The City’s New Website Goes Live Tomorrow!

Can you feel the excitement in the air? Are you eager to see the brand new City of Decatur website? Have you completely forgotten that we’re revealing the new website? Ah well, either way, when you go to www.decaturga.com on Tuesday, Feb. 1, you will not only being seeing a new website design, you’ll also [...]

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Strategic Plan Open House – This Monday!

For the past year, more than 1,000 of you participated in meetings or on the website offering your visions and ideas. The planning team is now hard at work incorporating comments into a refined set of principles and goals and identifying specific projects and action steps from all of your suggestions to help us achieve [...]

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The 2nd annual Farm to School Dine Out – Monday, January 31st,, 2011

I almost forgot that this is happening on Monday. You can be sure I won’t be fixing dinner for my family on Monday night… The second annual Farm to School Dine Out is set for Monday, January 31st,, 2011!  This is a great night to bring the whole family out to dinner, or grab your [...]

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What came first? The chicken or the egg…

Urban Chickens Symposium in Downtown Decatur February 26  On the wings of Oakhurst Community Garden Project’s wildly popular “Chicks in the City” classes comes a full day of urban poultry-keeping. On February 26 the Chicks in the City Symposium offers attendees a full plate of essentials on backyard chickens. Taught by local experts, the five [...]

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6th Annual Pet Celebration of Life

Sunday, Jan. 30 • 2-4 p.m. Maloof Auditorium {image} An event put on by the local pet crematory might sound a little glum, but this actually sounds like a great event. Plus, there are so many pet lovers in Decatur that it deserves a mention on The Decatur Minute: Paws, Whiskers and Wags, the premier pet [...]

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The Publix Georgia Marathon is coming through Decatur

The Publix Georgia Marathon (formerly the ING Marathon) will be coming through Decatur again this year on the morning of Sunday, March 20th. We are holding a Community Information Meeting on Thursday, February 3rd  at 7 pm at the Decatur Rec Center. All members of the community are invited to attend the meeting. This is [...]

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We Need Your Feedback: Take a 5-Question Survey About Plastic

Hello Decatur Residents,  We are volunteers working with the City’s Environmental Sustainability Board, as well as Decatur residents who care about the quality of life in our city.   We are helping the City evaluate ways to reduce negative environmental impacts that may be caused by our residents, visitors, and businesses. One way to lessen the [...]

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What to do This Weekend and Beyond

See DecaturDoc’s Hey Boo this Saturday evening at Decatur High School (image) Friday, Jan. 21 • 7-9 p.m. – Join HomeGrown in celebrating the works of six 2D artists: Holle Black, Penny Treese, Dawn Kinney Martin, Nick Madden, Helen Ferguson Crawford and Martha Ebener. Meet the artists and see their latest works while enjoying complimentary [...]

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Calling All Fine Artists!

The deadline for the Artist Market of the 23rd Annual Decatur Arts Festival is Saturday, January 22nd.  All interested artists should apply for the show using through zapplication.org If you have questions, please call the Decatur Arts Alliance at 404-371-9583 or email at info@decaturartsalliance.org  

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MLK Service Project Recap

City of Decatur Volunteer Coordinator, Lee Ann Harvey, sent this over to everyone at the City yesterday and I wanted to share it with our readers: We entered the week leading into the 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Service Project with much trepidation following the snow and ice event that had virtually brought the metropolitan [...]

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