The Fayette County Commission Thursday night will consider a staff proposal to change the way an employee is credited upon retirement for accrued hours of sick leave.

Samuel Turner, 20, a Whitewater High School graduate, Class of 2007, was honored as one of two scholarship recipients of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Scholarship to serve an internship this summer working at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Fayetteville City Council at the July 16 meeting adopted a $10.057 million general fund budget for Fiscal Year 2010 that represents a 2.67 percent decrease over the current year. The new budget will take effect Aug. 1.

A traffic stop by Fayetteville Police early Tuesday morning for loud music resulted in the arrest of a Jonesboro man wanted by the U.S. Army for desertion.

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past week. All persons are considered innocent until proven guilty:

Newnan Police are searching for an armed gunman who held up the Bank of Georgia branch at 471 U.S. Highway 29 North Tuesday morning. An undetermined amount of money was taken in the heist.

All Childrens Playground wins recognition; also honored are Partner's Pizza and Pascal's Bistro

Peachtree City's handicap-accessible playground recently was crowned the best playground in metro Atlanta by the website Atlanta.Momslikeme.com.

Look at the calendar this morning and realize there are only two Mondays left before school starts again. Summer, according to the school calendar, is waning. If you want to get the most out of it, you should consider some of these local events to fill your schedule.

Peachtree City resident Eldon A. Gresham has been ordered to appear in U.S. District Court in Newnan July 23 in connection with charges that he operated a multi-million dollar foreign currency (forex) Ponzi scheme said to have specifically targeted Christian investors. The order also pertains to relief defendants Werner Beiersdoerfer, Interveston Wines, LLC and Kirk Gresham.

The Fayette County Commission Thursday night will consider a staff proposal to change the way an employee is credited upon retirement for accrued hours of sick leave.

Swim team fees also hiked to boost revenue

In another cost-cutting move, the Peachtree City Council Thursday night eliminated one full-time and three part-time positions at the Kedron Fieldhouse and Aquatic Center.

Proposal includes street and path repair

The Peachtree City Council is officially backing the need for a new six-year one percent sales tax to fund a variety of projects from street resurfacing to debt retirement.

Property tax increase proposed by city staff

The Peachtree City Council got public input Thursday night on the upcoming 2009-2010 budget.

A commercial developer will be allowed to pursue annexation of an 18-acre tract off Ga. Highway 74 south of the city’s Meade Field recreation complex.

An early afternoon traffic accident Thursday in Peachtree City resulted in one man being transported to Atlanta Medical Center and three vehicles damaged.

It is back to Georgia Dept. of Transportation (DOT) with a project proposal to close the CSX railroad crossing at Valleywood Road at Senoia Road and the extend Park Drive to East Crestwood. The Tyrone Town Council Thursday agreed to send revisions for the project back to DOT with the proposal that the town be responsible for a maximum of $225,000.

An opportunity that may never come again was passed up by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night.

Council voted to withdraw from an $892,000 federal grant to mitigate recurring flooding problems at the Tinsley Mill Village condos just off Lake Peachtree.

Mounted F-16 jet to be displayed at Falcon Field

A dedicated group of volunteers, led by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Ted Mallory, are putting together a new veteran’s memorial park in Peachtree City.

The new memorial, to be located at Falcon Field, will be hard to miss. A full-size F-16 fighter jet is the centerpiece of the Veterans Memorial Park at Falcon Field, as the project is officially dubbed.

Psychic Shop! In Senoia? No, not really. It was actually the re-do of The Market on Main organic grocery store that was used July 14 as part of the set for Drop Dead Diva, the Lifetime Television series being filmed in Peachtree City and in locations around Senoia. Photo/Special.

What is next for Charter Schools USA’s bid to open a K-8 charter school in Senoia? Two options were addressed at a public meeting Tuesday as a small group of parents met at the Freeman Sasser building to hear the remarks of company Vice President Richard Page and Georgia company representative Danny Brewington.

Results of the 2008-2009 report released by the Georgia State Department of Education (DOE) earlier this week showed that all three Coweta County high schools, all 18 elementary schools and four of Coweta County’s six middle schools made the required Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). In total, 93 percent of Coweta schools met AYP requirements.

Georgia Dept. of Economic Development project manager and former Newnan-Coweta Chamber President Greg Wright has been named as the Coweta County Development Authority’s next president. Wright will replace Bill Harrison, who will be retiring at the end of July.

It is here. Coweta County’s long-awaited Dial-A-Ride program began operations transporting citizens on July 1. The program is funded with federal, state and local dollars and provides transit services to business, commercial and activity centers in Coweta County, said Coweta County Public Information Officer Patricia Palmer. 

Banners will be hung for the month of July around the courthouse square to observe the sister city connection. The city of Newnan and Ayr, Scotland have celebrated a sister city relationship since 1997.

The Peachtree City Council is expected to vote tonight on a resolution to support putting a new 1 percent sales tax on the November ballot for voters' consideration.

Youngsters from Starr’s Mill Academy join the cow crowd at Peachtree City’s Starr’s Mill Chick-fil-A July 10, and all were in the moo’d for a meal. The day-long activities were part of Cow Appreciation Day. Customers fully dressed as cows received a free meal. Photo/Ben Nelms.

PTC’s Logsdon tells $22 million shopping list; county wants $5 million ‘spec’ campus in 6-year, $135 million extension of 1¢ tax

Fayette County schools once again made the grade.

Fayette County School System is the only system in metro Atlanta with 100 percent of its schools making AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)for six consecutive years, according to school system spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach.

It was a Ponzi scheme that traded on faith and friendship, according to papers filed in federal court in Newnan.

Federal officials are accusing long-time Peachtree City resident E.A. Gresham with swindling at least 75 investors out of their savings, including retirement funds, by distributing falsely inflated reports of market-beating rates of return.

Council may chop 4 Kedron Fieldhouse jobs; Aquatic Center swimming fees to rise

One full-time and three part-time positions at the Kedron Fieldhouse and Aquatic Center are on the chopping block at Thursday night’s meeting of the Peachtree City Council.