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News update, June 21

Dunwoody police seek assistance identifying larceny suspects The Dunwoody Police Department is seeking assistance identifying two suspects involved in a theft June 2 at a Zales jewelry store at 4400 Ashford Dunwoody Parkway in Dunwoody. The susp...

Residents, students rally behind Fernbank Science Center

Residents, students and community members came out to show their support for the Fernbank Science Center at a rally June 18. The DeKalb County School District has recently proposed drastic cuts to the center’s $4.7 million budget. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
Thomas Dolby’s 1982 hit She Blinded Me with Science, played over a sound system as people concerned about the fate of the Fernbank Science Center congregated on an adjacent sidewalk June 18. In what has been a long and contentious budgeting process...

GPC lays off hundreds to battle deficit

Georgia Perimeter College is facing a growing budget deficit and to relieve some of that burden, that more than 250 employees were be laid off, Interim President Rob Watts announced June 18. In a message sent to staff, Watts said he deeply regretsted...

Special tax water district could aid homeowners’ bill ills

For years, homeowners in the Whitehall Forest East condominiums off Bouldercrest Road have had unpaid water and sewer bills that have reached approximately $300,000. Aging pipes and undetected leaks have led to a crisis at the condominiums, built in ...

Basketball camp a long-standing tradition in DeKalb

Former Atlanta Hawk Mike Glenn held his 33rd annual basketball camp for hearing-challenged athletes, which drew 102 campers from schools for the deaf across the Southeast and as far away as Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Photo by Robert Naddra
For 33 years former NBA player Mike Glenn has been carrying on a tradition begun by his father. Glenn’s father established the sports programs at Georgia School for the Deaf when it was segregated. “I grew up around deaf kids and understand the c...

Man and child found dead in car during house fire

Two people were found dead in a vehicle on the evening of June 19 when the DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department responded to a house fire near Lithonia. The identities have not been released of an adult and a child—both male—who were found in the...

Atlanta Police officer arrested for DUI in DeKalb

                Atlanta Police officer Jarvis Farley was arrested by DeKalb County Police at approximately 2:50 a.m. on May 25 under suspicion of drunken driving after he was observed driving a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro 128 miles an hour o...

News update, June 19

County receives labor grant DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Burrell Ellis announced that DeKalb County has received a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.  The grant will provide employment services to the long-term unemp...

Businesses coming to DeKalb despite shaky economy

After experiencing four record sales months, Steelmart owners have no regrets about relocating their company from Gwinnett County to DeKalb County earlier this year. “We’re happy with our move,” said Brian Satisky, co-owner of the full-service ...

CDC: Teen dating violence ‘serious problem’

“Everybody is entitled to a healthy relationship,” said DeKalb County Solicitor General Sherry Boston. That is why she and Commissioner Larry Johnson are sponsoring a forum designed to teach parents and other adults the signs of teen dating viole...

Plane runs off runway at PDK airport

A Hawker Beechcraft 400 aircraft lays beside Dresden Road after running off a runway at Peachtree DeKalb Airport June 18. Four people were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
A plane that ran off a runway Monday morning, June 18, at 10 a.m. at DeKalb Peachtree Airport (PDK) crashed through a fence and stopped just feet from Dresden Road, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The two pilots and one of the...

News update, June 18

Georgia Supreme Court rules against MCI in its 2007 loss-of-service lawsuit In 4-3 decision, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a company that accidentally severed a telecommunications company’s fiber-optic cable while doing excav...

Columbia’s McCrary enters Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame

Dr. Phil McCrary
by Chris Chilton DeKalb County Schools Athletic Specialist   Another DeKalb County coaching legend is now a member of the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame. Columbia head boys basketball coach Dr. Phil McCrary was one of five new members inducted in the l...

Emory University professor named next U.S. poet laureate

The Library of Congress recently announced the appointment of Emory University English professor Natasha Trethewey as the next poet laureate of the United States. Trethewey, who will be the 19th poet laureate, succeeds poet Philip Levine and will ope...

Kirkwood boasts growing business district, small-town feel

Kirkwood, an east Atlanta neighborhood in DeKalb County, boasts a burgeoning business district, which has grown exponentially in the past decade. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
Kirkwood resident Joe Alcock said he has seen a lot of changes in the east Atlanta neighborhood since he and his wife moved there more than a decade ago. “A lot of people are moving back into the city and buying old houses and renovating them,” A...

Downtown Decatur officially named historic district

The Decatur Downtown Historic District was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. Plans for the city were laid out in the 1820s and many of those early buildings are still intact today. Lynn Speno, who works for the Historic Pres...

News update, June 16

Senior Connections raises more than $100,000 More than $10,000 was raised during the Senior Connections fourth annual “Senior Prom” June 9 at the Thalia N. Carlos Hellenic Center in Atlanta. Senior Connections is a service organization...

Crime update, June 14

Man arrested after taking stolen gun to funeral A Decatur man was arrested June 12 when he took a stolen gun to the memorial service of a shooting victim. The gun had been stolen last year from the county district attorney’s evidence storage f...

New development coming to Covington Highway

Developers of the once defunct Panola Slope mixed-use project hope the complex spurs economic development on Covington Highway. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Running from Avondale Estates to near Stonecrest Mall in unincorporated Lithonia, 12-mile Covington Highway is the focus of some new economic development. A month-old RaceTrac gas station is causing traffic jams along Covington Highway as it engages ...

Budget deficit grows, school board tables vote

DeKalb County School District Chief Financial Officer Michael Perrone speaks with Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson and Chief Communications Officer Walter Woods at a business meeting June 11. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
The DeKalb County Board of Education tabled a final vote on its proposed budget June 11 after school officials revealed it needs to make an additional $12 million in cuts due to dropping property tax values. Hundreds of students, community members an...

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