News
County
defends jail fee decision
"We're going
to get there. Be patient," said Fayette County Commission Chairman
Greg Dunn as he prepared to fire off the latest round in the battle
over jail space and tax equity.
Frady:
County should reconsider making cities pay for jailing municipal prisoners
Fayette County Commissioner
Herb Frady wants his fellow commissioners to reconsider their decision
last week to end a seven-year-old agreement to house municipal prisoners
in the County Jail at no charge.
Dunn
to answer mayor's complaint
Greg Dunn says he'll
answer Bob Lenox's latest letter concerning Fayette County's approval
of a shopping center across from Starr's Mill High School as commission
chairman to mayor.
Girl
aids mother after bus collides with deer
A freak accident
early Tuesday morning involving a deer and a Fayette County school bus
could have resulted in tragedy for the driver if not for the quick thinking
and composure of her daughter.
Are
Fayette's voting patterns changing?
It will take up-to-date
census figures to interpret, precinct by precinct, the results of last
November's election based on factors like income level, race, gender
and level of education.
The
mystery of the missing votes
It's official. Fayette
County has bragging rights on at least two aspects of the Nov. 7 general
election.
Armed
burglary suspect may be linked to other Fayetteville break-ins
The arrest of an
armed burglary suspect at a local residence almost two weeks ago may
prove to be a break in other reported burglaries, according to officials
from the Fayetteville Police Department.
Fayette
group heading for the ball
When George W. Bush
takes the oath of office as president of the United States this week,
nine Fayette County Republican Party faithful will be present.
Restaurant,
car wash on Fayetteville P&Z agenda
The Fayetteville
Planning and Zoning Commission will have little trouble next Tuesday
with this month's agenda, judging from the activity at last week's work
session.
Westmoreland
expects much ado about flag, districts
So far, parts of
this session of the General Assembly remind Rep. Lynn Westmoreland,
R-Sharpsburg, of a Willie Nelson song.
Hecht
bill takes on natural gas problems
State Sen. Greg
Hecht, who represents north Fayette, has filed a measure aimed at slowing
natural gas price increases and improving billing procedures.
Hecht
bill takes on natural gas problems
BellSouth
Mobility cell phone customers won't get any better reception in south
Fayette County anytime soon.
Raymon
Johnson dead at 80
Former
Fayette County Commissioner Raymond D. Johnson, 80, died Jan. 3, 2001.
He was born July 7, 1920 in Arp, Texas.
Bob
Disharoon, well-known Realtor, dies
Fayette
County has lost one of its powerhouses, Robert James "Bob"
Disharoon, Jan. 13, 2001.
Math
recommendation coming Monday
A
recommendation for new math textbooks will be made to the Fayette County
Board of Education at its Jan. 22 meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m.
Stinchcomb
sues commission for rezoning denial
Local
developer Dan Stinchcomb has filed a lawsuit against the Fayette County
Board of Commissioners for denying his rezoning request for more than
158 acres at the intersection of Old Norton Road and Lester Road.
Historic
Preservation Commission now meeting in Fayetteville
Last
week was the first public meeting of the new Fayetteville Historic Preservation
Commission.
County
wells shut down
Pumps
that had provided drinking water from five Fayette County-owned wells
are now silent.
Tyrone
getting new post office
Tyrone
residents could soon get a new post office.
County
Web updated again; property tax info available
Fayette
County's government continues to update its Web site to provide new
information and make the site easier for residents to use.
Drought
recovery continues
As
rain continues to occasionally fall, water supplies in Fayette County
continue to recover from a three-year drought.
Small
grass fire started by kid with matches
13-year-old
has been accused of arson after fire crews responded to a small grass
fire at an apartment complex in Fayetteville Saturday.
Gosa,
Huddleston praised by Commission
A former Fayette
County commissioner and former magistrate judge got special thanks from
county commissioners last week.
First-ever
Thursday meeting is cancelled
It will be another
two weeks before the Fayetteville City Council begins conducting Thursday
night meetings.
Water
facility may be moved
Fayette County's
Water Committee is considering moving its distribution plant on Kelly
Drive to land at the Crosstown Water Treatment Plant in Peachtree City
to make life better for residents of the area.
