Decatur Police report that on Oct. 30 and Oct. 31 they received a total of nine calls about people breaking into autos. The break-ins reported on Oct. 31 actually occurred the night before, police said. ...
Residents in Decatur’s Oakhurst neighborhood are organizing a candlelight vigil for Shirley Kendrick, who was murdered late Tuesday evening. The vigil will be Nov. 1 at 6:15 p.m. outside her home at 272 Cambridge Ave, Decatur, ...
City Schools of Decatur Superintendent Phyllis Edwards said there’s only one guarantee about redrawing school attendance zones: it won’t be popular. “Let’s be honest. Nobody’s going to be happy,” Edwards told me in a recent ...
Garrison Keillor stopped by last night. He spoke at Presser Hall over at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga. on Oct. 29 and read from his new book of poems O What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, ...
Everyone in the Cambridge Neighborhood knew Ms. Shirley. Shirley Kendrick ran the concession stands at Oakhurst Park during baseball season and served as president of the Cambridge HOA. In 2002, the City of Decatur named ...
UPDATE: Decatur Police have identified the victim as 75-year-old Shirley Kendrick. Police said she was transported to an area hospital where she later died. Kendrick appeared to have been stabbed and to have sustained a ...
City of Decatur officials are planning public meetings throughout the next few months about an update to city development codes. The Unified Development Ordinance that’s in the works will affect things like the city’s tree ...
Parent Denis Gainty sent this letter in response to a recent article about City Schools of Decatur redrawing school attendance zones. The school system recently released drafts of the proposed boundary changes. Gainty said while his ...
Decatur’s Kimball House opened in September and it’s quickly becoming one of the city’s premier restaurants. Case in point: Eater.com has named Kimball House as one of the 30 hottest cocktail bars in America. According ...
Four poets struggled through Atlanta traffic to get to the library in Decatur on Saturday, Oct. 26. There was a horrible wreck on the interstate, setting things back by 20 minutes. The host, my co-worker ...