A developer of subdivisions aimed at the “active adult” lifestyle has set its sights on Peachtree City’s unofficial West Village, officials said Monday. Mayor Harold Logsdon says he favors that annexation plus all the rest of the “West Village” now outside the city limits.

By JOHN MUNFORD
and JOHN THOMPSON

A dormant proposal to link homes in Senoia to Peachtree City’s sewage treatment system has been resurrected. This time, with a new mayor and two new council members in the driver’s seat, the deal may go through.

Newnan resident Markino Byrd is arrested (above, R) for drug possession March 2 by Fayette County Sheriff’s Department Drug Task Force in front of the Peachtree City Home Depot.

The Fayette County Commission decided to break with the past last week as the board approved 24 new positions for the upcoming year.

County officials are clashing again with the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, this time over the sheriff’s cell phone bills.

Five queens display their new crowns at the 38th Annual Miss Pride Pageant Saturday at Sams Auditorium in Fayetteville.

Fayetteville Planning and Zoning commissioners said no Feb. 28 to a portion of a rezoning request that would locate a mixed use medical office and residential development near the southeast corner of Ga. Highway 54 and Burch Road.

Back to back busts in Fayetteville March 1 and in Peachtree City March 2 netted four arrests and charges for intent to distribute marijuana, crack cocaine and Ecstasy. A third bust March 6 in Fayetteville resulted in the arrest of three men on marijuana charges.

No gas. No gambling. That was the situation Friday night when the Phillips 66 Pit Stop at 630 N. Glynn St. in Fayetteville was shut down for illegal cash pay-outs on video poker.

In its years of service to residents throughout Fayette County, Promise Place has made a difference in the lives of victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Continuing that expanding mission led Promise Place Director Sonja Strickland to ask Fayetteville City Council March 2 for funding assistance when council members begin planning expenditures for the upcoming fiscal year. Though no promises for funding were made, council members seemed receptive to the request.

An increase in flu activity during the past two weeks is normal for this time of year according to officials with the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health. After a relatively calm start to the 2005-2006 flu season, health officials say an increase in reports of influenza-like illness and positive lab reports in several regions indicate more typical widespread flu activity.

The Fayette Democratic Women will host their March breakfast meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Du-Roc Café in Fayetteville. State Senator Valencia Seay (D-34), State Representative Roberta Abdul-Salaam (D-74), and Dana L. Lemon (member, State Transportation Board) will address the group on a variety of state and local issues.

The McIntosh High School Science Olympiad team won first place overall with gold medals in five events in the Georgia Science Olympiad regional competition at Macon State College. The team won a total of 34 medals and earned a position in the state competition March 25 at Emory University.

Are you worried about how much worse local and regional traffic is going to become as time goes by?

If so, you should attend a meeting hosted by the Atlanta Regional Commission Thursday, March 9, to inform citizens how to help plan improvements in land use, traffic, transit and other mobility challenges. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Fayette County Library.

The annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the Peachtree City Optimist Club and the Peachtree City Fire Department, has moved to Picnic Park behind the library and city hall.

Three 16-year-old drivers have been charged with racing and reckless driving stemming from a violent auto crash Aug. 30, police said.

The growth of development south of I-85 in Fairburn is obvious. Anticipating the water needs that will accompany future growth was the impetus Feb. 27 for the City Council’s approval of a study to generate a water system hydraulic model of the area.

It is more than a business. It is more than a family fitness center. It is a community. For Workout Anytime Family Fitness Center owner Daniel Bryant, it is a dream come true.

A decision Feb. 21 by Union City council members created an outside work program for minimum custody inmates at South Fulton Municipal Regional Jail.

Fairburn council members Feb. 27 approved a contract to upgrade the old Fireside Wastewater Pump Station using funds from the sewer bond account. The $303,243 low bid was awarded to Newnan-based Ronny D. Jones Enterprises.

Union City Council Feb. 21 approved a Pay and Classification Study designed to help recruit and retain city employees. The study will be conducted by Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC).

Students at West Elementary School recently participated in the Million Minute Reading Challenge. The school accomplished their goal this month. Photo/Special.

Students at Tyrone Elementary School got a surprise on Wednesday when Keith Brooking, a linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons and a graduate of East Coweta High School and Georgia Tech, addressed all of the students in a morning assembly.

Fayette County Sheriff’s Drug Task Force members seized the remnants of a methamphetamine lab Friday night at a vacant house on Sims Road near Dogwood Trail after the owner found that the house had been entered.

Peachtree City’s Big Box ban is gone.

In it's place are new regulations allowing the City Council to turn down any any store larger than 32,000 sq. ft. or any development with stores combining 150,000 sq. ft. or more.

Still lowest in metro Atlanta

Fayette County had the highest median household income in the 10-county metro Atlanta area in 2003, up 1.3 percent from 2000. With statistics like that, Fayette enjoys a reputation in the area as the home of corporate executives and other well-salaried employees.

Police: Vehicles may have been racing

Police are getting closer to filing charges stemming from a particularly violent crash on Peachtree Parkway Aug. 30 involving several local teens.

Fayette County fire officials are investigating a fire Wednesday afternoon that caused significant damage to a home on the county's north side.

Work continues on the third phase of the Kedron Village shopping center, anchored by a Target store.

Church offering to host seniors at planned community center

Peachtree City First Baptist Church is planning to build a community center, and who would’ve thought such a thing would be controversial?