Avondale Estates News

Avondale Estates' downtown is designed in English Vernacular Revival style, sometimes called a Tudor village.

The history of Avondale Estates will be the focus of a lecture later this month at the DeKalb History Center.

Mayor Gary Peet and mayoral candidate Beverly Jones do not agree on the city of Stone Mountain's controversial new charter.

AutumnFest , a free celebration of the arts in Avondale Estates in Decatur, ends today, Sunday, October 25, 12-5pm. The event features more than 60 regional artists and craftsmen selling original paintings, folk art, metal sculpture, ceramics, photography, glass, jewelry, and textiles.

DeKalb County school officials will host an education conference for parents starting at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at Avondale Middle School, 3131 Old Rockbridge Rd.

The Avondale Arts Alliance is comprised of a group of residents, organizations, and businesses who have a shared interest in enhancing the quality of life for the Avondale Estates community through the arts.

Avondale Estates resident Marilyn Cook is a regular participant in the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

A 21-year-old woman was found dead in the bedroom of her apartment Sunday morning, according to DeKalb County police.

The twin sister of the deaf Avondale Estates woman stabbed to death over the weekend says the man arrested for the murder of 21-year-old Tekelia Blackshear did not commit the crime.

Dekalb Police are investigating the stabbing death of a 21-year old deaf woman at the Oak Creek Apartments in the Avondale Estates community.

Authorities have arrested the neighbor of a deaf woman murdered in her apartment Sunday morning.

DeKalb police continue to investigate the stabbing death of a 21-year-old woman who was found in her apartment bedroom.

A 21-year-old woman was found dead in the bedroom of her apartment Sunday morning, according to DeKalb County police.

A group of Avondale Estates parents are looking to the state to charter a new school that was denied by the DeKalb County Board of Education.

Twenty-one seats in DeKalb Countya s municipalities will be up for grabs this year.

When qualifying ended Sept. 4 for the city council and school board races in Avondale Estates, Decatur and Pine Lake, 22 candidates had thrown their hats in the ring.

Seven years ago, Carmen Agra Deedy stumbled upon a front-page story in The New York Times that she couldn't shake from her mind.

One of DeKalb County's oldest manufacturers has shut its doors and will move the last of its employees away this fall.

In four years, the AJC Decatur Book Festival has grown into one of the largest gatherings of lit lovers in the United States.

Twenty-one seats for municipal offices in six DeKalb cities are up for grabs in the Nov.