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Riders blast MARTA over proposed cuts
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 wheelch...
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Trever D. Blue No bond set for rape suspect
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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“Give a Day, Get a Disney Ticket” campaign lures more than 320 volunteers to picked up trash and old tires, and  spread mulc  at  Shoal Creek Park on chilly Saturday. Chilly weather doesn’t hamper cleanup
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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Daphne Wood (left) adjusts the graduation stole for her mother, Martha Wise Williams, before the Flat Rock graduation ceremony. 9 get high school diplomas 60 years after leaving school
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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Friends, family to celebrate life, legacy of first black mayor
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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...
Superintendent steps down temporarily after raid
by Jennifer Ffrench Parker
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DeKalb Schools Superintendent Crawford Lewis stepped down temporarily from his post Thursday, in the wake of a surprise raid on his Stone Mountain home by DeKalb District Attorney Gwen Keyes Flemin...
No new tax for now in DeKalb County’s budget
by Jennifer Ffrench Parker
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The DeKalb Board of Commissioners approved a $564.9 million budget that includes no new property tax, but that might be short-lived. The commissioners, who voted unanimously for the budget that sl...
Park cleanup at Shoal Creek
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Volunteers who help clean up Shoal Creek Park on Glenwood Avenue in Decatur on Feb. 27 can qualify for free passes to Disney parks. The DeKalb nonprofit Strength Through Faith Community Center Inc...
Recycling day set
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Pack rats and others who want to get a head start on spring-cleaning can recycle old computers, scanners, radios and the like on March 6 at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Lithonia. Keep De...
MARTA proposing major cuts in bus service
by Jennifer Ffrench Parker
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Tough times are ahead for South De­Kalb commuters who rely on MARTA buses to get to work, school, the doctor and grocery store if a proposal to cut 10 of the 23 routes serving Decatur, Lithonia and...
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