Fayette’s school counselors celebrated their craft and honored their colleagues during the seventh annual Fayette School Counselors Association (FSCA) Installation of Officers and Awards Ceremony.

Over $16,900 in grants have been awarded to educators by the Fayette County Education Foundation to help fund innovative teaching ideas at public schools throughout the county.

Students and faculty at Robert J. Burch Elementary School raised a record $10,600 during their school’s annual Math-A-Thon event.

Police: More charges may be coming; six students ‘held’ pills for others

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.

Chattahoochee Hill Country residents get a look at Georgia Dept. of Transportation’s take on the roadway needs for unincorporated south Fulton County. The April 19 presentation was made at Rico Community Center. Photo/Ben Nelms.

Five members of Junior Girl Scout Troop No. 147 of Tyrone recently took a trip to Crystal River, Florida. While there, they took a three hour tour where they got to swim in the river and interact with manatees in the wild.

Chattahoochee Hill Country residents get a look at Georgia Dept. of Transportation’s take on the roadway needs for unincorporated south Fulton County. The April 19 presentation was made at Rico Community Center. Photo/Ben Nelms.

Another piece of municipal history was made in south Fulton this week with the passage of House Bill 725, legislation that substantiated the 2006 annexations of more than 14,000 acres of unincorporated south Fulton County by existing cities. Having effectively replaced last year’s Senate Bill 552 that paved the way for a vote to form the new city of South Fulton in June, HB 725 approved all annexations and provided a six-month extension of the time limits originally established for the annexations.

A 41 year-old resident of the Fairburn and Union City area has been charged in the mid-April burglaries of three businesses at Hudson Plaza in Fairburn.

Residents of Palmetto concerned over crime issues met again April 24 to continue a discussion designed to lead to the active participation of a Neighborhood Watch group. More than 50 attended the meeting at Palmetto Community Center, where they weighed in on concerns they believe are compromising their city.

The final and most significant phase of Tyrone’s 2027 Comprehensive Plan, the Community Agenda, was presented April 26 to the town’s Planning Commission. Commissioners voted 4-0 to recommend the plan to the town council.

Fairburn City Council earlier this month made adjustments to several utility service charges due to activities by some customers during the past year involving city utility equipment. Adjustment were also based on recommendations by the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG). The increases became effective with the council’s approval.

It will be a new look to the landscape along Palmetto-Tyrone Road. Tyrone Planning Commission Thursday voted 3-0 to approve the preliminary plat and site plan for a project that will establish seven commercial buildings on 7.3 acres between Swanson Road and Olde Town Drive.

The Peachtree City Council will hold a special called meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the possibility of contracting out maintenance services such as landscaping and mowing, according to information provided by the city Friday afternoon.

SUV plows into fence at playground; no kids were outside at the time

Starr’s Mill’s Chris Capati and the goalkeeper for Lakeside-Evans collided in the first round of the Class AAAA state soccer playoffs on Wednesday night.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its frequent flyer program, Delta Air Lines employee and Sharpsburg native Debbie Schneider was awarded the SkyMiles’ 25th Anniversary Special Recognition Award.

City hopes to start in September; new exercise, playground equipment to be added

A Peachtree City man says he owes his life to his motorcycle helmet.

Richard Skinner, 61, was riding his 2003 Honda DTX Sunday afternoon when he stopped on Ga. Highway 74 to turn left into the Gilroy’s hardware store area. A 18-year-old driver in a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse struck him from behind, sending Skinner flying into the car’s windshield and onto the pavement.

Peachtree City is on the verge of completing two bridges that will enhance access to the city’s 80-plus mile cart path network.

The Peachtree City Airport Authority has agreed to enter negotiations with Chick-fil-A that could lead to the company relocating its corporate jet fleet to Falcon Field.

Music teachers complained it would hurt recitals, group lessons

The latest version of an update to Peachtree City’s ordinance regulating home businesses will not impact local music teachers.

When most of us think of Africa, we think of exotic animals roaming wild in the jungle, safaris on the expansive savannah and hunters looking for their next kill--all images that have been portrayed on the Discovery Channel, in movies like Tarzan and King Kong, or pictures we have seen in National Geographic.

On May 3, the Peachtree City Mayor and Council will consider two annexation requests for the West Village area by John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods and Levitt & Sons. As part of the Public Hearings, Council will also consider the Development Impact Fees that will be imposed on each residential unit developed in the area.

The Coweta County Board of Education approved two new principal positions for the 2007-08 school year Wednesday upon the recommendations of Superintendent Blake Bass.

All Coweta County school students who have received transfers to a school outside of their home attendance zones, including hardship transfers and school transfers under the No Child Left Behind Act, must renew those transfers by June 11 for the transfers to remain in effect for the 2007-08 school year.

A Peachtree City man says he owes his life to his motorcycle helmet.

Richard Skinner, 61, was riding his 2003 Honda DTX Sunday afternoon when he stopped on Ga. Highway 74 to turn left into the Gilroy’s hardware store area. A 18-year-old driver in a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse struck him from behind, sending Skinner flying into the car’s windshield and onto the pavement.

McIntosh goalkeeper Rachel Barnette makes a sliding save in the Lady Chiefs’ 3-2 win Friday over Blessed Trinity. The game against the Lady

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The Peachtree City Council has agreed to seek a cost estimate for an “unbiased” consultant to study traffic and other ramifications from the proposed extension of TDK Boulevard into Coweta County.

At the request of the developer, the Peachtree City Council Thursday night postponed consideration of a controversial rezoning on Ga. Highway 74 South near Holly Grove Road for a 300,000-square-foot shopping center directly across from the Wilshire Pavilion shopping center.