So says the all-knowing Tomorrow’s News Today blog…

Joe Truex and Co. have signed a lease for a new home for Watershed Restaurant which closed last week after more than a decade in Decatur.  …Intended to be the signature restaurant of the Brookwood on Peachtree, Watershed plans to reopen in their new digs by year end. Interestingly the Brookwood, a condo building, was recently purchased and units are again being sold after the building sat abandoned and vacant for over a year.

For all those fried-chicken heads out there, it looks like it’s around a 20 minute drive from Decatur, according to Google Maps.

This move will serve as the basis of my new book, “How Decatur Saved Buckhead”.

No real surprise here.  But still it’s a huge hurdle for the Transportation Roundtable, who’s selecting the list of projects that will go before voters next fall. From the AJC…

DeKalb County politicians, activists and residents have united to fight a proposed penny sales tax for regional transportation plans unless the final project list gets trains running in south DeKalb.

So far, the 5.4-mile rail line to link the Indian Creek MARTA station to Wesley Chapel Road, known as the I-20 project, isn’t a transit priority for the roundtable executive committee that is recommending projects.

DeKalb leaders held a news conference before the committee’s meeting Tuesday to urge the I-20 project be added — or else.

Everybody wants a project to call their own, but there’s only $6.1 billion to go around.  Is there a happy medium here or is an all-inclusive list an impossibility?

Angie Macon writes in…

2011 Oakhurst Arts and Music Festival — Calling all Volunteers!

Come make the 14th annual Oakhurst Arts and Music Festival the best ever! You’re invited to volunteer at this great neighborhood festival for a few hours or all day — it’s up to you. This year’s festival is Saturday, October 8th. It kicks off with the 5K Fun Run at 8 a.m. followed by an exciting lineup of artists and musicians from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Volunteers are needed to set up the 5K run, help manage the parade, oversee children on the inflatables and help with the artist market. Volunteers have a great time and get an event t-shirt. To volunteer, contact Jackie Lee at oakhurstartsfestival@gmail.com or 404-371-9583.

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2011 Oakhurst Arts and Music Festival — Join the Parade!

Local residents and groups are invited to be part of this year’s Oakhurst Arts and Music Festival Parade. It’s fun and it’s free! All entries are welcome (except gasoline vehicles, sorry). Parade Marshalls this year are Louise Jackson and Mary Whitehead—long time Oakhurst residents. The new parade route is only one third of a mile and winds directly through the heart of the festival. So get creative and have fun. Your club, your team, your co-workers, fellow dog owners, skateboarders or your kids’ decorated bicycles would all be great additions. To enter yourself or your group in the Parade, contact Jackie Lee at oakhurstartsfestival@gmail.com or 404-371-9583.

The race is on!

Yesterday, current Student Leadership Team chair Peg Bumgardner announced that she would run for the District 1 School Board seat coming up for reelection in the fall, currently held by John Ahmann.  Bumgardner posted a note announcing her candidacy and detailing her experience on the CSD parents message board yesterday…

Bumgardner, a resident of Decatur since 1996, is a Renfroe Middle School Leadership Team (SLT) parent member and current SLT Chair until October 2011 when her three-year term expires.

She looks forward to sharing her SLT experiences with the broader Decatur community, including why her bid for a Board of Education position is a natural step from her work on one of the city’s innovative school governance teams.

Shortly thereafter I received a note from friends of Garrett Goebel, stating that he would also run for the seat.  Here’s part of the announcement I received this morning…

Garrett has four children enrolled in City Schools of Decatur schools, ranging between kindergarten and ninth grade. He has long been known as an active and insightful voice in the CSD community. Garrett currently serves on the Fifth Avenue School Leadership Team. At Clairemont Elementary, he tutors and runs the chess club while maintaining his involvement with various committees at Decatur High School.

Garrett became known to many CSD families for his thoughtful discussion and detailed analyses of the district’s demographic data during the 2010 redistricting, and he came within 81 votes of winning a School Board seat in 2009.

I have reached about to the incumbent John Ahmann to see if he will be running for reelection.