Mike writes in…

My friends and I were approached by a very friendly black lab last night in Oakhurst. She’s clean and happy just seems to be lost. I’m guessing she’s about 7-8 years old and large, about 90-100 lbs. She was found with no collar and doesn’t have a chip. Will you please post her picture on your website so we can find her owner? She seems a little stressed out and really wanting to go home.

Unfortunately, our only option if we don’t find the owner soon is for her to go to a rescue group or shelter.

Patch reports that the Decatur School Board debated, but ultimately hired Chairman Marc Wisniewski’s son, Joseph “Andy” Wisniewski, for a part-time job at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center last night.

The background from the Board’s agenda, Action Item “a”, states…

O.C.G.A 20-2-58.1 states that no local board of education shall employ or promote any person who is a member of the immediate family of any board member unless a public, recorded vote is taken on such employment or promotion as a separate matter from any other personnel matter. Any board member whose immediate family member is being considered for employment shall not vote on such employment.

On July 18, 2011 two part-time After School Program Provider positions were posted at the direction of Ms. Suzanne Kennedy, Principal of College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center (ECLC). Once the posting closed, she and her team evaluated the candidates and a separate team interviewed those candidates. The team decided that they wanted to go forward with Andy Wisniewski and therefore the Human Resources department is requesting the public vote on his employment in compliance with O.C. G.A. 20-2-58.1.

The Board voted 3 to 1 to approve, according to the Patch article, with outgoing member John Ahmann casting the only “nay” vote.  Lots more info on the dabate in the article linked to above.

I love bragging about my alma mater and fellow Scotties. And as a ukulele enthusiast, I love bragging about my fellow ukers. As it happens, these two worlds of mine collided in the September issue of Glamour, when Agnes Scott College student Tally Deushane was named one of the magazine’s “Top 10 College Women” for her YouTube-fueled fame. The adorably dorky Tally, a literature/creative writing major, has been writing original songs on her el cheapo ukulele from Amazon, videotaping them in her dorm room, and posting them on YouTube. She writes a lot of songs about television shows, and they are funny.

From the Glamour profile: “She didn’t think anyone would watch, but she started getting thousands of hits from viewers in the U.S., Australia, Germany, Italy, France and Brazil—among them the producers of CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, who included her tune about their show on their season-five DVD.”

Tally, who has her sights set on Tina Fey’s career trajectory, has more than 100 ukulele songs on her YouTube page. Here is the latest, which happens to be my very favorite:

(Note especially that black ring on her left hand!)

Read more here: http://www.glamour.com/magazine/2011/09/top-10-college-women-the-entertainer

From the Decatur Craft Beer Festival website…

“With great mustache comes great responsibility.” – Peter Griffin

h/t: Next Stop…Decatur