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Board of Commissioners’ committees get airtime on a dime, for now

When the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners could not get additional airtime earlier this year on DCTV, the county’s television network, one commissioner took matters into her own hands. And BOCTV, an online site with streaming and on-demand vide...

Looming Brookhaven could cost DeKalb 300 jobs

The possible incorporation of Brookhaven could cost more than 300 DeKalb County employees their jobs. DeKalb County, already trying to determine the effect annexations in Avondale Estates, Chamblee, Decatur and Doraville may have on its bottom line, ...

Grand jury considering Andrea Sneiderman’s role in husband’s killing

Nearly a month after a jury found Hemy Neuman guilty but mentally ill in the November 2010 killing of Russell “Rusty” Sneiderman, a grand jury has subpoenaed the video testimony of Sneiderman’s widow. Andrea Sneiderman allegedly had an affair w...

Occupy Atlanta activist arrested in south DeKalb

An activist with Occupy Atlanta was arrested outside a south DeKalb home the group is trying to save from foreclosure. According to a DeKalb County Police incident report, Michael Olszewski, 22, of Norcross, was charged with obstructing a street when...

Lithonia boosts police department with reserve officers

The Lithonia Police Department has grown from five officers to 13 and it did not cost the city a penny. The city has signed on eight reserve officers to assist the police department’s five fulltime officers. “We will be more visible,” said acti...

Unknowns surround county’s ‘job stimulus plan’

A sign at Wade Walker Park advertises DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis’ One DeKalb Works initiative, which has been described as a job stimulus plan incorporating the county’s billion-dollar watershed improvement project. Some county commissioners say One DeKalb Works has nothing to do with the construction of a new YMCA facility at Wade Walker Park. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Representatives of the colleges that are supposed to be working on DeKalb County’s billion-dollar job stimulus plan don’t know much about it. In late March, a DeKalb official told a Board of Commissioners committee that the county is working with...

Watershed employees arrested for stealing time

Four county watershed department employees are out of jobs and are under investigation for a fraudulent timekeeping scheme. According to Ted Rhinehart, the county’s deputy chief operating officer over infrastructure departments, a county timekeeper...

South DeKalb could get coveted heavy rail

Months of campaigning by south DeKalb residents and county leaders for a heavy rail transit system to Stonecrest Mall may be paying off. MARTA CEO Beverly Scott announced the “good news” during a breakfast meeting April 7 sponsored by DeKalb Comm...

Shrinking DeKalb : Legislation could have adverse effect on county

DeKalb County could take a hit—financially and territorially—from the 2012 session of the Georgia General Assembly. The possible incorporation of Brookhaven and annexations by Avondale Estates, Chamblee, Decatur and Doraville—added to the failu...

Chamblee could add 11,000 residents with annexation

Chamblee could get a little bigger and unincorporated DeKalb County may shrink after the passage of a bill in the last days of the 2012 General Assembly. Residents in the Dresden East Civic Association (DECA) area neighborhoods gained a chance to dec...