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Powered by the sun: East Decatur Station takes another step toward sustainability

Jack Honderd calls East Decatur Station an earth-friendly development in an earth-friendly city. Honderd and his partners showed their commitment to that mantra with the powering up recently of one of the largest commercial rooftop solar arrays in me...

Castellani retires from the courtroom and enters the classroom

These days, one finds Robert Castellani in the library and classroom instead of the courtroom. He stepped down in December from the DeKalb County Superior Court and joined Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR). After mo...

Tucker’s Cloud pushes toward another state wrestling title

by Bryan Fazio   The saying goes “You can’t win on talent alone.” Even when that talent gives one the athleticism to play two sports and has been passed along through genetics, champions still have to put in a little extra. For Tucker senior C...

Stephenson girls maintain high level of success

Stephenson girls basketball players, from left, Kayla Kudratt, Kaliyah Mitchell and Danielle Jackson join coach Dennis Watkins. Photo by Robert Naddra
Without hesitancy, Dennis Watkins can point to one game where things changed for the Stephenson girls basketball program. Three years into his tenure as head coach of the then-six-year-old school, Watkins held a Sunday practice the day before the 200...

Music conservancy presents case for relocating Music Hall of Fame to Dunwoody

Danny Ross, chairman of the Dunwoody Music Conservancy, presented a proposal Jan. 20 to Georgia Music Hall of Fame board members in Macon. The plan would relocate the financially strapped museum from Macon to Perimeter Mall and ultimately into an art...

Firefighters accused of intoxication at work

At least two county firefighters are under investigation for reporting to work while intoxicated during the snowstorm earlier this month. The DeKalb County Fire Department has placed two fire department employees on unpaid leave pending the outcome o...

Employees removed from DeKalb schools in wake of CRCT cheating scandal

DeKalb County Schools has reassigned 24 employees outside the classroom as a result of an internal investigation into 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) cheating. Potential testing irregularities were found at nine schools, accordi...

Dunwoody to regulate massage businesses

Last month, Doraville passed a new ordinance regulating massage establishments within its borders, and now it’s Dunwoody’s turn. Dunwoody’s City Council is not trying to limit the number of such businesses. It just wants to put rules into place...

Groups question county, EPA sewer agreement

The proposed agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and DeKalb County over excessive sewage spills is weak, ineffective and should be withdrawn or modified. That is what a group of six community organizations said last week in a 12-pag...

Start to put together travel wish list and action plan

Golden Gate Bridge
There’s no better time than the first month of the year to starting dreaming and scheming about new places to explore. January is the ideal time to begin coming up with a few dream destinations – whether the locales are not far from home or one h...