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Mayor: Too early to hire development professional in Doraville

Doraville Mayor Ray Jenkins protested a city councilman’s claim that Doraville isn’t prepared to manage redevelopment of its shuttered General Motors plant. City Councilman Bob Roche told The Champion this month Doraville wasn’t equipped to neg...

Police: Fatal shooting was in retaliation of drug-related robbery

The 11-year-old boy shot in the head while he slept died early on Feb. 16 at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Chamblee Police Chief Marc Johnson said in a statement. Two suspects in the shooting who were originally charged with aggrava...

Committee to recommend school closures in April

A citizen committee will recommend the closure of possibly four schools this summer as the DeKalb County School System works to cut costs by closing severely under-enrolled schools across the county, a district official said this month. The committee...

DeKalb agency assisting families of Haitian medical evacuees

Haitian medical evacuees have been arriving in Georgia over the past few weeks and a DeKalb relief agency, Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA), located in Decatur, has been steadily working to assist family members who ac...

Recruiting coordinator helps Stephenson build record-setting class

Thornton showing off his signing day choice. Photo by Robert Naddra
Twenty-seven players were met with wild cheers as they stood at the podium in the Stephenson High School auditorium to announce which school’s college football scholarship offer they would accept. But the loudest reaction at Stephenson’s Signing ...

Weather changes athletic schedules

The Georgia High School Association state swim meet and the sectional wrestling tournaments have been rescheduled because of expected snow of Friday and possible icy conditions on Saturday. All basketball games slated for Feb. 12 or Feb. 13 also have...

Love: A many splendored thing

Roy and Ruth Anne Glascoe
With Valentine’s Day approaching, attention is focused on love, so we’re sharing two stories of local couples whose love and devotion are inspiring. Roy and Ruth Anne Glascoe The year they graduated from high school in a small South Carolina town...

Big Top Fun: 3 circuses give residents plenty of choices

The Big Apple Circus
Bello, UniverSoul and Zing Zang Zoom. February is circus month in the Atlanta area, and big top aficionados will come to know those three terms well over the next few weeks. Fans of high-wire acrobatics, clown antics and an endless array of animal ac...

Rep. gets signatures to push annexation to House vote then loses one

State Rep. Stephanie Benfield said this month she had enough delegation signatures to move forward with a proposal to annex a tract of unincorporated land between Decatur and Avondale Estates. That is, until she didn’t. After she gathered the 10 si...

Fired Dunwoody coach plans to seek legal advice

The Dunwoody football coach fired on Feb. 3 because the school “decided to go in a different direction,” said he will contact an attorney to seek legal advice regarding his termination. Mike Youngblood was relieved of his coaching duties after le...