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Dyer County E-911 Board approves request for bids for new storage building
(Local News ~ 08/02/09)
The Dyer County E-911 Board met Tuesday to further discuss the proposal of a new storage building at the Mall Loop Boulevard site. The facility would store Dyersburg Fire Department equipment along with the mobile Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) trailer. The city would own the building; maintain it along with the grounds and pay the insurance and utilities...
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Main Street Dyersburg approved for $15,000 Innovation Grant
(Local News ~ 08/02/09)
Gov. Phil Bredesen recently approved $330,000 in Main Street Innovation Grants for 22 of Tennessee's Main Street Programs. Each participating community will receive $15,000 with which to develop or continue innovative projects, programs, activities and/or technology that exemplify good downtown revitalization practices following the Main Street "four point approach to revitalization." Innovation Grant projects relate to design, promotion and marketing or business development...
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History to be made with first ever 'Big River Bowl'
(High School Sports ~ 08/02/09)
Something I've known for at least the last 10 or 15 years is just how much the game of football means to the people of the city and county. Whether it's on the middle school, high school, college or even on the professional level, for more than a few football reigns supreme as the No. 1 sport in the area...
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First South Bank takes home 'College Cup'
(High School Sports ~ 08/02/09)
Under what many consider near-perfect conditions, 63 golfers took part in the annual E.H. Lannom Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament to support athletics at Dyersburg State Community College on Saturday, Aug. 1. Teams playing were vying to take home the crystal College Cup. The team of Don Crews, Mike Bevis, Tony Reed and Ben Youree, playing for First South Bank, took home the trophy with a 17-under par total of 55...
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Shooting on Blake Cove
(Local News ~ 08/02/09)
Three persons were killed and a fourth airlifted to a Memphis trauma center after a shooting Sunday night in Dyersburg. The shooter is believed to be among the dead, Dyersburg Police Capt. Steve Isbell said. He declined to release names until the next of kin have been notified...
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