News
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- Board Oks $114.7
million school budget
- It will cost
taxpayers nearly $115 million to school
an expected 20,013 Fayette students,
according to the fiscal year 2000 budget
given tentative approval Monday night by
the Fayette County Board of Education.
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School sales tax vote on
Nov. ballot?
Another bond
issue, or special local option sales
tax is expected to be on the ballot
in November, based on the Fayette
County School Board's need to come up
with $12 million in local funds to
build two new schools.
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Some principals get big
boost
A chart shows a
position by position explanation of
current and proposed salaries for
directors and principals within the
Fayette County school system, as
outlined in the budget document
approved Monday night by the board of
education.
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Schools crack down on
residency requirements
Fayette County
students may be asked to provide a
current power bill, along with
filling out emergency cards, medical
forms and bus route slips in August,
if the board of education decides to
crack down on residency requirements
for children attending the county
schools.
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BOE sets up wetlands at
south complex
- An agreement
between the Army Corps of Engineers
and the Fayette County Board of
Education, which designates 27 acres
of land at the south complex to
remain undisturbed, was approved
Monday night. The restrictive
covenant puts the board in compliance
with the Corps' wetland policies.
Commission: Rainy days
coming; no tax cut for now
- Now is the time to
save for a rainy day, not the time for a
tax cut.
That's a tentative
consensus reached by Fayette County
commissioners Monday night during their
first in-depth workshop on the fiscal
2000 budget.
- Pump left off,
sewage spills into Lake Peachtree
- A spill late
Thursday afternoon sent an estimated
20,000 gallons of sewage into Lake
Peachtree near Ga. Highway 54.
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- Bus cutbacks to
affect seniors
- Fayette Senior
Services has announced that it will be
severely cutting back its transportation
services at the end of this month. The
cutback could affect as many as 300 local
seniors.
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- Cowan heads powerful
new state transportation board
- One of Fayette's
first developers has been named chairman
of one of the state's newest and most
powerful agencies.
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- Commissioners dig
into 200 budget request
- Overtime or
compensatory time? That is one question
on Fayette County commissioners' minds as
they ponder a proposed $48.6 million
budget for fiscal year 2000.
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- Commissioners set
budget pace by cutting their own
expenditures
- Fayette County
Commissioners said they want to set a
budget-cutting example for department
heads, and they've done so with a
tentatively approved $455,004 budget for
2000.
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- Ruling may pave way
for road projects, but officials cautious
- A federal court's
decision to throw out the air quality
standards that have delayed metro Atlanta
road building programs may be just what
the doctor ordered for Fayette County's
clogged roadways, local transportation
officials say.
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- Teen killed when
pickup trucks collide
- Bad weather is the
apparent cause of a crash that took the
life of a Fayette County teenager last
week.
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- Pilot crashes at
Falcon Field
- A pilot was
airlifted to an Atlanta hospital Sunday
after his plane crashed at Falcon Field
in Peachtree City, according to Fire
Department officials.
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- Armed robber denied
parole
- Nearly seven years
after receiving a life sentence for a
number of armed robberies in Fayette and
Spalding counties, Terry Anthony Sampson
has been denied parole, according to a
statement released last week by the state
Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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- County residents
have plenty of places to get into the
swim of things
- Local residents
looking for a pool to cool off in this
summer have a number of options in the
county, but they're all in Peachtree
City.
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- Impact fee committee
gets started in 2 weeks
- A new task force
that will look for ways to charge
developers some of the costs of new
county facilities and services caused by
their developments will have its first
meeting June 23.
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- Developer: 3/4-acre
lots won't work on New Hope Road at 314
- Fayetteville
developer Bob Rolader says there is no
way he can build his proposed Argonne
Forest subdivision as recommended by the
city Planning Commission.
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- Child molester gets
15 years
- A Fairburn man
received a 15-year prison sentence last
week in Fayette Superior Court after
pleading guilty to aggravated child
molestation and aggravated sodomy.
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- Adults' involvement
is key to education, says DeCotis
- Volunteerism.
Civility. Honesty. Integrity. Hard work.
Good listening skills. All necessary
ingredients for good role models for
students, said Fayette school
superintendent Dr. John DeCotis.
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- Community round
table starting
- To help Fayette
County school officials “know what's
in the minds of businesses, parents,
local officials and others,” a
community round table is being developed,
said school superintendent Dr. John
DeCotis.
