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Obituaries for May 14, 2017
(Obituary ~ 05/14/17)
Charles Van Buckingham, 71, of Dyersburg, passed away on Friday, May 12, 2017 at Tennova Healthcare Dyersburg Regional. He was born on December 20, 1945 in Humboldt, TN to the late Charles Porter Buckingham and the late Mary Elizabeth Tucker Buckingham. ...
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DSCC to offer fall learning communities to improve student success
(Local News ~ 05/14/17)
Dyersburg State Community College has announced that it will offer paired learning community courses at its Dyersburg campus and the DSCC Jimmy Naifeh Center at Tipton County beginning fall 2017. Learning communities are class pairings that form connections between the content in two courses. Research shows that this method of teaching helps engage students and improves learning...
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DAR holds flag-retirement ceremony, makes donation to library
(Local News ~ 05/14/17)
On May 1, the Key Corner Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution hosted a meeting as well as a flag-retirement ceremony, featuring the Dyer County High School Color Guard, in the McIver’s Grant Public Library Community Room. The following Wednesday, DAR members made a donation to library director Regina Patterson and the library’s genealogy room with a portrait of George Washington along with volumes 1 and 2 of ‘Legacies of our Great-Grandmothers: Early Tennessee Women’...
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Sanderson shepherds ‘In God We Trust’ license-plate option through legislature
(Local News ~ 05/14/17)
NASHVILLE - On May 4, House Bill 26, sponsored by Rep. Bill Sanderson, passed by an overwhelming margin of 85-0 on the House floor. This legislation creates an option for Tennessee drivers to have the words “In God We Trust” placed on the standard Tennessee license plate, which is known as the “Green Mountain” design. ...
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Local Scout repaints handicap parking spaces in downtown Newbern
(Local News ~ 05/14/17)
Dyer County High School sophomore Caleb Glozier, a member of Boy Scout Troop 386 of Newbern, recently began his Eagle Scout service project of repainting the handicap parking spaces in downtown Newbern.
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