From the City via Steve in a FAFF comment (harder to find the info online this year!)…

Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, through Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, City of Decatur residents may drop off live Christmas trees at the annual “Bring One for the Chipper” event at the Agnes Scott College parking lot between 184 and 206 S. Candler St.

Please do not leave Christmas trees anywhere else on the Agnes Scott campus.

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

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

A sign in the old Fabu Face Spa location in the 335 West Ponce building announces that a Huntington Learning Center is “Coming Soon”.

The Center’s website shows that they specialize in tutoring and test prep.  Huntington has other Atlanta locations in Dunwoody, Alpharetta, East Cobb and Brookhaven.

From the AJC…

A restaurant inspired by Ernest Hemingway is set to open in Decatur next year.

The restaurant, which will offer a “menu of simple, farm-forward American fare,” will be overseen by executive chef and partner Pasquale “Pat” Pascarella, who previously served as execuitve chef of Ford Fry’s West Midtown restaurant The Optimist and also served a stint in the kitchen at Le Bernardin in Manhattan. Gabriele Besozzi, who previously served as service manager at The Optimist, will serve as partner and general manager. He has also worked at restaurants in London, New York, Miami and his native Italy.

More info on the other side of the AJC link.

Slice & Pint posted on Facebook late yesterday…

It’s with a heavy heart we announce that Slice & Pint will end operations on December 30 2017, as we are not renewing our lease. We sincerely appreciate all the love and support we have received over the last 5 years. Please come out and celebrate with us over the next 2 weeks as well as on our the last day, the 30th, for one last blowout. Thanks, Slice & Pint team.

Photo courtesy of the Slice & Pint Facebook page

Each year, the city gets funding from the Georgia Department of Transportation’s (GDOT) Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG) program to pave a few local roads.

This year, the city is proposing paving the following streets, according to a letter included in the city commission’s agenda this evening…

• Westchester Drive – from Scott Boulevard to Harold Byrd Drive
• Harold Byrd Drive – from Westchester to the dead end
• Northern Ave – from West Ponce to Oakland Street
• Avery Street – from Winnona Drive to Kirk Road
• Fifth Avenue – from Oakview Road to Northern Street (city limits)

The city selects streets after an evaluation of streets from engineering stuff, and taking complaints and inquiries received from citizens into consideration.

Photo courtesy of Decatur Extreme Makeover website