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DeKalb coaches schedule around new heat policy

The Georgia High School Association’s new heat-acclimatization policy, adopted in March, requires all football players to build up tolerance to high temperatures by working out in shorts and helmets for five days before donning full pads. Three-a-d...

Clarkston canine to compete in national dock diving competition

Among DeKalb County’s outstanding athletes is one more likely to celebrate victories with a wag of his tail than with a high five. He’s a 3-year-old pit bull-German Shepherd mix named Nathan Jr. Heather Gulden, who describes herself as Nathan Jr....

Champion wins top award again

The Champion Newspaper has won first place in general excellence for the fourth consecutive year and took home eight other first-place awards in its category at the Georgia Press Association Better Newspapers awards banquet. The event was held July 7...

Leadership DeKalb graduates 52 in class of 2012

Fifty-two community leaders successfully completed Leadership DeKalb—a 10-month training program that educates and connects leaders to issues facing DeKalb County and the metro region. The graduation took place during the closing retreat at Stone M...

County renews Marquel's Pledge to end celebratory gunfire

  Almost a full year after 4-year-old Marquel Peters was killed by a stray bullet believed to have been fired by a New Year’s Eve reveler, the DeKalb County Police Department is renewing its pledge to a campaign designed to reduce celebratory gunf...

Amendment changes toughen DeKalb school policies

  DeKalb County School System whistleblowers have a new mechanism to report violations. Teachers can be terminated if bullying is not properly reported and in the event of more lay-offs an employee’s performance will trump seniority.    “We’...

Mohammed Elementary celebrates 30 years

  The age and authenticity of the Clara Mohammed Elementary School instantly shows on the building’s retro triangular façade. Other details about the school show its longevity, too. Things such as the circa 1980s cafeteria booths and tightly pack...

Parents school search firm reps on superintendent qualities

  Some DeKalb County parents want the next superintendent of schools to have qualities similar to those of Eastside High Principal Joe Louis Clark, whose true story was told in the 1989 film Lean on Me starring Morgan Freeman as Clark. “We need so...

Lakeside High’s multi-million dollar overhaul begins

Lakeside High School is ready to see major changes as the first stage of a $24 million renovation project begins. At the groundbreaking ceremony for the site, DeKalb County School System officials, faculty and students gathered Dec. 1 to celebrate th...

Newly elected school board members set sights on fiscal responsibility

Newly elected Donna Edler (right) and Nancy Jester (left) talk as they prepare to begin their first term on the DeKalb County School Board. Photo by P. Witcher
No one knows how newly elected DeKalb County School Board members Donna Edler and Nancy Jester will change group dynamics, but what is clear is that they share a desire to improve fiscal responsibility of the sysytem. After taking more than 70 percen...