Clairmont Heights Civic Association

DHS teacher Chris Billingsley writes in… Attached are some pics of students using your blogs. …Students were suppose to post comments using my email address. All found interesting stories on all three blogsites. I hope to have all comments posted by Wednesday. Many students replied to your recent comments on their trip to the Capitol.  [...]

Anne writes in… Change for Haiti at Oakhurst Elementary a Huge Success! The final total for the Change for Haiti collection is $2,320! We can purchase TEN Schools-in-a-Box to help set up temporary schools for 800 kids in Haiti. At Community Circle on Friday, March 12th, Oakhurst Elementary will present a check to a UNICEF representative. The [...]

As promised, here’s the follow up from last week’s post “Daytrippin’ – City Edition“, wondering where you like to go when you need to get away from the Atlanta metro for a few hours, or perhaps a whole weekend. Last week focused on towns and cities.  This week let’s discuss more rural destinations.  Secluded cabins, hiking [...]

This morning’s AJC reports on Atlantic Station’s new pay-by-phone parking meter called “Parkmobile” and predicts that such an effort might “herald wider adoption in Atlanta”, though does elaborate on why. Decatur uses a rival company with a more excited name, MobileNOW!.  In the article Assistant City Manager Linda Harris states that Decatur is “is happy with [...]

Call up the Hardy Boys!  Nancy Drew!  Encyclopedia Brown!  There’s a mystery afoot! OK, so it’s only really a “mystery” because I’ve yet to ask anyone who might know.  But hey, it’s the weekend, and city employees won’t be back in the saddle until tomorrow.  So I thought this might be a quicker way of getting [...]

Looks like the plans of a Greek Diner in the old Atlanta Bread Company space are history…or we just never had it more than 50% right. Carl reports on Twitter… Spoke with future #DecaturGA eatery at 205 E PDL: same ownership as Marietta Diner, plans to be open 24/7. Definitely diner fare.  Check out the menu of the [...]

At next week’s Tuesday Board Meeting, the City Schools of Decatur Board of Education will vote to approve a plan (see Action Item B) to sell its kitchen cooking oil to Clean Energy Biofuel for 25 cents a gallon. A quick look at the company’s website shows that Leon’s Full Service and many other well [...]

And that’s not all you can touch!  From 231 Sycamore…(note the location change) Come out and join the fun at Decatur’s annual Touch a Truck Day on Saturday, March 20, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. The event has been so popular and drawn such a crowd that it has been moved to the Callaway building parking lot, 120 [...]

Among the Decatur School Board’s agenda items for the coming week is a motion to approve advertising “for project management services for Renfroe Middle School infrastructure update, Fifth Avenue Academy Building Project, and Decatur Career Academy renovation/addition.” This search is of particular note because it marks the end of Rosser International’s contract with CSD in May.  [...]

The AJC has the story of Decatur resident Ned White, who has been waiting a good two years for his “pain in the pencil” crossword puzzle to appear in the New York Times. The according to the paper – the AJC that is – it finally appeared on January 16th, a Saturday: the day when the [...]

DHS teacher Chris Billingsley reports in… Today was the last day for Georgia Close Up.  The students spent the morning meeting major players at the capital. The governor’s office called me to say that he needed to spend more time with the DHS students so we came back for another meet & greet. It was obvious [...]

According to Assistant City Manager Lyn Menne’s note in the March issue of the Decatur Focus, the film production company Pogo Pictures, is moving into the office space above Parker’s along Ponce de Leon Ave. A check of their website shows they are moving from their current location on North Avenue in Atlanta and sport an [...]

Decatur and Avondale Estates’ College Avenue annexation bid hits the front page of the AJC this morning, with a big ‘ol article on all things PROPERTY. The article features all the reoccurring arguments and views in our ongoing debate:  the effects of gentrification, the predicted value of property after annexation, the legal right of cities to [...]

Here we go! Use this post to make comments and ask questions about local topics not discussed here in the past week. Comments close on Monday.

Click here to view the embedded video. Just when I think I’m in tune with what’s going on around me, I miss something like this. Christopher Hitchens in conversation at Emory on Salmon Rushdie, freedom of expression, poetry, literature, and star dust.  With the added bonus of a recitation of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est. Many thanks [...]

Following up from last month’s shopping event.  From the Decatur Minute… Thank you to everyone who came out to support Decatur for Haiti night last month. We raised $4,500 for the cause with help from the following businesses: Cakes and Ale, Chick-Fil-A, Decatur Business Association, Decatur Downtown Development Authority, Fleet Feet, Hairwerks, The Iberian Pig, Little [...]

Did you hear about the pillow fight in Piedmont Park last weekend?  No?  Me either. Lucky for us, local photog Josh Weiss did, and with his camera in hand jumped headfirst into the chaos.  The results of his labor can be seen in an excellent series of shots over on his website. h/t: AsianCajuns Photo used with permission

The Pencil Lofts were one of the many construction projects being built around Atlanta just when the real estate market fell off a cliff.  And while it may be just one of many such projects, the future of this project has been particularly interesting, since it sits in a slot along Decatur Street in downtown [...]

11Alive’s Doug Richards contacted me yesterday to get some background on this story and asked whether I was interested in giving a wrap-up of events on-camera that led up to the changes in the booting ordinance.  I declined, in large part, because of the wider controversy I helped create surrounding it. But I did suggest he [...]

Another incredible, hometown story. Suzy sent along this press release, which details the extensive commitment one Decatur family has toward foster kids.  John and Polly Lewis will receive this year’s 2010 Humanitarian Award on March 18th at the Dining For a Difference event at the Cobb Galleria. In recognition of their unwavering dedication to children in need, [...]