Sunday, December 28, 2003

Sewer plant, stormwater fixes, new cop shop/courthouse on $18.4 million tab for Fville

Fayetteville will soon be cashing in on a big way to jump start three different large-scale projects.

White Road rezoning pulled by developer

A rezoning proposed by a local developer for a new subdivision on White Road has been withdrawn.

Jewelry store dropping one sign to keep another

In exchange for removing one of its wall signs, a downtown business will be able to keep its monument ground sign thanks to a plan approved by the Fayetteville City Council last week.

Talley bows out from F’ville council seat

Last Thursday evening was the final council meeting for outgoing Fayetteville City Councilman Bill Talley.

Ga. swells to 9th on list of big states, Census says

Georgia has added nearly a half million new residents just in the first three years of the new millennium, moving past New Jersey into 9th on the list of the country’s most populous states, the Census bureau announced last week.

New Year Gives New Opportunities For Personal Growth
By DAVID L. CHANCEY
Pastor

Have you made your New Year’s Resolutions? Are they realistic? What are you undertaking that will enrich your life? I heard about a woman who walked into her bathroom and found her husband weighing himself on the bathroom scales, sucking in his stomach. The woman thought to herself, “He thinks that he will weigh less by sucking in his stomach.

Focus on peace & food for the soul
By MARY JANE HOLT
Pastor

In 1966, a Mennonite family gave me a copy of a little book called “Mountain Trailways for Youth,” by Mrs. Charles Cowman. If the truth be told, I only knew “of” this family, and was surprised that they would give me a high school graduation gift. I had seen their quiet comings and goings and observed their differentness from afar.