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County leaders rally for I-20 MARTA rail

In a display of solidarity, DeKalb County leaders stood together to protest the exclusion of the proposed I-20 heavy rail transit system from a preliminary list of projects being considered for funding through a possible regional sales tax. “We cur...

Lithonia developing blueprint for future

The partially vacant Lithonia Plaza, in the heart of downtown Lithonia, is where many residents hope revitalization will begin in the city. Local leaders are in the process of making plans they hope will turn into to change for town founded on the granite industry a century ago. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
When John Robins and his wife moved to Lithonia in 1969 there was mostly farmland between the city and the interstate. “It’s a small town,” said Robins, who was the city’s mayor from 1986-88. “When we moved out here, it was a very small tow...