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DECATUR — Von Thomas’ house in Decatur’s Johns Hill neighborhood is as pretty as a picture and totally camera-ready. But the unblinking eyes of the surveillance cameras about to be deployed in the streets around Thomas’ 1940s home aren’t interested in his nicely redone brick tuckpointing, refurbished windows or an immaculate yard, due to be adorned soon with exotic plantings for the summer. The coming cameras, capable of reading license plates on cars whizzing by at spe...

DECATUR —The last of three new fire stations is one step closer to reality after the Decatur City Council approved a professional services agreement for design, bidding and construction oversight Monday evening. The council approved a $254,422 bid from Virginia-based Dewberry Architects, Inc. for the work on the new Fire Station 7, which will serve the southeast side of the city. Construction continues on the new Decatur Fire Station No. 3 in the Fairview Plaza Shopping Center. The new sta...

City manager Scot Wrigton lays out the options for spending new, remaining American Rescue Plan, COVID-19 relief bill funds.

Watch now: Decatur bus transit DECATUR — Decatur Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe admitted that the current state of the downtown trolley is a pet peeve of hers. It’s a sentiment shared by several members of the city council, who expressed frustration with the lack of ridership, decrying it as a waste of resources. “They drive around town all day with nobody on them,” Moore Wolfe said. “... The driver must get really lonely.” But, concerns aside, the council voted Tuesday t...

BRENDEN MOORE DECATUR — Decatur Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe admitted that the current state of the downtown trolley is a pet peeve of hers. It’s a sentiment shared by several members of the city council, who expressed frustration with the lack of ridership, decrying it as a waste of resources. “They drive around town all day with nobody on them,” Moore Wolfe said. “... The driver must get really lonely.” But, concerns aside, the council voted Monday to auth...

DECATUR — Decatur City Council members are used to grappling with problems of how to stretch too few tax dollars to cover the city’s needs. But their meeting Wednesday night presented them with a new and more pleasant financial conundrum: how to spend more than $458,000 of taxpayer money made available to them by the federal government for the sole purpose of helping people. Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe had earlier suggested council members come up with their own ideas for spending the Cor...

DECATUR — John Jackson traveled across the globe in his role at Archer Daniels Midland Co., executing various optimization projects everywhere from South America to Europe.

The facility will be owned and operated by InnovaFeed and will co-locate with ADM’s Decatur corn processing complex. Construction is targeted to begin in 2021, pending necessary permitting and approvals. CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW With future economic development in mind, the Decatur City Council approved an engineering agreement that will explore how to best serve a large, unsewered area on the city’s industrial northeast side. The council voted 5-1 on Monday to approv...

DECATUR — Decatur City Council members who pledged to take a vote on whether to relax restrictions on indoor service at bars and restaurants when they meet Tuesday are going to be faced with tap-dancing their way through a regulatory and financial minefield. The risk, city officials warn, is that the state will retaliate expensively against cities that defy the rules put in place to try and slow the COVID-19 pandemic.   But council members Chuck Kuhle and Lisa Gregory made it clear a...