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Proposed county budget cuts five recreation centers

Tobie Grant Recreation Center is one of five centers slated to be closed under a proposed 2011 DeKalb County budget. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
If the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners votes Feb. 22 to close the Tobie Grant Recreation Center, residents say a lifeline for the Scottdale community will be cut. “The library, the recreation center, the park and the pool have been an oasis of...

Commission approves gas project at landfill

After DeKalb’s chief executive officer had to be called in to break an unprecedented tie vote, the county’s board of commissioners approved a plan to harvest compressed natural gas from its Seminole landfill. The county will go forward with using...

Sheriff testifies at racketeering trial of former employee

  It was a simple scam: allegedly using fraudulent identification and forged signatures to obtain unclaimed cash bond refunds from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.   That’s what two people, including a former employee of the s...

Avondale Publix development on hold

The aluminum and steel frame of a building stands as a memorial to a failed Avondale development. Photos by Travis Hudgons
It looks like Publix won’t be coming to Avondale Estates anytime soon. That’s after a development plan six years in the making went under. At the end of January, the Avondale Estates city commission voted to stop working with Century Retail, a Fl...

Old school becomes new movie set

Old school becomes new movie set
There was a lot of activity last week outside of Avondale Estates when a school, shut down since 2008, reopened under a new name. Forest Hills Elementary School came back to life last Monday as Millard Fillmore Elementary School as parents walked the...

Sewage spill update, Feb. 7

In the last 10 days there have been five sewage spills in DeKalb County totaling approximately 21,000 gallons, according to county records. The largest of the spills occurred on Jan. 31 when an eight-inch pipe that carries sewage across the sout...

Volunteers conduct homeless census

Last week, hundreds of volunteers, on a cold, rainy night, canvassed the streets of DeKalb and Fulton counties and the city of Atlanta in an effort to count the homeless population of the area. The homeless census, which is conducted every two years,...

Dunwoody murder suspect to appear in court

The man accused of murdering a Dunwoody father outside his son’s day care in November is expected to appear before a DeKalb magistrate judge on Feb. 8. Hemy Zvi Neuman, 48, of Marietta, was charged with the Nov. 18 murder of Russell “Rusty” Sne...

School district woes dominate hearing

Concerns about school closures and redistricting dominated a public hearing before the DeKalb’s legislative delegation last week. Residents urged the state senators and representatives to intervene in the operations of the county’s Board of Educ...

Trial for 2007 killing still delayed

Timothy and LaMonica Johnson, whose 7-year-old son was murdered in 2007, said justice is taking too long. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
LaMonica Johnson has been grieving the slaying of her 7-year-old son for four years. And with no trial date scheduled yet, there is no closure in sight. “It’s taking too long,” Johnson said last Wednesday after an arraignment hearing in the cas...