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Burns' art featured at DSCC learning center; opens today
(Local News ~ 02/05/08)
Through his artwork, Randy Burns has always been drawn to botanicals and landscapes. Over the last couple of years, he's noticed a slight variation on that theme. Those latest works can be viewed when Burns holds an exhibit this month at the Learning Resource Center on the campus of Dyersburg State Community College. The exhibit opens Tuesday and will run through March 4...
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Distribution under way for church's 'Angel Food' program
(Local News ~ 02/05/08)
For over a year, Dyersburg Christian Center has spread its wings with a new ministry. The church is distribution point of the Angel Food Program. The program offers a unit of food -- with meats, vegetables and grains -- to supplement a family for $30 a month...
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'Magical' fund-raiser scheduled Saturday
(Local News ~ 02/05/08)
When Justin Chandler saw his first magic show, he thought it was pretty cool. He was 5 and his dad was sharing a bag of tricks he had learned as a youngster. Then, Chandler began seeing magicians like David Copperfield on television and he realized, "They're making a living and having fun." Even cooler...
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Middle school student wins bee
(Local News ~ 02/05/08)
Dyersburg Middle School eighth-grade student Maggie Feith won first place in the 2008 Dyer County Spelling Bee on Monday night. After 18 rounds, Feith won on the word 'mechanical' over second-place speller Elizabeth Bumpas, an eighth-grader at Christ Classical Academy. Dyersburg Intermediate School fifth-grader Johni Armstrong scored third place...
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Court hearing rescheduled for fifth time over midstate battery case
(Local News ~ 02/05/08)
A former volunteer track coach accused of sexual misconduct in two cities asked Thursday that his case be delayed in a Nashville court. Timothy Neal Byars, 45, 838 Lattawood Drive, appeared Thursday, Jan. 31, in Metro Nashville's Criminal Court on a sexual battery charge. His attorney, Tommy Hindman, asked the court to reschedule the case so that he had more time to work out matters in Nashville and Knoxville, a court clerk said...
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Spending causes judge to question indigency
(Local News ~ 02/05/08)
If a man is too poor to afford an attorney, is it appropriate for his family to hire an independent investigator and a specialist to prepare his defense? The investigator's bill had climbed to nearly $11,000 by Nov. 2. Public Defender Jimmy Lanier said the bill is probably twice that now. And, what's more, the family has hired Dr. O.C. Smith, the former long-time medical examiner from Memphis, as an expert witness. Lanier said there's no telling how much the family is paying Smith...
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Obituaries for Feb. 5, 2008
(Obituary ~ 02/05/08)
Madelyn Paige Beamon, 6-year-old daughter of Neal and Brandi Beamon, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 at her residence., Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Seller Hill cemetery with Bro. Joe Abbott officiating. The family will receive visitors at 2-8 p.m. today and at 9-10 a.m. Wednesday at the Chase Funeral Home in Huntingdon...
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Schools closed early after forecast likened weather conditions to April '06
(Local News ~ 02/05/08)
A conference call with the National Weather Service in Memphis today prompted Dyersburg and Dyer County emergency response officials to advise officials to close city and county schools at noon. The meeting, at 10 a.m., was arranged to react to the unstable weather system rapidly approaching from the southwest...
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Dyersburg, Dyer County games postponed
(High School Sports ~ 02/05/08)
The high school basketball games scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 5 have been postponed due to the posibility of severe weather. The make-up date for the games between Dyersburg and Gibson County has not been announced, while the games between Dyer County and Obion County will be played on Friday, Feb. 8 at their scheduled times...
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