Developer wants $350,000 credit for building road

The Peachtree City Council has postponed consideration of a request to reduce the amount of impact fees owed by Ravin Homes on behalf of the Cedarcroft subdivision.

Peachtree City firefighters got some first-hand training this week using three small apartment buildings that are scheduled for demolition across from First Baptist Church.

2001 crash in PTC left speeding suspect a paraplegic

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to determine whether or not a Coweta County sheriff’s deputy should face a civil federal trial for using his patrol vehicle to ram a suspect’s car to halt a high-speed pursuit that ended in Peachtree City.

Suspect previously convicted of false imprisonment, assault on officer

Police are still searching for a man accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint from her Fayetteville home Monday morning.

Micah Fitzgibbon shows off his new bike with his father, Scotty.

When the dust settles next Tuesday night, Coweta county will have two new County Commissioners and could have up to two new school board members.

The softball girls from Senoia Little League visited Gordon College in October and were treated to a double-header and a softball clinic by the Lady Highlanders.

Peachtree City-based Falcon Air Services is making it easier for Coweta residents who want to learn to fly.

The company is opening a flight school at Newnan_coweta Airport later this month, and operations manager Andrea Van Buren said this is the latest expansion of the company.

It was not the usual type of trick or treat. A Union City man and a Fairburn man were charged Oct. 31 with trafficking in marijuana in a controlled-delivery drug bust in Grantville netting $70,000 in suspected marijuana.

Firefighters Eric Pierce and Brad Haralson from the city of Newnan Fire Department accepted the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Certificate of Award for Excellence in proper use, correct display and patriotic presentation of the flag of the United States of America at the September 26 meeting of the Newnan City Council meeting. Jane Petsch, flag chair, General Daniel Newnan Chapter, presented the award together with flag lapel pins to fire fighters Pierce and Haralson, Captain Ben Johnson and Fire Chief David Whitley as well as members of the City Council and Mayor Keith Brady. From left; Jane Petsch, Captain Ken Johnson, firefighter Eric Pierce, firefighter Brad Haralson and Fire Chief David Whitley. Also pictured are Brenda Jessel, past regent, and registrar/membership chair Jeannine Jackson. Photo/Special.

The Senoia Library announces a huge book sale. The sale will be in the Freeman-Sasser Building at the Senoia Park on November 9-11 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. each day. Children's Books, hardback and paperback books, magazines, videos and cassette tapes will be featured at the sale. Come join us, browse and buy to your hearts content.

It’s that time again for motorcycle enthusiasts from Coweta and surrounding counties to join together for CORRAL Ride 2006 on Nov. 4. This will be the third annual Poker Run to benefit CORRAL, Coweta Organization for Riding, Rehabilitation and Learning, a not-for-profit organization operating out of the historic Sewell barn in Roscoe.

Fayetteville police are hunting for Mac Arthur Prayor, 36, as a suspect in multiple felonies in connection with the Oct. 23 abduction of a former girlfriend.

The Fayetteville woman was kidnapped shortly after 1 a.m. at knifepoint from her residence on Meadowbrook Court by Prayor, her ex-boyfriend, police said.

Minutes before she allegedly shot and killed her ex-husband at the NCR plant in Peachtree City Thursday afternoon, April Ulrich visited her daughter at Huddleston Elementary, pulling the child out of class and leaving a plastic zipper bag containing wedding rings in the 6-year-old’s book-bag, The Citizen has learned from more than one source familiar with the situation.

Smile, Fayetteville: Red light cameras may be in your driving future.

The Fayetteville City Council wants to study possible placement of a traffic camera at an intersection that would photograph motorists who run red lights. Police Chief Steve Heaton presented details of the Redflex Camera System.

As the Fayette County School System struggles with redrawing attendance lines and other growing pains, a proposed development in the center of the county could cause them nightmares.

Lindsay Ratcliffe and members of the Peachtree City School of Dance entertain crowds Oct.

Newly released plans to build a large shopping center on the south side of Ga. Highway 54 west are of such a scale that the development would have been forbidden under Peachtree City’s old big box ordinance.

After last week’s marathon session involving new school boundary lines, Assistant Superintendent for Operations Sam Sweat is reviewing all the comments, e-mails and phone calls from concerned parents who are beseeching the board to adjust the lines.

The Fayette County Health Department has already received some flu vaccine, but all the doses are spoken for as of Tuesday morning, according to County Nurse Manager Carolyn Callison.

A Peachtree City developer is challenging the determination of how much it owes per lot in impact fees to the city.

The City Council will hear the appeal from Ravin Homes, developer of the Cedarcroft subdivision off MacDuff Parkway on the city’s west side. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. tonight in the Floy Farr Room at the Peachtree City Library.

Proposed construction of a 68-home Stella Place residential development at 335 Grady Avenue is back on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of Fayetteville City Council.

In its ongoing quest to make the county’s sign ordinance user-friendly and defensible in court, the Fayette County Commission decided Thursday night to modify the ordinance.

An Oct. 24 epidemiological study by Georgia Division of Public Health (DPH) left the door open but fell short of establishing a direct link to questions from hundreds of sick residents in Fayette and Fulton counties who believe the onion-like smell of chemical odorant propyl mercaptan released at the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant in Fairburn is responsible for their illnesses. The door was also left open by a commitment for a larger state and federal health consultation expected by early 2007.

The rising costs of construction materials may force the Fayette County Board of Education to build only one new scaled-down elementary school instead of two in the next few years.

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin made a trip to Fayetteville Oct. 31 to see the firsthand the results of Georgia’s efforts to curb its population of unwanted dogs and cats. Meeting at Lafayette Center Animal Hospital, Irvin attended a spaying procedure at the clinic by Dr. Mike Younker.

Students, parents and faculty of Peachtree City Elementary are making a list and checking it twice as they prepare for the 10th annual Jingle Bell Trail set for December 9. Last year it drew more than 1,000 runners and generated nearly $9,000, which helped purchase new classroom computers.

Fayette County Schools is adding a new health and wellness site to its homepage and is seeking community input on a logo for the initiative.

Whitewater High School in Fayette County is excited! The faculty and students recently kicked off their campaign to help find cures for cancer and provide help and hope to thousands of patients and their families. The entire school is collecting spare change through The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program.

Fayette Senior Services is accepting contributions for Project Love – the program that provides delicious and nutritionally balanced holiday meals to senior citizens in Fayette County. For more then ten years the program has been a heartfelt gesture of kindness to many of the community’s homebound seniors.