For WalMart, it seemed like the perfect place to put a new store. An urban isthmus of high profile frontage on two busy Decatur crossroads. But after plans to build a Walmart Supercenter at the ...
Qualifying for the Nov. 5 Decatur elections ended Wednesday with only one contested election. Lewis B. Jones and C. Mark Arnold will battle for the District 1, Post A seat on the city school board. ...
Sgt. Jennifer Ross, public information officer for the Decatur Police Department, sent two community alerts on Wednesday about recent crimes. One involved the “robbery by snatch” of an iPhone 5 from a Renfroe Middle School ...
Inspired by Decaturish.com founder Dan Whisenhunt’s wildly popular sign ratings posts (you place them we face them) and the documentary film Sign Painters, I have been hyper-aware of the barrage of signs competing for our attention. ...
Qualifying started Monday for Decatur city elections. For the city commission, Fred Boykin signed up for run for District 1, Post A, and Patti Garrett for District 2, Post A. They’re both incumbents. For the ...
Chick-Fil-A restaurants aren’t open on Sundays, so apparently they need serious alarm technology to thwart break-in attempts. Tonight, sirens wailed and the words “burglar, burglar” blared over and over from a loudspeaker at the restaurant. ...
Work crews poured concrete Saturday morning for Decatur’s first traffic circle. The traffic circle, also called a roundabout, is at Ponce de Leon Place and Oakland Street in the Clairemont neighborhood behind the First Baptist ...
Candidates will qualify for Decatur elections next week, but we already know who’s not running. City of Decatur Schools Board of Education Chairman Marc Wisniewski and former Chairwoman Valarie Wilson say they won’t seek re-election. ...