Tri-City Reporter – News
Volunteer FDs get new tanker/pumpers
Gibson County rural fire stations Moore’s Chapel and Brazil each received a tanker/pumper truck Wednesday morning at the EOC office in Trenton. Mayor Tom Witherspoon and the Gibson County Commission approved the purchase of the trucks in the November 9 county commission meeting in 2015. Northwest TN Development District grant writer Rob Goad, who wrote…
Read MoreNorth Gibson finishes 2nd
North Gibson All-Stars defeated Huntingdon, McKenzie, and Bradford but fell to Milan in championship game to become the 2017 Cal Ripken 11-12-Year-Old Little League State Runners-Up in Dresden. NG All-Stars started the tournament off by scoring two runs in the first inning against McKenzie to take a 2 to 0 lead. McKenzie scored a run…
Read MoreTax-free weekend coming to TN
Tennessee retailers will not collect sales tax on more than 150 different items during the 12th annual sales tax holiday. From July 28 through July 30, shoppers can save nearly 10 percent on clothing, school supplies and computers, as students prepare for the back-to-school season. State and local taxes will not be collected on clothing,…
Read MoreDyer soldier receives posthumous military honors
Under a summer sun in Dyer’s Oakwood Cemetery, the melody of “Taps” was heard, and an American flag was presented in honor of a soldier who died forty-five years earlier. Army Master Sgt. Inman Ramsey, who served in World War II and the Korean War, was buried in July, 1972 without recognition of his 21-year…
Read MoreHughes plays in all star game
Gibson County’s catcher/first baseman Tyner Hughes played in the Billy Schrivner West Tennessee High School All-Star Game featuring the top baseball seniors in the area at Pringles Park in Jackson. Hughes, who played for the Red Team, played first base for five innings. He went 1 for 2 and scored a run during the All-Star…
Read MoreShanklin resigns, becomes fire chief
Dyer City Board members met last Monday night, appointing one of their own as the new city fire chief. Alderman Ryan Shanklin resigned the city board and accepted the job as chief of the Dyer Fire Department. Ray Carroll made the motion to appoint Shanklin. Carroll said after interviewing able and qualified candidates, the board…
Read MoreFirefighters extinguish truck fire
Neal named Class Single A All-State team
The Tennessee Softball Coaches Association recently announced that five area players have been named to the Class Single A All-State team. Gibson County Lady Pioneers Macey Neal, Huntingdon’s Alli Jones and Cheyenne Childress, Jackson Christian’s Sophie Dunavant and Scotts Hill’s Melanie Alexander were named to the TSCA 2017 Class Single A All-State team. Neal traveled…
Read MoreKidding around in Gibson County
The first ever Gibson County FFA Kid Camp was drew 37 campers to the Gibson County High School Equine Facility. The campers were between the ages of four through nine and attended from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m The five day camp was designed to give campers a hands-on learning opportunity. Each camper took care…
Read MoreFlooding causes issues for area
Sunday afternoon around 3:45 p.m., the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Gibson County. Heavy rain in little over an hour caused local roadways to flood around Dyer, Rutherford and the Good Luck community. Rainfall amounts reported from local gauges ranged from around four inches in the Good Luck community to three…
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