From the Alliance to Improve Emory Village…

Construction will begin in August on the long-awaited Emory Village roundabout and streetscape project. Neighbors, businesses, students and others interested in the $2.1 million project are invited to learn more at 7 p.m., Tuesday, August 17, at White Hall, (Dowman Drive, Emory). Taylor Wright of the construction management firm PBS&J, and AIEV President Lois Berthaume will explain the project, timetable, and answer questions.

Parking: Please park in the Peavine Parking Deck (not the Peavine Visitors Lot) or in the Fishburne Parking Deck. Free parking is available only in these locations when the gates are up.

h/t: Clairmont Heights Civic Association

Garden Lane, Decatur GA – September 16, 2004 (pic submitted by the Godfrey-Kittle Family)

UPDATE: jkga provides a link to the Midway Woods Garden’s website.

Decatur Metro’s undercover, urban gardener reporter sends in photographic evidence of an urban garden in an abandoned subdivision development just outside the Decatur city limits on Oldfield Road.

Another pic and a map of the garden’s location after the jump.

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Um, yikes?  From the AJC…

DeKalb County school board members insist they are not heading down the same path as Clayton County and will salvage the district’s accreditation.

“I’m not concerned about us losing accreditation,” board chairman Tom Bowen said Friday. “There will have to be a lot of back and forth with [the accrediting agency] and non-compliance on our part. I don’t see that happening.”

But many of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ concerns about DeKalb mirror the questions the agency had about Clayton two years ago, which led to its losing accreditation.

More HERE. Thanks to Nellie for forwarding.

From the Decatur Book Festival blog…

National Book Award winner Jonathan Franzen will be giving the 2010 keynote address. The AJC-Decatur Book Festival is Franzen’s first stop on his international tour for his latest novel, Freedom.

This special event is free, but a ticket is required. You can pick up your ticket at any of the following locations around town:

• Agnes Scott College
• Charis Books
• Blue Elephant Book Shop
• Bound to Be Read
• Eagle Eye Books
• Little Shop of Stories.

The event will begin at 8pm on Friday, 9/3 at Agnes Scott College’s Presser Hall.