News
Decision looms for school
tax vote
Fayette County voters may know
by the end of the week whether a special local option
sales tax will be on the ballot this September to
help fund $91 million worth of improvements and
additions to the county's school system.
- Committee: Equalize
school facilities
- Do some Fayette County
schools have “better stuff” than
others? Yes, and that needs to change, asserts a
report given Monday night to the Fayette County
Board of Education.
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- Fayetteville
approves 152 homes plus offices on Hwy. 314 North
- Fayetteville City Council
Monday set the tone for future development along
Ga. Highway 314 north, approving annexation and
rezoning for a 152-home subdivision and 20-unit
office park.
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- Fayetteville
Council eyes small tax cut
- A tax cut is in store for
Fayetteville residents if City Council approves
the proposed fiscal 2000 budget.
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- MediaOne says cable
upgrade on schedule
- MediaOne cable company will
meet its Dec. 31, 2000 deadline for upgrading its
service in Fayette County, a company spokesman
vowed this week.
Bus advocate says he won't
give up
Stuart Hoff says he will keep
trying to convince Fayette County officials that they
should get involved in the public transportation
process.
- Council tables
fence fight until Aug. 2
- Residents of Stonebriar
subdivision at Lester and Old Norton roads in
Fayetteville may be able to put up privacy fences
after all.
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- Worker dies at Lake
Kedron construction site
- Federal and state
authorities are investigating the death of a
construction worker at a building site in
Peachtree City early Monday.
- Peachtree City
lawyer named associate juvenile circuit judge
- Local attorney Tarey Schell
has been appointed associate Juvenile Court judge
for the Griffin Judicial Circuit.
- Animal shelter ends
Saturday experiment
- It just doesn't make
economic sense to keep the Fayette County Animal
Shelter open on Saturdays anymore, county
commissioners decided last week.
- Impact fee panel
getting busy, names Bob Todd its chairman
- Fayette County's new impact
fee committee will concentrate on fees for public
safety over the next few weeks, said planning
director Chris Venice.
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- Residents want
road's old name to be restored
- Years ago, residents of
Willie Adams Road wanted the name changed because
they thought “Willie” sounded too
black, said current resident Arnie Geiger.
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- School safety task
force meets Thurs.
- A discussion on dress codes
and safety policies in Fayette County schools is
scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. in building A of
the LaFayette Center (formerly Fayette County
High School).
- Superior Court
Action
- New dock dedicated
to early PTC man
- Members of the Peachtree
City Rotary Club learned first hand such building
terms as “plumb,” “square”
and “level” as they built a memorial
dock at Line Creek Nature Center..
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- Collins on
committee debating tax relief bills
- Fayette
County's representative in the U.S. House said
this week that tax relief “for working
Americans” is high on his list of goals.
- CCSU putting
registration, tuition, book buying on line
- Clayton College & State
University is trying to reduce the bane of
students' existence — standing in line for
registration. .
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- Red Cross offering
training, resume enhancement and a chance to
serve
- “Community service with
a twist” may be a good way to describe the
American Red Cross Rapid Response Corps, a Red
Cross spokesman said.
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- DNR rangers to
stricly enforce new age rules for boat operators
- As warmer weather continues
and many Georgians head out for some time on the
water, the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Wildlife Resources Division reminds
young boaters that there is now a law that
restricts boat operation for individuals under
age 16.
- New management
rules affect local land owners
- Violations of the Georgia
Forestry Commission's revised edition of the Best
Management Practices manual can result in legal
prosecution and fines ranging from $25,000 to
$125,000 per day.
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- Expect more fog
alerts this summer
- State agencies that forecast
air pollution conditions are using tougher
standards, effective May 1, acording to the Air
Protection Branch of the Georgia Environmental
Protection Division.
- Real
Estate
- The
Internet is changing the home-selling business
- Every day, more and more
people are surfing the Internet and finding the
immense possibilities of this buying, shopping
and research tool.
