Two years ago, Decatur hosted two interesting and informative city commission races along with two closely watched school board races.

This year, even with three city commissioners up for re-election, all are running unopposed, according to a requested list from the City Manager of candidates who qualified prior to today’s 4:30p.

Qualifying for Decatur City Commission:

• Bill Floyd (District 1 Post B)
• Kecia Cunningham (District 2 Post B)
• Jim Baskett At Large

Qualifying for School Board:

• Garrett Goebel (District 1 Post B)
• Peggy Bumgardner (District 1 Post B)
• Julie Rhame (District 2 Post B)

As you can see, the only race inside the city limits will be between Garrett Goebel and Peggy Bumgardner, who will vie for John Ahmann’s vacated spot.  District 2′s Julie Rhame will also run unopposed for her School Board seat.

Yep.  That chicken (and goat!) story.

Remember the mom who was arrested for being “boisterous” at the Decatur Library after after being asked to leave because her toddler was being to loud?

Well according to the AJC, Donetta Foster is willing to risk jail time to take the case to court.  She’s giving a press conference today at 3p to explain why, apparently.

In related news, I’m pretty sure Ms. Foster also went on Dr. Phil about this story, because a couple weeks back their people were bugging me to use the DM logo for a segment (even though my post was just a summation of a WSB article).

Thanks to the MANY folks who forwarded me this article!

Feel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local issues not discussed here over the past week.

Comments close Monday.

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