The Georgia Department of Education (DOE) Oct. 1 announced that all 27 Coweta County Schools met the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act by achieving 2008-2009 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements.

Three new employees of TSG-USA, Inc., Peachtree City, recently spent two afternoons volunteering at the Newnan Coweta Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
 
Kohei Fukuda, a mechanical design engineer; Kazuha Shoji, a software programmer; and Makoto Yamada, a design engineer, will work at TSG-USA’s facility in Japan, but came to the United States for two weeks of employee orientation. 

The Freedom Fund Banquet Committee is planning its 12th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, Nov. 7, 6 p.m. at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center.  This year’s banquet theme is “Celebrating and Building on 100 Years of Achievement.”  The Centennial Achievement Awards for Civil Rights will be presented to deserving recipients. The Fayette County Community is invited to attend, ticket price is $75; however, there is a discount for purchasing a table of 10 for $700. This discount is available through Oct. 12. For tickets and more information, please email ffb@fcnaacp.org or call (770) 460-9934.

The following is a summary of the most pertinent questions and answers fielded by Peachtree City's mayoral candidates during Tuesday night's candidate forum hosted by the Peachtree City Rotary Club.

The following is a summary of the most crucial questions and answers from Tuesday night’s candidate forum hosted by the Peachtree City Rotary Club. For simplicity’s sake, the Q&A summaries are split up by the various races.

A similar roundup of the Q&A with the mayoral candidates will be forthcoming later this evening.

Fayette County Health Dept. gets 400 doses of nasal spray for kids 2-4; vaccine free, but call first

Budget problems or not, Fayette County schools topped all others in the Atlanta metro area in one critical measure.

In its Oct. 1 report of the federally-mandated Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), the Ga. Dept. of Education’s figures show that Fayette County was the only system in metro Atlanta with 100 percent of its schools making AYP for six consecutive years.

And then, there were four.

Local gym owner Dar Thompson announced Tuesday that he has decided to drop out of the race for the Post 1 seat on the Peachtree City Council.

As Peachtree City’s Water and Sewer Authority ends the year with a projected shortfall of $294,000, customers will see another 5 percent increase added to their sewer bills starting this month.

For a heart attack victim, Todd Hellams was in pretty bad shape when the first medic crews got to him at Fayetteville’s Wings and Things restaurant Aug. 28.

The Environmental Institute of Georgia (EIOG) is at it again. Aside from their work as custodians of the 300-acre Fairburn Nature Preserve, reducing chemical exposures to humans and animals and coordinating Fayette County Earth Day activities, EIOG is sponsoring the Rivers Alive clean-up activities along Fayette’s waterways again this year. The first of five clean-up events was held Saturday.

Participants in the 10th Annual Alzheimer’s Memory Walk release their distinctive purple balloons Oct. 3 at the Frederick Brown, Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City. Perhaps as many as 2,000 people from Fayette and other south metro Atlanta counties were at the event just before starting on the 5K walk through the woods. The event was a fund-raiser for the Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Photo/Ben Nelms.

In the special local option sales tax arena, it’s the current Fayette County Commission versus Fayette Citizens for Open Government (FayCOG), which includes a couple of former county commission chairmen.

It is a sign of the economic times. The Fayetteville City Council Oct. 1 took the advice of city staff and approved the removal of several unfilled job positions from the personnel roster.

Commissioner on plea calendar for marijuana, tag offense

Fayette County Commissioner Robert Horgan is expected to appear in state court Oct. 22 to enter a guilty plea on charges of misdemeanor possession of marijuana and driving with an expired tag.

James Taylor, a chaplain with the Peachtree City Police Department, recently completed 20 hours in specialized in-service training offered by the Georgia Association of Law Enforcement Chaplains. Taylor, who also serves as a chaplain for Piedmont Fayette Hospital is a member of The Cathedral of Christ the King, Sharpsburg, Ga. where he serves as a Licensed Liturgical Minister.  He and his wife, Karen Romano-Taylor, are both active in the leadership of Peachtree City's Community Emergency Response Team.

The Southern Crescent Tea Party Patriots will hold a Healthcare and Cap & Trade Town Hall meeting on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at Christ Church at Whitewater. Organizers said the emphasis will be on healthcare.

A new service free to job seekers has opened in southwest metro Atlanta. Fairburn resident Beverly Davis has launched HireNeighbors.com to assist area residents in the job search. The service recently conducted a job fair in Peachtree City and is currently working with local companies and county governments to help job seekers. for more information visit www.hireneighbors.com or to sign-up email careers@hireneighbors.com

This Tuesday night Peachtree City residents can do some one-stop shopping for City Council candidates as all are scheduled to appear at a question-and-answer forum at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center.

The event runs from 6:45 to 9:15 and is sponsored by the Peachtree City Rotary Club.

Precision parachuting, gravity-defying jets, thundering jet trucks and vintage warbirds mark the 12 edition of The Great Georgia Airshow (GGAS) to be held at Falcon Field Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 10 and 11. The aviation festival, presented by the Kiwanis Club of Peachtree City and the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF), Dixie Wing, will again showcase modern and historic military aircraft, thrilling aerobatics and activities for the entire family.

Fayette Citizens for Open Government (FayCOG) is gearing up to attempt to defeat the 1-cent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) initiative up for vote in November. The group held a planning meeting on the issue last week.

Nearly three years after it was installed, the cart path bridge spanning the CSX railroad tracks on Ga. Highway 54 West in Peachtree City is within weeks of being approved for construction.

Allows cost savings, better team structure

Peachtree City’s two select youth soccer organizations are merging, and all that’s basically left to do now is pick a new name and a new color scheme.

Canongate, the company that now manages Peachtree City’s Tennis Center, has won city approval to proceed with $152,000 in renovations that will be funded by the company.

Gerresheimer AG also expands production capability

A Peachtree City firm last week officially opened its new research and development center for medical plastic systems.

Gerresheimer AG, headquartered in Germany, now has complete product and process development for its specialized business in pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical technology. Previously such facilities were only available in Europe, company officials said.

An Atlanta man — accused of arranging a sexual tryst with an undercover Peachtree City police officer who posed as a 15-year-old — was convicted of several associated charges by a jury Friday morning.

Beth Primrose shares her frightening but hopeful story about living in the aftermath of a life-and death battle with an aneurysm. Her harrowing experience and long journey home will both humble and amaze you.

Newnan Police are still looking for the person or persons responsible for the Sept. 21 attack of a 90 year-old Newnan woman in her home on Pinson Street. Police are asking for the public’s help in locating the attacker.

Sitting at a table in the Redneck Gourmet in downtown Senoia, it was difficult for Scott Tigchelaar to contain his excitement. The animation in his voice and on his face was a dead give-away that something important was about to happen. And it did. Southern Living Magazine has named the 3.5-story brownstone to be built on the site of the Gin Property development as its Idea House for 2010.

The day finally arrived. The groundbreaking ceremony for the nearly 3,000-acre Chattahoochee Bend State Park, the newest entry in Georgia’s state park system, was held Sept. 29. The pristine site in western Coweta borders the Chattahoochee River.