Help may soon be on the way for those who suffer from food allergies.

Twelve of Fayette’s young authors have been selected as finalists for the district level of the Young Georgia Authors’ Writing Competition.

McIntosh High’s Lisa Collins knows that giving back to the community is an important part of doing business.

Collins, a business teacher, is making sure that her students remember that life is about more than personal success and making lots of money; it is also about improving the community by helping others.

A suspect who fled from a traffic stop, sparking a manhunt in Fayetteville Wednesday night, had a significant amount of crystal methamphetamine with him, police said.

Site plans for two recently proposed businesses along the Ga. Highway 74 corridor were approved March 27 by the Fairburn City Council. Council members approved plans for an indoor soccer complex on Oakley Industrial Boulevard and a small animal hospital on Hwy. 74 near the Fayette County line.

Sometimes there is just more to the story. Such was the case recently in Fairburn when investigations by city police related to reports of an armed robbery and a home invasion led to the arrest of the men reporting the crimes.

Union City council members March 21 approved a measure allowing the city to apply for a $100,000 federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grant to purchase property for a city park.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between March 8 and March 14:

Corey Robinson, 20, Fairburn, criminal trespass

The Tyrone Planning Commission March 30 voted to recommend an amendment to the Table of Uses in the town’s zoning ordinance that would allow the establishment of a youth center within the M-2 zoning category. The center would be located in donated space in Shamrock Industrial Park.

The aftermath of a wreck on Ga. Highway 74 in Tyrone left the highway blocked for about five hours Monday afternoon.

A car crashed into support poles for traffic lights at the intersection of Hwy. 74 and Dogwood Trail, sending the lights’ poles crashing down across the highway, said Tyrone Police Chief Johnny Hay. This is the second time this has happened in two months at Dogwood and Hwy. 74.

A Griffin man has been charged with murder in the Sept. 30 slaying of Senoia business owner Ken Crook, found dead of a gunshot wound in his home. Fifty year-old Richard Nelson Brown was arrested in Spalding County Wednesday and is currently in custody in Coweta County.

When it comes to providing current firefighting service to Peachtree City residents, the option of incrementally adding several firefighters per shift seems to outweigh the possibility of adding a fifth station and relocating northside Station 84.

The Peachtree City Council plans to schedule a workshop with the Fayette County Commission to try and resolve a complicated issue involving property taxes and the county’s Emergency Medical Service.

The Peachtree City Recreation Department will soon be offering after-school programming for middle school age students at the Glenloch recreation center.

The Flint River Regional Library System will likely rescind its earlier decree to opt out of a contract to provide library services to Fayette County, according to Peachtree City officials.

Peachtree City staff will be compiling more detailed information on how the mayor and council salaries match up with other cities of similar size.

Peachtree CIty officials may relocate the youth football and cheerleading programs currently at Riley Field because of noise complaints from nearby residents.

State transportation officials have informed a local cycling activist that a four-foot bike lane will be part of the project to widen the southern leg of Ga. Highway 74 in Fayette County to four lanes.

This Memorial Day promises to be one for the ages in Senoia.

Last week, the City Council approved a controversial proposal to fund $7,500 for a fireworks celebration during the Memorial Day weekend.

The Coweta County School System’s transportation system received a clean bill of health, after a weeklong annual inspection by the Georgia Department of Public Safety.

State Senator Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) has announced the appropriation of over $10 million in state funding that will benefit Coweta County. The funds were approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee as part of the Fiscal Year 2007 state budget.

The McIntosh varsity girls basketball program will have a new coach when the 2006-2007 season begins.

David Dowse, formerly the head coach for Grayson High School's varsity girls basketball team, has been hired by McIntosh High School. Dowse, who compiled a 59-52 record and four state tournament appearances in his four years as head coach of the Lady Rams, resigned from his coaching and teaching duties at Grayson High on Wednesday.

The Georgia Department of Transportation plans to let bids in May for the first phase of widening Ga. Highway 74 in Peachtree City to six lanes.

Stephanie Romine and her date Samson Horne get an up-close view of aquatic life at the Georgia Aquarium, which hosted Sandy Creek High School’s prom Saturday night.

Extending the law enforcement presence in Peachtree City in the way that best serves citizens means staffing and equipping a fifth police zone, according to Chief James Murray. That will take hiring eight new officers, the chief said.

Several sheriff’s detectives credit high-in-the-sky technology for saving their lives early Saturday morning as they combed through thick underbrush looking for an armed suspect who put up a fight with Tyrone policemen minutes before.

A Clayton County youth minister was convicted Monday afternoon of using an online chat room to arrange a sexual encounter with a girl he thought was 15 years old.

It was a one-hour stop March 24 for U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson at Cooper Lighting in Peachtree City. But Isakson and the two dozen Fayette County residents and business representatives on hand made good use of the time, covering topics that included Iraq, immigration and border security, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and global job outsourcing.

Luke Nagy and Connor Childers, students at Braelinn Elementary, also members of Boy Scout Pack 409, recently spent two afternoons after school, cleaning up the trash around the Braelinn Elementary school track.