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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…

A public hearing on the proposed budget will be held via Zoom on Monday, October 26, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. All public comments must be emailed to City Clerk Megan Reid prior to the meeting.

Pictured: L-R Emma Katz, K.Domincek, Kemoni Dunn 2, and Isabella Cantor ATLANTA – Two Atlanta Public School students and an APS graduate will lead Georgia’s first student-led United States Senate Candidate Forum on Saturday, Oct. 24, 6 p.m., at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta. The forum will be closed to the public, due to coronavirus concerns. However, the event will be livestreamed at (https://www.facebook.com/Younglitigatorsproject/). Kemoni Dunn, a seventh grader at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, and Emma Katz, a ninth grader at Maynard Jackson High School, will moderate the forum. At the beginning of the event,…