News
Line Creek apartments
delayed
It's going to be a while longer
before the Peachtree City Planning Commission sees a
plan for apartments on Line Creek Parkway.
Tennant to run for Post 2
seat
Peachtree City resident Dan
Tennant has announced that he will seek the open Post
2 Peachtree City Council position, which is being
vacated by Jim Pace.
New catalog system for
library on the way
The Peachtree City Library will
soon be tied into a single central computerized
catalog serving all eight branches of the Flint River
Regional Library system.
- City Council ads
code enforcement officers
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- The
combination of ever-increasing new construction
in Peachtree City and existing buildings that
inevitably deteriorate has necessitated changes
to the city's housing code enforcement.
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- City budget under
review
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- Preliminary budget talks
indicate a slight increase in the fiscal year
2000 operating budget for Peachtree City, but the
millage should remain unchanged for the fourth
consecutive year.
- County grew by 75
percent in the 90s
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- Unincorporated Coweta County
has grown nearly 75 percent during the `90s, but
County Commission Chairman Lawrence Nelms said
the county has been able to keep up with the
growth.
- Coweta's taxes are
13th lowest in state
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- If you think taxes are high
in Coweta, you would be amazed at some of the
rates of our neighbors.
- Policy committee
reviews charter school
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- If the Coweta County Board
of Education passes a proposed policy for charter
school applications, the road for future charter
school proponents will be a little smoother.
County
stands fast in refusing to pay dues to Chatt.-Flint
The Coweta County Commission is
standing firm in its dues-paying dispute with the
Chattahooche-Flint Regional Development Center.
Promoter
hopes to have Senoia Raceway rocking
- All Sean Owen wants to do is
stage a music festival and raise some money for
Habitat for Humanity.
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- Scots are fiddling
in Newnan tonight
- Eighty-two band students and
10 adults from Scotland and the Ayrshire Fiddle
Orchestra have just arrived in the south metro
area.
Bank robber attacks in
north Fayette
The search is
on for a would-be bank robber who struck Wednesday
morning in north Fayette County.
Mayor suggests city not
getting its money's worth from county
Peachtree City residents are not
getting out of the county budget what they put into
it — at least that's the way some city officials
see it.
Columnist to take stage in
PTC
Chances are you've read his
featured weekly column in The Citizen every
Wednesday. Perhaps you've even seen an editorial of
his in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from time to
time.
- Back
to School
School
starts August 12; What's new, exciting?
- The big,
yellow buses will roll again early Thursday
morning, Aug. 12, as the Coweta County Schools
open for the 1999-2000 school year.
Registration
tips for new students offered by Coweta School System
Registration
will be conducted at individual schools.
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.
- Dress
for success
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- Middle schools don new rules
for clothing
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- Registration
starts Aug. 9 for After School Program
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- Parents who
wish to register their children for the After
School Program need to do so Aug. 9 - 11 from 1 -
5 p.m. at the elementary school which the child
attends.
Coweta
County School System 1999-2000 School Calendar
- School
nutrition program information 1999-2000
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- Board
ponders new field trip policy
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- When students head back to
school Aug. 12, they might discover a new policy
covering absences from school, including items
such as field trip and athletic and academic
events.
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- Technology
can make or break a student's day at school
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High tech schools offer an
educational edge.
Sports
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- Medals galore for
young shooters, more competition this weekend
- The Wolf Creek Young Shooter
Association competed in the Georgia Games in
Augusta recently. The practice certainly paid off
as the team showed their mettle and took home
lots of medals in the process.
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- Lighting strikes at
ODP Region Tournament
- The Georgia under 15 girls'
Olympic Development Team won the Region III ODP
Championship Tournament, held recently in
Montevallo, Ala. Sponsored by Adidas, the
tournament brings the top players from each state
for a week of games in hopes of identifying the
Southeast's best teams and players.
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- Seals win record
number of medals at Georgia Games
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- The Southside Seals Masters
Swim Team won a team record of 12 medals at last
week's Georgia Games. Four Seals swimmers, Steve
McDonald, Kato Eiji, Steve Justice and Ken
Sharpe, combined for the seven gold, three silver
and two bronze medals.
Opinion
Even as the bullets slammed
into the officer, there was peace...
DAVID EPPS
Guest Columnist
- Michael Weinman had high
hopes when he left the United States Air Force
after seven years of service to his country. For
most of those seven years he had served in the
military police, so it came as no surprise when
the young veteran joined the police department in
Columbus, Ohio.
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