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AUBURN — DeKalb County is looking to update its comprehensive plan.

AUBURN — The DeKalb County Plan Commission will meet Wednesday to consider a request for what would be the first step to a commercial solar energy systems project.

Evangelical schools are growing, but there are questions about the costs.

The President of America’s largest Christian University, Jerry Falwell Jr., has received a constant stream of hate and criticism for his early support of Donald Trump’s campaign and policies. However, alumni of Liberty University are now returning their diplomas back to the University in protest of Falwell’s politics. Following Trump’s comments on the Charlottesville incident […]

Area residents do well at state fair

AUBURN — The DeKalb County Plan Commission Wednesday voted to send a favorable recommendation to the DeKalb County Commissioners on a new DeKalb County Trails Plan. The plan will be used to guide future planning and development of trails in unincorporated DeKalb County with connections to neighboring counties and municipalities and their existing trails networks. Having an official, adopted plan will make the county eligible to apply for state and federal grants to develop the trails, the ...

AUBURN — DeKalb County Commissioners on Monday declared a 60-day moratorium on applications for new commercial solar farms in the county. The action comes in response to reports that a private company is signing leases for a 1,600-acre solar farm south of Butler. The purpose of the moratorium is “to give the county an opportunity to study” what should be included in an ordinance to regulate solar farms, said County Attorney James McCanna. “It’s not pro or con.” The...

AUBURN — Based on a legal opinion, DeKalb County Commissioners have reversed course on who will hire a new planning and zoning administrator.

AUBURN — The DeKalb County Commissioners have chosen the Elevatus architecture firm of Fort Wayne to design a new county jail.