Fayette County’s school population could double within 20 years and that’s causing some consternation for the schools system’s leaders.

Sheriff’s drug agents raided an east Fayette home recently, arresting two people for possession of the designer drug ecstasy with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, police said.

Tour de Georgia bicycle racing officials released maps of this year’s course earlier this week.

A Peachtree City business is starting up a free golf cart shuttle service for senior citizens three days a week.

It is a little bit of Fayetteville history, reborn for the 21st century. That history is arriving as the Burks Square development takes shape on Ga. Highway 85 South across from Fayetteville City Hall.

Visitors to the Fayette County Justice Center are often in awe over the scope and size of the facility. But if visitors look closely, they’ll notice that the third floor of the center is vacant and unfinished.

It will be mainly housekeeping duties Feb. 1 at Fayetteville City Council. The council will conduct public hearings on the second reading of amendments to the Proportionate Share Ordinance and the Development Impact Fee Ordinance.

Four homes in the new Clifton Lakes subdivision off Jeff Davis Drive were burglarized over the weekend, with appliances taken from all four, Fayetteville police said.

Helicopter helps apprehend man who fled traffic stop

Sheriff’s deputies caught a man who bolted on foot early Tuesday afternoon after he was pulled over for a traffic stop, police said.

Katherine Higgins, a seven year-old home-schooler, was honored at the Fayette County Public Library for reading 2,000 books in one year.

The Fayette County Republican Party will host its First Saturday breakfast meeting on Saturday, February 3, 2007, at the International House of Pancakes Restaurant in Fayetteville, beginning at 9 AM. The special guest speaker for the meeting will be Sue Everhart, First Vice Chairman, and candidate for State Chairman, of the Georgia Republican Party. Everhart will speak about the 2007 Republican convention process and her candidacy for state chairman. The meeting is open to the public. All those who are in agreement with the principles of the Republican Party and who want to make a difference in the community are encouraged to attend.

The academic success of students at Whitewater High has earned the school a membership in the Successful Practices Network.

An unprecedented 36 students at Fayette Middle qualified for the state-level auditions for the Middle School All-State Band sponsored by the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA).

Traffic has been heavy at Fayette County School’s new Welcome Center since its official opening January 3.

The center, which serves as a centralized location for new families to register their children for school, enrolled over 300 students during the first two weeks of January. On average, the center registered 41 students per day with an approximate wait time of 45 minutes.

After months of memorization and practicing pronunciation, enunciation and diction, not to mention the countless hours spent rehearsing voice inflexions and facial expressions, Fayette’s elementary students put on quite a show at the 2007 Fayette Recitation Festival.

A near sweep of the Griffin RESA 2007 High School Math Contest shows that Fayette’s students really know how to crunch numbers.

Seven Fayette elementary schools have been designated “distinguished” and awarded more than $10,000 combined from the Georgia Department of Education.

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past two weeks:

Fayette County Sheriff’s Office

A development proposal received by Tyrone official late last week could be the first step in revitalizing the town’s aging downtown.

Shelly McLemore has every reason to smile.

Fairburn city officials say 2006 was a great year and 2007 should be even better. That was the message at the annual city council retreat held Jan. 13.

A new group has come into existence in Chattahoochee Hills. The group may be new but the message is not. That message calls for a June vote to form a city that will control the development and the destiny of one of the last remaining large areas of rural metro Atlanta. Nearly 225 area residents filled the gym at Georgia Baptist Children’s Home for the Jan. 20 meeting.

A chill was in the air and the heat was on during the late night hours of Jan. 20 as Union City Police conducted roadchecks along some of the city’s highly traveled roads. Temperatures falling into the high 30s during the eight-hour exercise did not prevent officers from checking the licenses of hundreds of drivers and making 22 arrests.

Tyrone Planning Commission members David Nebergall, Ginger Blackstone and Jesse Nasiancerno are sworn in at the board’s Jan.

A Roswell man has been charged in the Jan. 17 burglary of D.J.’s Grocery at 504 Main Street. Photos taken during the burglary and items found in his vehicle led to his identification after he was arrested the next day in Newnan.

It may not be the most colorful topic on anyone’s short list but it clears up a problem that has been years in the making. Fairburn City Council Jan. 22 approved a measure adopted by the Tyrone Town Council in late 2006 that settles what has been a sticky issue over a portion of the town’s sewage needs.

Tyrone Planning Commission Jan. 25 approved a variance request to reduce setbacks to 10 feet on two adjacent lots located along Brentwood Road between Arrowood Road and Howell Park. The properties are in the Main Street area near Triangle Park.

Led chase from PTC Wal-Mart into rural Coweta

A suspect who showed up at the Peachtree City Wal-Mart to make a drug deal with undercover agents led deputies on a chase from the Peachtree City Wal-Mart into rural Coweta County Thursday night.

Council to consider change for Kedron commercial tract

The Peachtree City Planning Commission has approved the rezoning of a commercial tract to a multi-family use.

East Coweta’s first mega-development received its first approval Monday night by the Sharpsburg Town Council.

The council voted to accept the first read for the rezoning and annexation for nearly 500 acres near the intersections of Reese Road, McIntosh trail and Ga. Highway 54.