Fayette
students heading for inaugural
A
number of students from Fayette County will be headed to Washington
in two weeks for the inauguration of President-elect George W. Bush.
Selected by the Close Up Foundation in Washington, D.C., the participants
will participate in a one-week program of government studies and inaugural
events.
Hecht,
Seabaugh given committee assignment
Lt.
Gov. Mark Taylor announced committee assignments for the state Senate
Tuesday, naming Fayette's two senators to a total of eight slots.
Police
Blotter
Dining Guide
- Food,
fun and football
- Food, fun and football--it's
what Super Bowl Sunday is all about.
- The
staff of life
By F.C. FOODIE
Food Critic
-
As winter contains
to maintain its icy grip on the area, many of us are turning to comfort
foods to help us get through these dreary days.
Super
Bowl Recipe
- Business
Awards
given at Chamber Banquet
A
number of people were recognized at the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce's
Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet Saturday night.
Dot
Kite is named top business person
Commerce
to be its 2000 Business Person of the Year.
La
Rosa's Pizza Company Putting People First
The
service and food industry probably has the lowest retention and highest
turnover of all the industries in the United States. The reasons for
this are varied, but a lot of it can be attributed to low pay, long
hours, weekends and a workforce that is perceived to be low caliber
and/or low skill.
- Sports
Mixed
results for local teams in close region games
The local basketball
teams had some close games over the weekend as they continued to face
an onslaught of tough regional opponents.
Starr's
Mill wins county dual meet
The county dual
meet was held last week at Sandy Creek high School but it was Starr's
Mill who looked like the home team.
Fayette
Middle School is the county wrestling champion
The Fayette Middle
School wrestling team completed an undefeated season on Saturday by
winning the county championships. The team went 4-0 in the meet and
Rising Starr Middle School placed second by going 3-1.
Fayette
Flames and PTC Track to merge
The Fayette Flames
are in the process of merging with the Peachtree City Youth Track team
to kick off their 2001 season.
Sports
Calendar
- Weekend
- New
magazine promotes women in Fayette County
-
There's
something new out there for the women of Fayette County.
- Fayette
County Library set to kick off another successful year
-
The
Fayette County Public Library celebrated its fourth anniversary Saturday,
Jan. 13.
- This
year's Golden Globe Awards are almost too close to call
-
The
Golden Globe Awards will be aired this Sunday at 8 p.m. on NBC.
Puzzling
over riverbanks
By SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
-
If
he said it once, he said it a dozen times during the ten weeks we
spent on the Tennessee River and its tributaries in the spring and
fall of 2000: "All those years I was driving 300 miles south
to sail when this was only 200 miles north!"
- Movies
- Examining
the family tree with Mike
-
In
order to find out what makes us tick, it is often necessary to look
into our ancestry (looking in our medicine cabinets or under our beds
would also help).
- Religion
A
true Christian life breaks down the barriers...and sets you free
By REV. JOHN HATCHER
Religion Columnist
I was born
a southerner. I will die a Christian. I was born a Georgian. I will die
a Christian. I was born a Baptist. I will die a Christian. I was born
in the segregated south. I will die in Christian unity. The question,
however, is which identity will I carry as I live? Which identity will
identify me as I walk in the environs of Fayette and Clayton and Fulton?
Charles
Billingsley to appear in pre-conference concert at Kenwood Christian Church
Jan. 27
Contemporary Christian
music artist Charles Billingsley will perform in concert at Kenwood
Christian Church on Saturday evening, Jan 27, beginning at 6 p.m. The
concert will kickoff the church's UnveilinGLORY conference, scheduled
for Sunday, Jan. 28. Special appearances at the concert will also be
made by the conference speaker, Gerald Robison, vice president of UnveilinGLORY,
and WVFJ 93.3 FM's morning co-host, Sheila Richards, who will meet listeners
and give out prizes.
His
House Community Church sets dedication activities for new home
Calling themselves,
"The church alive in the double-wide on 85," members of His
House Community Church will celebrate the dedication of their new worship
facilities on Sunday, Jan. 28 at 11 a.m. A covered-dish homecoming dinner
will follow.