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- Planning
commissioners see loophole in ordinance
- Fayette Planning
Commission members want to clarify a law
that prohibits subdivision streets more
than 3,000 feet long.
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- County roads to get
new pavement
- Eleven Fayette
County roads will get just over 11 miles
of new pavement under a contract between
the county and the state Department of
Transportation.
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- Sandy Creek Road
closing set June 14
- Fayette County
Public Works Department will close Sandy
Creek Road south of Hood Road June 14 for
about eight weeks.
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- City, county
participating in 'Boot' drive
- The Fayette County
Department of Fire and Emergency Services
and the Fayetteville Fire Department are
joining ranks with more than 100 other
fire departments from throughout the
state by participating in the tenth
annual “Give Burns the Boot”
drive, benefiting the Georgia
Firefighters Burn Foundation, June 24-26.
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- Business
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- Open house at Azalea Estates
is Saturday
- Fayette County's newest
assisted living and retirement community is
throwing an open house this weekend for the
community.
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- Sparky the Fire Dog is
helping spread the word on fire safety
- Fayetteville and Fayette
County children are learning early about fire
safety through an educational program in both day
care centers and local public schools.
- Hudsons formed tradition of
service in Fayette
- The late Jim
Hudson, who died Jan. 27, 1888, was one of three
brothers from Fairburn who became well known
local entrepreneurs.
- Sports
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- Thorn steps down as Landmark
football coach
- Landmark Christian School
got some news that they never expected to hear
last week. Their football coach and former
athletic director, Bill Thorn, has decided to
step down from football. Thorn has been coaching
football since 1955.
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- Walker announces sponsorship
of a race car
- Auto racing is one of the
fastest growing sports in the world. It should
come as no surprise that Herschel Walker, a name
synonymous with speed and power, is getting in on
the action.
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- Lazers repeat as division
champions
- The Under 10 Peachtree City
Lazers white team completed the spring season in
the Georgia Youth Soccer Association Premier
program as the top team in its division.
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- Diana Chang repeats as
Region MVP
- Diana Chang, a recently
graduated senior from Fayette County High School,
has gotten used to honors and accolades over the
years. Chang was a midfielder of the Fayette
County Lady Tiger soccer team and the Region
4-AAAA MVP the past two years.
- Silverbacks offer summer
soccer camps
- Atlanta's professional
soccer team, the Silverbacks, will offer a
sleep-over soccer camp and a soccer day camp to
dedicated players throughout the state this
summer.
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- Awards to be given to top
school athletic departments
- The Georgia Athletic
Directors Association recently announced that an
award, The Gatorade/Balfour Director's Cup, will
be presented annually to the most outstanding
athletic departments in each of the Georgia High
School Association's classifications.
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- Local runners smash 100 mile
relay record
- The Guinness Book of World
Records can hold a powerful allure for many
people. Whether they choose to get in by wearing
a 50 pound beard of bees while playing hopscotch
for twelve straight hours or whether they choose
to run a relay race, their achievements are still
commendable.
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- Weekend
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- Farner to
bring some 'Grand Funk' to amphitheater
this weekend
- They had 12 platinum
albums and 15 gold albums during their
reign as the most commercially successful
American heavy metal band from 1970 until
1976.
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- Doctor to
play evil stepsister
- Most people know him
as Dr. Quentin Van Meter, but Sunday,
June 13 at 3 p.m. this local pediatrician
will be transformed into
“Anastasia,” one of
Cinderella's ugly stepsisters.
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- Youth
Ballet kicks off big summer with
'Paquita'
- The Georgia Youth
Ballet, under the direction of Magdalena
Maury, will present a company concert
June 12 at Creekside High School.
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- Mass
Transit a burglar's vehicle
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first I thought last week's letter to the
editor concerning public transportation
in Fayette County was written in jest.
The writer states her outrage, supports
it with assertions that criminals will
escape by bus, then predicts that MARTA
will “force its way in,”
bringing crime and the ruination of her
hometown.
- Chill out
with a book
- Grab a cold drink, a
cool book and chill out with Fayette
County Library's summer reading program
starting this week with registration.
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- Local Youth
enjoy a successful day of fishing
- Not everybody can be
a fisherman. Some people can't get past
the baiting of the hook, while others
find the routine and long spurts of
inactivity boring.
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- PTC
Festival of Dance
- Peachtree City's
School of Dance will present its sixth
annual Festival of Dance titled
“Gems” tonight and tomorrow at
7:30 p.m. at Starr's Mill High School.
