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Leadership DeKalb hosts World Party

More than 150 members of Leadership DeKalb gathered Saturday evening at the Porter Sanford Performing Arts Center for the annual reunion. This year’s reunion, World Party 2010, was a salute to both the diversity of the organization’s membership b...

New judge hopes to reform county recorders court

DeKalb County Recorders Court Chief Judge Nelly Withers took over the ailing court in January. She’s in the process of clearing roughly 500,000 backlogged traffic tickets and reforming the court’s antiquated and confusing processes. Photo by Jonathan Cribbs
To look at a recent report by Nelly Withers to the state bar is to see a recorders court in turmoil. The first half of the report, a Power Point presentation, is essentially slide after slide of alarming statistics – the growing backlog of outstand...

Board passes budget, spares residents tax hike

Teachers, parents, county employees and concerned DeKalb residents filled the room and spilled into the lobby while awaiting the decision on the 2010 school budget. Photo by Travis Hudgons
The DeKalb County Board of Education this month cut $104 million from next year’s budget while sparing residents a tax increase that had been pushed by several members. At the end of a contentious debate peppered with racial and partisan politics, ...

Carter takes state Senate District 42 in landslide

Jason Carter
Jason Carter – grandson of former President Jimmy Carter – won the state Senate District 42 seat on May 11. Carter, an Atlanta attorney, won 5,559 votes or about 66 percent of the vote to take the seat, according to preliminary state returns. Tom...

ZDX designer shares insight into new Acura

2010 Acura ZDX
Jason Widmer has one cool job. Dreaming up designs for the next generation of automobiles, then spending years to fine tune that design and working out the engineering to bring it to market and traveling the country talking about it. Widmer has spent...

Schwarzenegger encourages Emory grads to ‘stay hungry’

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the keynote speaker at the 2010 Emory University commencement, accepts an honorary degree from Emory president James. W. Wagner. Photo by Robert Naddra
In addition to his political career as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been an international bodybuilding champion and an action movie icon. But at Emory University’s 2010 commencement ceremony on May 10, Schwarzenegger encouraged...

Albright delivers commencement speech at Agnes Scott College

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave Agnes Scott College's 2010 commencement speech, telling graduates that they would be looked upon to solve increasingly complex domestic and international problems in the future. Photo provided
The class of 2010 must help “restore the good name of democracy” across the world, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said at Agnes Scott College’s commencement this month. Albright told the class of nearly 200 graduates that as ...

Louise Fawcett looking to score as Wii bowling pioneer

Top image, Floyd and Louise Fawcett. A click here and a swing there and Louise Fawcett is bowling. Photos by Gale Horton Gay.
With her eyes fixed on the lanes before her, Louise Fawcett lowers her hand, swings and watches as a ball strikes pins that tumble down. “Nice spare,” calls an encouraging female voice. Fawcett chuckles and prepares to do it again. This may sound...

County officials respond to former chief’s charges

A decision on a lawsuit filed by former DeKalb County Police Chief Terrell Bolton against the county is pending after the case was heard May 10 in Superior Court. Meanwhile, Bolton filed a police report May 10 with the Decatur Police Department alleg...

Tough glove: Defensive lessons from father and brother give Redan senior an edge

Redan senior outfielder Patrick Smith. Photo by Robert Naddra
Reginald Smith taught his son baseball fundamentals soon after he was able to put on a glove and hold a bat. Not long after that, Patrick Smith began following his older brother, Reginald Smith Jr., to recreation league practices and games. All the w...