The city has a pretty snazzed up job application (which includes the above pic) for a new fire chief up on its website. So if you know any qualified candidates, send ‘em along! Pay seems pretty good…though I’m not up-to-date on the average fire chief salary.

What happened to the old chief?

Deadline for submission is Sept. 12th.

So the mail just arrived at 8pm.  It’s gotten worse and worse over the last six months. For a while I’d get home and think that someone was stealing my mail.

Are they seriously understaffed or something?   The hilarious part is I live within a 1/4 mile of the Post Office.

Always innovating, The Brick Store Pub has started cellaring many of its bottled brews in the basement of an “adjacent bank” (old Trust Building?), taking a page from the best pubs in Belgium. The video features owners Dave and Mike giving a tour of the new space and elaborating on future plans for these cellared and eventually aged beers.

They even hint about eventually hosting small meals down in the space at some point in the future. But we’ll have to wait…these aged brews won’t be ready for harvest until at least 2011.

[serious h/t goes to Next Stop...Decatur]

I did a little digging and discovered that the original video came from ClassicCityBrew.com

Since its incorporation vote a few weeks back, Dunwoody residents have been really busy….which really isn’t all that surprising since they’re creating a city from the ground up!

Active advocates for the city’s creation are now running for public office (like John Heneghan at the old Dunwoody North) and various task forces are churning out all kinds of reports and codes.  I get exhausted just reading about it!

Today, the AJC reports that the governor has appointed 5 individuals to help create a groundwork for the city.  It includes 3 local activists and 2 business reps.

That got me thinking…how can Decatur help out a new city of Dunwoody?

Well, it already seems like they’re looking to us for inspiration.  Over at Heneghan’s blog, he mentions he’s already looked at the Oakhurst Community Garden for a model of sustainable gardening.  In addition to that, a Dunwoody resident has already set up a new blog, called “Sustainable Dunwoody“, which plans promote sustainable practices throughout the new city.  There already seems to be some online consensus that Dunwoody should strive to be a walkable, bikable, green city.

With those goals in mind, what better resource is there than Decatur?  Beyond pointing them in in the direction of  our 2008 Annual Report, entitled “Sustainability”, what else can/will the city of Decatur do to help DeKalb’s newest city?