DeKalb County, GA — The DeKalb County School Board is meeting Sept. 11 and is considering a $32 million contract for HVAC work at four schools. The board meeting starts with a closed-door executive session at 12:30 p.m., followed by the work session and community input meeting at 5:45 p.m. The meeting will be held in […]

Decatur, GA — The city of Decatur has announced that the GoDecatur Circulator shuttle will not operate on Sept. 27, Oct. 25 and Nov. 29, according to a Facebook post from the city. The shuttle drivers are also crossing guards in the morning and afternoon during each school day, Planning and Economic Development Director Angela […]

By Atlanta News First staff ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Several people who went to protest Atlanta’s future public safety training center were arrested Thursday after Atlanta police said they trespassed onto the site where the facility will be. Police said at around 9:30 a.m., five people had trespassed and chained themselves to a piece […]

Decatur, GA — A driver fled the scene after crashing his truck into Decatur’s popular Taqueria Del Sol restaurant earlier this week. A reader sent Decaturish a photo showing the damage. Decatur Police Sgt. John Bender said, “On Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at approximately 2:36 pm, Decatur Police responded to a business within the 300 block […]

Decatur, GA — The Center for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary has announced the 2023 grant recipients of the ReKindle Congregational Development Program. The Lilly Endowment provided a $969,500 grant to the seminary to help the Center for Lifelong Learning develop the program, “reKindle: Congregational Development in a Post-Covid Era,” according to a press […]

Editor’s note: This article was reprinted with permission from The Chronicle of Higher Education. By Stephanie M. Lee, The Chronicle of Higher Education A bathtub in Emory University’s museum is splashed with symbols of the sea: a giant fish, wavy water lines. Someone in the ancient Mediterranean world may have used it as a coffin, […]

Greater Decatur, GA — A shooting in the parking lot of the Suburban Plaza shopping center injured a man and damaged vehicles, according to media reports. So far, DeKalb Police have not returned repeated messages seeking information about what happened. WSB-TV reported that customers at Ross Dress For Less had to dodge bullets by crawling […]

This story has been updated. Decatur, GA — Some demolition work has begun at 725 E. College Avenue, the site of a future 370-unit mixed-use development. The developer, Northwood Ravin, has been issued a demolition permit. The project site is about seven acres at 114-134 New Street, 141 Sams Street and 715-747 E. College Ave. […]

By Dan Whisenhunt and Zoe Seiler  DeKalb County, GA — This November, voters in cities and in unincorporated DeKalb County will consider two related ballot measures. One is an extension of the Equalized Homestead Option Sales Tax (EHOST), which is expected to save taxpayers $1 billion over the next six years. The other is the special […]

By Jaedon Mason, contributor  Stone Mountain, GA – The Stone Mountain City Council met on Sept. 5 and voted to postpone approval of a budget amendment moving $10,000 within the general fund from the cemetery lawn care account to the buildings and grounds landscaping account. These funds, once moved, would have been used to contract […]