It was probably not the glowing reception that transportation consulting firm URS expected when they visited Coweta County Tuesday night.

Newnan High School Assistant Principal Nancy Cook has been appointed as the new principal of East Coweta Middle School, beginning in July.

Emily Ferreira, a second grader at Oak Grove Elementary School, won two round trip tickets on AirTran Airways at the school’s Run for the Gold 5K/1 mile Fun Run on Saturday, March 18.

The J.C. Booth Middle School Science Olympiad team competed in the Science Olympiad State Tournament on Saturday, March 25 at Augusta State University.

The director of the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City has resigned from his position, officials said Wednesday afternoon.

As families gather around this week to watch “The 10 Commandments” and celebrate Easter, Fayette County school officials are gearing up for teaching Bible classes next fall.

Piedmont Fayette Hospital’s emergency room has become so busy at times that hospital officials ask local paramedics to warn patients that service there might be slow.

In early September, Piedmont Fayette Hospital will be ready for another first.

That’s when three labor and delivery beds will go online, along with two separate rooms to handle Caesarean section births, said hospital spokeswoman Ryan Duffy. There will also be a nursery and a neonatal intensive care unit, both of which will be connected, Duffy said.

Fayetteville City Council April 6 voted 4-1 to increase water and sewer rates by 15 percent beginning June 1.

No question was posed by the public and virtually no discussion was entertained by the board.

Richard Jolly (L), owner of Pine Forest Gardens in Tyrone, and Makeda Johnson of the Peachtree City Recreation Department look over some of the native azaleas and hostas that will be on sale at the Spring Yard and Garden Show this Saturday at Shakerag Knoll from 10 a.m.

The residents of Shenandoah Estates in northern Fayette County say they are fed up with being treated like stepchildren.

The Peachtree City Council has voted to abandon a project to realign Huddleston Road with Dividend Drive in the city’s industrial park area.

Leave early for appointments, etc. in case you get stuck

The best way to avoid getting tangled up in traffic from the Tour de Georgia bike race Wednesday, April 19 is to know the route and avoid it entirely from about 1 p.m. to 2:30 or so.

The Fayette County Democrats will hold their monthly breakfast meeting on Saturday with breakfast starting at 10 a.m., at Chaps Restaurant in Tyrone. Meeting topics will include review of special election results and qualifying for candidates for November 2006 general election.

A medical fund has been established to help a Peachtree City man who has undergone a bone marrow transplant to combat leukemia.

The Fayette County Republican Party (FCRP) will conduct the qualification of candidates for local office who will appear on the July 18, 2006 Republican Party primary election ballot in Fayette County.

Long time Fayetteville resident Frances Reeves is being honored by 11 Alive television April 12 at 7:30 p.m. for a lifetime of volunteer service to the community.

Four future healthcare professionals from Starr’s Mill High placed second at the Georgia Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Spring Leadership and Competitive Events Conference.

Oak Grove Elementary celebrated the importance of mathematics in our everyday lives with a daylong “Magic of Math” celebration March 30. The school’s Math Task Force, led by Instructional Support Teacher Lynn Shirley, sponsored the day.

Students at Sandy Creek High are among the best analytical readers in the nation, according to results from the WordMasters Challenge competition.

Thanks to the generosity of Fayette’s business community and individual donors, the Fayette County School System’s transportation department raised $2,000, the most in the cookout’s four-year history, to benefit the county’s military personnel stationed in Iraq.

The 2006 Special Olympics was more than a competition among athletes, it was a show of the true meaning of friendship among students of all abilities.

Kip Dunlap and Lauren Russell, seniors at Sandy Creek High School, received recognition for their successes as individual delegates representing Haiti and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) at the Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference in Baltimore, Maryland March 2-5.

Food, card games and puzzles helped students and their parents learn math at East Fayette’s first Family Math Night.

Last Minute Tax Tips

As the end of the tax filing season approaches IRS Spokesman Mark Green “suggests taxpayers to be aware of some helpful tax information during the rush”.

It was a gala event by any estimation. The April 1 celebration in Fairburn marked the first day of operation of the new Fairburn Fire Department. A real sense of celebration was in the air, with a station full of guests, food and fun included. No one that day could have been happier than new Fire Chief Jody Weller and long time firefighter, fire safety supervisor and firefighter advocate Walt Brown.

Dr. Gordon Vernick, Coordinator of Jazz Studie

Community input ruled April 3 at the Palmetto City Council meeting. Residents voiced questions and concerns, supported by council members willing to take up their cause.

Union City Administrator Terrell Jacobs and City Attorney Dennis Davenport were given the go ahead to discuss the creation of special districts and the method to a fund plan to address infrastructure improvements in several city condominium complexes. If the measure were to come about the city would be repaid over time.

The landscape in Fairburn is changing. And that changing landscape includes business. That reality and the need to share ideas and promote an increasingly healthy business climate has led to the formation of the Fairburn Business Association.