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The Rockdale County Rotary Club and Conyers Rotary Club honored Rockdale County Public School high school seniors with top performances in 11 subject areas during its annual Outstanding Senior Awards ceremony on April 12. The awards were announced during the Rotary Club’s luncheon, which was held at Conyers First United Methodist. Interact Club Scholarship winner Rachel Hill (RMSST) and finalist Kendal Hill (RMSST) were also honored. Rockdale County High School and Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology winners and officials Rockdale County High School Kenecia Smith (Art) Janiece Stewart (Science) Rachel Hill (Interact Club Scholarship winner)…
There will be a Special Called Work Session on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 6:00pm at the Stonecrest City Hall, 3120 Stonecrest Blvd. Stonecrest, Georgia to discuss the following: Discussion on SPLOST Discussion on Contracts
July 4, 1959—April 6, 2018 UPDATE – The medical examiner report found that Jesse “Jay” Cunningham died of a heart attack. The viewing for Mr. Jesse “Jay” Cunningham will be held on Sunday, April 15, 2018, noon to 7 p.m., at Gregory B. Levett & Sons Funeral Homes, 4347 Flatshoals Rd. Decatur. A memorial service will be held on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home’s chapel. The homegoing celebration will be held at noon on Monday, April 16, at Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church, 1879 Glenwood Ave., Decatur. The Rev. William E. Flipping, Sr. is…
By Valerie J. Morgan DeKalb County police are seeking witnesses who may be able to help investigators locate the gunman who shot and killed a 3-year-old boy on Easter night as he rode in the backseat of his mother’s SUV. The child, T’Rhigi Diggs, was shot in the chest as his mother, Rashonda Craig, was driving around 11:30 p.m. on Bouldercrest Road near Eastland Road in East Atlanta. Police initially thought the single bullet came from a gray or silver Dodge that Craig told police pulled up beside her black SUV. However, Police Chief James Conroy told On Common Ground…
By Travis Hudgons Approximately 300 inmates at the DeKalb County Jail are being relocated to neighboring jails in Rockdale, Fulton and Clayton counties as work begins to repair moldy, leaky shower units in inmate housing. DeKalb County Sheriff Jeffery L. Mann announced at an April 5 press conference that a major construction project, “Operation Clean Jail 2018,” will begin April 9. Mann said the project is expected to last three months with an estimated $1.5 million minimum cost. Construction will begin immediately, even though the cost of the unbudgeted expense has yet to be approved by county commissioners. “This is…
Sen. Tonya Anderson State Rep. Vernon Jones Rockdale County’s three-member Board of Commissioners (BOC) will not expand to five members—at least not immediately. Senate Bill 264, sponsored by former Sen. Rick Jeffares, died in the House of Representatives before a final vote on March 29, the last day of the Legislative Session. As a result, there will be no voter referendum when the general election is held in November. Rockdale’s BOC currently has two commissioners and a chairman, all of whom are elected at…
Keitran Foots, 30, wanted for the murder of his girlfriend, Sharika Bowman, 35, has been arrested, DeKalb County Police announced. Foots was captured near Granville, N.C. on April 1 around 2:30 a.m. after law enforcement located him in a shed, authorities said. Foots is accused of gunning down Bowman on March 30, around 10 a.m., in the driveway of the home they shared at 4788 Wyndham Drive in Stone Mountain. Foots approached the SUV where Bowman was sitting and allegedly shot her multiple times, killing her, police said. DeKalb detectives said Bowman’s 13-year-old son, who was inside the house…
DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond will provide a consent decree update at the Tuesday, April 10, Board of Commissioners meeting. This is the second public update on the progress toward fulfilling the requirements of the consent decree. The meeting begins at 9 a.m., at the Maloof Auditorium, 1300 Commerce Drive, Decatur. In December 2011, DeKalb County reached a Clean Water Act settlement in the form of a consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. The 8½-year consent decree calls for reducing sanitary sewer overflows through significant levels of sanitary sewer system inspection, assessment,…
By Valerie J. Morgan The city of Stonecrest is making progress in getting the U. S. Postal Service to officially recognize Stonecrest as a city, officials said. The Postal Service has notified the city that residents and businesses in the new municipality may receive information as early as this month about the address name change. Mayor Jason Lary says that’s good news. “This is something that we have been waiting for and it officially will put Stonecrest on the map,” said Lary. The city of Stonecrest, which is about 29 square miles, includes 52,393 residents…