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BOE:
Bonds, not SPLOST
Fayette voters
will decide in the Nov. 7 general election whether to approve bonds
to fund several new schools. The Fayette County Board of Education in
a 3-to-2 vote Monday night approved calling for a bond referendum rather
than a special local option sales tax.
F'ville
postpones annex decision
In the midst of
a major annexation and rezoning request, Fayetteville city officials
took some time Thursday afternoon and braved scorching temperatures
to get a firsthand look at the property in question and, perhaps, some
insight into the pros and cons of making it a part of the city.
How
West Village came unglued: Vote even shocked Lenox
Peachtree City
Councilman Robert Brooks knew that changing his mind on annexing the
West Village land would make a big difference.
How
about Fayette residents paying MARTA tax?
Fulton County’s
commission chairman, Mike Kenn, wants residents in outlying counties
like Fayette to help pay for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority.
Latest
impact fee plan may get commission vote
Fayette County
commissioners Thursday hope to get a step closer to enacting impact
fees to help pay for a new county jail.
Commissioners voted two weeks ago to put the item on the agenda in hopes
that details can be worked out in time for a vote on the matter.
Tyrone
votes to keep talking about impact fees
In one of the few
divided votes in the last year, the Tyrone town Council gave begrudging
support to move along with discussion over a proposed county-wide impact
fee.
More
retail on the way to Peachtree City
The epicenter of
Peachtree City’s burgeoning retail growth is near the intersection
of Ga. highways 54 and 74.
Fayetteville
retail, dining expands north and south
Retail growth continues
in Fayetteville, mainly along the Ga. Highway 85 and Ga. Highway 314
corridors, as existing retail centers add tenants and new projects break
ground.
PTC
Council to vote on Wal-Mart request
The Peachtree City
Council will decide Thursday night whether to overturn a Planning Commission
decision to deny a concept plan for the proposed Wal-Mart Superstore.
Fayetteville
struggling with major retailers' financial woes
If you’re
looking to lease some retail space, Fayetteville’s got it —
a lot of it.
Tyrone
retail plans axed
Tyrone shoppers
looking for a major grocery store will still be heading to Peachtree
City after last week’s votes by the Town Council.
Planners
eye exempting subdivisions from tree law
Should Fayette
County’s tree protection laws govern residential construction projects,
or just commercial and industrial ones.
Police
Blotter
Determined
mom fights for change
It was more than
an inconvenience for Barbara Anderson to serve jury duty, but she did
it anyway.
State
Senate race yet to be decided
Bryan Hilton of
Lithia Springs will challenge incumbent state Sen. Greg Hecht for this
34th District post in the Nov. 7 General Election.
Court
clerk race first in 12 years
For the first time
since 1988, Superior Court Clerk W.A. “Bud” Ballard is facing
opposition in his re-election bid.
One-acre
zoning gets 3-2 approval
Developer Mukut
Gupta scored two out of three from the Fayette County Planning Commission,
and will now take his case to the county Board of Commissioners.
County
make reduce parking space requirements
In a move spurred
by environmental concerns, the Fayette County Planning Commission will
consider reducing the number of required parking spaces for several
categories of development.
Natives
pretty scarce in Fayette
She is one of the
extremely rare citizens here, a native Fayette countian.
GRTA
takes area officials for a ride
Time, money and
stress are the three aspects of metro commuting that GRTA (Georgia Regional
Transportation Authority) officials hope to address in launching an
express bus service to seven outlying counties such as Fayette, Coweta
and Douglas.
Tyrone
sets election
Qualifying runs
next week for Tyrone’s municipal elections.
Posts open in the November election are currently occupied by Mayor
Sheryl Lee, and councilmen Paul Letourneau and Ronnie Cannon.
Collins
makes campaign stops
Mac Collins, 55,
Hampton Republican running for reelection, visited in the towns of Brooks
and Tyrone last Friday.
He currently represents the ten-county 3rd District, which include Fayette
County.
Fayette
Scouts earn honors
Recently 13 youth
and adult members from Ini-To Lodge of the Order of the Arrow attended
the National Order of the Arrow Conference on the campus of the University
of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Fayette
committee organized for Bush
Georgians for Bush
Fayette County Chairman Greg Dunn has announced the formation of a 14-person
team to work for the election of Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush
as president.
Carpool
database up to 10,000
The Atlanta Regional
Commission’s 1-87-RIDEFIND database has registered more than 10,000
area residents looking for car pool and van pool partners, ARC announced.
Business
Fayetteville
to get new post office
Residents in the
30215 zip code should have their own post office by next year.
United
Way sets record goal
United Way
of Metropolitan Atlanta, which includes Fayette County, launched this
year’s campaign with a record goal of $82.5 million.
