Tyrone’s $5.7 million budget for next year will be up for final approval next Thursday.
One of the biggest items in this year’s budget is the town’s new library, which gobbles up nearly $1.73 million of the budget.

With less than a month to go before the town’s big July 4 celebration, tyrone residents are hitting the town’s park this weekend for a big clean-up.

Two top-ranking police officials questioned whether it would be wise to arrest the Peachtree City manager for DUI while driving his golf cart Saturday night after a concert, according to several police reports obtained Thursday morning under the Georgia Open Records Act.

Click here to view the police reports used in this article: Report 1, Report 2, Report 3, Report 4, Report 5, Report 6, Report 7.

Magican Ken Scott entertained enthusiastic kids this week at the Peachtree City Library.

Last week the Peachtree City Council voted unanimously to deny a request to allow a the city's Water and Sewer Authority to provide 500,000 gallons a day of sewer treatment services to the neighboring town of Senoia, located in Coweta County. What follows are highlights and tidbits of the give-and-take between the Council, city sewer officials Larry Turner and Mike Harman and Senoia Town Manager Richard Ferry.

Plan still needs county approval

The Peachtree City Council has approved allowing two office-zoned parcels in the county to hook up to the city's sewer system at the city's southern limits.

... But no stoplight; Target traffic feared

The roundabout is out for the intersection of Peachtree Parkway and Walt Banks Road.

Hundreds of Peachtree City’s kids showed up

Chances are patrons of Peachtree City's golf cart paths have noticed some golf carts tootling around with the new yellow decals on them.

If a disaster strikes, a batch of 78 specially trained people will be ready and willing to help in Peachtree City.

Members of the Community Emergency Response Team have learned how to render first aid, assess patient injuries, cut up fallen trees with a chainsaw and use radios to communicate with emergency officials.

After years of fits and starts, Senoia’s City park is getting a $1 million upgrade.

A Spalding County man was indicted this week by the Coweta County Grand Jury in connection with the slaying of Senoia businessman Ken Crook last fall.

An access road to Senoia’s public works building is the fly in the ointment that is giving the city and its biggest employer heartburn.

In light of this weekend’s DUI arrest of Peachtree City Manager Bernie McMullen, Mayor Harold Logsdon has taken over one of McMullen’s tasks: overseeing the police department. It’s a first for Peachtree City.

Click here to read the police incident report of McMullen's arrest.

Clean it or close it. That’s the word from the city of Fayetteville to Tinseltown.

Fayetteville City Manager Joe Morton sent a June 1 letter to Fayette Pavilion’s Tinseltown 17 theater manager Brian Ortega informing him that his day in municipal court later this month is not his only problem.

It’s summertime (nearly) and dozens of area youngsters are preparing for fall football.

The Fayette County Board of Education recently approved applying for a $5,000 planning grant to determine if the system has enough funds to establish the county’s first charter school in 2007 — a special school that would focus on drop-out prevention.

Thursday night, the Peachtree City Council unanimously denied a request to provide sewer access to Senoia, which would have doubled the town’s sewer capacity and paved the way for dramatic growth in the historic town across Line Creek.

The Peachtree City Council was presented the staff-recommended draft of the city’s budget for the 2007 fiscal year Monday night.

A long-time and well-known Peachtree City tennis pro died early Saturday morning in an auto crash on Ga. Highway 16 in Spalding County south of Brooks, police said.

As in past years, The Citizen is again opening its opinion pages to candidates for contested local and locally-decided political offices.

The only thing left to do was to cut the ribbon. More than a year in the planning, city of Fayetteville officials June 1 formally opened Patriot Park.

The Fayetteville City Council approved Chapter 74 Article V of the city’s Code of Ordinances which sets forth the adoption of new parade routes and fees at its regular meeting last week.

Some of the biggest losers in Fayette are at Peachtree City Elementary, that is losers of body fat.

This spring the school’s staff had an opportunity to participate in their own variation of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” competition. Over a 10-week period, 22 staff members lost a total of 225.7 pounds.

Fayette County Board of Education has partnered with its own REACH students to provide them with valuable work experience.

A Peachtree City woman was arrested at her home Friday on charges of selling prescription narcotics to undercover agents with Fayette County Sheriff’s Drug Suppression Task Force. She told officers the profits were used to purchase crack cocaine.

A select group of graduating seniors at Fayette County High has been inducted into the National Technical Honor Society.

A student at Crabapple Lane Elementary School recently won highest honors in this year's WordMasters Challenge--a national language arts competition entered by over 225,000 students annually, which consists of three separate meets held at intervals during the school year.

The Fayette Democratic Women will host Fayette County’s largest candidates’ forum June 10. The “Blue Jean Brunch” is at Blue Moon Farm, the home of Dr. Richard and Judith Moore, in Fairburn (Fayette County).The brunch will begin at 10 a.m

Peachtree City Manager Bernie McMullen was arrested for DUI Saturday night outside the city’s amphitheater while driving his golf cart, according to a police report on the incident.