City of Dunwoody staff and officials held a ceremony April 17 to mark the beginning of construction on the city’s new Georgetown Park. Georgetown Park is located on a 16-acre parcel of land situated between Chamblee Dunwoody Road and North Shallowford Road. The [...]

Shamrock High School graduate Jeff Saturday was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumni Award by the General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   Saturday, who recently retired after playing center 14 years in the National Football League, received the award for bringing credit to the university through his achievements. The [...]

Twenty-one-year-old Decatur resident Josh Witt ran his first Boston Marathon April 15. The feat came after years of running half marathons, half ironmans, triathlons—beginning with a 5K when he was 8 or 9. “I really wasn’t that fast,” he said about his first 5K. Josh ran the Boston with father, 54-year-old Michael, who has been [...]

  DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis has ordered all flags on county property to be flown at half-staff as a show of respect for the victims of the tragedy yesterday in Boston, Mass. “As every other American and global citizen, I am saddened and appalled by the senseless attack and hope swift action is taken [...]

Big ups and kudos in the customer service department for waitress Morgan at the Stonecrest Olive Garden and evening manager Samantha. What could have been a horrible dining experience turned into a very pleasant demonstration of excellent customer service I feel compelled to share. It is the antithesis of what one usually encounters— excuses and [...]

An employee of a DeKalb County thrift store is in stable condition after receiving burns from what public safety officials have termed “a suspicious package.” Atlanta Police Department (APD) spokesman Carlos Campos said police received a call at approximately 3 p.m. April 16 about an employee who had been injured at the Veterans Empowerment Organization [...]

  At least dozen DeKalb residents and more than 360 Georgians participated in the Boston 117th Marathon April 15 that ended abruptly when two bombs exploded near the finish line. Seasoned Boston Marathon runner Michael Witt, of Decatur, ran the marathon with his son Joshua, 21, who ran the marathon for his first time. In [...]