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Fair Fashion Revue winners
(Local News ~ 09/12/12)
Seamstresses of all ages stitched up some fun on Tuesday, Sept. 4, when the Dyer County Fair held its annual Fashion Revues in the Family Life Center. The evening featured two different revues sponsored by the Dyer County Family and Community Education Clubs and the Sew with Cotton Revues...
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County Board of Zoning and Appeals grants variance for temporary dwelling
(Local News ~ 09/12/12)
The Dyer County Board of Zoning and Appeals granted a variance to James A. Curtis on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at its regular board meeting. Curtis was seeking a variance to place a trailer on his mother's property at 12246 Highway 412 to assist with her care. Pictured from left to right: Dyer County Building Official Daniel Cobb, Brent Neal, Curtis (in the background), Charles Ozment, Terry Parker and Almous Austin. Neal was attending his first meeting after being appointed to the board at the Dyer County Commission meeting on Monday, Sept. 10.
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Will you 'Pledge to Prepare'?
(Local News ~ 09/12/12)
September is National Preparedness Month, a month where residents are encouraged to make emergency preparedness a priority. In the past three years, eight presidentially declared disasters have impacted over half of Tennessee. Here in Dyer County we have experienced three of those disasters: the floods in 2010 and 2011 and the drought declared earlier this summer...
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Memorial funds established for Nunley
(Local News ~ 09/12/12)
The family of Jacob Nunley has set up memorial funds in his memory at two local banks. Jacob was an 18-year-old graduate of Dyersburg High School and a sophomore student at Middle Tennessee State University. He contracted a rare and fatal strain of bacterial meningitis and passed away on Monday, Sept. 10 at Vanderbilt University Hospital from complications due to his condition. He will be initiated into the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity posthumously. Donations to the memorial funds can be made at any First Citizens National Bank directed to the Jacob Nunley Fund c/o Alicia Gibbons or any First State Bank c/o Shawna McIntosh.
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Purvis gets six years in prison for running over teen
(Local News ~ 09/12/12)
The Dyersburg man charged with the attempted first-degree murder of a Crockett County teen at a ballgame in 2011 is set to report to the Dyer County Jail to begin serving a six-year prison sentence on the lesser charge of aggravated assault. Adam Purvis, 19, appeared with his attorney Charles Kelly Sr. before Dyer County Circuit Court Judge Lee Moore on Tuesday afternoon. In the courtroom were Purvis' victim, Riley Ward, and his parents, girlfriend and another family friend...
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Obituaries for September 12, 2012
(Obituary ~ 09/12/12)
Jacob Cole Nunley, 18, of Dyersburg, died Monday, September 10, 2012 at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville. He was a student at Middle Tennessee State University, member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and an employee of Applebee's in Murfreesboro. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at First Christian Church, 1200 Community Park Road, Dyersburg, TN. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
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