By Dena Mellick, contributor Decaturish has learned Georgia House Representative Mary Margaret Oliver, D-Decatur, will soon file a bill to allow Atlanta Public Schools (APS) to contract with the DeKalb County School System if an ...
By Dena Mellick It was a packed house Thursday evening at state Senator Elena Parent’s (D-SD 42) Town Hall on Cityhood and Annexation at Young Israel of Toco Hills. Many members of the audience wore ...
The Daily Report on Friday ran a legal notice about a bill to expand Atlanta’s corporate limits through annexation. There are currently two annexation proposals being considered. One would bring most of the Druid Hills, ...
This story has been updated. DeKalb County residents spent a great deal of time during the fall trying to make sense of proposals that would expand and create new cities. Whether those proposals move forward ...
Compromises are rare birds in the woods of the annexation and cityhood debate in DeKalb County. But there may have been a sighting during an annexation meeting held at Druid Hills High School on Thursday, Jan. ...
This story has been updated. Organizations working toward the creation of new cities in DeKalb County are finalizing their maps before a Nov. 15 deadline set by the state Legislature. Mary Kay Woodworth, with LakesideYES, ...
If the proposed cities of Briarcliff and Lakeside had a baby, what would they name it? It’s been one of the sticking points since the supporters of the proposed cities of Lakeside and Briarcliff announced ...
This story has been updated First things first, state Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven, said during an Oct. 21 town hall with other members of the DeKalb delegation. Before legislation to create a new city of ...