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- Highgrove
Community in Fayette stirs memories of hometowns
in earlier times
- Highgrove has
been selected as the site of Atlanta Homes and
Lifestyles magazine's ninth annual Tour of Homes
showcasing the Atlanta area's finest communities.
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- Why
choose a Realtor?
- In my last column, I wrote
about the importance of using a Realtor when you
are in the process of buying real estate. Dealing
with a “real” real agent, or Realtor,
is just as important when you are selling real
estate.
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- Real
Estate Scene
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- Colwell
oversees Centex Homes's Southern Crescent home
building initiatives
- Colwell oversees Centex
Homes' Southern Crescent home building
initiatives
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- Scholarship
recipients recognized
- The ten 1999 scholarship
recipients from the Homebuilders Association of
Midwest Georgia's Scholarship House program were
recognized at the group's April meeting recently
at WhiteWater Creek Country Club.
- Pathway
Communities draws 1,500 home buyers to 1999
Classic Tour of Homes
- An estimated
1,500 prospective home buyers recently attended
Pathway Communities' 15th annual Classic Tour of
Homes. The tour showcased 12 neighborhoods and 26
furnished and unfurnished traditional and
turn-of-the-century style homes ranging in price
from the mid $100's to over $400,000 in Peachtree
City, Fayette County and Newnan.
- Knight
Group honors top producers
- Twanda Garvin was the winner
of the top prize at The Knight Group's 1998
“Knights of the Roundtable” event, held
Saturday night, March 6, at the Ritz-Carlton
Buckhead in Atlanta.
- Don't
inflate your 1098
- For many
homeowners, the mortgage-interest write-off takes
the pain out of tax time. But if you took out a
high-LTV loan this year, be careful of how much
you deduct or you could be in dangerous
territory.
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- Families
moving into Wentworth
- Four families already occupy
homes built by Meyer-Sutton Homes in Wentworth,
the newest golf, swim and tennis neighborhood in
the White Oak community in Coweta County.
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- Business
Think it's wet? Alberto
still leaving its mark five years later
Residents may be growing weary
of the number of rainy days this summer, but it's
only a microcosm of what Fayette County and Georgia
went through five years ago.
Ring in fun with BellSouth
this weekend
BellSouth Mobility has landed in
Fayetteville.
Innovate don't exterminate
Many large
businesses suffer from short-term management
thinking. Some companies are more concerned about the
welfare of their stockholders than the welfare of
their employees.
- Sports
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- Rage wins the
county softball championship
- In what was a very hotly
contested season of slow pitch softball, the
Peachtree City Rage walked away the victors in
the league championship.
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- Local girl shines
on world stage
- Amanda Wojtal is a local
athlete who recently competed on an international
level.
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- Line Creek Nature
Center to host fishing rodeo
- The first Fishing Rodeo for
disabled children will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m
Saturday, July 17 at the Arnold Cheek Memorial
Fishing Dock in the Line Creek Nature Center in
Peachtree City.
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- Indy racing action
at AMS this weekend
- Atlanta Motor Speedway
brings Indy Racing League excitement to the area
this weekend.
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- Classics split
during Carolina weekend
- Last weekend was a big
weekend for women's soccer, as the U.S. women's
team defeated China for the World Cup. The World
Cup affected other women's soccer games though,
especially the games of our local W-League team,
the Atlanta Classics.
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- Weekend
- Fayetteville to
celebrate with all day July Jam
- This Saturday, the shady
grounds around Fayetteville's Old Courthouse will
be the setting for the fourth annual July Jam on
Main Street.
- Buckinghams blow in
from Windy City
- The year was 1965 and five
young men from Chicago decided to form a band,
mainly to “meet girls.”
- Audience to mingle
in Offshoots' fairy tales
- Last year, Offshoot
Productions performed a play called “The
Trial of Goldilocks.” It was an adaptation
of the beloved fairy tale and it needed a little
something.
Some
thoughts about time
by
Sallie Satterthwaite
Lifestyle Columnist
Time is money, they say, but no, it isn't. Time is
not money, and cannot be measured in the way money
can.
