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The exterior of public restrooms on Commercial Street in the Olde Town Conyers business and entertainment district have been transformed into a 24-Hour Visitor Information Center, courtesy of a matching grant awarded to the Conyers Welcome Center and the city of Conyers. The Georgia Department of Economic Development and Explore Georgia offers grants biannually to local welcome centers that are members of the state’s Regional Visitor Information Center (RVIC) network and those that meet specified criteria. Conyers Welcome Center is a member of the network and received one of the grants. The $2,000 grant assisted in funding the painting…

DeKalb County District 4 Commissioner Steve Bradshaw has appropriated $1.4 million to assist 23 nonprofit, community-based agencies in helping DeKalb residents with food insecurities, rental assistance and other essential needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aid came from District 4 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding. “Nonprofit agencies play a vital role in society in partnering with government to improve the common good of society,” Commissioner Bradshaw said. “I am confident that the 23 agencies receiving District 4 CARES Act funds will continue the very important work they already doing day in and day out assisting the…

Rockdale County Public Schools (RCPS) has opened a survey required for parents and guardians to choose either a Hybrid or Virtual Learning Option for the second semester of 2020-2021. RCPS is tentatively planning to resume in-person instruction on a hybrid schedule for second semester beginning Jan. 19, 2021, and will continue to offer a virtual-only option. That survey is available in the Infinite Campus Parent Portal Oct. 26 through Nov. 13, 5 p.m. For information about the Infinite Campus Parent Portal, parents should visit www.rockdaleschools.org/infinitecampus or contact their school’s Digital Learning Specialist. A hybrid schedule means that not all…

WHO:   EPA Administrator Andrew WheelerEPA Region 4 Administrator Mary Walker DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond Reginald Wells, DeKalb’s director of watershed management WHAT:           Water Infrastructure Press Conference      WHEN:           Monday, October 26, 2020 10 a.m. ET WHERE:         Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 980 Briarcliff Rd., Atlanta 30306 The event will be live streamed at https://video.ibm.com/channel/dctv-channel-23

DeKalb County Rockdale County Gwinnett County Gwinnett County is providing  nine early voting locations this weekend, Oct. 24 and 25: Gwinnett Voter Registrations and Elections Beauty P. Baldwin Building, 455 Grayson Hwy, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bogan Park Community Recreation Center, 2723 N. Bogan Road, Buford, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dacula Park Activity Building, 2735 Old Auburn Road, Dacula, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. George Pierce Park Community Recreation Center, 55 Buford Hwy, Suwanee, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Lawrenceville, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Lenora…

A group of men kicked off the Saturday early voting period today (Oct. 24) in Rockdale County with a “1,000 Black Male March to the Polls.” Pastor J. Phillip Baker of Shady Grove Baptist Church led the march at 9 a.m.  from the tennis courts to the Rockdale Government Annext at 1400 Parker Road, Conyers. https://youtu.be/UsCrzT8xPdw 

 Willie C. Banks (center) and Pastor J. Phillip Baker (far right) Photos provided by Cynthia Willingham Willie C. Banks, Rockdale County’s oldest voter at 99 years old, cast his ballot today(Oct. 24). This weekend marks Rockdale’s first Saturday early voting day for the Nov. 3 general election. Banks was escorted to the polls by Pastor J. Phillip Baker of Shady Grove Baptist Church in Conyers. “I had the honor of bringing him to the polls and voting along side of him,” Pastor Baker said. “Mr. Banks registered to vote in 1962. He is a World War II veteran and…

Pictured L-R: State Representatives Doreen Carter and Karla Drenner  DeKalb Superior Court hearing set Oct. 26 Members of the DeKalb County Legislative Delegation, co-chaired by State Rep. Doreen Carter (D-Lithonia) and Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates), are demanding that the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) revoke the solid waste permit issued to Metro Green Recycling Three, LLC for construction of a plant in the city of Stonecrest. The City of Stonecrest and Metro Green are scheduled for a continuance hearing in DeKalb County Superior Court on Monday, Oct. 26, 9 a.m. The case, which will be heard…