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News Update, March 15

9 DeKalb schools on GDOE’s list of low-performing schools The Georgia Department of Education released its list of low-performing schools on March 14, and it includes nine DeKalb County School District school. A total of 78 schools were listed as â...

Family affair: Miller Grove’s girls join boys’ team as state champions

Minutes after Miller Grove won its first girls state basketball championship, there was a bonding moment a long time coming. As the players and coaches walked off the court March 9 at Gwinnett Arena and into a walkway leading to the locker room, they...

Columbia Boys and girls continue basketball dynasty with state titles

Nearly a two-hour drive from DeKalb County, the city of Macon has become a showcase for the county’s most prolific basketball dynasty. For the third year in a row, the Columbia High School boys’ team won the Class AAA state basketball championshi...

News update, March 14

Training set for Interactive Defense website The Clarkston Police Department on Thursday, March 15, will hold a training session for residents interested in learning more about the Interactive Defense website. Residents are encouraged to bring ...

Accused Dunwoody killer’s fate in hands of jury

Testimony is over in the trial of accused killer Hemy Neuman and now it is up to jurors to decide whether he was insane at the time of the crime. Neuman is on trial for the November 2010 killing outside Dunwoody Prep daycare center of Russell Sneider...

School board defers vote to cover projected shortfall

DeKalb County School Board members deferred a vote on March 12 to cover a projected shortfall of nearly $40 million on SPLOST II and III projects. Rather than vote on a proposed corrective action plan, board members voted unanimously to accept a subs...

DeKalb’s CEO vetoes auditors’ transfer to commissioners’ control

A plan to move county auditors from the finance department to under the control of the Board of Commissioners has been rejected by DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis. In a letter to commissioners at the end of the business day on March 9, Ellis vetoed t...

Proposed composting facility gives in to community resistance

After persistent opposition from Lithonia residents, a proposed composting company has decided not to open a plant there. The decision comes approximately a week after the DeKalb County Planning Commission decided on March 6 to defer voting on Greenc...

News update, March 13

Fire breaks out in east Atlanta warehouse DeKalb firefighters responded late Monday, March 12, to a fire at Superior Rigging and Erecting on Woodstock Road near Moreland Avenue in east Atlanta. When firefighters arrived at approximately 10:43 p....

Miller Grove sweeps Class AAAA state basketball titles

Miller Grove High School accomplished something Friday that no other school in DeKalb County has done.  The Wolverines won a boys and girls state basketball championship in the same season. The girls won their first state title with a 46-39 win over...