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News update, March 20

Local elected officials to participate in Meals on Wheels Mayors’ March Mayors Donna Pittman (Doraville), Deborah Jackson (Lithonia), Eric Clarkson (Chamblee), Ed Reiker (Avondale Estates) and Emmanuel Ransom (Clarkston), as well as DeKalb Cou...

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 ...

Dunwoody day care killer sentenced to life without parole

The murder trial of Hemy Neuman is over but there still are questions in the case. Neuman was sentenced to life without parole on March 15 after a jury found him guilty but mentally ill in the November 2010 killing of Russell Sneiderman outside a Dun...

News update, March 16

Spring clean-up at Ashford Park set The Ashford Park Civic Association Friends of the Park group will have a spring clean-up in Ashford Park at Caldwell Road and Redding Road on March 17, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.  Volunteers from the community...

St. Patrick’s Day’s Saturday this year so folks can party hardy

Stone Mountain Highland Games and Scottish Festival
It is no surprise that St. Patrick’s Day is a big deal in Georgia. A significant portion of the state’s population, like the fictitious Scarlett O’Hara of Gone With the Wind, claim an Irish heritage. On March 17 ethnic heritage matters little a...

Accrediting agency said improvements still needed at DCSD

Officials from AdvanED, the DeKalb County School District’s (DCSD) accrediting agency, said even though the school system has made several positive changes, it still has more work to do. A panel from AdvancED, the parent corporation of the Southern...