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County
OKs 1st ‘conservation subdivision’
Which would you
rather have, smaller lots and a huge park, or bigger lots and far less
greenspace?
Design
standards relaxed in vicinity of hospital
A small item on
last Thursday’s County Commission meeting could set off a big struggle
for development around Fayette Community Hospital.
TDK
to get $1M boost
It now looks like
smooth sailing for the long-talked about TDK Boulevard project.
Property
owners object to F’ville park plan
Plans to build a
passive park in downtown Fayetteville may have hit a snag as negotiations
for the city to purchase two parcels for the project have stalled, according
to city officials.
Council
to hear appeal of multifamily moratorium
The Peachtree City
Council will hear an appeal Thursday of the city’s moratorium on
multi-family development just two weeks after voting to extend the ordinance
for another year.
3rd
generation joins Walker Concrete on 50th anniversary
When Barney Walker
first set out to sell concrete in rural Fayette County back in 1953,
he did it by driving around in a pickup truck pulling a two-bag cement
mixer, stopping whenever he saw somebody moving dirt or digging a hole.
New
bypass could be county’s most expensive road project
Residents who try
to navigate through Fayetteville’s square in the morning and afternoon
rush hours often wish for another route to get home or to their jobs.
Low
voter turnout feared for holiday-week runoff
More than the usual
number of Peachtree City families are expected to hit the road back
home to Grandma’s this weekend, taking advantage of the full week
of Thanksgiving vacation scheduled for the first time this year by Fayette
County schools.
Tourism
Assn. considers budgets
Approving budget
proposals for both the Fred Brown Jr. Amphitheater and Peachtree City
Tennis Center will be on the agenda of tonight’s Peachtree City
Tourism Association meeting.
PTC
couple cuffed for trying to bilk man of $10K for explicit photos
A Peachtree City
couple was arrested Thursday for trying to extort $10,000 from a Coweta
man over sexually explicit photographs featuring all three persons,
police said.
Hood
Av. seeks AYP approval
Hood Avenue Elementary
principal Diane Teer is watching her mailbox closely, hoping for delivery
of a letter from the state Department of Education that states her school
has been removed from the list of those that “needs improvement”
under the federal No Child Left Behind act.
Adoption
spotlighted this month
November is National
Adoption Month and over the next two issues, there will be a series
of articles about adoption. Some of the aspects that will be covered
will be both domestic and international adoptions, adoption attorneys
and agencies, and more.
Local
family completes adoption of girl from China
Fayetteville residents
Gail and Kirby Daras wanted another child and, due to fertility issues,
decided to look into international adoption. They began the process
in March of 2002 and successfully completed the adoption a month ago.
Though there were a number of complications, involving red tape, good
old fashioned bureaucracy and other hoops to jump through, the Daras
family is very happy with their newest member, Lily Jean.
Local
author’s novel helps prospective adoptive parents
When Ines Arnsberger
Hatch and her husband, Robert, decided to begin the process to adopt
a child, Ines began an extended period of research. The more she read,
the same things kept popping up over and over again and as her adoption
process started, she found there was nothing in these books to prepare
her for the emotional roller-coaster she and her husband were enduring.
She decided to write a book to fill that need and now, “The Adoption
Eclipse: Choices County,” is now available to readers and is getting
a good response.
Principal
puts positive spin on coaching changes
The principal at
Whitewater Middle School said the coach of the Lady Wildcat basketball
program voluntarily chose to step down from those duties recently, but
a newfound relationship with coaches at Whitewater High School has turned
what started out as a bad situation into something beneficial for the
young athletes.
Sandy
Creek finding respect, excitement
When Rodney Walker
arrived at Sandy Creek High as head football coach in spring of 1999,
the Patriots were still hurting from the the sting of another losing
season.
Two
after-school workers arrested for marijuana
Two employees of
the after-school program at Oak Grove Elementary were arrested for misdemeanor
marijuana possession by Peachtree City police Friday night.
Fayetteville
woman tussles with man who forced himself into her truck
A Fayetteville woman
briefly fought with a man early Thursday morning when he forced his
way into her truck at the Flash Foods convenience store on East Lanier
Avenue in Fayetteville.
Police
Briefs
Eight
Georgia schools nominated for National Blue Ribbon award
Seaborn Lee Elementary
off South Fulton Parkway was recently named one of eight Georgia schools
nominated to the 2004 “No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools”
program by State Supt. Kathy Cox.
Automatic
driver’s license renewal proving popular
Over 500,000 Georgia
residents have used the state’s automatic driver’s license
renewal program, avoiding lines at license bureaus.
Wildfire
risk up with cool weather
Georgia’s risk
for wildfire heightens as the weather cools, killing vegetation that
can serve as dry fuel for such blazes, according to Jeff Kenerly, Chief
Ranger of the Georgia Forestry Commission.
Hunters
feed the hungry
Generous Georgia
hunters donated 326 harvested deer to the Hunters for the Hungry (HFTH)
program during the first collection weekend (Nov. 1-2), according to
the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division
(WRD). ÊThe venison from the deer will help provide warm, nutritious
meals for hundreds of less fortunate Georgians. The WRD would like to
encourage all hunters to donate a deer,or two, or three during the next
collection weekend,Nov. 29-30 at six drop-off locations around the state
or bring a harvested deer to any of the three processor sites that are
collecting deer all month.
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