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County,
cable still pointing fingers
Words continue
to fly between AT&T Broadband cable company and the Fayette County
government.
PTC
Council eyes 11% budget hike proposal
Peachtree City's
operating budget could increase by as much as 11.8 percent if the City
Council eventually adopts a proposal it will discuss at Thursday night's
meeting in a public hearing.
Retail
complex eyed for PTC's south side
A public hearing
is set for Thursday on a Macon company's rezoning request to allow a
retail center with offices, a large church and a soccer complex on 80
acres just south of Peachtree City.
F'ville
man dies in foggy crash Mon.
A local man who
died in a head-on collision Monday morning on Ga. Highway 85 south was
attempting to pass another vehicle in heavy fog, according to police.
Investigation
incomplete in Fayette Co. jail death
The Georgia Bureau
of Investigation has not completed its inquiry into the death of an
inmate at the Fayette County Jail.
GRTA
official to address commission
A representative
of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority will talk about the
new super agency's role in Fayette County during a meeting of the County
Commission today.
Reduced
parking requirements to get vote Thurs.
Changes in county
development rules designed to reduce concrete and improve rainwater
drainage will be on the agenda as the Fayette County Planning Commission
meets Thursday.
County
studying septic tank fears, storm water runoff
The failure of a
septic tank can be a nightmare for a homeowner, but what happens if
hundreds of septic tanks in Fayette County should fail in a short period
of time?
For
septic systems, ounce of prevention may be best hope
Prevention may be
the best solution for many older homes on septic systems in Fayette
County, according to Rick Fehr, environmental health director.
School
board proceeds with bond vote
The Fayette
County Board of education signed a resolution Friday to proceed with a
$65 million bond referendum for new school construction, land acquisition
and renovation of some existing schools.
Rec
center part of master plan
A $2.5 million multipurpose
center forms the center piece of the Peachtree City Recreation Department's
master plan for future facilities.
Hands-on
program gives youths job experience
What do you want
to be when you grow up?
School
board reflects on how it used to be
Once upon a time,
there was only one public high school in Fayette County. Boys would
drive their trucks to school with shotguns stashed in the back and cut
class to go deer hunting. Some elementary schools housed only two or
three classrooms.
Delays,
vaccine shortages expected
Flu Season
2000-01:
Incumbents
only qualifyers for Tyrone vote
It's going to be
a quiet election year in Tyrone this year.
Mattingly
to speak in Fayette Saturday
Mack Mattingly,
Georgia Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, will be the guest speaker
at the Fayette County Republican monthly breakfast meeting Saturday.
New
Huddleston principal has a plan
Becky Maddox is
getting a team together, and she's using triangles to do it.
Police
blotter
Forgotten
cemetery gets new life
The Norton-Drennan
Cemetery on South Jeff Davis Drive is one of the many cemeteries that
sat in wilderness for many years and is now in the backyards of some
very expensive homes.
Sandy
Creek hosts PROBE fair
Sandy Creek High
School will host the students and their parents from six south metro
school districts Tuesday, Sept. 19, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., for the PROBE
college fair.
Meet
the teachers at Starr's Mill
Starr's Mill High
School will host "Meet the Teacher Night" Monday, Sept. 11
starting at 7 p.m.
Local
Heart Walk chairman named
Janet McGregor,
owner of JMac Marketing, has been named chairman of the 2000 Fayette
Division Metro Atlanta American Heart Walk.
Fund-raisers
set for Rep. Mac Collins
The Greater Fayette
Republican Women will host a fund-raiser for U.S. Rep. Mac Collins Oct.
7 at the Barn in Tyrone.
Agency
sponsoring adoption conference
"If there is
any way possible, I'd like to be adopted. But I'm 16 years old,"
said Donnie, who is waiting for an adoptive family.
Would-be
teachers realize PROMISE
More than 300 of
Georgia's classroom paraprofessionals and teachers' aides have decided
to become teachers, and the number is growing daily.
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