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- MOVIES
Real
Estate
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- Real Estate Scene
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- Highgrove Community in
Fayetteville stirs memories of hometowns in
earlier times
- Highgrove has
been selected as the site of Atlanta Homes' and
Lifestyles' ninth annual Tour of Homes showcasing
the Atlanta area's finest communities. Scheduled
the weekends of June 18-20 and June 25-27 from
noon to 6 p.m. each day, the Highgrove Tour of
Homes is entitled “A Sidewalk
Adventure” and will feature the newly
completed clubhouse, the “Meeting
House”; four new homes on Meeting House
Road; and other homes under construction
throughout the community.
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- John Wieland Homes builds
playhouse for CASA
- John Wieland Homes and
Neighborhoods recently built a storybook
schoolhouse, complete with columns made of
crayons and a bell perfect for ringing for class
time. Along with other Playhouse Lane
participants, Wieland helped contribute $15,000
to the Georgia Chapter of CASA (Court Appointed
Special Advocates).
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- A place to call home
- For most people, buying a
home is the single biggest investment of their
lives.
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- New broker takes the helm at
Bullard's Coweta office
- Steve Bayliss is the new
managing broker for the Newnan/Coweta County
office of Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty,
according to an announcement by Steve Bullard,
owner and president.
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- Morrison homes opens model
at Peachtree City's Crabapple Woods
- Morrison Homes recently had
a grand opening celebration at its merchandised
model home in Crabapple Woods. More than 80 area
real estate professionals were on hand to tour
the model, which was decorated by nationally
known interior designer Kay Graham.
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- It's never too early to start
thinking about Noel November
- The Fayette County Board of
Realtors® has announced the names of the new
chairmen of the organization annual “Noel
November - a Celebration of Trees and
Wreaths” fund-raising event
- Designer Showcase Home open
in Eagle's Landing
- Eagle's Landing has its
first Designer Showcase Home since the Atlanta
Home Expo was conducted in the community in 1990.
- First homeowners move into
the Courtyards
- The Courtyards, a new
community of low maintenance patio homes in
Newnan being built by Meyer-Sutton Homes, has
welcomed its first new homeowners with more
moving in soon.
- Sold to the lady in the
second row: one Pathway Communites CEO!
- The Home Source Realtors, a
division of Pathway Communities, recently had an
auction for its General Brokerage Division at
Pathway's newest master-planned community,
SummerGrove.
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- Thorne Berry has new
marketing team
- A team from Prudential
Georgia Realty has been chosen to market the
remaining homes in Thorne Berry, Jerry Ballard
Homes' 67-home community on Jonesboro Road in
Henry County.
- Religion
- Never seen anything like it
in my life
- The Rev.
Dr. John Hatcher
Religion Columnist
Never seen anything like it
in my life. White church folks doing right by
renewing a African-American cemetery long
neglected by the church.
- Rev. Carey Robertson will
speak at Calvary Temple's 'one-day revival'
- Calvary Temple Assembly of
God in Peachtree City will host the Rev. Carey
Robertson in a one-day revival Sunday, June 13,
at 10:45 a.m. and at 6 p.m. Rev. Robertson is
from the Brownsville Assembly of God in
Pensacola, Fla. where some say a spontaneous
revival has been occurring for the past several
years..
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- Ordination services set for
Fayette's 'Fernando'
- Fernando Molina Restrepo,
known to Holy Trinity and St. Gabriel Catholic
Church parishioners simply as
“Fernando,” will be ordained to the
priesthood Saturday, June 12 at St. Catherine of
Siena Church in Kennesaw at 10:30 a.m.
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- 'Festival of Hope' kicks off
interfaith rehabilitation program for parolees
- Fayette County clergy and
other interested parties are invited to attend a
kickoff ceremony for a new initiative/partnership
formed between the Georgia Board of Pardons and
Paroles and the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
which will encourage churches to assist offenders
as they re-enter the community.
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- 'Family Fest '99' is
Saturday at Centennial Olympic Park
- Residents of Fayette County
are invited to attend “Family Fest
`99,” a day of fun for the whole family this
Saturday, June 12 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at
Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in downtown
Atlanta. A contemporary concert for youth,
“Gettin' Free” is scheduled from
7:30-10:30 p.m.
