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Decatur Career Academy helps student realize dream of helping family

Lacrimioara Sava Cross, an 18-year-old junior at Decatur High School, is realizing her dream to become a midwife who with help from the school’s career academy. Lacree, as she is called, was born in Romania to a single mother—she was the sixth ch...

Grant will bring more fresh vegetables to East Lake

An $82,000 grant by DeKalb County and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will help the East Lake Farmer’s Market build its own farm. The East Lake Farmers (ELF) Market, located at Second Avenue and Hosea Williams Drive in ...

Chuy’s restaurant offers fresh Tex-Mex in a playful setting

An open car trunk of chips and sauces is one of the fun touches at Chuy’s.
  Chuy’s Mexican restaurant prides itself on its whimsical atmosphere—tiles that don’t match, bright uncoordinated colors, hubcaps hanging from the ceiling and a black velvet Elvis portrait that’s the centerpiece for the Elvis “shrine.” ...

Clarkston acquires historic home for new offices

Nancy Faye said when she was younger the field behind her childhood home was filled with wild daffodils, roses and irises during the springtime. “They’d put you out in the morning and you weren’t supposed to come back until the end of the day,...

News update, March 19

Three men charged with murder after police find body DeKalb County Police have three people in custody charged with the murder of a 19-year-old man. The victim, Derrick Linkhorn, was reported missing on March 8. His body was found on March ...