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Fayette-izing
Ga.'s schools
When seniors at
both Fayette County and Sandy Creek high schools posted historic jumps
on their average SAT scores last spring, it didn't go unnoticed at the
Georgia Department of Education.
Fayette
folks who work for state Supt. Kathy Cox
Metro
Area SAT Scores
Pavilion
dealt for $172M
Call it the ultimate
sale at Fayette's largest shopping center.
Convicted
murderer proclaims innocence, predicts run for sheriff
In a prison cell
all to himself, serving life in prison for murdering his wife, Jim Watson
has had plenty of time to plot how he'll clear his name.
Fayette
Board of Education borrows $8.5 million to meet September payroll
Fayette County school
personnel got some good news and some better news from the Board of
Education Monday night.
Sandy
Creek student, 16, struck by car, critically hurt
A 16-year-old student
from Sandy Creek High School remained in critical condition Tuesday
after he was struck by an automobile while walking on Jenkins Road after
school Monday afternoon.
Grand
jurors hear testimony on double murder, but return no indictment in case
Detectives
are still focusing on the possible role of a Jonesboro man in the double
murder of David O. Mangham and Francis Michael Fowler at Mangham's home
back in May.
Ideas
offered by citizen's panel on buses turned over to BOE
For
a brief few minutes Monday, the 10 citizen members of the Fayette County
School Board's Transportation Task Force thought they were off the hook.
Vehicular
homicide charges dropped
Misdemeanor
vehicular homicide charges against a Peachtree City man were dropped
Monday afternoon, several hours into the trial against him in Fayette
County State Court.
Fire
engulfs tractor trailer on Tyrone Rd.
No one was injured
when a tractor trailer hauling sand caught fire Tuesday afternoon on
Tyrone Road near Flat Creek Trail, coincidentally near a Fayette County
Fire Station
County
fire department re-accredited by agency
The
annual accreditation compliance report of the Fayette County Department
of Fire and Emergency Services has been approved by the Commission on
Fire Accreditation International.
Fayette's
school safety plan approved by state regulators
The Fayette County
School System's school safety plan has been re-approved by the Georgia
Emergency Management Agency.
Local
student spends some of summer in Russia
Fayetteville resident
and Fayette County High School graduate Christopher Thornburg had an
excellent summer vacation, although it wasn't spent at the beach or
an amusement park.
Sandy
Creek High ambassadors back from Australia trip
Four Sandy Creek
High School students proudly represented Fayette County, the state of
Georgia and the United States this summer as they traveled to Australia
as Student Ambassadors with the People to People Student Ambassadors
program.
Wieland
buys a pig
John Wieland, famous
for building homes in the Southeast, including numerous neighborhoods
in Fayette County, has gone into the livestock business.
Merrill
Lynch gets national award for supporting Guard, Reserves
Merrill
Lynch received the national "My Boss is a Patriot" award from
the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves at a luncheon ceremony
at Ft. McPherson, Army Forces Command, hosted by the Greater Atlanta
Reserve Officers Association. The award includes a plaque signed by
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and honors the company for supporting
its employee reservists.
Gordon
enrollment includes large Fayette contingent
More than 300 Fayette
Countians are amond the 3,431 students enrolled this fall at Gordon
College in Barnesville, as the school experiences a 10 percent enrollment
increase over last fall.
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