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- Providence UMC members plan
weekend camp-out
- Providence Christian
Outdoors Ministry, a ministry of Providence
United Methodist Church in Fayetteville, will
have a family camp-out at West Point Lake Friday
and Saturday, June 11 and 12. The camp-out will
be at the Corps of Engineers campground on the
south end of the lake.
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- Redemption Fellowship plans
hoops tournament Saturday
- Fayetteville's Redemption
Fellowship Church will host the Southside Atlanta
3-on-3 Basketball Tournament Saturday, June 12
beginning at 9 a.m. at the church.
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- VBS at Redemption is June
14-18
- Vacation Bible School at
Redemption Fellowship Church is scheduled for
Monday through Friday, June 14-18 beginning at
6:15 p.m. This year's theme is “The Ultimate
Adventure with Jesus.” Interactive Bible
lessons for preschool and elementary age
children, as well as teen forums, games and drama
for middle and high school youth will be offered.
For a preregistration package, call 770-460-1220.
The church is at 418 Hwy. 279 in Fayetteville.
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- River's Edge Church will
offer Saturday evening services beginning June 19
- Promising to be a little
“hotter” and a little
“rockier,” River's Edge Community
Church will provide a new Saturday night service
beginning June 19 at 6:30 p.m.
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- Bethany UMC Bible school set
for June 21-25
- Promising Vacation Bible
School at Bethany United Methodist Church will be
Monday-Friday, June 21-25. Those who would like
to help with refreshments, teach, or help with
crafts or other activities are asked to call
Debbie Ellington, this year's program director,
at 770-964-0450.
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- Fayetteville Christian
summer schedule
- Fayetteville Christian
Church's Sunday evening services, as well as
Wednesday evening meals, have been suspended for
the months of June, July and August. Those
activities continuing on Wednesdays will be youth
groups, nursery, adult choir and Cross Walk,
beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday evening services and
community groups will resume in September.
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- PTC Christian plans science
camp for kids
- Peachtree City Christian
Church will offer a month-long science camp this
summer for children in K-3 through second grade.
The dates are June 29-July 22 and the cost is
$100. Nursery and K-2 preschool also will be
available upon request. The children will meet
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m.
until noon. For more information, call Kelly
Raines at 770-631-1938.
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- Births
Obituraries
Engagements & Weddings
Opin
- Should Fayette kids wear
school uniforms
BY
CNB
- That's a question to which
you may answer, with matching fervor, Yes and No
and Maybe.
Basic morality: You keep what you
earn
DAVE
HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
When I started my adult life,
seems like just a year or two ago, it wasn't the best
of times.
The problem in schools is not guns
— it's a lack of discipline
LEE N.
HOWELL
Politically Speaking
It was
probably only a matter of time before some depressed
(or stressed), upper middle class, white, male
student (so far there have been no poor, female, or
black shooters — indeed, many of the victims
have been female and sometimes blacks have been
targeted!) went on a shooting rampage at his high
school in one of those affluent suburban counties
which ring Atlanta.
Flag Day: It's time to protect Old
Glory
BUTCH
MILLERL
Guest Columnist
June 14 is Flag Day. It's the
day our nation sets aside to pay special honor to the
American flag and its role in our country's history.
- 'Love Bug' saves local man's
life
BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
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- “Herbie the Love
Bug” saved my life. I was 15 and going
through the typical teenage angst of depression,
self-loathing and acne the size of moth balls.
Good thing we didn't have Marilyn Manson in those
days.
Letters From Our Readers
- Who do we b lame for school
violence? Look in the mirror
- April 20 forever changed the
way we view ourselves as a culture and the media
we demand. From the moment the Columbine High
shootings hit the news, our society immediately
began to witch-hunt to place blame.
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- Why do we support bands with
violent lyrics?
- On Saturday, June 5, Atlanta
Motor Speedway hosted Rockfest `99. During the
event, several bands glorified violence and
suicide. Lyrics were sung that encourage killing
the president, cutting off the head of your
mother while you “watch the blood spurt like
a garden hose,” and other perverse acts of
savagery. Words to a few of the songs can be
found on the web at www.dovelink.com.
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- With rampant development,
traffic woes, 'wolf is at door' in Fayette
- Nothing like a little stick
in the anthill to get the ants to running. The
Gaskins and Sparks reply letters you published
are a perfect illustration of that.
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Please use the empty buildings first
I'm very sad that people are
cutting down trees to make new shops, especially
where there are empty buildings.
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