Union City Mayor Ralph Moore is slated to give his State of the City address at the Jan. 17 City Council meeting. Also on the agenda will be a number of items customarily addressed at the first session of the year.

Green Oil Company employees Felicia Stovall, Donna Nichols and Beza Duressa display a $15,200 check presented recently to the Empty Stocking Fund.

New planning commissioners OKd in 3-2 vote

Tyrone now has a full slate for its Planning Commission, but only by the narrowest of margins.

These lazy hazy days of winter may be coming to an end for a while.

Retired biologist Dennis Chase put the town of Tyrone on an environmental warning last week.

“You should be setting an example instead of just trying to get by,” he told the Town Council during its meeting Jan. 5.

These lazy hazy days of winter may be coming to an end for awhile.

Would occur every five years under staff proposal

Peachtree City residents may soon be required to register their golf carts every five years.

Four Peachtree City teens who participated in an armed robbery on the golf cart path near Blue Smoke Park just before Christmas are “not at school” according to a schools spokesperson.

A north Georgia man was arrested yesterday by Peachtree City Police in an ongoing sting targeting Internet child predators, police said.

Peachtree City resident Phil Jones wants the city to get cracking and landscaping the median on the southern end of MacDuff Parkway.

Developers seeking to annex property into Peachtree City’s corporate limits will have a ticking clock if they get a first-round approval from the City Council.

Peachtree City’s Water and Sewer Authority saved money on a recently-completed sewer rehabilitation project.

The final cost came $12,100 under budget, necessitating a change order outlining various credits for parts of construction that were budgeted but never needed.

Pathway Communities wants city permission to pre-clear three commercial lots on a six-plus acre tract on the north end of Commerce Drive.

The J.C. Booth Middle School band program had very good results at the first-round auditions for Middle School All-State band this year. The students auditioned on a statewide basis and were judged on merit against all other applicants from across the state. The students who passed their first-round auditions are Diana Massengale, Katie Atkinson, Brandon Smith, Tim Thornburg, Rebekah Anders, Zenia Zheng, Sarah Manley, Matthew Niebes, David Wonderley and Lloyd Anders.

When all is said and done, more than 2,500 students will be changing schools next fall.

The Coweta County Board of Education unanimously approved new boundary maps Tuesday for nearly all the county’s elementary and middle school students. But the board did decide a week to set boundaries for Ruth Hill, Western, Thomas Crossroads and Willis Road elementary schools after hearing more information from parents in the school districts.

Empty-nesters and active seniors will now have a place to call home in Senoia.

It had the feeling of an old-fashioned church revival.

Senoia’s new library will either be downtown or in the city’s park.

That was the verdict rendered Monday night during the City Council meeting as city administrator Richard Ferry outlined the city’s options.

The Sharpsburg Baptist Church will be honoring its minister, the Rev. Dr. Watson E. Mills, on his 25-year tenure with the church.

The Peachtree City Dog Park Association will meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18 at the city recreation building off McIntosh Trail.

Andy Petty thought he was doing the right thing by allowing administrators at Fayette County High School to search his car in late October.

Four Peachtree City teens were found delinquent in juvenile proceedings last week stemming from the planned armed robbery of another child on the golf cart path near Blue Smoke park Dec. 22, officials said.

It’s going to be a busy night Thursday as the Fayette County Commission considers more than 750 acres for rezoning to build more than 200 homes.

Another candidate wants to represent the citizens of Fayette County.

Wendy Felton, 44, qualified early Tuesday morning for the County Commission special election.

Roughly 20 residents of the Lexington Park subdivision appeared at Thursday night’s Peachtree City Council meeting to oppose plans for a package store right next to their neighborhood.

A move is afoot to make the Peachtree City Tourism Association a fully-volunteer board.

Currently, the city manager and a city council member hold positions on the five-member board. But Councilwoman Judi-ann Rutherford said she’d prefer the association not have such direct political ties. Instead, she suggested the city manager and city finance director could serve on the association’s finance committee, which would allow council to keep an eye on the group’s finances.

It had the feeling of an old-fashioned church revival.

Practically all the previous neighborhood opposition to the Grove Park residential development on Ga. Highway 314 had evaporated by the time the issue got to Fayetteville City Council members Jan. 5. The occasion was the first reading of the proposed development.

Sun City is planning to build a retirement community in Spalding County, but is still pursuing building a community in Fayette County.

Local law enforcement officers responded to the needs of Fayetteville citizens during the Christmas season by raising $6,600 for the Shop with a Cop and grocery gift card programs.