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• YMCA Requests Rezoning of Residential Lots to Build Parking Lot and Play Area

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  From the Staff Report for tonight’s Decatur City Commission Meeting… YMCA, Inc. wishes to modify the existing master site plan to build a roughly 3,500 square foot addition onto the building and expand the current parking lot to add 56 new parking spaces. The new building will have approximately 51,000 square ...
  4 days ago

• Anticipated Opening Date of Kimball House: August 1st

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Included on the agenda for tonight’s Commission Meeting, a liquor license application for the Kimball House and applicant Miles A. Macquarrie, which states that the anticipated opening date is August 1st. Back in April, we reported that the build-out would take approximately 4 months, so this really isn’t new ...
  4 days ago

• Ponce Terrace Neighborhood Set To Receive Traffic Calming Improvements

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  On the docket for tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting, approving “traffic calming improvements” to the neighborhood surrounding the pending 315 West Ponce de Leon Ave development.  According to Asst. City Manager David Junger, these improvements were recommended by the neighborhood’s traffic calming ...
  4 days ago

• Cats Found, Two on Ponce Court and One in Winnona Park

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Joel writes in and includes the photo above… The cat you see in the attached picture is called Waylon. He and his “brother”, called Smoke, have been hanging out on our back porch for some days now, and appeared a bit thin and ravenously hungry at first. The phone number on their tags is a [...]
  5 days ago

• Inside the Kimball House

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Eater Atlanta posted a couple photos of the under-renovation interior of the Decatur Depot/Kimball House.  We’re posting one pic here with Dave Blanchard’s permission. There’s also one other photo taken in the other direction over at the Eater website you may want to check out. Dave told us last month that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Decatur Farmer’s Market Has New Operators, New Vendors. Now It Just Needs More Customers.

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Great piece on the Atlanta Magazine website reporting that the new managers and operators of the Decatur Farmer’s Market, Community Farmer’s Markets, are already bringing in new vendors. New vendors have already started coming to the market, and today their ranks continue to grow. In addition to loyal, long-time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proposed Clifton Corridor Route Would Almost Bypass Decatur Entirely

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Rail lovers and transit wonks take note. At Monday’s City Commission meeting, Commissioner Scott Drake mentioned a revision under consideration by the Clifton Corridor committee that “wasn’t on the table a month ago”. The committee is now considering an option that would extend the transit line all the way ...
  2 weeks ago

• Decatur Green Fest This Saturday

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Mike sends along the press release for the Green Fest this weekend, which reads in-part… … the fifth annual Decatur Green Fest will be held Saturday, May 11 from 3-10 p.m. in downtown Decatur and will feature a live musical performance by Ed Roland and the Sweet Tea Project. The Sweet Tea Project is led by Ed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Decatur Green Fest on May 11, 2013

  
  Atlanta on the Cheap — Authority: 149
  On Saturday, May 11, 2013, the Decatur Green Fest will take place in the Decatur Square. From 3:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m., there’ll be a spirits & local food tasting tent, vendors offering sustainable products & services, an Artists Market featuring art made from recycled materials, activities for the kids, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Decatur Schools Stand Out in New State Report Card

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  The AJC reported this morning on the release of the new statewide report card for schools.  As the article summarizes early on… Georgia’s new report card for schools is out this morning and the grade for most metro Atlanta school systems is above average, with the City of Decatur and Gwinnett County leading the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Little Shop of Stories: Summer Reading Kick-Off Party with The Class Acts Tour, Author Events, & More

  
  Atlanta on the Cheap — Authority: 149
  I just checked the list, and Little Shop of Stories has several fun events planned for the next few weeks : Tuesday, May 7, 11:00 a.m.: Storytime with David Carter , creator of the Bug pop-up books & author of Princess Bugs. Friday, May 10, 7:00 p.m.: Terra Elan McVoy’s Criminal release party. Tuesday, May ...
  2 weeks ago

• City Commission Set To Vote on Changes to Tree Ordinance to Address “Critical Issues”

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  On tonight’s Decatur City Commission agenda…trees!  The commission is set to vote on two significant changes to the tree ordinance. According to a letter from City Planning Director Amanda Thompson and City Arborist Ed Macie, the first change would address the issue of healthy trees “being removed from existing ...
  2 weeks ago

• American Girl Doll Found in Medlock Park

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Blair writes in… I’m searching for the owner of an American Girl doll I found [Friday] in Medlock Park. It’s a nice doll in very good condition. I’m pretty sure that a little girl somewhere is missing it quite a bit. I have reason to believe that the owner might be named Virginia, which is [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Sidewalk Saturdays Cancelled Due to Rain, Wind, Etc

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Angie Macon of the Decatur Arts Alliance writes in… Due to inclement weather, Sidewalk Saturdays has been cancelled for today (5/4/2013). All acts have been rescheduled for future Saturdays. Thank you for your support. So, what’s everyone up to instead?
  2 weeks ago

• Did you receive your tax bill?

  
  — Authority:
  Decatur’s 1 st installment property tax bills for 2013 were mailed out on April 1.  If you did not receive your bill, please call us at 404-370-4100 or log onto www.decaturgatax.com to access your invoice. Mailing address updates can also be submitted through that webpage. If you are a new owner, it is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tearing down buildings and people in a small Southern city

  
  — Authority:
  At 8:15 AM March 20, 2013, I snapped an iPhone photo of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., and posted it to my Google Plus profile along with a brief caption. Less than an hour later and 540 miles away, a woman I’ll call Mary Barth composed a tweet in her Decatur, Ga., home and sent it using an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Movie on the Square Cancelled This Evening

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  Well as they always say, April showers bring May…showers, bring, um…June…breeding lilacs…or is it raining roses or…little rainbows of chaos must fall?  Sorry, I tend to get my rain metaphors mixed up. From The Decatur Minute… Update: The Movie on the Square has been cancelled this evening. The rain date ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do You Stay, or Do You Leave? Heres What Rebecca Decided

  
  — Authority:
  Rebecca Barria at the Wylde Center (named after Sally Wylde ) Dunwoody Community Garden ("where the sidewalk ends, community grows ") I met Rebecca Barria in a kudzu-filled field almost four years ago right now. She wanted to start a community garden. A man named Bob joined us. We brought ...
  3 weeks ago

• They Lost Control

  
  — Authority:
    How were these folks acting? they were like the T sarnae v Brothers ...it seems they lost control!  Jokers were flipping out! apparently misled/ waiting in the dark; messing around like that?  they lost their soul!  Meanwhile were dipping out I-20 in Atlanta ; check out how we roll ...were not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prices Falling, Rates Increase in Some Parts of US

  
  — Authority:
  Throughout the US, a few real estate trends are under way. Some areas are seeing home prices dip down, while others are seeing significant increases in listing prices. Several factors, such as historically low mortgages, higher prices, and a reviving consumer mindset have all contributed to the existing state of the ...
  3 weeks ago

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