Movies
- Religion
- Former
PTC resident among volunteers seeking financial
assistance to help hurricane victims
- A former Peachtree City
resident has joined forces with a group of ten
other young professionals in the Washington, D.C.
area to extend a helping hand to
hurricane-stricken Nicaragua.
Don't lose sleep over high
falutin' snobs – Christian or otherwise
The Rev. Dr.
John Hatcher
Religion Columnist
Have you ever bumped shoulders
with someone and they treated you like you had the
social plague? Like everyone knows something is wrong
with you? They kinda, act like they've never had body
odor or bad breath, but you...well, that's a
different story.
Religion Briefs
McDonough Road Baptist Church
has announced several outings for children this
summer as part of its children's summer program.
Vacation Bible School
Schedules
New Bible study course
offered at McDonough Road
An eight-week Bible study course
will be offered at McDonough Road Baptist Church
beginning Sunday, July 18. The course is based on Max
Lucado's recent book, “And the Angels Were
Silent.
Opinion
No wonder we've abandoned
our roots!
DAVE
HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
A
Gallup poll, just out, says that 76 percent of
Americans don't know what country the United States
gained its independence from.
- Spamming
the globe...
BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
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- Is
there anything out there that they aren't trying
to package and sell on the Internet? How about
these world events:
Letters to
the Editor
If projects go over budget,
let BOE resign
With SPLOST, the Fayette County
Board of Education is looking to hit the lottery. And
they are using $20,000 (the cost of opening the
polling places and counting the votes) of county
funds to finance their gamble.
Before any SPLOST, system
must get finances in order
On Wednesday June 9 on page 7A,
you published a school budget chart.
Dekalb SPLOST feeling AJC
criticism
Well, blow me down and kiss my
grits! Who would have thought that the Atlanta
Journal Constitution would have found a tax it didn't
like?
Clinton-Gore malfeasance
extends from Indian reservations to N. Korea
President Clinton's visit to the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation last week was an
exercise in irony and hypocrisy. The very day that
the President was lavishing Native Americans with
promises his Interior Secretary was testifying before
a federal court concerning the $350,000 that the
Democratic National Committee received from a tribal
group to influence the awarding of a gambling
license.
Solicitor-General Harris
tell 'the rest of the story' of ticket
In my position as Fayette County
Solicitor General, I am aware that after my dealings
with defendants in criminal and traffic cases in the
Fayette County State Court, not everyone leaves court
happy with the outcome.
Book bag ban, dress codes
are overreations
With the ongoing problem of
violence in our nation's schools, the school board in
Fayette County decided to begin looking at ideas to
make our students safer. While it is wise for us to
take a look at our schools to make certain we have
taken steps to make them a safe place to learn, we
must be cautious not to overreact and take steps that
would turn our schools into boot camps.
Every country has duty to
screen immigrants
Recently, the press and TV gave
much coverage to the efforts of a number of youths
from Cuba to illegally enter the U.S.
Please use empty buildings
before cutting down more trees
I'm very sad that people are
cutting down trees to make new shops, especially when
there are empty buildings.
Thanks, Fayette:
Jitterbuggers jump off to great start locally
Thanks Fayette County From
Jitterbuggers Teen Club
Former SCHS student decries
bookbag ban
In response to an editorial in
the July 7, 1999 Citizen by Flat Rock Middle School
student Ben Hurst, I agree wholeheartedly with him
that students will find a way to kill if they so
desire.
Some people show direspect
for our flag
July 4th, Independence Day, and
respect.
Thanks for help with Boot
Drive
The Fayette County Department of
Fire and Emergency Services and the City of
Fayetteville Fire Department would like to thank the
citizens of Fayette County for the generosity
expressed during the recent Georgia Firefighter's
Burn Foundation Boot Drive. The three-day total
exceeded $11,000.
Thanks for help after storm
damage
We would like to thank the
Public Works Department, the fire and police
departments, the rescue and Red Cross for their
kindness during the damage to our home by the storm.
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