Newbern News

The Newbern Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to approve the city's street acceptance of a number of subdivisions during their meeting on Tuesday evening.

A number of persons gather to congratulate Eric and Jo Ann Maupin on being selected as the Tennessee Young Farmer of the Year.

David Butler , Lions Club vice district governor of West Tennessee and the Trimble club's president holds the Lions Club banner with JAMMA promotion manager, George B. Scott.

The Dyer County Regional Planning Commission endorsed reopening a portion of Mitchell Road and agreed to re-study the county's major road plan.

In Dyer County Circuit Court on Sept. 29: * Dusty B. Haynes, 28, 312 S. Hazel in Halls, was given an effective eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to burglary and theft of property less than $500. He was accused of entering the Murphy USA building on Dec.

Anthony Hawks of Newbern said these cracks were a result of Friday morning's quake.

The U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers Chorus will perform Friday night in the Dyer County High School gymnasium.

The Dyersburg Police Department charged two Newbern men this week in connection with a number of storage facility burglaries.

A man and woman are currently being held in the Dyer County jail on drug charges after a Monday evening search of a house with an active meth lab in it.

Austin Peay State University students stepped into Homecoming 2009 with pizzazz in Monday's Step-Off competition.

A 23-year-old man was indicted Monday for one of three rapes reported this summer in Dyersburg.

Some quick-thinking witnesses, who saw a lawnmower being stolen, captured this image on a cell phone.

In Dyer County Circuit Court on Sept. 1: * Jimmy W. Barber, 44, address unavailable, pleaded guilty to theft of property in excess of $1,000 and forgery.

Members of the Dyer County E-911 Board met Tuesday to open RFPs for the new storage facility to be built this year.

Laurence Carolin recently received VIP treatment from the group U2 before a concert at Soldier Field in Chicago.

On Monday, Aug. 31, three burglary suspects appeared in Newbern City Court after being arrested on Aug.

The city of Newbern will celebrate its annual Depot Days festival this Saturday, Sept.

Sam Reed entertains some of his former agriculture students and Dyer County Fair board members with stories from the past.

The Dyersburg and Dyer County school systems received two of 15 low- or no-interest loans through a federal stimulus program in Tennessee.

A former Dyer County inmate who said he was mistreated lost a civil rights claim against the county in U.S. District Court in Memphis.