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Tax-free weekend starts today
(Local News ~ 04/25/08)
The Dyersburg City School System approved its new uniform dress code just in time for local families to participate in the Tennessee Spring Sales Tax Holiday this weekend. The state initiative offers clothing, school supplies and computers to be purchased tax-free from 12:01 a.m., Friday, April 25 until 11:59 p.m., Sunday, April 27...
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Committee meets incoming CableOne general manager
(Local News ~ 04/25/08)
The mood of Tuesday's city cable committee meeting was a little brighter than the group's last gathering, with many of the committee members and aldermen present offering compliments on the city's cable service to CableOne General Manager Jim Duck and his replacement, Elvis Brown...
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Secretly indicted appear in court
(Local News ~ 04/25/08)
A week after being indicted, a Dyersburg man no longer faces a charge of violating the habitual motor vehicle offender act. Jack Dempsey Lewis, 1838 Browning, was charged with the offense Feb. 3 after being stopped on a traffic violation and not having a valid driver's license. A Dyer County grand jury indicted him on that charge April 14...
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Search continues for missing minister
(Local News ~ 04/25/08)
After a week of fruitless efforts, authorities are considering draining the Carroll County lake where Newbern native and minister Mickey Carpenter is presumed to have drowned on Friday. The search continued today for the Paris pastor, who was reported missing on April 18. He had been fishing on a private lake near the Leach community about six miles south of Huntingdon...
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Obituaries for April 25, 2008
(Obituary ~ 04/25/08)
Tillman E. Bragg, 80, of Duck River, Tenn., formerly of Dyersburg, died Thursday, March 6, 2008. He was a retired steel-fabricating sheer operator. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at The Free Holiness Church with Bro. David Bragg officiating...
- Car crashes across parking lot after wreck (Local News ~ 04/25/08)
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Dyersburg selected to host NAIA preseason bowl game
(High School Sports ~ 04/25/08)
Dyersburg has been awarded a preseason NAIA college tournament bowl game in 2009. Dyersburg High School head football coach James Counce told a group of city aldermen and advocates for a renovated stadium on Thursday the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics notified him last week of the successful bid...
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