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Mountain Industrial businesses seek upgrades

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A group of businesses in the Stone Mountain Industrial Park area want to tax themselves and use the funds to spur local economic development. On April 26, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners approved a community improvement district (CID) consis...

County faces additional $25 million deficit

DeKalb’s financial woes just got a little bit worse. Declining property values in the county are forcing an additional $25 million deficit in the county’s 2011 budget. “Our values have fallen greater than we anticipated,” said DeKal...

What comes next in DeKalb’s superintendent search?

It has been nearly two weeks since all three candidates for the DeKalb Schools’ superintendent job withdrew their names from consideration and the school board has yet to announce its next move. The board had previously set a deadline of July 1 to ...

Former DeKalb Schools employee indicted on fraud charges

A former bookkeeper at Stephenson High School was indicted April 26 on fraud and forgery charges. Shirlene Benton was indicted by a DeKalb County Superior Court grand jury on three counts of financial transaction card fraud, three counts of firs...

Proposed DeKalb Schools’ budget restores furloughs, pre-k program

Furlough days will be eliminated and the pre-kindergarten program in the DeKalb County School System will be restored under a tentative 2011-12 budget adopted by the school board April 18. The $1.16 billion budget, which is subject to change before o...

DeKalb cities discuss Sunday alcohol sales

With the recent passage of the Sunday alcohol sales bill through the legislature, several cities in DeKalb County are deciding whether to let their voters decide the issue in November. The bill, SB 10, which passed its final hurdle in the House on Ap...

Black Purple Heart recipient may be oldest alive

After being hit with shrapnel during the Korean War, retired Army Sgt. Macron Justice of Decatur may be the country’s oldest living Black Purple Heart recipient. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
His military card lists him as a “Black Bayonet Fighter and Trainer” with the M1 rifle. At 81 years old, retired Sgt. First Class Macron Justice, a DeKalb County veteran of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War, may be the oldest Black Pur...