Partnering
with Suppliers
Purchasing Magazine
has called partnerships with suppliers a major trend in business today
and indicated that most companies are seeking these relationships in
their key buying categories. They have also proven to be disappointing
if not planned and executed well. So what does it take to have a successful
partnership?
Winter
could bring wildfires
Every year, Fayette
County faces a threat of wildfires during the winter months, which is
the seasonal time for wildfires.
- Sports
Landmark
War Eagles are playoff bound
Despite going 2-8
last year and learning the system of their third coach in as many years,
the landmark Christian War Eagles varsity football team is playoff bound.
That's right. Before one minute of one game has been played, the War
Eagles are guaranteed a spot in the playoffs at the end of the season.
Thanks to the classification shuffle, Landmark is in 5-A with three
other teams.
Panthers
safety, Houston, commits to Tech
It appears one
of our local football players is heading to the hallowed halls of Georgia
Tech.
Yellow
Jackets have their mark in Cooperstown, finish tournament in ninth place
The Fayette Yellow
Jackets got a taste of baseball history this summer when they spent
an exciting week in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Lady
Tigers crush Clayton teams
The Fayette County
Lady Tiger volleyball team faced Lovejoy and Morrow in its first games
of the season.
Season
of Thursday Thunder comes to an end
It was a record-setting
third season of Thursday Thunder at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Fall
adult athletic programs set to begin
The temperature
outside might suggest otherwise, but the Fayette County Recreation Department
is ready for fall.
Registration
underway for Peachtree City Classic
Plans are underway
by the Peachtree City Running Club for the 19th running of its Peachtree
City Classic.
- Weekend
- Dion
comes to Peachtree City
- There will be a
little bit of New York City swagger in Peachtree City this Friday and
Saturday night, when Dion, of Dion and The Belmonts fame, takes the
stage at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater.
- Southern
humorist to speak at benefit dinner for Fayette Youth Protection Homes
- Fans of Southern
humor are sure to get a treat next Monday when Ludlow Porch appears
as the keynote speaker at a benefit dinner for the Jim Friday and Asden
Johnson Homes for Children.
-
- Local
singer/songwriter releases CD Friday
- One local woman’s
long and rewarding journey is about to come to an end.
- Two
longs and a short
- By SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
- We may be the only
family left in America without a cell phone, a bit of a curiosity considering
that I embrace electronic communication technology wholeheartedly.
- Movies
- Teen
club and its members prosper in PTC
- More local parents
and teens probably know about The Market, the short-lived Fayetteville
teen club and its booty-dancing claim to fame, than Peachtree City’s
Jitterbuggers, the unassuming club founded by parent and local activist
Richard Thompson, and its celebrated swing dancers.
- Crisis
of Assimalation wins battle of the bands
- The YMCA Pavilion
rocked out recently with Battle of the Bands, sponsored by Jitterbuggers
and the Fayette Family YMCA.
- Auditions
for sketch comedy troop to be held on Thursday
- Are you the next
“Superstar” or “Hans and Frans?”
- Callaway
Gardens offers fun filled Fall
- Spend your Labor
Day weekend watching the sky as it fills up with color at the second
annual Callaway Gardens Sky High Hot Air Balloon Festival, Sept. 1-3.
- Savoryards
to hold auditions for 2000-2001 theater season
- Auditions for the
21st consecutive season for the Savoyards Musical Theatre Company will
be Sept. 7-9 at the North Atlanta Center for the Arts, North Atlanta
High School.
- Kids
can get green thumbs
- Do your children
enjoy digging in the dirt, playing with worms, eating insects and picking
the neighbors’ flowers?
- Celebraties
delve into world of fashion
- It seems like just
about everybody has a clothing line these days.
- Visiting
the old apartments
- I started moving
out of my mother’s house last weekend.
-
- Holocaust
survivor to speak at Breman Center
- The William Breman
Jewish Heritage Museum features an evening representing the other victims
of the Holocaust.
Notable
-
Religion
Education
begins at home
By CHUCK GRIFFITH
Religion Columnist
My wife homeschools
our children. The decision to homeschool was one we made based on our
own convictions. This is our first year to homeschool but we feel real
good about it.
Light
One Candle
By MSGR. THOMAS J. MCSWEENEY
Religion Columnist
In the early part of World War
II, when it seemed that England was about to be invaded, Winston Churchill
rallied the people with those memorable words: “We shall fight
them on the beaches . . . we shall fight them in the fields and in the
streets, we shall fight them in the hills.”
If
you hollered 'foul,' you're not alone
By JUDY KILGORE
Religion Editor
Last week I ran
a real mind boggler— a Bible Brain Teaser picked up from the pages
of the Fayetteville Christian Caller, the newsletter of the Fayetteville
Christian Church. It was a real challenge, both for those who know the
bible and for those who don't. It concerned a paragraph which contained
22 books of the Bible...hidden among the words.
