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Superintendent proposes changes to combat deficit

Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson and DeKalb County School District staff have proposed several measures to close a projected $73 million budget gap. In addition to declining property values, the deficit is due to an increase in health care costs and in...

News update, May 22

Decatur man arrested for terroristic threats, statutory rape After receiving a tip that a Decatur man had used his Facebook account to communicate physical threats to an underage girl, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation a...

Adapted sports star became coach’s eyes on the court

More than 10 years ago, adapted sports coach Mark Miller noticed a first grader shooting baskets in the gym from a long distance for his age. He asked the boy to try it from a wheelchair and the youngster began to hit baskets sitting down while learn...

Police alarmed by false calls

DeKalb County leaders hope new fines will reduce the number of false alarms the police department responds to each year. In 2009, 95 percent of the alarms responded to by the police department were false alarms, according to county reports. “Many p...

Station put DeKalb on the air

Diamond Miller Lewis, director of the county’s Office of Cable Operations which runs DCTV, coaches Sam Goldman, executive director of Callonwolde Fine Arts Center, during a shooting of a public service announcement. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Before 2003, the schedule of DeKalb County’s cable television station, DCTV, was filled with reader boards—scrolling text about various county events, announcements and services. “It was a visual repository of written material,” said Burke Br...