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DeKalb School Board approves $475 million construction list

The DeKalb County School Board voted June 6 to approve the $475 million list of items for the Special Purpose Local Options Sales Tax (SPLOST) construction projects. Now, voters must approve the list in November, which would be funded by an added 1 p...

$20 million to help first-time home buyers

From left, Ed Jennings, southeast regional administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and DeKalb commissioners Stan Watson and Larry Johnson hold advertisements that promote the county’s Get Home Now! initiative to help first-time home buyers. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Charles Johnson of Ellenwood soon will be a first-time homeowner thanks to a new DeKalb County program that has allocated $20 million to help potential buyers with credit challenges to purchase a home. “I did not know anything about a home,” John...

DeKalb Habitat for Humanity robbed three times

DeKalb Habitat for Humanity Executive Director John Shaffer gazes at the empty shelves where nearly $10,000 of tools sat before the organization’s storage units were robbed. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
The DeKalb County Habitat for Humanity was left with nothing more than a few old shovels and rakes after the organization’s storage facility was robbed for the third time the weekend of May 21. Employees of the storage facility behind Belvedere Uni...

A tale of two cities…And two stay-worthy, art-themed hotels

Indigo Hotel
What do Lancaster, Pa., and Asheville, N.C., have in common? More than one might think. In addition to thriving arts scenes, each has a hip and trendy boutique hotel that is an artistic expression in its own right and a great place stay. Lancaster, P...

Lithonia residents say ‘no’ to Green Energy facility

Lithonia area residents wearing handwritten “NO” stickers packed DeKalb County’s Maloof Auditorium in Decatur recently to oppose a proposed woodchip burning facility. “Hear us today,” Bishop Miles Fowler told the Board of Commissioners on M...

DeKalb Schools fund lacrosse pilot program

The DeKalb County Board of Education voted on May 27 to fund a lacrosse pilot program for any high school in the county that is interested and has enough students to form a team. The pilot program, which will last a year, will pay for transportation ...

Natural wonder: Becoming one with the environment in Jacksonville

A lone brown pelican leaves its perch atop a tree on the Fort George River in Jacksonville and glides above our group of kayakers. The soft whistles of egrets and herons fill the air. Fish occasionally leap out of the blue-green water to be momentari...

Residents want sidewalk on busy cut-through

Originally constructed to be a quiet, neighborhood road, Carter Road is now used by many to avoid the busy Memorial Drive-Columbia Drive intersection. Residents say a sidewalk is needed to protect pedestrians. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
For more than a decade, Karen Fain has been trying to get sidewalks on her street, a .7-mile section of Carter Road between Memorial Drive and Columbia Drive. “Safety of the pedestrians should be paramount,” Fain said. The road was designed as a ...

Tucker High student plants 1,000 trees

Courtney Scott was awarded a Plannet Connect grant to plant 1,000 trees in her community by the end of June. Photo provided
  Courtney Scott, a 17-year-old soon-to-be senior at Tucker High School, was browsing the internet when a link popped up that she felt compelled to click on. The link Scott had stumbled upon was to apply for a 2011 student grant through Planet Conne...

It’s a party in the parking lot, as new Chick-fil-A opens in Northlake

Some waiting in the parking lot divide into teams for contests directed by Chick-fil-A staff members. Photos by Kathy Mitchell
  Neither crowds, nor heat, nor dark of night could deter hundreds of eager would-be Chick-fil-A customers waiting in the parking lot for the opening the restaurant’s newest metro Atlanta location in the Northlake area. The Chick-fil-A on Lavista ...