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Man raising thoroughbred horses and registered angus cattle in Dyer County
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
James K. Travis, better known as Ken Travis, was born on Nov. 2, 1936 in a house across the road from the farm where he was raised. He is the oldest of Jim and Virginia Travis’ children with two brothers and one sister. His brother Buddy became a Cumberland Presbyterian minister and his sister became a schoolteacher and businesswoman and his younger brother Robert Daniel became an attorney in Nashville.
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Choral concert, live nativity at Cumberland Presbyterian
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
BRANDON HUTCHESON bhutcheson@stategazette.com Throughout the month of December, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, located at 2280 Parr Ave. in Dyersburg, will be hosting upcoming Christmas-themed events. On Thursday, Dec. 8, the church will host the Dyersburg Choral Society Concert at 7:30 p.m...
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Reason for the Season accepting canned food donations
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
Beginning now until Dec. 8, Burks Beverage and Broadcasting alongside FirstCNB will be hosting the 10th annual ‘Reason for the Season’ food drive. Canned foods, peanut butter, shampoo, toothpaste, soap and more will be collected during this year’s holiday-time effort to help underprivileged families/individuals in the Dyer County community. ...
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Miston Baptist to host Mark Butler benefit
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
On Saturday, Dec. 10 at 5 p.m., Miston Baptist Church will host a spaghetti supper and gospel singing benefit for local resident Mark Butler. Butler, who was in an automobile accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down, is not able to work and is in need of rehabilitation that specializes in spinal cord injuries...
- RFW donates items to fire victims in East Tenn. (Local News ~ 12/04/16)
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Court challenge to city pension changes faces another setback
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
At a public court hearing on Nov. 18, Dyer County Circuit Court Judge Lee Moore granted a motion to dismiss First Citizens National Bank as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by city employees, Aaron Jay Cryer and Jason M. Alexander, and former city employee Brian Peckenpaugh, against the City of Dyersburg seeking to strike down changes made by the city to its pension plan...
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Remembering Robert ‘Cotton’ Worley
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
When Robert “Cotton” Worley passed away on Sept.28, 2015, not only was a grieving family left behind to try and come to grips with the untimely loss, but the void left behind with his passing also brought the Worley family closer together, perhaps more than ever before...
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Concerned citizens attend Stop the Violence meeting
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
On Sunday, Nov. 27, at 2 p.m., approximately 50 concerned citizens attended the Stop the Violence Community Meeting that occurred at the Dyer County Central School Gymnasium on Hornbrook Street.
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Courthouse gets into Christmas spirit with ‘Giving Tree’ initiative
(Local News ~ 12/04/16)
Now in its third year, the Dyer County Courthouse ‘Giving Tree’ initiative has helped provide warm winter clothes for hundreds of children and young adults in the Dyer County and Dyersburg school systems.
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Obituaries for December 4, 2016
(Obituary ~ 12/04/16)
Doris Maxine Goad, 85, of Finley, passed away on Thursday, December 1, 2016 at Methodist North Hospital in Memphis. She was a retired IBM Operator for Binswanger Glass. Doris was a former member of the Eastern Star and was a Christian. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home. Burial will be in Dyer County Memorial Gardens...
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