Arcade veterans memorial

Smyrna city officials agreed to move forward with a plan to buy a historic church for a downtown expansion.

ATLANTA — The Supreme Court of Georgia today upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis and Fire Rescue Chief Eddie O’Brien to reinstate Sell Caldwell III to his former position as a fire captain. The county’s former fire chief in February 2010 fired Caldwell following a house fire in Dunwoody where an elderly woman died. Caldwell was terminated for failing to locate the dispatch address and failing to take command of

The family of Smyrna resident and local historian Leon McElveen has donated a prized model of a Civil War Shoupade fort to the Smyrna History Museum.