AUBURN â 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 plan commission heard.
The county commissioners will consider the plan July 19 at 9:30 a.m.
The development of a trails plan began in 2019 with a meeting of the non-profit DeKalb County Trails Inc., which worked on it with the Auburn/Waterloo Trail Committee. Due to COVID-19, the plan did not move forward for a period of time, said Chris Gaumer, the countyâs zoning administrator and director of development services.
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WATERLOO â More than 100 students will put their talents on display in DeKalb High Schoolâs production of âMamma Mia!â this weekend.
Staging the smash-hit Broadway musical takes 32 performers on stage, 60 students in the technical crew and an 11-member band.
âItâs way more kids than weâve ever had involved,â said director and theater instructor Jed Freels.
The show revolves around the hit songs of Swedish pop group ABBA, and DeKalbâs auditorium has never been better equipped to showcase the schoolâs vocalists.
This marks the second year for a new digital sound system purchased with a donation from The James Foundation, but the pandemic has limited chances to show it off until now.
WATERLOO â The âBâ in BTV stands for âBaron,â but this school year, it also could represent âbetterâ and âbigger.â
DeKalb High Schoolâs television channel now offers more programming, and it is reaching far more viewers through Auburn Essential Services.
BTV programs now are available to all internet users, free of charge, at auburnessentialservices.net through the Your Community Network platform. It also may be viewed by AES video subscribers on Channels 10 and 22.
Until last fall, âAES had a platform, but nothing to put on it,â and the school had programming, but needed a place to show it, said Jed Freels, instructor for the BTV class at DeKalb High School.