There’s not a lot of love for annexation in Avondale Estates right now. City Commissioners discussed the proposal of bringing more territory into the city during a May 13 work session. Avondale’s annexation plan met ...
Terry Giager didn’t want to be Avondale Estates’ mayor, and he’s glad to be turning the job over to the man who won the city’s most recent election, Jonathan Elmore. On Monday, Giager’s time as ...
By Dena Mellick, contributor Avondale Estates will install newly-elected Mayor Jonathan Elmore Monday evening at its 7:30 pm Board of Mayor and Commissioners Meeting. Judge Stephen Nicholas will administer the oath of office. Decaturish spoke ...
Today is the first day for candidates to qualify to run for mayor of Avondale Estates in a special election that will be held March 17. The election is being held to determine the replacement ...
A committee charged with studying the possibility of allowing driver-less cars on Georgia roads is recommending a wait and see approach to the new technology. Avondale Estates was positioning itself to be one of the ...
The DeKalb County Sheriff’s office announced the arrest of a murder suspect outside of the Wal-Mart at the intersection of South Columbia and Memorial drive. That will likely add fuel to the recent annexation discussion ...
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, ...
State Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Avondale Estates, left no room for doubt on Wednesday in her remarks to residents of the Katie Kerr neighborhood. Drenner, speaking in the chapel of Columbia Presbyterian, said that while Katie Kerr was ...
Terry Giager will say it up front: he’s not interested in being the mayor. But it wasn’t his choice. Ed Rieker resigned on Oct. 2, leaving Giager, who was the mayor pro tempore, in charge ...
Avondale Estates officially has a new mayor. Four City Commissioners on Oct. 20 voted unanimously to accept the resignation of Ed Rieker, who announced Oct. 2 that he was resigning to take a university teaching ...