News
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- Booth Middle gets resource
officer
- The Peachtree City Police
Department has announced that a school resource
officer will be assigned to J.C. Booth Middle
School beginning this fall, the first such
officer at a middle school in Fayette County.
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- Recreation survey results
are mixed
- The latest Peachtree City
recreation survey is history, and the results are
mixed at best.
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- Tyrone approves ambitious
budget
- The Tyrone Town Council gave
unanimous approval last week to what town manager
Barry Amos called an “ambitious”
budget.
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- WASA meet with state in wake
of spill
- Three weeks after the most
recent sewage spill into Lake Peachtree,
officials of the Peachtree City Water and
Sewerage Authority await word from the state's
Environmental Protection Division while looking
to improve the response time in such situations.
- Local student returns from
Yale for internship with city
- City engineer Troy Besseche
was not expecting any extra help this summer,
much less from the Ivy League. But he's pleased
with the city's newest part-time employee.
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- Tyrone, Peachtree City to
swap land
- A small
portion of Tyrone is set to become a small
portion of Peachtree City within a couple of
weeks.
- Boot drive this weekend
- Peachtree City firefighters
will be standing on local street corners today
and Saturday with boot in hand.
- County nixes extra funding
for Shamrock Park
- Tyrone won't get the extra
$25,000 that it had requested from Fayette County
to help improve Shamrock Park.
- Woman arrested in Tyrone
- A Tyrone woman is in custody
after allegedly passing bad checks at a series of
area businesses.
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- Planning commission meets
Monday night with full agenda
- The Peachtree City Planning
Commission will hold its regular meeting Monday
night.
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- Media locked out as charter
school mediation begins
- After more than nine hours
of negotiation on Wednesday, the Coweta County
School System and the Odyssey School group are
set to continue their negotiations next week over
a proposed charter school.
- Fayette road projects still
on hold
- State and federal agencies
and environmental groups have settled their
lawsuit over road building projects and Coweta
County commuters will be happy with the results.
- Senoia cuts off funds to
21st Century Coweta
- Coweta's County's industrial
planning agency took another hit this week as the
Senoia City Council refused to pay an invoice for
this year's services.
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- 911 could prove costly for
Senoia
- Senoia residents learned
Monday night it may soon cost the city nearly
$100,000 for radio dispatch service for the
city's police officers to use.
- Commission to reexamine cell
tower ordinance
- Coweta County commissioners
last week decided to revisit the county's cell
phone tower ordinance after postponing a vote on
a tower in Grantville.
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- Signs under fire in Senoia
- Sign, sign, everywhere a
sign... except in Senoia.
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- Photocircuits awards
scholarships
- Photocircuits Corporation in
Peachtree City has awarded college scholarships
to students from six area schools.
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- Fresh Veggies now available
- Local gardeners can once
again sell their surplus homegrown vegetables
this summer at the Coweta County Fairgrounds.
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- Sports
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- Equipment to pump
up the Panthers
- Gold's Gym Fayette County,
formerly Club Peachtree, recently donated over
$7,000 worth of equipment to Starr's Mill High
School. The equipment ranged from Nautilus
machines to free weights.
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- Roadsters dominate
season and tournament
- The 14 and Under Roadsters
finished their 1999 slow pitch season with a
first place tournament title.
Opinion
How about those left-lane lunkheads?
Or drivers who serenade the world?
DAVID EPPS
Guest Columnist
In the past
month I have driven just under 3,000 miles. In
addition to developing a permanent callous on my
backside, I believe I have gained some understanding
into that curious sociological event of the 1990s
known as “road rage.”
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Epps'
satire on corporate sponsorship of churches, far from
funny, offends
I am absolutely amazed and
appalled by a “man of the cloth,” Pastor
David Epps, in his dissertation on corporate
sponsorship of churches.
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