Email: jonathan.cribbs@patch.com
Phone: 678-490-6497
Hometown: Owings, Md.
Birthday: Aug. 2
Bio: I moved to the Atlanta metro area in 2008 and freelanced for several publications before The Champion Newspaper in Decatur hired me to cover the news in DeKalb County in 2009. I joined Patch in October 2010.
I live in the North Druid Hills community and have worked for daily and weekly newspapers in Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas. I graduated from the University of Maryland in 2005 with a degree in English Language and Literature, a wonderful field of study that will challenge and engage you even as it lays the groundwork for your future unemployment. (But you'll know how to chart our nation's secular transformation from the works of Charles Brockden Brown to Seinfeld. FYI: Moby Dick is a turning point.)
I grew up in southern Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay. I'm a huge ice hockey fan and played the sport through middle and high school. I also love movies and own a somewhat sad collection of more than 500 movies.
As a journalist, I've covered everything from large national stories (the Washington, D.C., snipers in 2003) to the smallest story you can think of, including pizza day at Lady's Island Elementary School in Beaufort, S.C.
Greg Sullivan, a vice president for the Southeast, said the international retailer is definitely looking to expand in Atlanta with smaller stores. Whether that includes Decatur remains to be seen.
The Unitarian Universalist church's sermon last weekend was about millennials (kids born between 1982 and 2000. Some say they're self-centered and narcissistic.
The former coach and mentor who also brought a state football championship to Lovett School in 1970 died Saturday at his Jasper home from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease.
The U.S. Postal Service may close the office as part of a nationwide budget slashing measure.
The former U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware who rose from underdog status to famously take the state's Republican primary in September comes to North Decatur next month.
You can purchase one night–worth $35–for $16. And you can purchase up to five nights at that price, and they don't need to be consecutive.
Norma Chavez, 60, of Decatur purchased the ticket at the Amoco Food Stop at the intersection of North Decatur and Clairmont roads.
The Dawgs visited with kids at the camp earlier this summer to play catch, sign autographs and even sing.
The top five stories from the previous week in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area.
A list of the top 10 most frequently rented Redbox movies in North Druid Hills over the last seven days.
A selection of crimes in our area reported to DeKalb County police.
An institute at the University of California, Los Angeles found that our community has a large percentage of gay couples compared to other communities across the state.
Four break-ins occurred near Scott Boulevard between July 15 and Monday.
As testing standards tighten, more schools across the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area fell short of making Adequate Yearly Progress as measured by the state.
Two suspects with guns entered the North Decatur Road bowling alley early Saturday morning and fled with $2,600 in cash.
Want to know what's going on in the neighborhood this weekend? Patch let's you know.
After the county agreed to buy about 6 acres in the community earlier this month, Commissioner Jeff Rader said he's also interested in 17 acres nearby.
A new study says two-thirds of teen novels published day reference sex implicitly or directly. How comfortable are you with your teen's consumption of material that includes sex?
The national pizza chain will replace the popular Mexican restaurant that shut its doors in December.
Parents at Druid Hills Middle School are protesting the DeKalb County School System, which plans to add 200 additional transfer students to Druid Hills High School to comply with No Child Left Behind.
