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Q&A with newly elected DeKalb County school board member Marshall Orson

Over the next several weeks The Champion newspaper education reporter Daniel Beauregard will be sitting down with newly-elected DeKalb County school board members to discuss their thoughts on the issues facing the DeKalb County School District (DCSD...

Judge gives high-school girls firsthand glimpse at legal system

Southwest DeKalb High School student Bria Cooper said her favorite thing about DeKalb County Judge Stacey Hydrick’s mentoring program was visiting the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) crime lab. Cooper, who will be a senior this fall, is inter...

Lakeside High student skips a grade and goes to college

Caitlin Hewel has skipped her senior year of high school and will be attending Bard College at Simon’s Rock this fall as a freshman. Bard College was founded in 1966 and is the only stand-alone, fully accredited college that is developed for the sole purpose of early-entrance learning. Photo provided
On Aug. 18, former Lakeside High School student Caitlin Hewel will travel to Great Barrington, Mass., to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock, but unlike most college freshman, Hewel never completed the 12th grade. “It’s really surreal and it’...

Jamaica’s celebration of 50 years of independence makes for a great excuse to visit

Overlooking downtown Montego Bay. Photo by John Hewitt
Only a short plane ride from Atlanta sits the fifth largest island in the Caribbean. The indigenous people of the island named it Xaymaca, meaning the “Land of Wood and Water.” Now the island, Jamaica, is celebrating 50 years of independence from...

School board promotes employees, hires new public relations firm

The DeKalb County School Board voted to move several employees into consolidated central office positions but decided to freeze their pay raises, pending a review later this year. Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson asked the board to promote three depart...

Decatur Chick-fil-A becomes social issue hot spot

Decatur residents Mark Toomajian and Jim Fortier lock lips during a “kiss-in” held at the Chick-fil-A restaurant in downtown Decatur. Approximately 50 people rallied Aug. 3 to speak out against comments recently made by Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy supporting the “biblical definition of the family.” Photo by Daniel Beauregard
Decatur resident Julie Romano stood in front of the Chick-fil-A on the corner of N. McDonough and Trinity Place in downtown Decatur Aug. 3. She said Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s recent comments opposing same-sex marriage is more than a free sp...

Sevananda Natural Foods Cooperative sues members over elections

The Sevananda Natural Foods Market, located in Little Five Points, has filed suit against several of its members, alleging they violated the food cooperative’s bylaws and attempted to improperly influence its governing board. The lawsuit was filed ...

Synthetic drug manufacturer raided in Chamblee

  Law enforcement officials arrested four people and seized hundreds of pounds of synthetic drugs packaged and ready for sale at a Chamblee warehouse July 25. The raid was part of a nationwide sweep on synthetic designer drugs performed by the Unite...

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...

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...