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When the DeKalb School System’s budget axe falls on four to 12 elementary schools, all of them will come from south DeKalb County. The 25 schools being considered for closure include a dozen in De...
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After 20 years anchoring the Candler-McAfee Shopping Center on Candler Road, Wayfield Foods closed its store on Feb. 27, leaving its loyal customers in dismay.
Ron Edenfield, Wayfield’s founder, p...
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More than 200 angry MARTA users showed up Monday to tell MARTA why it’s a bad idea to ax nearly half of its bus routes in DeKalb County. The elderly and the disabled, including some in wheelchairs...
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Trever Deion Blue, who is accused of raping 11 women in the Hambrick Road area of Stone Mountain, is behind bars at the DeKalb County Jail. Blue, 19, was captured Feb. 26, after he allegedly assau...
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More than 320 volunteers braved chilly weather Feb. 27 to help clean up Shoal Creek Park in Decatur. The adults and teens picked up trash including old tires, spread mulch, and helped landscape th...
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In the 1940s DeKalb County where Martha Wise Williams grew up, elementary schools were segregated and there were no high schools for black children. So in 1946, when she was in the 10th grade, Wi...
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The late Chuck Burris, who became Stone Mountain’s first black mayor in 1997, will be celebrated at a community tribute at the Freedom Bell on Main Street. Burris died Feb. 12, 2009, in Maryland o...