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Carolyn Dillon longtime owner and publisher of The Tylertown Times died Monday Jan. 27 following an extended illness. Dillon operated the weekly newspaper and radio station WTYLFM since 1983. Perhaps the most important value I learned from Carolyn was the importance of communitydriven journalism how local news operations are the fabric of an engaged citizenry binding a betterinformed people together wrote Tony Plohetski on Facebook who is now a reporter for the Austin AmericanStatesman in Texas.