When teachers and faculty at Freedom Middle School were called to an unscheduled, afterschool meeting April 3, they didn’t know what to expect. “Today there’s no agenda. Today there’s no signature log,” Corey Davidson, the school’s principal told them. Instead, the faculty had been assembled for a special recognition sponsored by DeKalb County Commissioner Stan [...]

School won’t be out for summer for another month and a half, but that’s no excuse for not coming up with a master plan for keeping the kids engaged, entertained and, possibly, exhausted this summer. Day camps are one favorite outlet, and there are a number of other venues offering programs designed especially for youngsters. [...]

  Cedar Grove High School football and track coach Ray Bonner was brought to tears April 5 after the Cedar Grove faculty and student body honored him for his 10 years of coaching at the Ellenwood high school. Bonner is retiring this year after 35 years of coaching. The school honored him with a pep [...]

            Timothy Collier of Stone Mountain said he is proud of his son, a participant in the Special Olympics’ track and field events April 3. “It makes me proud to come out here and see him participate with his peers,” Collier said. “My son is autistic and him following directions [...]

  Winning a championship in a team sport is not an easy feat. For players, it’s difficult to accomplish that goal because the player needs the help of his or her teammates to reach that goal. For coaches, it is more difficult because it is up to the coach to get his or her players [...]

  Brookhaven Police Chief Gary Yandura has never built a police department from the ground up. But that didn’t stop him from applying to be the city’s first police chief. “To me it was a challenge and an area that I was familiar with,” he said. “I just enjoy the opportunity of building a police [...]

      Some of DeKalb County’s top boys and girls basketball players showed off some of their flashy moves in the 2013 DeKalb County Basketball All-Star Games on April 4 at Tucker High School. The boys’ game featured dunks and alley-oops, while the girls displayed their three-point shooting and no-look passes. The girls teams [...]