U.S. Air Force veteran...
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