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- High noon for
SPLOST vote
- The Fayette County Board of
Education will meet Thursday at noon to vote on
calling a $90 million school construction
referendum in two months.
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- F'ville Council
overturns mayor's annex
- On again and off again, a
152-home subdivision and 17-acre office complex
at Ga. Highway 314 and New Hope Road is on again.
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- Planning group
finds tree preservation thorny
- More trees need to be spared
from developers' bulldozers, members of the
Fayette County Planning Commission agree.
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- Hearings set on
zoning changes
- The Fayette County Planning
Commission will have a public hearing Aug. 5 to
consider special development standards for the
Ga. Highway 74 corridor and changes in county
rules for building homes on cul de sacs.
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- Planners eye `Apple
Orchard' for Beauregard
- Owners of 20 acres on the
southeast corner of Beauregard Boulevard and
Grady Avenue in Fayetteville withdrew their plans
for a 100-home senior subdivision in the face of
strong opposition earlier this year.
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- Judge raps rap star
for jury no-show
- Local authorities are
sending a message that even big-time entertainers
are not exempt from their civic duty in Fayette
County.
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- Bye, bye, baggies,
saggies
- Trenchcoats are out. Book
bags are in — but only partly. And tuck in
those blouses and shirts, pull up those baggy
pants, put a belt on, and lose those holey jeans,
students.
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- 'Bounty hunter' may
track illegal students
- The Fayette County school
system may hire private investigators to ferret
out students illegally attending classes here,
paying the P.I.s only if they produce
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- Krakeel: Fire,
emergency services need impact fees
- Fire fighting and emergency
services are ideal candidates for Fayette's
proposed impact fees, a blue ribbon committee was
told last week.
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- Chairmen says
committee is up to the task
- Fayette County's impact fee
has a huge task ahead of it, said Bob Todd, who
was named chairman of the group recently.
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- Planners want big
trees saved at new bank site
- Principles of Southern
Community Bank hope to have a place to hang their
hats by March, but there are hurdles to leap at
City Hall first.
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- 'Wearhouse' coming
to Pavilion?
- Men's Wearhouse is expected
to head the list of tenants for Shops at Fayette
Pavilion, a freestanding building that's planned
as part of phase two of Fayette Pavilion.
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- Fayetteville budget
approved
- Fayetteville's spending plan
for fiscal 2000 is now in place, including a
slight tax reduction.
- Decision set
Tuesday on GTO;s expansion
- Plans to expand GTO's
restaurant to include indoor seating are looking
more likely to receive approval.
- Church wins as
develper loses zoning battle
- John Wieland's loss was
Heritage Christian Church's gain.
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- Two injury crashes
in Fayette last weekend
- Two separate Fayette County
traffic accidents last weekend resulted in
injuries serious enough to require helicopter
transport to Atlanta.
- City agrees to swap
land, resolve boundary dilemma
- Brian McAllister has had a
unique problem, the only one of its kind in
Peachtree City — at least, the City Council
hopes it's the only one.
- Fayetteville
planner takes position in private sector
- Fayetteville planning
director Jahnee Prince has taken a new position
with Cooper Carry, the architecture and municipal
planning firm that developed plans for
Fayetteville's McElwaney property earlier this
year.
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- Schools can now
punish 'bullying'
- A policy which adds bullying
as a punishable offense to Fayette County
schools' student conduct rules took effect July
1.
- Schools out: Time
to spruce up
- About a third of Fayette
County's schools are undergoing a summer
spruce-up with fresh coats of paint and new
carpeting being rolled out in preparation for the
start of school Aug. 16.
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- Three sentenced in
Superior Court
- Three men were handed down
prison sentences Friday in Fayette Superior Court
after entering guilty pleas in separate cases.
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- Collins touts new
tax bill
- A new tax package sent to
the floor of the U.S. House will strengthen
Medicare and Social Security while granting a 10
percent cut in income taxes, says Fayette
County's U.S. representative, Mac Collins.
- Campaign finance
reports on the Web
- Secretary of State Cathy Cox
has announced that her office has posted
candidate and political action committee
disclosure reports on the agency's web site.
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