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Sara Fountain to step down as Leadership DeKalb executive director

Leadership DeKalb had been around only five years when Sara Fountain joined its class of 1992. She was so impressed with the organization that she stayed involved. When the executive director position become available 11 years ago, she expressed an i...

Burglars ransack disabled man’s home

Burglars wrecked the home of Floyd Thompson, an 87-year-old disabled Stone Mountain man, causing thousands of dollars in damage. They urinated on his clothes and wiped feces on walls while he was out of town. “They were mean,” said daughter Judy Parker. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
When 87-year-old, scooter-bound Floyd Thompson returned to his Stone Mountain home July 22 after a trip out of town, he could not open his front door. Burglars had ransacked the home on Sheppard Way in unincorporated Stone Mountain where Thompson and...

Browns Mill recreation center gets $500,000 upgrade

Hundreds of children are enjoying a half-million-dollar renovation to the Browns Mill Recreation Center in south DeKalb. Among the upgrades, the center’s tile gym floor has been replaced. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
The Browns Mill recreation center, originally built in the 1980s, has gotten a half-million dollar upgrade. The building has a new gym floor, bleachers, paint job, tile flooring, front doors and entry way, and renovated restrooms. An electric partit...

Sneiderman arrested, indicted as accomplice in husband's murder

Andrea Sneiderman was arrested August 2 and charged as an accomplice in her late husband's murder.
Andrea Sneiderman, the widow of Rusty Sneiderman, who was gunned down in November 2010 by Andrea’s former boss Hemy Neuman, was arrested Aug. 2 and charged as an accomplice in her husband’s murder. Neuman was eventually tried, found guilty and se...

Behind the velvet rope: New program bestows celebrity treatment on unsung heros

Steve Parrett of Nissan/Infiniti, left, presents the keys to a 2012 Infiniti to Deborah Broom-Cooley while Dale McDaniel, general manager of Loews Atlanta Hotel, shares in the moment. In the back row are Cooley’s husband, Henry, and author Ronda Racha Penrice. Photo provided
DeKalb County educator Deborah Broom-Cooley now knows what it feels like to be treated like a celebrity. In mid-July Cooley and her husband Henry Cooley Jr. spent a whirlwind weekend getting the royal treatment: a hotel stay, lunch with a local telev...

Voters support Brookhaven cityhood

Asha Johannaber and Mary Ellen Layden stand off Peachtree Road and show their support, and opposition, for the Brookhaven cityhood. Photo by John Hewitt
DeKalb County voters said “Yes” to the proposed city of Brookhaven at the polls July 31. In what appeared to be a close race, by press time 75 percent of polls reporting showed 55.61 percent of voters in favor of Brookhaven and 44.39 percent agai...

A penny saved: Transportation tax fails

DeKalb residents and others in the metro Atlanta area voted to save their pennies instead of paying a one-cent sales tax for transportation. At stake in the vote was $6.14 billion of regional transportation projects selected by the Atlanta Regional R...

Commissioner says he was not drunk driving

Internal investigators at the DeKalb County Police Department are seeking to determine whether a county commissioner was given preferential treatment. A police report from a July 12 incident alleges that DeKalb Commissioner Stan Watson “appeared in...