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Browns Mill recreation center gets $500,000 upgrade

Hundreds of children are enjoying a half-million-dollar renovation to the Browns Mill Recreation Center in south DeKalb. Among the upgrades, the center’s tile gym floor has been replaced. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
The Browns Mill recreation center, originally built in the 1980s, has gotten a half-million dollar upgrade. The building has a new gym floor, bleachers, paint job, tile flooring, front doors and entry way, and renovated restrooms. An electric partit...

Sneiderman arrested, indicted as accomplice in husband's murder

Andrea Sneiderman was arrested August 2 and charged as an accomplice in her late husband's murder.
Andrea Sneiderman, the widow of Rusty Sneiderman, who was gunned down in November 2010 by Andrea’s former boss Hemy Neuman, was arrested Aug. 2 and charged as an accomplice in her husband’s murder. Neuman was eventually tried, found guilty and se...

Behind the velvet rope: New program bestows celebrity treatment on unsung heros

Steve Parrett of Nissan/Infiniti, left, presents the keys to a 2012 Infiniti to Deborah Broom-Cooley while Dale McDaniel, general manager of Loews Atlanta Hotel, shares in the moment. In the back row are Cooley’s husband, Henry, and author Ronda Racha Penrice. Photo provided
DeKalb County educator Deborah Broom-Cooley now knows what it feels like to be treated like a celebrity. In mid-July Cooley and her husband Henry Cooley Jr. spent a whirlwind weekend getting the royal treatment: a hotel stay, lunch with a local telev...

Voters support Brookhaven cityhood

Asha Johannaber and Mary Ellen Layden stand off Peachtree Road and show their support, and opposition, for the Brookhaven cityhood. Photo by John Hewitt
DeKalb County voters said “Yes” to the proposed city of Brookhaven at the polls July 31. In what appeared to be a close race, by press time 75 percent of polls reporting showed 55.61 percent of voters in favor of Brookhaven and 44.39 percent agai...

A penny saved: Transportation tax fails

DeKalb residents and others in the metro Atlanta area voted to save their pennies instead of paying a one-cent sales tax for transportation. At stake in the vote was $6.14 billion of regional transportation projects selected by the Atlanta Regional R...

Commissioner says he was not drunk driving

Internal investigators at the DeKalb County Police Department are seeking to determine whether a county commissioner was given preferential treatment. A police report from a July 12 incident alleges that DeKalb Commissioner Stan Watson “appeared in...

Brookhaven cityhood, county CEO on July 31 ballot

The cityhood of Brookhaven, a one-cent sales tax for transportation projects, and the next CEO of DeKalb County are on the line as voters go to the polls July 31. As of July 19, approximately 6,710 people had participated in early voting, according t...

Doraville plans to redevelop blighted areas, bring in business

The city of Doraville has proposed a redevelopment plan in hopes of curbing economic blight and encouraging businesses to relocate to the city. Luke Howe, a spokesman for Doraville Mayor Donna Pittman, said the city has proposed two drafts of the pla...

Going, going, gone –Auction brings in dollars, clears space

Auctioneer Amy Martin gets the action going while potential bidders and auctioneer and FODAC board member Scott Schwartz, second from left, look on. Photo by Gale Horton Gay
One came seeking merchandise for an online business. Another was in search of an anniversary gift. And several others were hoping to walk away with true bargains. These were just some of the attendees at the July 18 auction at Friends of Disabled Adu...

South River attracts curious canoers

River enthusiasts and curious first-time canoers took a trip down south DeKalb’s South River as part of a project by the South River Watershed Alliance to increase awareness of the waterway. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Twenty-five people donned life jackets and boarded 11 canoes and two kayaks for a six-mile, four-hour trip on the South River July 21. Winding through south DeKalb from the Panola Shoals trailhead near Snapfinger Road to Panola Mountain State Park, t...

Counting pennies: Metro Atlanta to vote on transportation tax

I-85 North at I-285 would get $26.5 million in interchange improvements if metro Atlanta voters decide to approve a 1-percent sales tax July 31. The proposed tax is expected to generate $8.5 billion to be divided among predetermined projects in the 10-county region, including MARTA upgrades on Buford Highway. Photos by Andrew Cauthen
Nine months of forums, ad campaigns and rallies will come to an end next week as voters in metro Atlanta decided on a 1 percent sales tax for transportation. “Every single day in metro Atlanta 38 percent of individuals cross a county line,” said ...

Drug Court launches book club for at-risk children

Lakristie* and Rahshina* wasted no time signing up their children when they learned about the new book club. They both believe that participating in the reading groups would improve their children’s reading skills and set them on a positive path in...

Cross Keys solar car heads to Texas Motor Speedway

The top of the Cross Keys High School solar car “Endeavor” awaits placement. The team, made up of members of the DeKalb County School District’s Engineering and VEX Robotics teams, was the first team of Georgia high-schoolers to participate in the 2012 Solar Car Challenge, held at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Patrick Gunter, director of the Cross Keys High School Manufacturing Center, stood amid a group of students busily putting the last finishing touches on a solar car they had been building for the last several months. During the past year Gunter has b...

Picketers protest Walmart again

Disappointed with a recent meeting with the developer of Suburban Plaza, protestors take their anti-Walmart message to the streets. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Flash flooding in Decatur July 13 did not stop a group from protesting a proposed Suburban Plaza Walmart. Carrying handmade picket signs, members of Good Growth DeKalb, which is opposed to the Walmart development, gathered at the usually busy interse...

DeKalb coaches schedule around new heat policy

The Georgia High School Association’s new heat-acclimatization policy, adopted in March, requires all football players to build up tolerance to high temperatures by working out in shorts and helmets for five days before donning full pads. Three-a-d...

Clarkston canine to compete in national dock diving competition

Among DeKalb County’s outstanding athletes is one more likely to celebrate victories with a wag of his tail than with a high five. He’s a 3-year-old pit bull-German Shepherd mix named Nathan Jr. Heather Gulden, who describes herself as Nathan Jr....

County mulling $2 million purchase for firemen’s air packs

DeKalb County Fire Rescue officials are rushing to replace 300 faulty air masks. The department asked the county’s Board of Commissioners on July 10 to approve $2 million for the purchase of 300 self-contained breathing apparatuses, 640 air bottles...

Forum features county candidates

Jerome Edmondson, one of three candidates for DeKalb County CEO, was the only CEO candidate who participated in a question-and-answer session during a July 12 forum. Edmonson brought a manipulated photo of current CEO Burrell Ellis in a soapbox car, as he criticized a project touted by Ellis. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Of the three candidates running for DeKalb County chief executive officer, Jerome Edmondson was alone onstage during a July 12 question-and-answer forum. CEO candidate Gregory Adams, who is the pastor of True Church of God in Christ in Austell, was a...

Judge candidate indicted for theft

A candidate for DeKalb Superior Court has some legal problems of his own. Michael Rothenberg was indicted by a DeKalb County grand jury July 17 on six felony counts of theft by taking, according to a statement by the office of DeKalb County District ...

Ellis, planning director named in lawsuit

A lawsuit filed July 3 against three county officials over a land displacement permit calls into question the DeKalb CEO’s hiring of an interim planning director. Bobby Buckler and Anthony McCullar filed the lawsuit “because they won’t let us p...

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