Riverdale News

One state agency may have found a way to cope with limited appropriations and almost limitless expenditure needs, selling surplus property.

One state agency may have found a way to cope with limited appropriations and almost limitless expenditure needs, selling surplus property.

Riverdalians Dita Wolf and Alec Diacou, along with Mary Ellen Sullivan, chair of the College of Mount Saint Vincent's teacher education department, are in the midst of applying to open non-profit charter schools in the Bronx in fall 2014.

United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Derrick Nathaniel Hartfield, 45, of Smyrna, Ga., and Rico Carty Clemons, 47, of Riverdale, Ga., pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haikto taking part in a scheme to defraud Wal-Mart and other retail business nationwide out of hundreds of thousands of dollars ... (more)

Keandre Varner, a high school student in Riverdale, Georgia, found his principal's mug shot online and posted it on the picture crazy website Instagram .

RIVERDALE, Georgia -- Most of us have done it at some point. Searched someone's name on the Internet.

Each week, Patch puts together a list of local activities and events going on in your area this weekend.

Herbert Dix, of Riverdale, Ga., pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal district court to being part of a food stamp fraud scheme that netted more than $400,000. Herbert Dix , of Riverdale, Ga., pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal district court to being part of a food stamp fraud scheme that netted more than $400,000. According to U.S. Attorney Sally ... (more)

Tonight, City Council members selected Augustus Palmer III as the new top cop. The vote was three to one with two council members not attending the meeting.

Michael Syphoe, executive director of the Riverdale Downtown Development Aurthority, sits beside one of the painted fire hydrants which is on display at Riverdale City Hall.

Walter Robert Mayfield, 80, of Carrollton, passed away on Saturday, April 27. He was born July 15, 1932 in Atlanta, the son of the late Herbert Guy Mayfield and Julia Clyde Smith Mayfield.

" Cobb has buses. Gwinnett has buses. Clayton has buses. Those three and Fulton and DeKalb, that needs to be the regional agency ." Those are the words of Sandy Springs Mayor Eva Galambos, a Republican living in Fulton County.

With the automated waste collection system well on its way, I am looking forward to the change.

An attempt to avoid arrest ended badly for a Fairburn, Ga. man during an April 18 traffic stop on I-85 near Hamilton Mill Road.

Riverdale Country School students Casey Schnelo, 13, John O'Shea, 12, and Maxwell Arnold, 13, were recruited by Rachel Klein, Riverdale's director of service learning.

And yet for the past year, she and her 87-year-old mother, Lucy Lynch, have been busy preparing for death, convinced that the best way to leave behind a coherent, meaningful and complete summary of their lives is to write it themselves.