From Decatur’s Katie Abel…

Newsflash: We are raffling off (2) Decatur Craft Beer Festival Tickets and (2) Decatur Wine Festival tickets at 4:45am tomorrow morning on the Square. Come out, find the City staff, and ask for your raffle ticket. We are doing the drawing at 4:45am and you could be the very first ticket holder to those events. Stick around as 11 Alive shoots their morning program and show all of Atlanta why Decatur is Greater!

The Washington Post’s just-released national “High School Challenge” has ranked Decatur High School 8th in the state of Georgia and 198th in the country based on an index score calculated on “the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year.”

Decatur is up a spot amongst Georgia high school’s since last year, when it ranked 9th in the state, and is up 35 spots nationally.

h/t: CSD

From the City of Decatur’s Linda Harris…

Bryan points out this note on “That Pottery Place’s” website about their coming move from Suburban Plaza to North DeKalb Mall…

Yes, the Wal-Mart cometh and we must goeth – but we aren’t going very far and we’re going to a fresher, larger studio to serve you better – and with longer and later opening hours!

We will stay open at Suburban Plaza through July 1st and then on July 2nd, we will reopen less than a mile away at the North DeKalb Mall in a lovely 2,800 square foot studio right on the mall food court, and just steps away from the rear entrance to the AMC movies and Applebee’s.

• 11Alive coming to Decatur Square very early tomorrow [Decatur Minute
• Atlanta beer tours are now a thing you can do [AJC]
• Oak Grove is getting a growler shop [Patch]
• Piedmont Park celebrates new orchard [Patch]
• T-SPLOST and Agenda 21 claims [The Economist]
• The Fall of the “Creative Class” idea [thirty two]

Photo courtesy of Atlanta Beer Tours