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Snow alert: Decatur to close schools early

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Credit: Curtis Compton

Credit: Curtis Compton

By Ty Tagami
Jan 5, 2017

City Schools of Decatur will close an hour early Friday ahead of the forecast snowstorm.

After-school activities are canceled.

The much larger DeKalb County School District has announced it will close two hours early and has canceled all after-school activities.

MORE: Metro Atlanta school closings

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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