Champion Home

Archive for January 25th 2012

3rd

4th

5th

6th

9th

10th

11th

12th

13th

17th

18th

19th

20th

23rd

24th

25th

26th

27th

30th

31st

News update, Jan. 25

  Budget town hall meeting set for Jan. 25 DeKalb County Commissioner Lee May will have a budget town hall meeting for county residents to express their opinions concerning the budget. The meeting will be Wednesday, Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m., at ...

Flap continues over county’s interim planning director

The flap between DeKalb’s Board of Commissioners and CEO over the county’s planning director is not over. The board on Jan. 24 decided not to vote on the appointment by DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis of Gary Cornell to the position of director of plann...

New Birth Christian Academy reopens under new management

Bishop Eddie Long, right, announces that New Birth Christian Academy has reopened thanks to a partnership with Aurora Day Schools. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
Bishop Eddie Long thanked parents, students and staff of New Birth Academy at a Jan. 18 press conference for being cooperative through the “tough” transitions the school has faced in recent weeks. In late December parents and students were notifi...

Audit states DeKalb Schools has too many central office personnel

  A recent audit of central office positions at the DeKalb County School System found it has approximately 300 jobs too many. School spokesman Walter Woods said it would take the recommendations from Virginia-based Management Advisory Group (MAG) to...

Senior centers could feel grip of county’s 2012 budget

Some DeKalb County seniors say they are victims in the county’s proposed 2012 budget. “It seems as though you’re trying to budget on the backs of seniors just like Republicans,” said Conneva Hall, who complained that the budget contained cuts...

Murder suspect arrested

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Squad arrested Alandis Jackson, 21, Jan. 23 at approximately 11:23 p.m. and charged him with the murder of Steven Lewis Jackson. The suspect was taken into custody at 1364 Almont Drive, Atlanta. Jack...