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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....

County mulling $2 million purchase for firemen’s air packs

DeKalb County Fire Rescue officials are rushing to replace 300 faulty air masks. The department asked the county’s Board of Commissioners on July 10 to approve $2 million for the purchase of 300 self-contained breathing apparatuses, 640 air bottles...

Judge candidate indicted for theft

A candidate for DeKalb Superior Court has some legal problems of his own. Michael Rothenberg was indicted by a DeKalb County grand jury July 17 on six felony counts of theft by taking, according to a statement by the office of DeKalb County District ...

East Atlanta Kids Club offers academic enrichment and fun

Jill Sieder, executive director and founder of the East Atlanta Kids Club, said when it first opened in 1998 the center was about sheer recreation—a fun and games environment—but that has changed over the years. The club, located in the Brownwood...

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...

County holds tax millage to 2011 level

DeKalb County will hold the line on its tax millage rate, but commissioners say there is work to be done. For unincorporated areas of the county, the millage rate will stay at 21.21 mills, after a 4-2 vote by the county’s Board of Commissioners to ...

DeKalb legislators, experts weigh in on Supreme Court’s health care decision

The United States Supreme Court voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act June 28, a decision that DeKalb legislators and experts said will serve as a milestone for many Americans. “After decades of choosing between buying medications and putting foo...

Stone Mountain commercial district votes to expand

A year after it formed, the Stone Mountain Community Improvement District (CID) is expanding. The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners voted June 16 to expand the Stone Mountain CID, which began last year with of 88 property owners with a total prop...

Church shootings spark youth violence summit, prayer vigil

The mother of a man shot to death after a Stone Mountain funeral June 7 said she never thought she would be in this “predicament.” “I never knew that phone call I got on June 7 would be my last time speaking with my son,” said Tracey Benton H...