The Fayette Citizen-News Page

Wednesday, July 11, 2001

PTC OKs Home Depot/Wal-Mart deal

RAM Development and Peachtree City Mayor Bob Lenox signed a development agreement yesterday allowing for construction of the planned Wal-Mart and Home Depot stores on Ga. Highway 54 west across from the Planterra Ridge subdivision.

Pavilion carjack suspect nabbed

A Jonesboro woman leaped to safety from a moving vehicle after she was carjacked early Sunday morning at the Wal-Mart at Fayette Pavilion, police said.

100-foot fall kills water tank worker

A construction worker fell over 100 feet to his death Monday morning at the site of Fayette County's newest water tower.

S. Fulton power plant neighbors get organized

Residents in Fayette and south Fulton counties have joined forces to try and convince Williams Corporation to locate a proposed Fulton Energy Center somewhere else.

Tyrone disputes wetlands violation charge

Tyrone Town Manager Barry Amos said his town's environmental record can be matched up against any entity in the county.

Tax equity dispute heads to court Friday

Fayette County's motion to dismiss a request for mandatory mediation of its tax equity dispute with local cities is scheduled to be heard in Superior Court Friday.

Tyrone appeals local court's commercial rezoning order to Ga. Supreme Court

The Tyrone Town Council is appealing a court order that would force it to rezone more than 74 acres bordering Ga. Highway 74 and Tyrone Road for unrestricted commercial use.

PTC Council OKs office rezoning, turns down request to subdivide lot

The Peachtree City Council has approved the rezoning of a three-acre tract on Ga. Highway 74 north near McWilliams Drive for office institutional use.

Planning panel OKs two-acre zoning on New Hope Road

When Sarah Banister asked the Fayette County Commission to approve one-acre subdivision zoning for her 42.3 acres on New Hope Road near Kite Lake Road last December, the county Planning and Zoning Commission recommended two-acre zoning instead.

Boyhood dream realized; garden railroad on display

Fayetteville City Councilman Glenn Brewer never had an electric train as a child the family couldn't afford it.

Garden railroad on display Sunday

If you want to get a look at Glenn Brewer's large scale garden railroad, you'll have a rare chance this Sunday.

Cable upgrade set July 29 for first 8,000 here

Approximately 8,000 Fayette cable TV customers will have enhanced service available to them starting July 29.

PTC will get third Kroger at former Harris Teeter site

The former Harris Teeter grocery store in Peachtree City will indeed become a Kroger.

Prepaid lunches available to more parents

Paying for school lunches is going to get easier this year for students at 11 of Fayette's public schools.

Braelinn Elementary is first school in Fayette to have a mobile computer lab

When it is time for students at Braelinn Elementary School to do their computer assignments, they do not have to go to a lab anymore, the lab comes to them.

Board hopes to replace Warr

Fayette County Board of Education hopes to name a new principal for Sandy Creek High School in a special called meeting Friday at 8 a.m.

School officers now on summer patrol at Fayette Pavillion

School resource officers from the Fayette County Sheriff's Department are now patrolling the Fayette Pavillion since school is out of session.

Fayette students meet Germany's chancellor

German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder had just put in a typical day's work: wrestling with shifting political coalitions, preparing for upcoming summit meetings in Goteborg, and generally attending to the business of running a nation

Memory Walk getting organized

Organizers of the annual Alzheimer's Memory Walk will have a kickoff party for team captains next Tuesday.

Student wins in national VICA contest

Daunte Bruce of Peachtree City won third place recently in the National VICA Skills USA competition in Kansas City, Mo.

Student wins in national VICA contest

The Public Service Commission has unanimously approved the agreement between BellSouth and AT&T that will save Georgia consumers and businesses $19 million a year in long distance charges.

Forestry seedlings available

It's time to order seedlings from the Georgia Forestry Commission for planting this fall and winter.

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