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Miller Grove foursome leads Dugout Club list

Miller Grove leads the way with four players on the first team of the DeKalb County Dugout Club’s all-county team. The 19 players selected to the first team come from nine schools. Dunwoody and Redan, which qualified for the Class AAAA state playof...

Circus Camp more than just clowning around

Circus Camp aerial director Jacosa Kato helps a camper on one piece of aerial apparatus, above, while campers and a counselor work on the trapeze and the silks at the Decatur camp. Photo by Robert Naddra
Two red silk ribbons hang 20 feet from ceiling to floor at Circus Camp in Decatur. The trick for acrobats is to climb the silks, strategically wrap the ribbons around one’s body, then twist downward, the silks unfurling along the way until the part...

Locals back on U.S. Olympic track team

DeKalb County has produced numerous top track and field athletes over the years and two of them will be competing in the 2012 London Olympics. Dee Dee Trotter, a 2001 graduate of Cedar Grove, and Angelo Taylor, a Southwest DeKalb graduate, will conti...

Marketing an important part of recruiting process

Joshua Outlaw had more than 20 college football scholarship offers before verbally committing to the University of Florida in April. M.L. King teammate Jeremy Tyler, a linebacker, has yet to decide among nearly two dozen scholarship offers. Wide rece...

Basketball camp a long-standing tradition in DeKalb

Former Atlanta Hawk Mike Glenn held his 33rd annual basketball camp for hearing-challenged athletes, which drew 102 campers from schools for the deaf across the Southeast and as far away as Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Photo by Robert Naddra
For 33 years former NBA player Mike Glenn has been carrying on a tradition begun by his father. Glenn’s father established the sports programs at Georgia School for the Deaf when it was segregated. “I grew up around deaf kids and understand the c...

All-county baseball: Juniors lead the way on The Champion’s list

A promising crop of juniors highlights the 2012 Champion Newspaper all-county baseball team. Redan junior pitcher/shortstop Wesley Jones is the Player of the Year after leading the county with a .538 batting average. He was also one of the top pitche...

Book nooks: Little Free Libraries catching on

From left, Muffie Michaelson, Dr. Robin Dretler, Alexandra Dretler, Geraldine Adamich Laufer and Vincent Laufer gather around David Laufer’s Little Free Library on High Haven Court. Photo by David Laufer
Imagine building a dollhouse-like structure, sitting it atop a post and putting it in the ground in front of a home or a park. Then fill it with books and watch what happens. David Laufer did just that in April in front of his Druid Hills home. Since...

All-star baseball: Taylor earns second straight MVP award as North tops South

One player had been in the spotlight before and the other had not, but both played important roles in the North’s 5-4 win over the South in the 10th annual DeKalb County Senior All-Star Baseball Classic on May 30 at Sequoyah Middle School. Clarksto...

Derby dreams realized: Participants qualify for national soap box derby

A driver in the Super Stock class prepares for the trip down the 900-foot track during the Soap Box Derby races in Dunwoody on June 2. Photo by Robert Naddra
The back parking lot of Atlanta First Baptist Church in Dunwoody hardly looks like a place where soap box derby dreams are made. But six young drivers June 2 conquered the 900-foot downhill track in a qualifying event and will participate in the All-...

Historic day for Southwest DeKalb tennis

Riddick overcomes spinal surgery to earn scholarship Two years ago Jasmine Riddick was more concerned with learning how to walk again than what she might do after graduating from Southwest DeKalb High School. Spinal surgery in June 2010 corrected a s...