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🌱 Patch AM: How will DeKalb’s new redistricting plan reshape Tucker’s growing school cluster?
Coming up: Free Arabic Movie Night: The Guest on the Tucker Patch calendar
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In today's newsletter:
- How will DeKalb's new redistricting plan reshape Tucker's growing school cluster?
Also on today's calendar: Free Arabic Movie Night: The Guest and 7 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the wall say to the other wall. 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Thursday: Humid; a p.m. t-storm or two, temps: high: 85, low: 71.
- Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 84 and low of 69 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Tucker council relieved after DeKalb Schools presentation (decaturish.com) — Tucker city leaders say they're encouraged by DeKalb Schools' new two-phase redistricting plan, which promises more input from the growing Tucker cluster and local parents. At the same meeting, officials discussed fixing school bus shortages, prioritizing Lawrenceville Highway improvements, updating sidewalk standards, and delays at Henderson Park's Lake Erin dam project that could affect park access and safety. 
📸 Around Tucker
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Tucker
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- Curriculum Night
Smoke Rise Elementary School Stone Mountain, GA 30087
5:00 pm - SMMS Pirate Football vs. Druid Hills MS
Stone Mountain Middle School Cobb
5:30 pm - SMS Volleyball vs. Druid Hills
Stephenson Middle School
6:30 pm - SMS Football vs. Cedar Grove-Away
Stephenson Middle School Hallford Stadium
7:00 pm - SMMS Volleyball Game vs Peachtree MS
Stone Mountain Middle School Peachtree Middle School, 4664 N Peachtree Rd, Atlanta, GA 30338
7:30 pm - Curriculum Night at AES
Allgood Elementary School Stone Mountain, GA 30083
4:30 pm - Curriculum Night / Back to School Night
Woodridge Elementary School
5:00 pm - Curriculum Night 2027
Rowland Elementary School
5:30 pm - Free Arabic Movie Night: The Guest →
Alif Institute, 3288 Marjan Dr, Atlanta
7:30 pm - Our Arabic Language Fall/ Winter registration is now open! →
Alif Institute, 3288 Marjan Dr, Atlanta
9:00 am
Wednesday August 26
Thursday August 27
Friday August 28
Monday August 31
📣 Tucker Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Drop-In Technology Support
Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library -
2:00 pm - Mind Bubble Homework Help: Grades K-5th
Scottdale-Tobie Grant Branch Library Scottdale-Tobie Grant Homework Center -
2:30 pm - Mind Bubble Homework Help: Grades 6th-8th
Scottdale-Tobie Grant Branch Library Scottdale-Tobie Grant Homework Center -
4:30 pm - Curriculum Night at AES
Allgood Elementary School Stone Mountain, GA 30083
4:30 pm
Wednesday August 26
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- We found this dog loose in our front yard this morning.
We were able to get a collar on him (we think it's a him) and have him in our back yard on Livsey Woods Drive. Please let us know if this beautiful… (Nextdoor Around Sharon Park) - Is anyone missing this dog?
It's been lingering near my yard in Stone Mountain (close to Ponce de Leon & Juliette rd) for three days. It's too scared to let me catch it, though… (Nextdoor Bradford)
- TJX Companies, Inc. posted a job opening for Part Time Merchandise Associate in Tucker. Apply here.
- Illinois Tool Works, Inc. posted a job opening for Pricing Manager in Tucker. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Tucker here.
🗞 Nearby News
Clarkston
- Another mosquito trap tests positive for West Nile virus in DeKalb County (atlantanewsfirst.com)
Stone Mountain
- Bat tests positive for rabies in metro Atlanta, health officials confirm (wsbtv.com)
- Student-Athlete (shoutoutatlanta.com)
Chamblee
- National Sandwich Chain to Make Georgia Debut With New Chamblee Location (whatnow.com)
- Suspect in fatal Beltline stabbing has history of mental illness, arrests (atlantanewsfirst.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Meet me at the corner. (Thank you Earlene M. for sending it in!)
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