Sandy Creek High School recently staged its Miss Sandy Creek 2007 pageant.

Fourth grade science classes at Landmark Christian School are comparing and contrasting the characteristics of invertebrates including sponges, cnidarians, flatworms, roundworms, segmented worms, mollusks, echinoderms and arthropods. To complete the invertebrate unit of study, the students dissected earthworms. Shown is Fayette County resident Christian Brown, right, with Harrison Regan of Douglas County.

It was a win for developers, the family said. A request by Koman Properties to relocate the old Silvey family cemetery on property at Ga. Highway 92 and South Fulton Parkway destined for commercial development was approved Feb. 20 by the Union City Council on a 3-1 vote. The request had been tabled from the January meeting.

It was a lot of bang for the buck, at least in terms of law enforcement activity. Two Palmetto women and a Jonesboro man were arrested Feb. 26 on multiple charges after Fairburn Police Officer Zack Phillips found them at a previously burglarized residence on Rivertown Road in possession of drugs, a weapon and a Clayton County law enforcement badge.

A Union City man was found murdered in his apartment Monday after co-workers inquired about his absence from work. Union City Police have a man in custody in connection with the death.

A rose by any other name, the saying goes. The same holds true for a community activist. And there are few people if any in south Fulton County who fit the role of community activist more than Sandra Hardy. Her most recent involvement came in February with the appointment to the board of directors of South Fulton Community Improvement District (CID).

It is a pretty sad situation when the pizza dude can not make a delivery without getting robbed. And that is exactly what happened Feb. 23 after a pizza was delivered to a Carlton Road address in Palmetto.

Town Manager Barry Amos offers suggestions at the town’s retreat.

What began in late 2006 with questions over the lease of the old courthouse to Old Campbell County Historical Society ended in a unanimous vote by Fairburn City Council Feb. 26 to approve the lease and appoint the organization as curator of the historic building.

It was a familiar sight to many at Tyrone’s Town council meeting Thursday night.

Don Rehwaldt, who represents the Tyrone Neighborhood Alliance, walked to the podium and presented the town council with a list of concerns from the watchdog group. Rehwaldt is keeping a spreadsheet of the 17 items and is concerned that the items still remain unresolved after months of discussion.

The development of Tyrone’s development continues to be a sore spot for the Tyrone Town Council.

During the Feb.24 retreat, Town manager Barry Amos asked for direction from the Council on how the area should be developed. Amos said the leaders had approved a plan last May that showed an overall development for the area, but not all the councilmen agreed with that assessment.

The news was sobering for members of Tyrone’s Town council during the Feb.24 retreat in Peachtree City.

Town Manager Barry Amos told the Town Council that the town would face some sever financial constraints for the next budget year that starts July 1. Last year, the town used $472,000 out of reserve funds to balance the $3.1 million general funds budget. With housing starts having declined more than 50 percent in Tyrone this year, Amos said the town will have to make some decisions about balancing the 2008 budget.

Land swap with city remains unsettled

Preliminary plans to construct a 148,000 square foot shopping center on the former site of the Days Inn on Ga. Highway 54 West got a tentative approval from the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night.

Piedmont Healthcare announced Thursday completion of the purchase of Newnan Hospital, with all regulatory reviews completed. As part of the purchase, the hospital will become Piedmont Newnan Hospital, Inc., as Piedmont Healthcare assumes the operations, liabilities and many assets of Newnan Hospital.

Corps wants to meet with citizens before considering permit

Citizen concerns about a cart path bridge being built over Flat Creek in south Peachtree City have led the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to delay approval of a permit necessary to continue the project.

Provides peek into building plan, schematics

The Peachtree City Fire Department is purchasing a software program that will compile building plans for 210 critical locations in Peachtree City.

U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on crash that paralyzed driver

The United States Supreme Court will determine whether or not a former Coweta County sheriff’s deputy can be sued in court for using his patrol car to ram into a fleeing vehicle that fled deputies at speeds upwards of 90 mph in March 2001.

This week was a busy time for some parents as they scrambled to get their children placed back in school.

Coweta County School System spokesperson Dean Jackson said that 140 students had been removed from the school system this week because proper documentation was not filed with the school system proving the students lived in the county.

Sharpsburg Sharpies Drama Team of Sharpsburg Baptist Church is presenting their annual dinner theatre over St. Patty’s weekend. “A Wedding and a Funeral,” a two-act comedy, premieres March 15-17 at 7 p.m. A Sunday dessert matinee has now been added on March 18 at 2 p.m.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Fayette County that will expire at 9 p.m. tonight.

The watch coincides with predicted thunderstorm activity all across the southern United States today.

A plan for a shopping center on the south side of Ga. Highway 54 West in Peachtree City has one less big box retailer now.

Capital City Development has dropped the proposed 135,000 square-foot Lowe’s home improvement store from its plans, but an 89,000 square-foot Kohl’s Department Store remains on the drawing board.

A student learns a lot in middle school, but sometimes the biggest lessons don’t come from a textbook or a lecture.

Mental health and drug counseling services provided locally since the 1970s by Fayette Counseling Center face a funding shortfall that may cause the center to close mid-year unless office space can be found.

The potential closure in July of Fayette Counseling Center due to funding issues might not pose much of a problem for most of Fayette County’s residents. But it looms large for the 239 individuals currently receiving a range of services at the Fayetteville office and for the families who love them.

Thursday night the Peachtree City Council will consider rezoning a commercial tract near the Kedron Village retail center to multi-family use so a developer can build 21 townhomes on the 5.6 acre tract.

Progress inevitably requires patience.

And that’s just what the Georgia Department of Transportation is asking for from Peachtree City drivers as the construction project continues to widen the first leg of Ga. Highway 74 South.

A congregation that split away from the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta is dropping its legal claims to any of the property from its former church, St. Andrew’s-in-the-Pines in Peachtree City.

The possibility of resurrecting plans to expand The Gathering Place senior citizen’s center will be among the many topics the Peachtree City Council will discuss at its retreat starting 8 a.m. Friday at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center.

Fayette County High School became the site of a mass dispensing effort Feb. 22 as local and regional public health and public safety personnel responded to a mock terrorism exercise. The scenario: A bioterrorism incident in Fayette County involving inhalation anthrax.