Three students brought home the gold and silver at the 2006 Literacy Days Festival sponsored by the Griffin Regional Educational Service Agency.

Weather radios provide advance warning

Moments before severe weather strikes, some Fayette County residents will hear an alert from the county’s storm siren system.

Gov. Sonny Perdue announced last week more online services available to Georgia drivers from the Georgia Department of Driver Services. Georgia citizens can now obtain a copy of their personal driving history and request a replacement for a lost license through the agency’s Web site (www.dds.ga.gov).

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past week:

Peachtree City Police Department

A community meeting on transportation issues, particularly several in north Fayette County, will be held Monday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at Liberty Baptist Church.

No one was injured when a Tyrone family’s home caught fire late Monday morning in the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park off Senoia Road.

True to his word, state Sen. Kasim Reed has introduced two bills in the Georgia General Assembly that may well change the future of South Fulton County.

State Sen. Kasim Reed continued his whirlwind tour of locales around South Fulton County earlier this week, conducting town hall meetings designed to inform residents on the move to consider incorporating South Fulton into the cities of South Fulton and Chattahoochee Hills and to answer questions on the measure.

Fairburn council members Feb. 13 voted to annex and zone property on both sides of I-85. A 101.6-acre tract along I-85 between Bohannon Road and City Lake was cited for possible use as an office park with accompanying retail while a 1.2-acre tract at Ga. Highway 74 and Oakley Industrial Boulevard is currently being developed for retail.

It is an extravaganza by any measure. The Anniversary Gala and Banquet to celebrate Christian City’s 40th year, held Feb. 11 at the Airport Hilton, is the site of hundreds of guests enjoying an evening full of 1940s-style music, dancing and memories.

Fairburn council members decided Feb. 13 to split the city’s sanitation service between two providers.

CLM Sanitation will provide residential service while Advanced Waste Disposal will serve commercial customers. Cost-saving measures to customers was cited as the reason for the decisions.

Congratulations to the Bear Creek Middle School students whose projects won at the Fulton County Social Studies Fair. The winners included:

Now that the town's new library has a site, the Town of Tyrone is getting serious about cleaning up Shamrock Park.

Town Manager Barry Amos briefed the Town Council Thursday night on possible revisions to the town's master plan. Originally, the library, along with a new municipal complex was slated to be built in Shamrock Park. But Amos said residents objected to the idea and said they wanted the park to remain a park. Amos then suggested the town hire Jerry Petersen to re-work the city's plan for the area and detail what could take place in the park.

Emotions ran high Thursday night as a community leader clashed with Tyrone officials over his plan for a teen youth center.

The Legacy Theatre is moving locations before the ground was even broken on the previous location. Instead of being located on Senoia Road toward Peachtree City, the theatre will now be located on the end of Carriage Oaks Lane, close to Chaps on Ga. Highway 74. Both owner Bethany Smith and the town of Tyrone are very pleased with the new location.

By next fall, Sandy Creek High School will be able to hold track meets on campus.

As parts of its special projects list, the Fayette County Board of Education approved $300,000 Monday night to build an eight-lane rubberized track at the high school on Jenkins Road. Directory of Facility Services Mike Satterfield told the board the school currently has a six-lane asphalt track that’s fine for practice, but don’t meet standards for staging track meets at the school.

Longtime Peachtree City defense attorney Joe Saia has been named the Chief Public Defender of the Griffin Judicial Circuit, which includes Fayette County.

Peachtree City is about to dramatically revamp its “big box” regulations so they can better withstand a legal challenge in court.

A downtown Fayetteville business was heavily damaged by fire Thursday morning.

The design of a proposed package store has a number of residents in Peachtree City’s Lexington Park subdivision concerned.

What began in November as a field of 40 applicants for Fayetteville police chief led to the Feb. 10 hire of veteran Valdosta Police Major Steve Heaton.

Braelinn Elementary School had an academic fair this week for all of the students to participate in.

A Peachtree City man is recovering from a beating he received after confronting two men in a late-night altercation at the Starbucks in The Avenue shopping center three weeks ago.

A police stakeout at a local industrial building netted the arrest of two suspects for burglary and related charges early Sunday morning.

All interested parents are invited to attend a seminar on Internet safety for children at the Starr’s Mill High School auditorium Monday, March 6, from 7-9 p.m.

For more than 100 years, a member of the Hutchinson family has sold hardware in Senoia. But come March, the familiar blue building at the corner of Main and Seavy Street will be closed.

With no fanfare and almost no public notice, the Fayette County School System is undergoing a demographic sea change.

State Sen. Mitch Seabaugh (front left) hosted 20 students from the 28th Senate District at the Capitol Feb.

Dana Ballou is the new principal of Northside Elementary School, beginning immediately, and retiring East Coweta High School Principal Kirk Stallings will be succeeded next year by East Coweta Middle School Principal Derek Pitts.

Arbor Springs Elementary School’s newsroom will soon have new equipment to work with, thanks to electronics retailer Best Buy.