Press Releases

The DeKalb-Peachtree Airport Advisory Board meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 11, at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom at https://dekalbcountyga.zoom.us/j/84958022051. The meeting can be joined by phone at 602-333-0032 or 1-888-270-9936 and using the conference code 482992.

DeKalb County Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a Gateway to Fishing Program, July 9 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Wade Walker Park, 5585 Rockbridge Rd., Stone Mountain, GA. The event will take place at the fishing pond.

The AARP Experience Corps is an evidence-based literacy program that improves the reading skills of children in kindergarten through the third grade for the past two years.  The Department is working in collaboration with the United Way of Greater Atlanta, the AARP Foundation and the DeKalb County School District on this initiative. Recent data shows that DeKalb students on average have a reading proficiency of 26 percent, which means that 74 percent of students are reading below grade level.

Crews will facilitate a lane closure Thursday, June 30, at the intersection of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Ivy Lane to investigate and repair a broken water main. The DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management (DWM) first became aware of the leak on May 30. The department has continued to monitor the leak while waiting for back-ordered materials needed for the repair to arrive. Those materials arrived June 29.

On Thursday, June 30, work to repair a leaking water main will be completed at the intersection of DeKalb Industrial Way and North Decatur Road from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. DeKalb County contractors will repair leaks in the water transmission system of a 30-inch main and install new paving.