There’s been a good amount of chatter on some of the area message boards today about a resident reported-abduction attempt in Lake Claire of a 12-year old girl who was walking home from school in the Mary Lin school district yesterday.  A second-hand account from the girl’s parent said that the man was driving a large, silver SUV and that Atlanta Police were investigating.

Later in the day, the story began including a reference to “two attempted abductions near Renfroe Middle School” in the last two weeks.  According to Decatur Police’s Deputy Chief Keith Lee these reports are “false”.

He also notes that the AJC had a story last week about two separates incidents that occurred out near Stone Mountain a couple weeks ago.

Though no one is making much noise about it this year, two pieces of local legislation, which would annex the unincorporated strip along College Avenue into the cities of Decatur and Avondale, has been passed by Georgia’s House of Representatives and now goes onto the Senate, according to commenter “spreak”.

I believe this is the furthest these bills have ever gotten in the Georgia legislature.

I’m not clear how many more steps there are before these twin bills would finalized, but hopefully someone can clarify for us in the comments!

What are you reading,

what are you watching,

what are you writing,

what are you playing?

• Don’t forget, Zoning Task Force Open House this Wednesday night [Decatur Minute]
• FLUX projects “SEAT installation” coming to Freedom Park [Atlanta Intown]
• Eastwood, Timberlake, DiNiro and other stars spotted around Atlanta of late [AJC]
• Judge ruling allows Mayor Reed to sign airport concession contracts [CL]
• Jeff Schultz’s “Biggest Questions” for the Braves this year [AJC]
• The top 50 city slogans [Great Destinations]