Holy
Trinity teens give summer of service
Earlier this summer,
13 members of Life Teen at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Peachtree
City eagerly set off for the vacation mecca of central Florida. Their
goal was not to hang out with Mickey Mouse or watch the killer whales
at Sea World, but to give a week of their time at the Orlando Catholic
Heart Workcamp, an annual summer program that serves residents of the
city's poorest neighborhoods. Many of the teens said the trip was a
life-defining event that helped them to appreciate the church's call
to service.
'A-boyz'
will present gospel concert at River's Edge Church
River's Edge Community
Church will hear the sounds of contemporary, urban gospel music as the
“A-boyz” lead in worship and present a brief concert as part
of the morning service, Sunday, Aug. 27 at 10:30 a.m.
Bethany
men plan breakfast meeting
The men at Bethany
United Methodist Church will have breakfast this Saturday, Aug. 26,
at 8:30 a.m. at the Fayetteville Chick-fil-A.
Gospel
concert scheduled for Saturday in Sharpsburg
A gospel concert
to benefit the Sharpsburg Baptist Church's building fund will be held
Saturday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Sharpsburg Recreation Center in Old
Town Sharpsburg.
Religion
Briefs
Opinion
Opinion
The
people prevail in the PTC annexing debate
By CAL BEVERLY
Publisher
You
don’t have to hold up a wet finger to discover a hurricane is blowing
toward you.
Clinton'
speech best in conventions
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Having
heard all the keynote speeches at both the Republican and Democratic
conventions, I have to give him his due: President Clinton’s speech
was the best of the bunch.
A
sigh of relief that annexation failed
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
Hats
off to the Peachtree City Council members, the mayor, and the citizens
who worked diligently on the West Village Task Force.
Losing
my religion in PTC traffic
By BILLY MURPHY
Laugh
Lines
A
little rhyme to begin with:
Letters to
the Editor
F'ville
Council opening density floodgates?
Is
Fayetteville opening the floodgates again? The city of Fayetteville
is contemplating annexing 873 acres. Thousands of acres of agricultural-residential
zoned land abut this 873 acres. All of this acreage could petition for
annexation if the 873 acres is taken into the city.
Credit
PTC's Tennant for vote against west side annexation
I
was surprised but pleased to learn the Peachtree City Council voted
not to annex the 914 acres on the west side of Peachtree City, the so
called “West Village.”
Picture
F'ville annexing all the way to Peachtree City, Tyrone, Brooks
The elected officials
of Peachtree city realized that the people do not want higher density
in Fayette County. That is why they decided not to annex.
Mayor,
where are the advocates for annexation?
Mayor Lenox, I’d
like to weigh in my point of view as a citizen of Peachtree City regarding
the annexing of West Village. No! No! No!
Bonds
or SPLOST: Is it the school we want, or sales taxes?
At the July 27
meeting of the special school board committee, board member-elect Janet
Smola asked a question in the nature of “how much more interest
would we pay with bonds than with a SPLOST?,” or something of that
nature, nebulous enough for me to invite her to put it in writing so
I could offer her a thoughtful and well-considered answer.
How
will we handle multiple bonds for future schools?
While I agree with
the primary premise of both Mr. Paquin’s and Ms. Riley’s analysis
of lowering current period costs of paying for school construction using
bond programs rather than faster means of accumulating the money, I
am concerned that the analysis fails to consider the effect of multiple
construction programs that are likely to be required over the life of
the bond programs.
Do
your homework, school board
My family has resided
in Fayette County for 22 years, all but two of them in Peachtree City.
During these years we have seen a number of bond referendums for the
construction of new schools. We voted in favor of some when they made
sense and voted against others when the board failed to present a valid
arguement to win our vote.
Coweta
needs to do more for cruelly abandoned dogs and cats
Why do people acquire
pets, particularly dogs, and then after a few months dump them out somewhere?
Developers
don't consider density problems, school overcrowding
As a citizen of
this wonderful county, and a great place to live, and to raise a family,
I am not in favor of annexation of any additional lands into the cities
of Fayetteville or Peachtree City.
Water
restrictions for all of us, but not for developers, new construction
Mr. Beverly, your
efforts to inform the citizens regarding crucial issues on zoning and
annexation is appreciated. As we “old folks” use to say, “There’s
too many hogs eating out of the same trough.”
Voters
elected Mayor Lenox to represent them, not special interests
Mayor Lenox, I am
a voter in Peachtree City that is not — repeat, not — in favor
of annexation in Peachtree City or Fayetteville.
Gore's
'reinvented' government is sick
Al Gore’s reinvention
of government apparently included a resurgence of wasteful spending
and lackadaisical bookkeeping bordering on malfeasance. Government agencies
investigating Clinton-Gore Administration spending of taxpayer dollars
found the following:
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