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Eyesore will be razed for greenspace

The vacant Brookside Apartments will soon be demolished to make way for a 7.5-acre community park on North Decatur Road. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
An eyesore on North Decatur Road will soon meet its fate. The county’s Board of Commissioners approved a plan Aug. 14 to demolish Brookside Apartments, an abandoned, derelict complex located on North Decatur Road just outside I-285 with frontage on...

Residents talk of Tucker cityhood, improvement district

With Brookhaven soon to become a city, some DeKalb County residents in the Tucker area said although it wouldn’t benefit from incorporation, it might become a Community Improvement District (CID). President of the Tucker Business Association (TBA) ...

Sexting allegation sidelines coach

A DeKalb County high school football coach has been sidelined after being accused of sexting a parent. Head Coach Michael Carson, of Martin Luther King High School, was suspended Aug. 21 pending the outcome of an ethics investigation into the allegat...

It takes a children’s village to complete a book festival

Terra McVoy, the book festival’s director of programming, at Little Shop of Stories in Decatur shows some of the children’s books featured at this year’s AJC Decatur Book Festival.
From its inception in 2006, the AJC Decatur Book Festival set out to be a festival for everyone, including the very youngest readers. In fact, each festival includes books, authors, activities and a special area designated for young book lovers. “W...

Local nonprofit develops support group for bullying victims

Polina Milter said when she attended Dunwoody High School bullying ranged from name calling to “complete avoidance.” In some cases, Milter said she would walk up to a group of students to try to join their conversation, only to be completely igno...

Pedal power: 41 years and counting

“If we were ripping people off, we wouldn’t have lasted this long,” said Fred Boykin, owner of Bicycle South, which has been in business for 41 years. Photo by Kathy Mitchell
Fred Boykin and Mark Zuckerberg have more than one thing in common. Zuckerberg attended Havard. Boykin went to the “Harvard of the South.” Another shared interest: Both presided over successful business startups in college.  Zuckerberg (with a l...

DeKalb teen takes plea, avoids life in prison for shooting cousin

Charlie Oliver, 17, accused of killing his 8-year-old cousin, pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter Aug. 28. Oliver agreed to plead guilty and receive a 10-year sentence for fatally shooting Solomon Zellner in the face July 6, 2011;...

Atlanta holds world’s first all-female street artist conference

Murals were painted on buildings all over metro Atlanta, including the Kirkwood community, during the third annual Living Walls Conference. Twenty-six female artists from around the world came to metro Atlanta Aug. 15-19 for the painting event. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
Female artists from around the world descended on Atlanta Aug.15-19 for the third annual Living Walls Conference. This year’s conference featured 26 artists from places around the world, including Zurich and Spain as well as metro Atlanta. The conf...

Noncustodial mother jailed, missing children not returned

Melisa Ivey, a noncustodial mother accused of keeping her four children past the court-ordered visitation period, was arrested after a warrant hearing. The children have not been returned to the father yet. [Inset] Micah Parker still has a text message from Melisa Ivey, his ex-wife, that he received the night his four children were taken by their noncustodial mother in June. Photos by Andrew Cauthen
A woman accused of taking her four children from their custodial father in violation of a court order is in jail. Melisa Ivey, of Carrollton, Texas, appeared before DeKalb County Magistrate Judge Tracy Dorfman Aug. 16 for a warrant application hearin...

Decatur dog lover killed by dogs

by Bryan Fazio   Rebecca Carey never would have expected this. On Aug. 12 Carey was found dead, killed by multiple dog bites, according to DeKalb County police. The 23-year old Decatur woman and Georgia Perimeter College student had loved dogs her l...