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    Atlanta Urban Coop Tour This Weekend

    Decatur Metro | March 28, 2014 | 11:09 am

    Stephanie sends in this announcement…

    Don’t miss this weekend’s Urban Coop Tour featuring 13 different coops from Decatur into Grant Park. Family friendly. Early bird ticket price is available through Friday evening.
    Tour is hosted by and benefits our friends at the Wylde Center.

    More info here: http://wyldecenter.org/urban-coop-tour/ and Facebook page here.
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    Free-For-All Friday 3/28/14

    Decatur Metro | March 28, 2014 | 7:00 am

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

    Comments close on Monday

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    Creative Loafing Neighborhood Issue Released

    Decatur Metro | March 27, 2014 | 3:29 pm

    If you look forward to leafing through Creative Loafing’s Annual Neighborhood Issue, with little write ups about some your favorite Atlanta neighborhoods and a list of “Neighborhood Picks”, this is your week to stop by one of Decatur’s regulated green newspaper boxes and pick up a copy.  As this year’s intro states…

    For this year’s Neighborhood Issue, we wanted to capture that sense of pride Atlantans have for their neighborhoods. The best way to do that, we figured, was a series of offbeat tours from neighborhood residents that showcase the underappreciated and wacky charms of 23 intown communities. In this issue, you’ll find a late-night patrol in Castleberry Hill with the Crimson Fist, a tour of the Westside on horseback with the Urban Cowboy, a dog walk through Buckhead, a crack-of-dawn workout in Midtown’s Piedmont Park, and more, as well as lists of the residents’ favorite neighborhood haunts.

    Here are easy links for the neighborhoods in and around Decatur:

    • Decatur/Oakhurst
    • Avondale Estates
    • Emory/Druid Hills
    • Kirkwood
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    It’s Literally Wednesday: The Evening Edition

    Dave | March 26, 2014 | 8:51 pm

    A quick post to let you know what’s going on in literary (and porkarary) Atlanta during the next seven days.

    This Week

    Allen Kurzweil, author of Potato Chip Science (an Atlanta Science Festival event), Thursday, March 27th at 7pm, Little Shop of Stories, free.

    Girls Gone Sci-Fi Tour with Jessica Brody (author of Unremembered), Jessica Khoury (Origin, Vitro), Tamara Ireland Stone (Time Between Us, Time After Time), and Lauren Miller (Parallel), (not an Atlanta Science Festival event), Friday, March 28th at 7pm, Little Shop of Stories, free.

    Austin Kleon, author of Show Your Work!, Friday, March 28th at 7:15pm, Decatur Library (sponsored by Georgia Center for the Book), free.

    Mail Chimp presents Baconfest 2014, Saturday, March 29th at 1pm, Dad’s Garage, $27 to $92 (depending on the level you wish to pig out).

    Kate Sweeney, author of American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning, Saturday, March 29th at 7pm, Little Shop of Stories, free.

    Emory professor Patrick Allitt, author of A Climate in Crisis: American in the Age of Environmentalism, Monday, March 31st at 7:15pm, Decatur Library (sponsored by Georgia Center for the Book), free.

    Dr. Michael Saag, author of Positive: One Doctor’s Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System, Tuesday, April 1st at 7pm, Carter Presidential Library and Museum Theater, free.

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    Decatur Neighborhood Alliance Meeting Tonight at Rec Center

    Decatur Metro | March 26, 2014 | 1:58 pm

    Here are the details..

    Wednesday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m.
    Decatur Recreation Center
    231 Sycamore St.

    Decatur Neighborhood Alliance will meet on Wednesday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. at Decatur Recreation Center. Representatives from the police department will provide an overview of crime trends in Decatur and walk you through examples of how issues are addressed. The presentation will also include a summary of educational programs offered by the police department as well as a “Quick Tips” session covering basic crime prevention information for the crimes/trends/issues we most commonly see in our community.

    Representatives from Decatur neighborhood associations, condominium associations, block associations, and anyone interested in starting a neighborhood group are invited to attend. City staff will be available to answer questions. Please call or email [email protected] to confirm your attendance and/or update your neighborhood association listing that is currently posted on the website.

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    First Look at CSD’s Enrollment Levels For Coming Year

    Decatur Metro | March 26, 2014 | 8:50 am

    As part of the agenda items included for the Decatur School Board’s April 1st meeting is updated enrollment figures compared to CSD’s projections.  Registration for new 4-12 grade students just opened on March 17th, so this is an early look at those levels, while kindergarten registration opened at the beginning of March.

    Enrollment in many grades is still below projected enrollment levels, while grades 10-12 have already exceeded it.  In a March 2013 Atlanta Magazine piece on CSD closing its tuition program, Superintendent Phyllis Edwards noted that the main registration period was generally in “late spring or summer”.

    In total, there are already 66 more students enrolled than went to CSD last year.  At this early stage there are 319 spaces before CSD hits its projection, with 90 of those in kindergarten.

    The first day of school is August 4th.

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    Decatur Farm to School Dine Out is Tonight!

    Decatur Metro | March 25, 2014 | 11:20 am

    Here are the details…

    Decatur Farm to School’s main fundraiser is tonight from 5pm to 9pm at a variety of restaurants throughout the city, including: Brick Store Pub, Cakes & Ale, The Iberian Pig, Farm Burger, Lawrence’s Cafe, Leon’s Full Service, Matador Cantina, Raging Burrito, Sapori di Napoli, Steinbeck’s, Universal Joint, and Wahoo! Grill. A portion of every purchase during that time will be donated to Decatur Farm to School to support programs like the taste tests, school gardens and cafeteria nutrition. T-shirts and raffle tickets will also be sold at most of the locations. Come enjoy a night out in Decatur tonight with your family and support a great cause!

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