The Piedmont Fayette Hospital Auxiliary will host its annual Spring Book Fair on Tuesday, May 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, May 9 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursday, May 10 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the first floor of the Hospital.

Environmental questions surround recent barrel discovery at nearby Peach Pit landfill

The Peachtree City Council, after some tortuous haggling over density issues, approved two annexations to the city’s west side that would add more than 1,100 homes to the city.

But it wasn’t until the 11th hour that a deal was struck as both developers were arm-twisted into reducing the overall density of both subdivisions by a total of 69 homes.

Perhaps the headline “annexation showdown” in Wednesday’s edition of The Citizen was appropriate.

As tonight’s Peachtree City Council meeting was gaveled to order, just about every seat was full and some chose to stand in the back of the room.

McIntosh’s DJ Ward (3) and his brother, Zach, both had hat tricks in the Chiefs’ first round playoff win over Darlington.

It is always a special occasion at the annual Race for Riley fundraiser at Georgia Baptist Children’s Home in Palmetto. Now in its third year, the event is named for five year-old Riley Peek who was diagnosed three years ago with Mitochondrial disease. Parents Rodney and Waynette Peek chose Riley’s school, the Joseph Sams School in Fayetteville, as the recipient of this year’s fundraiser. Photo/Ben Nelms.

ABATE of Georgia hosted the event titled “2007 Ride For the Children”.

Reese Development will also contribute toward fire truck

Coweta County Commissioner added three conditions Tuesday to the massive McIntosh Village residential and commercial development in east Coweta.

Will finance improvement projects including Huddleston Pond work

To help fund large-scale stormwater improvement projects, Peachtree City officials will issue bonds in the amount of $3.7 million.

Police: Suspect brought child with her to deal location

A Riverdale woman was arrested Thursday afternoon for selling crystal methamphetamine to an undercover officer in the parking lot of the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Fayetteville, police said.

A cyclist was seriously injured Tuesday when a vehicle turned in front of him on Flat Creek Road near St. Andrews Square, causing a collision, police said.

Suspect faces trafficking charges; sold to PTC kid

An Atlanta man was arrested on drug trafficking charges Tuesday afternoon after he sold more than 4 grams of heroin at the Publix shopping center in Tyrone, according to Capt. Mike Pruitt of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department’s Drug Task Force.

Armed gunman demands cash, lotto tickets ... gets away on foot

$2,500 reward offered by police for info leading to arrest, conviction

An armed man dressed in all-black clothing held up the Shell gas station on Ga. Highway 74 north at Wisdom Road in Peachtree City last night, police said.

One person can make a difference.

Nowhere will that be more evident than at this weekend’s American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life.

May 1 marked the official start of smog season in Georgia. For 54 counties in the state, that means the annual ban on open burning will be in effect once again. In the interest of public health, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) will be enforcing the ban through Sept. 30, during the hot summer months when ground level ozone and particle pollution are more likely to reach unhealthy levels.

Joan Velsmid examines some of the student art work on display at the student art show sponsored by the Peachtree City Rotary Club at last weekend’s 2007 Festival of the Arts at the Fayette Family YMCA. Photo/Michael Boylan.

The Peachtree City Council will decide Thursday night whether to approve two annexations that would add nearly 1,200 homes to the city’s northwest quadrant.

The Fayette County Board of Education was given a detailed preview of the proposed $191 million general fund budget for the 2007-2008 school year at its regular meeting Monday night. And a school tax increase might be ahead.

Two students at McIntosh High School have been charged with drug distribution on campus after a teacher found “an apparent drug transaction” in a school bathroom last week, police said.

The Ga. Highway 54 corridor’s evolution between Fayetteville and Peachtree City as an office environment picked up steam during last Thursday’s meeting of the Fayette County Commission.

Town Square Jewelers is taking its renovation plans to Fayetteville City Council May 3 on appeal after the proposal was denied last month by Planning and Zoning commissioners.

Fayetteville’s new commercial landmark was approved April 24 by the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission. That approval will bring the 39,000 square-foot Main Street Office Center to 320 Lanier Ave., the western entrance to downtown Fayetteville.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Coweta County sheriff’s deputy should not be sued for ramming a fleeing motorist who caused a danger to others in running from deputies on a chase that ended in Peachtree City.

A Fayetteville man survived a three-car pileup that sent his SUV careening off Ga. Highway 314 and into the fence surrounding a playground at a Fayetteville day care center.

Court rules that fleeing motorist endangered others on the road

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Coweta County sheriff’s deputy should not be sued for ramming a fleeing motorist who caused a danger to others in running from deputies on a chase that ended in Peachtree City.

Compared to the often multi-hour road safety checks along city streets and county highways, it was a relatively brief affair. But police from Fayetteville, Senoia and Coweta County Sheriff’s Office in the early morning hours of April 28 made six arrests and issued 10 citations on Ga. Highway 85 in less than two hours.

The Home Source Realtors General Brokerage office in Peachtree City is sponsoring a huge yard sale on Saturday, May 5, from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Proceeds will benefit local charities and contribute to the purchase of a heart defribillator for a local high school.

Fayette County resident David Paulk was recently appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to an official task force that will examine the state’s insurance programs.

Craig M. Western, a senior at Fayette County’s McIntosh High School, was named First Runner-up State PAGE STAR Student and chose Mary Wilde, his Science teacher at J. C Booth Middle School, as his STAR Teacher.

A future physicist currently at Sandy Creek High has been awarded a grant from Norfolk State University to pursue his studies.

Students helped make the earth healthier by providing grocery shoppers with paper bags decorated with environmental messages.