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Vinyl records still rock across generations

Vinyl records still rock across generations

Tanner Moore picked up a copy of Fleetwood Mac’s album “Rumours.” He admired the black-and-white photos on the back. This might be a good one. He’d heard some of their…

New city offers cut to DeKalb’s higher taxes

By State Representative, Mike Jacobs On the heels of DeKalb County’s 2011 property tax hike, the millage cap for the proposed city of Brookhaven will be set at 3.35 mills in the…

Five years, one mission

Five years, one mission

By Steve Levene This issue marks the start of our sixth publishing year. When the first two Reporter editions in Sandy Springs and Buckhead rolled off the presses in January…

We need to be asking: “Brookhaven Why?”

To the editor: After our last letter in the Reporter, we received several supporting phone calls unanimously agreeing that a vote on the incorporation of Brookhaven in July is premature.…

Push toward cityhood moving way too fast

Push toward cityhood moving way too fast

To the editor: We have many serious questions about the proposed city HB636 study, but most importantly we have concerns about the effect on our neighborhoods. Rep. Mike Jacobs’ City,…

He takes a H.E.R.O.’s view of metro interstates

He takes a H.E.R.O.’s view of metro interstates

Traffic talks to Alan Chambers. Not in words. It speaks to him in the way it moves, the way cars slow down or speed up, the way brake lights flash.…

Crunching numbers for new city doesn’t add up

To the editor: After spending way too much time studying the revenue and expenditure estimates for the proposed city of Brookhaven prepared by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government (the…

50 years of haircuts and stories

50 years of haircuts and stories

Charles Day can talk. Just ask him. “There’s not a barber alive who can tell more stories than me,” he said. “I have a good memory and I remember them…

Brookhaven billboard an eyesore that needs to go

To the editor: I am writing you in reference to the electronic billboard in the Brookhaven area operated by Clear Channel Corp. between the U-haul and Extended Stay Suites on…

On the bomb squad ‘you get to drive fast and blow things up’

On the bomb squad ‘you get to drive fast and blow things up’

The backhoe had dug a construction trench about six feet deep, as Bart Humble remembers it, when the machine turned over a rock and the operator spotted a strange-looking cylinder.…

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