From the Oakhurst Community Garden website…

Join us for our fourth season as we grow another round of healthy, organic seedlings in partnership with Gaia Gardens. You will find just about all you need for your spring and summer garden: vegetables, flowers, and herbs.

April 10, 6-8 p.m.: Garden member preview of the big plant sale

April 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.: Big Plant Sale! More than 100 varieties of tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, herbs, flower, perennials, and shrubs will be available.

435 Oakview Road, Decatur, GA 30030

h/t:  InDecatur

Anne forwards this bulletin from Decatur PD…

NEWS ALERT

On Thursday April 9, 2009 the Decatur Police Department responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Oakview Grocery store. No one was injured in the incident, but the store employee stated he was threatened by the suspects who brandished firearms. The victim stated the suspects were two African-american males and a white female. The suspects fled the area in a black Jeep Cherokee with New York license plate. The suspects are described as: Read the rest of this entry »

Jonathan Cribbs wrote a front page story about DeKalb’s three most prominent local, community blogs in this week’s issue to the Champion Newspaper.

John Heneghan, Dave and I, all give our thoughts on the rise and importance of our county’s community blogs. Good reading if you don’t already get enough of us on a daily basis.

BTW, I’ve decided to retire the term “hyper-local” from my lexicon.  From here on out I will be employing “community” in its stead.  Why?  Because I’ve come to realize that the “hyper-local” descriptor doesn’t go far enough in describing these types of blogs.  In my estimation the unifying aspect of blogs like those profiled in the article is not just that they are more local-centric than the city dailies, but that they actively support their communities.  Our tactics may be different, but our motive is universal.

Its a small, but I think, important semantic change if you care about such things.