Recently released 2006 SAT results show that Fulton County students are continuing their trend of higher-than-average test scores. The 2006 test marks the 13th consecutive year that Fulton has maintained or improved its overall scores.

Just when we thought you had seen everything. Drug use and creative drug paraphernalia is always evolving. Showing up on the streets of South Fulton these days is an even more innovative way to smoke crack or ice. And making the quick high even easier, some drug dealers are pre-loading impromptu pipes found in the vast majority of convenience stores.

A party at a Palmetto residence Aug. 25 following a high school football game resulted in a fight and one man shot in the arm.

A Union City man was charged Aug. 24 with the murder of long time city resident Thelma Ransom.

David Bates, 53, was charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, according to Union City Police Public Information Officer George Louth.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between Aug. 8-29:

Alan Hemrick, 30, Fairburn, child molestation

A teenager was arrested Friday afternoon after he shot his girlfriend during an argument at a north Fayette residence, police said.

Suspect injured after hitting other car head-on

A motorcyclist led sheriff’s deputies on a brief chase Friday afternoon, attempting twice to take out the lead pursuit vehicle, which happened to be driven by Fayette County Sheriff Randall Johnson, police said.

Online, mail best options to avoid line

City officials are worried that many residents haven’t yet taken the time to register their golf carts with the new numbered decals.

Fayette County school officials jubilantly released the school system’s Scholastic Aptitude Test scores Tuesday.

Fayette’s district-wide score of 1555 was third in the state for districts that had more than one high school. Only Cherokee County with a score of 1565, and Fulton with a 1580 scores surpassed Fayette.

Facility to upgrade circulation software

The Peachtree City Library will be closed Saturday through Monday as the library’s circulation system is upgraded, according to Librarian M.T. Allen.

Local runners and walkers are invited to participate in a 5K run/1 mile walk to benefit Promise Place, an organization that assists victims of domestic violence.

Former Coweta County Commissioner Vernon “Mutt” Hunter has always been a proponent of having good things happen for the eastern side of Coweta County.

For the first time in years, it will be a quiet election year in Senoia.

When qualifying had ended Wednesday afternoon, only two candidates had qualified for the two seats up for election this year.

New camp member Bill Byrom, left, is welcomed by John Todd, commander,Sharpsburg Sharpshooters Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Eastern Coweta County residents will probably receive a little sticker shock when they receive their tax bills in the late fall.

The average score for Coweta County students taking the SAT rose while test-takers nationwide did not perform as well on the college entrance exam, according to figures released by the College Board on Tuesday.

The new cart path bridge that will span the CSX railroad tracks in Peachtree City will be installed beginning Friday, Sept. 15, officials said.

Developer Tom Reese’s vision for eastern Coweta County staggers the imagination. His proposed McIntosh new community features more than 3,100 homes and a commercial center that will be pedestrian-oriented and look more like Destin Commons on the Florida Gulf coast than the Fayette Pavilion.

With a little design work left to finish and grass to grow — so two golf holes can be relocated — there’s little left to stand in the way of construction beginning for the extension of TDK Boulevard from the Peachtree City industrial park into undeveloped sections of eastern Coweta County.

It was a case where the officer said he was doing his job, and the homeowner said it was excessive. During the Aug. 21 incident, a 12-year-old dog in its accustomed place on its back porch was shot in the mouth during an attempt by Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies to serve a warrant at a Fayetteville residence on a man already in the Fayette County Jail.

Let me tell you about the birds and the bees. Many have vanished or are dying in north Fayette and south Fulton.

Let me tell you about the dogs and the cats. Many are sick and dying and refusing to go outdoors in north Fayette and south Fulton.

Shut the Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant down for good, says the Fayette County Commission.

Elected officials were joined by North Fayette Community Association, calling for a definitive resolution to the chemical release into communities that has sickened nearly 600 residents of north Fayette and south Fulton counties.

Fayette County school officials jubilantly released the school system’s Scholastic Aptitude Test scores Tuesday.

Fayette’s district-wide score of 1555 was third in the state for districts that had more than one high school. Only Cherokee County with a score of 1565, and Fulton with a 1580 score surpassed Fayette.

Whitewater’s Tavoris Dixon will be one of the Wildcats’ biggest threats on offense.

Levitt and Sons development company has committed to reducing the number of homes it is proposing to have annexed into Peachtree City on the west side.

The Fayette County Water Committee has recommended the Fayette County Commission look into the issue of owning and operating community and drip irrigation sewer systems.

Woman survives shot to the face

A man who shot a woman at a Fayetteville furniture store early Friday morning remained in custody Tuesday at the Fayette County Jail, police said.

A Fayetteville woman was robbed at gunpoint while walking from her car to her home just before midnight Sunday, police said.

The Fayette County Public Library and The Friends of the Library sponsored its second “Letters & Literature” dinner recently, and the honoree was Dr. Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. of Fayetteville.

Fayette County’s School Health Services program is the recipient of Georgia’s 2006 School Walt Orenstein Champion for Immunization Award.