'Redeeming
the Time' seminar to be offered by FFBC January 28
Fayetteville First
Baptist Church will host the Lifechangers seminar, "Redeeming the
Time," Sunday, Jan. 28, during the morning and evening worship
services.
'State
of the Church' address will be featured at Fayetteville Christian Church
this Sunday
Rev.
Daniel Overdorf, senior minister at Fayetteville Christian Church, will
deliver his annual "State of the Church" address this Sunday
evening, Jan. 21, which will be followed by a soup and sandwich appreciation
get-together in the church gym. The event will begin at 6 p.m. in the
church sanctuary.
Newnan
Baptist plans Winter Conference
Members of Newnan's
First Baptist Church will have their Winter Conference 2001 on Friday,
Jan. 26 and Saturday, Jan. 27, featuring Claude V. King, writer and
conference speaker, as special guest. The theme of the conference is
"An Intimate Friendship With God."
Religion
Briefs
Opinion
Opinion
Don't
believe, or pass on, all you read
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
This is a column
about intellectual honesty.
1
year later, school reform reexamined
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
It has been a year
since Governor Barnes' hotly contested A-plus Education Reform Act was
unveiled. It eventually passed muster and became law. Since the 2000
legislative session, educators and parents have scrambled to understand
the law and just how the new rules may impact their local systems.
A
post office support group
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
This is no joke.
I am starting a support group for victims of post office stress syndrome.
There are support groups for other abuse victims, so if you have had
to experience the long lines, discourteous service and overall bad "vibes"
in the government's equivalent to Russia's Gulag, then please join me
in mutual therapy.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mayor
Lenox responds to column, commission
[Editor's
note: The Citizen received two faxes Monday from Peachtree City Mayor
Bob Lenox. The first is addressed to the publisher and the second to
Fayette County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn.]
Lenox:
Definition of gall?
Concerning Mayor
Bob Lenox's questions and comments regarding the rezoning of Fayette
County land on Ga. Hwy. 74 for a proposed commercial endeavor: I am
wondering if Webster's would include his photo as an illustration for
gall, impudence, impertinence, effrontery, audacity, brashness, etc.,
etc., etc.
Thanks,
commissioners, for doing your jobs well
No news is usually
good news when we're talking about people who serve in elected office
and the job they do taking care of their responsibilities.
Fayette
needs bike lanes
Thanks so much for
your forward-looking article on bike lanes. Statistics say that almost
every home in the state has a bicycle stored away; people are afraid
to ride on the roads with cars, and rightly so.
How
can any fair-minded person approve of current state flag?
Thank you for the
courage of saying what so many of us black folks feel about the state
flag. As a Viet Nam veteran, a retired firemen of 28 years, and a productive
Georgia citizen, I feel insulted, sometimes angry, each time I see the
current state flag.
Which
is compassionate party?
And Democratic leaders
say they are the compassionate party. I don't think so.
Tennant
explains his vote on city clerk
At the last city
council meeting, council voted 4-1 to appoint City Manager Jim Basinger
city clerk while the city charter is reviewed. The role of the city
clerk is among those things being reviewed.
Why
are lame ducks tinkering with PTC's charter?
This Thursday the
Peachtree City Council will begin discussions on making changes to our
city charter. I believe that our charter does need some changes. However,
I want to see changes that give the citizenry more power like the ability
to have a popular vote on annexation requests.
School
board, county need better planning for the future
I have been a resident
of Peachtree City since 1970, when the official U.S. census reported
the population to be 793 persons. Today I am highly pleased to be living
in a residential community so desirable.
We
Americans may need to reexamine our definition of 'success'
I have spent a significant
portion of my work life in efforts to develop leaders in nonprofit settings
(particularly ministries and churches). Yet I write to question the
perspectives of an opinion piece by the Reverend David Epps in the Jan.
5 edition of your newspaper concerning 10 common traits of "America's
most successful people." I do not mean to be merely contentious
or even quibbling, but I have serious reservations about the underlying
thought and value structures in the article.
Jitterbuggers
gets another shot
Three wonderful
occurrences took place during December since the announcement of the
closing of Jitterbuggers Teen club due to the building it was located
in being sold.
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