News
Planning Commission OKs UMC
plan
- After two hours of
discussion concerning perhaps the most ambitious
project ever undertaken by a church in Peachtree
City, it seemed appropriate that Planning
Commission Chairman Julian Campbell used a
Biblical term when summing up the entire issue.
Falcon Field severs ties
with Thrifty
- Thrifty Car Rental's days at
Falcon Field are history.
WASA briefs Council on
spills, procedure
- Members of the Peachtree
City Water and Sewerage Authority and City
Council met for a few minutes Monday afternoon in
a special session, during which they mostly
assured one another that all were on the same
page regarding the safety of the city's water
system.
- Local businesses
hit with loss of power
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- A power outage Thursday
morning shut down a number of commercial
establishments for about two hours on one corner
of Ga. Highway 54 and Peachtree Parkway in
Peachtree City.
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- McMenamin up for
second term
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- Peachtree City Mayor Pro
Tempore Annie McMenamin is planning to run for
re-election to the City Council's Post 1 seat.
- City Council Oks
new ordinances
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- Two previously discussed
ordinances were approved, with a few changes, at
last week's City Council meeting in Peachtree
City.
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- Perlman to run for
council
- Dr. Bruce Perlman has
announced that he will seek the City Council seat
being vacated this fall by Jim Pace.
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- Dress for Success:
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- The Coweta County School
System became one of the first systems in the
metro area to establish a middle school dress
code this week.
- Colorado accident
kills Senoia resident
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- A late night Saturday
collision outside Durango, Colo. left a Senoia
resident dead and injured 14 other people.
- Fall will find
police in the schools
- When school opens Aug. 12,
all of Coweta County's middle schools will be
staffed with police officers.
Private
Christian school now calls Senoia home
The city of Senoia will soon
have a private school to call its own.
Charter
school mediation continues
- Negotiations continued this
week as parents and organizers of a proposed
Odyssey charter school tried to address many of
the Coweta County School System's questions.
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- Newnan residents
going to jail Thurs. for MDA
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- More than 120 of Newnan's
“most wanted” citizens will be locked
up by Regions Bank to benefit the Muscular
Dystrophy Association next Thursday from 9 a.m.-4
p.m.
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- Sports
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- World Class tennis
comes to PTC starting this weekend
- The Peachtree National Bank
USTA Women's Challenger event, the oldest women's
tournament in the state, will bring world class
tennis to the Peachtree City starting this
weekend. The action will kick off with qualifying
beginning on Sunday afternoon. The main draw and
the qualifying rounds are filled with “grand
slam” caliber players from all over the
world. “Grand slam” players are those
who have participated in at least one of the
grand slam events.
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- Jaguars finish
season a perfect 16-0
- It is extremely rare for a
young team to go undefeated during a season of
any recreational sport. When the sport is
softball, which requires strength, speed, and
skill, it is even more impressive.
Opinion
A chance encounter, and 34
years later, thousands of lives are changed
DAVID EPPS
Guest Columnist
- I was bored
to tears on that hot, sticky day in June of 1965.
Already, only two weeks out of school, I had run
out of things to do during summer vacation on
this warm Sunday afternoon. August would bring
the dreaded two-a-day football practices, and
ahead loomed six more weeks of inactivity.
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