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Proposed county budget cuts five recreation centers

Tobie Grant Recreation Center is one of five centers slated to be closed under a proposed 2011 DeKalb County budget. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
If the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners votes Feb. 22 to close the Tobie Grant Recreation Center, residents say a lifeline for the Scottdale community will be cut. “The library, the recreation center, the park and the pool have been an oasis of...

Commission approves gas project at landfill

After DeKalb’s chief executive officer had to be called in to break an unprecedented tie vote, the county’s board of commissioners approved a plan to harvest compressed natural gas from its Seminole landfill. The county will go forward with using...