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Obituaries for August 23, 2009
(Obituary ~ 08/22/09)
Betty S. Lange, 77 of Dyersburg, died Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a retired employee of Miles Laboratory in Bedford Park, Ill. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today in Fairview Cemetery in Newbern with Jerry Leach officiating...
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America's Tenor to kick off Community Concert series on Sept. 5 (Local News ~ 08/22/09)
Members of the Dyersburg Area Community Concert Association would like to remind Dyer County residents that it is not necessary to travel out of town to enjoy quality performances by nationally acclaimed artists. In fact, the DACCA will begin its 2009-2010 season on Sept. 5 with a concert featuring Daniel Rodriguez, known since Sept. 11, 2001 as "America's Tenor" and "The Singing Policeman," right here in the Yates Auditorium... -
Newbern planning commission rejects request for rezoning
(Local News ~ 08/22/09)
The Newbern Municipal-Regional Planning Commission made several decisions this month on street acceptance and rezoning. Absent from the meeting were commissioner Jerry Leach, Joe Prichard, Mayor K.W. Dennison and Chairman Steve McDonald. Commissioner Barry Little served as chairman...
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Paddling for Parkinson's: Med student kayaks Mississippi for worthy cause (Local News ~ 08/22/09)
"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book - a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."... -
Public hearing set on herbicide permit at Reelfoot
(Local News ~ 08/22/09)
A permit that allowed Reelfoot Lake duck hunters to spray herbicides on the aquatic weeds around their waterfowl blinds expired last year. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation plans to issue a new permit allowing herbicide spraying for another five years...
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Stimulus funds to go toward harbor dredging
(Local News ~ 08/22/09)
Federal stimulus funds will be used to dredge the Northwest Tennessee Regional Harbor, to resurface the federal levee in Lake County and more. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Memphis expects to receive $98 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in a two-year period...
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DIS fails to meet federal progress goals
(Local News ~ 08/22/09)
Two schools in the Dyersburg City School System have been added to the state's School Improvement List by failing to meet adequate yearly progress for students in three subgroups. But Superintendent Lloyd Ramer said that list may be misleading, with one out of four schools in Tennessee failing to meet AYP as federal mandates rise...
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