Drive a Faster Car reports that Paste Magazine is in serious financial trouble and is “trying to scrounge up enough money to put out the next issue.”

According to DaFC, Paste will launch a “Save Paste” campaign later today offering exclusive music in exchange for donations.

Very sad news.  If Paste folds, we’ll lose a venerable “New Decatur” institution.

Thanks to Lump for tipping me off to this.

In an effort to disseminate crime information to residents more quickly, this morning Chief Booker announced that the city of Decatur has joined the website CrimeReports.com, which maps various crimes around the city.  According to Chief Booker, the site will be updated every night, so the data is very up-to-date.

CrimeReports also allows you to sign up for daily/weekly/monthly email alerts on self-selected crimes in your area.

This should be a great new resource for Decatur residents.  Hopefully it won’t make people completely neurotic.

Ah, the double-edge sword of information.

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CSD Mom reports over on her reconfiguration blog that the school board voted last night to table the reconfiguration issue for 30 days, but gave strong indications that they would follow the superintendent’s recommendation of Option #13 (renovate 5th Ave).

Not to jump ahead too quickly, but I wonder how reverting Glennwood back to an elementary school will affect districting.

UPDATE: Lockdown is over.  See the note from Principal McKain-Fernandez in Scott’s comment below.

A tipster writes in and lets us know that Decatur High School is under lockdown again this morning.

CSD’s Maria Lewis tells DM…

“Yes, DHS is currently on lockdown. The police are searching lockers and the students have been detained inside of their classrooms until the search is complete. For the protection of the student involved, I cannot release any additional information at this time.”

Following up on my post yesterday, Michael forwards info about tonight’s “Farm to School” town hall meeting from 6p-8p at Westchester.

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