Press Releases

DeKalb County Mobile Career Center September Schedule

DECATUR, Ga. – WorkSource DeKalb announces its Mobile Career Center schedule for September. The center will be stationed at locations throughout DeKalb County to help put DeKalb County citizens back…

Tracy Hutchinson Appointed DeKalb Sanitation Division Director

DECATUR, Ga. – DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has appointed Tracy Hutchinson director of the Sanitation Division. Hutchinson is the first female director to lead Sanitation, the largest division…

DeKalb Offers Citizens Tips for Hurricane Harvey Relief

DECATUR, Ga. – The damage from Hurricane Harvey has DeKalb citizens in disbelief, many who have asked DeKalb Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) officials how to help. At the request of DEMA’s…

Permanent Repairs Planned at Sewer Spill Site

DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County workers are planning permanent repairs at the site of a major spill at Snapfinger Creek in the unincorporated Lithonia area.

Workers contained the 6.4-million-gallon…

No Residential Sanitation Collection Service on Labor Day

DECATUR, Ga. – DeKalb County’s Sanitation Division will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 4. 

Due to the holiday, garbage, recyclable materials and yard trimmings…

Lithonia Area Sewer Spill Contained

DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County workers and emergency contractor crews contained a major sewer spill Saturday at Snapfinger Creek in the unincorporated Lithonia area.

Crews repaired a concrete junction…

Rockbridge Road Water Project Meeting Sept. 7

DECATUR, Ga. – The DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management (DWM) will host an informational community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. to discuss a project to replace aging…

DeKalb to Host Breast Cancer Run/Walk Oct. 21

DECATUR, Ga.—DeKalb County, along with Susan G. Komen and Northlake Mall, will host its second annual DeKalb Breast Cancer Awareness 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, Oct. 21.

The route begins and ends at…

DeKalb to Develop Healthier Families Program

DECATUR, Ga. — The DeKalb County Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs is one of four parks and recreation departments in the nation to be selected to develop an obesity prevention…

Lithonia Area Sewer Spill Containment Underway

DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County and emergency contractor crews working overnight to contain a major sewer spill discovered more extensive damage to the creek crossing than initially observed yesterday…