Burglary suspects smash through apartment wall before arrest
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:35:53 EST  Five burglary suspects tried to escape by smashing through an apartment wall before surrendering to DeKalb County police Tuesday. The incident began about 11 a.m. when a witness told a county deputy marshal that five people were breaking into a unit at the Thornberry Apartments, off Clifton Springs Road and I-285 in south DeKalb, said DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish. The marshal saw the suspects fleeing into another apartment and called police. The first officers who arrived found the suspects had broken through a wall into another apartment. Police surrounded the two apartments.
 | Doraville annexation re-vote nears
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:36:53 EST Three neighborhoods outside of Doraville will vote again later this month on whether to become part of the northern DeKalb County city. DeKalb Superior Court Judge Linda Warren Hunter signed an order Monday setting a special election on annexation on Tuesday, Jan. 27. Residents in Cherokee Hills, Oakcliff Estates and Sequoyah Woods voted on annexation in November, when the referendum failed by 34 votes out of 1,138 cast.
| Dunwoody completes core hiring, with finance director
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:11:29 EST Dunwoody, Georgia's newest city, has filled the first of its core staff positions, hiring John H. Grotheer as finance director. Grotheer, now the head of finance and city clerk for the city of Covington, is slated to begin work on Jan. 20. He will make $102,884 in the role. Grotheer will work with city manager Warren Hutmacher to oversee the new city's $14.4 million budget, as well as direct outside vendors in the finance and administration department.
| Children adjust to school bus cutbacks
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:36:28 EST It was still dark when, at 5:45 a.m. Tuesday, 11-year-old Isaiah hopped out of the family SUV and hustled toward several buses clustered together at Oak View Elementary, a DeKalb County school several miles south of Decatur. Tuesday is the first day back to class from winter break. It's also the first day of countywide school busing cutbacks — a midyear change made to save money. So Isaiah, a fifth-grader at DeKalb's Kittredge Magnet School for High Achievers, started his day like this: Get up and out the door to catch the bus at Oak View, then take that bus to a transfer point and catch another bus to school, which is more than 20 miles to the north near Chamblee.
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