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Four ways to celebrate the Fourth

Decatur Pied Piper Parade. Photo by John Hewitt
On Sunday, July 4, America celebrates its 234th birthday and festivities all across the country will mark the occasion. Here in DeKalb County communities are finding their own ways to celebrate. Here are some of the events at which DeKalb folk...

Godfrey breaks barriers on way to Hall of Fame

Southwest DeKalb High School Football coach Buck Godfrey was inducted into the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame in a ceremony on June 10.
by Mark Brock William ‘Buck’ Godfrey’s journey to the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame was not a smooth ride, despite a DeKalb County leading 250 football coaching victories.Godfrey, the coach at Southwest DeKalb High School for 27 seasons, won the ...

Miller ‘sensed’ CEO Ellis was in danger

Security detail outside of CEO Burrell Ellis’ DeKalb County home.
Although there have been no threats made against DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis or his family, the security detail at Ellis’ home provided by DeKalb police will continue indefinitely. William Miller, the DeKalb County director of public safety, sa...

Up to the challenge: Athletes earn top academic honors

by Mark Brock     Balancing academics and athletics always is a challenge for students on any level, and 23 DeKalb County School System athletes accomplished it while earning top graduating honors at their respective schools.  Including magnet sch...

UPDATE: Missing child found unharmed

A 3-year-old DeKalb County boy missing for more than 24 hours was found unharmed at a home at 3556 Thornwood Drive in Atlanta, according to DeKalb County Police. Jeffrey Strickland, the 45-year-old uncle of Evan Luangsombath, showed up at the home at...

Controversial billboards link abortion, race

Billboards such as this one on Fayetteville Road near Glenwood Road in Decatur’s East Lake area have stirred nationwide controversy. Photo by Kathy Mitchell
by Errin Haines ATLANTA (AP) The message on dozens of billboards across Atlanta is provocative: Black children are an “endangered species.” The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young Black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use r...

Memorial ceremonies planned for former Stone Mountain mayor

Charles “Chuck” Burris. Photo by Maggie Steber
Two ceremonies are planned in March to memorialize a former mayor of Stone Mountain who died last year. Charles “Chuck” Burris, the first African-American mayor of Stone Mountain, passed away in Annapolis, Md., on Feb. 12, 2009, after complicatio...

Grant inducted into college basketball hall of fame

by Mark Brock Mention (Earvin) Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, and people usually think they are two of the best all-time players in college and NBA history. Then start talking about Panola Way Elementary Assistant Principal Travis Grant in the same br...

Nights in an Irish Knight’s Castle

by Carla Waldemar This wasn’t the Finian’s Rainbow tour. Save that for folks who get all teary at the mere thought of thatched cottages and shamrocks. That’s so yesterday. Welcome to you-owe-it-to-yourself Ireland, where you can sleep in statel...

Emory hosts world’s largest collegiate display of AIDS Memorial Quilt

Across the Emory University Quadrangle names—solemnly recited one after the other—recalled those who have lost their lives to AIDS. On the ground, the 800-panel AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorated those lives. Each panel is an individual memorial cr...