An update from Decatur Active Living Director Greg White…
Decatur residents Glenlake Pool will open today at 5pm and resume regular scheduled hours tomorrow. Dynamo Pools has installed 8,000lbs of White Filter Sand for Pool Water Filtration. Special thank you to Dynamo Pools for the quick repair on the filtering system. For additional information please call or www.decaturga.com
Creative Loafing’s Austin Ray has an interview with Ale Yeah! owner Eddie Holley, which includes an announcement about a second location, opening this summer.
For the new establishment, which was originally slated for Alpharetta but will now be located at 408 S. Atlanta St. in Roswell, Holley says he’s shooting for a July 1 open date, but that more realistically, the store—which he hopes will be the second of three total, eventually—will open in mid-July. CL caught up with Holley to get the scoop on Ale Yeah!’s forthcoming middle child, his potential suburban customers, and what will happen if Atlanta’s craft-brew bubble bursts.
Why Roswell?
Click over to read!
UPDATE: Here’s the official response from Decatur City Manager Peggy Merriss…
The City of Decatur is not involved in anyway in the property appraisal process.We currently have no information as to why the land value vs. buildng values have changed. We have only received composite aggregate digest information which indicates an overall increase in real property of about 2% – all in new value. We have calls in to the DeKalb County Tax Assessor’s Office to see what information can be provided and will pass that along as soon as possible.
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The reports are rolling in and residents are clamoring for a thread to discuss the oddly dramatic changes to DeKalb County’s recent tax assessments. A resident for reported the oddities to DM yesterday in an email…
We haven’t received our 2012 DeKalb County Property Assessment in the mail yet, but I logged on this morning to the online site (http://web.co.dekalb.ga.us/PropertyAppraisal/realSearch.asp).
There is a huge computer bug with these values. The “Land Value” component and the “Building Value” component have been reversed (the “Land Value” generally should be much lower than the “Building Value”). Checking several properties, it looks like the “Land Value” has been initialized to a constant value of either $236,300 or $233,900 which, of course, is way too high.
This was followed by a conversation in an unrelated thread from other residents about similarly bizarre increases in land value and huge declines in building values from the tax assessor’s office. Some experienced increases while others saw massive declines in assessment.
This morning, a resident in the Clairemont/Great Lakes neighborhood emailed in that the assessment adjustments had resulted in a neighbor’s house, which was once assessed at $100,000 more than the emailer’s home, was now valued at $300,000 less.
Strange goings on, indeed. Report your assessment changes here and I’ll see what I can dig up.
The AJC Decatur Book Festival begins in only 93 days!!! This is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Of the many great festivals held in Decatur, it is the crown jewel (in this book lover’s opinion!).
Over the past six years an incredible variety of writers have given the festival’s keynote address.
The AJC Decatur Book Festival Keynote Speakers
2006 Arianna Huffington, author, political columnist, and founder of the Huffington Post
2007 Kinki Friedman, novelist and humorist
2008 Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
2009 Sir Harold Evans, author, newspaper editor, and publisher
2010 Jonathan Franzen, novelist
2011 Colin Meloy (frontman for The Decemberists) and Carson Ellis, children’s author and illustrator
Was there any keynote speaker during the past six years who you found particularly engrossing?
Is there someone in particular you would love to see this year? (This should be someone who has a book published this year prior to August 31st.)
This Week
Jeff Shaara, author of A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, Wednesday, May 30th, 7pm, The Atlanta History Center, free.
Continue reading “It’s Literally Wednesday: Book Fest Keynote Speaker”
Decatur Active Living’s Greg White writes in…
Decatur Residents Glenlake Pool will be closed on Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June 1 for repairs on the filtering system (removing the old sand and adding new sand to the filter). In the interim please visit the two City of Decatur pools at McKoy or Ebster. Glenlake pool will reopen on Saturday, June 2 from 10am-6pm. For additional aquatic information please call or visit www.decaturga.com
According to Arts Alliance Director Angie Macon and a Decatur Police report, multiple items awaiting pickup from the Arts Festival’s Silent Auction were stolen on Saturday night from a tent located near the 100 block of Sycamore Street. The 20×20 tent had been secured with plastic ties, so the “suspects would have had to crawl under the tent to gain entry”. The police report listed the following items as missing Sunday morning…
According to Ms. Macon, a majority of auction items had already been picked up during the day on Saturday. The ones taken were the remaining ones awaiting retrieval on Sunday.
The AJC reports this morning that in the process of “theoretically” balancing their coming year budget, the DeKalb School Board took the idea of closing Fernbank Science Center off the table. Two petitions to save the Center made the rounds over the past week after residents received word that DeKalb School’s budget committee had proposed closing a $73 million budget deficit.
To see what the Board ultimately decided to do to help bridge the divide, click over to the AJC article.
Photo courtesy of Trip Advisor
