- Red Cross hosts Hometown Heroes event (Local News ~ 04/05/08)
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Miss Dyer County set to aid DCHS dance team
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
A project aimed to bring a pageant title back to the area and provide funding for the Dyer County High School dance team is well under way, with the upcoming Miss Dyer County Pageant set for Saturday, April 26. The pageant is open to girls from birth to 12th grade and boys from birth to 5 years old, with no residential restrictions for interested participants. ...
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Firestone celebrates VPP STAR safety designation
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
Dyersburg Firestone recently took time out to celebrate achieving the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Volunteer Protection Program status. The first Firestone Industrial Products plant to achieve the TOSHA's elite VPP STAR award, the Dyersburg Firestone facility takes its place among only six other Bridgestone Americas facilities to earn the safety standing. ...
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First two graduates from drug court lauded
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
The circuit courtroom isn't usually a place to find smiles. It's a place where people often find themselves headed to jail. But, on Tuesday afternoon, everyone in the second-floor courtroom of the Dyer County Courthouse was smiling. They hugged one another, indulged in chocolate cake and sipped punch. They were there to celebrate the first two graduates of the 29th Judicial District's drug court...
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Committee votes to shift funds to YMCA to oversee Newbern baseball league
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
The YMCA of Dyer County will assume oversight of the Cal Ripken Baseball League in Newbern this season after the county commission's recreation committee voted to shift funding. YMCA chief Randy Butler explained to the committee -- chairman Kyle Reynolds and members Debbie Bradshaw Hart, Steve Walker and Bill Cloar (Connie Apple Evans was absent) -- that the league was not going to have a season in 2008 due to lack of interest by the previous coordinators...
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TEMA misses 'reband' deadline; asks for extension
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency in March requested a delay for more than a year to "reband" the state's disaster services radio frequency. TEMA press officer Jeremy Heidt said the agency filed the request to delay completing the change until September 2009...
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Norris: No Senate vote on DSCC name change
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
State Sen. Mark Norris said on Saturday he will not allow a vote to change the name of Dyersburg State Community College. "I'll oppose it," said the Collierville Republican, whose senate district includes the main DSCC campus in Dyersburg and the Covington site. "And take a wait and see attitude from then."...
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Petitions filed for August elections
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
The Dyer County Election Committee on Thursday officially accepted petitions for candidates for the state primary and county general election in August. There is no opposition to any local incumbent up for election to the Dyersburg School Board, the Dyer County School Board or the county assessor's post, but both state representatives who represent Dyer County in the state legislature face challengers...
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City leading nation in mandatory radio 'rebanding' work
(Local News ~ 04/05/08)
Dyersburg is one of the first cities in the nation to have completed the federal plan to shift the 800 Mhz radio frequency before the first deadline passed. "The reason we were successful in rebanding was that we started working on this project immediately," said Mayor John Holden...
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