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News update, May 1

Police identify bicyclist killed in accident The Decatur Police Department has identified the bicyclist killed in an accident Monday, April 30, at approximately 6:23 a.m. in the 2200 block of North Decatur Road.  He is 53-year-old Paul Taylor o...

Volunteers come together to support sustainability, farm to school initiatives

Forty volunteers filled the grounds of the Wylde Center (formerly Oakhurst Community Garden Project) April 21 to celebrate Earth Day. The volunteers, from the Decatur Farm to School Initiative and ICF International, built picnic tables and raised garden beds to donate to City Schools of Decatur’s 4/5 Academy. Additionally, volunteers helped out around the Wylde Center weeding invasive plants and turning compost. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
On a sunny Saturday morning residents and volunteers crowded into the Wylde Center’s garden. It was Earth Day weekend and people busied themselves weeding plants, and building garden beds and picnic tables. The Wylde Center, formerly known as the O...

County to save money by turning trash to gas to cash

DeKalb County bolstered its claim of being “the greenest urban county in America” with the opening April 16 of its $9 million renewable fuels facility at the county’s landfill. “We’re a little bit greener,” said DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis. ...

Decatur holds annual community garden tour in May

Decatur Garden Tour is now in its 24th year and Sandy Rice, chairman of the tour and a board member at the Wylde Center, said it has become a yearly tradition. The Wylde Center, formerly known as the Oakhurst Community Garden Project, changed its nam...

Oxygen masks give pets second chance, hope to survivors

DeKalb County Fire Department spokesman Norman Augustin said rescuing a pet from a fire-damaged home can be just what a resident needs to lift his other spirit after a devastating experience. Each first responder vehicle used by the DeKalb County Fir...