The Georgia Supreme Court has overturned a Fayette judge’s divorce ruling that a gay father be forbidden from having visitation with his children in the company of gay or lesbian friends.

A lively group of former Fayette County High School graduates met for a combined reunion and birthday lunch for classmate Weyman Newton Monday at the Broadway Diner in Fayetteville.

What makes the group special is that they graduated in 1936.

The tentative FY 2010 Fayette County School System budget of $185.5 million was approved Monday night on a 3-2 vote.

Board members Lee Wright, Janet Smola and Terri Smith voted in favor of the budget.

The same company that operates Canongate golf clubs may soon be operating the Peachtree City Tennis Center.

A proposal to remove the tennis center from the city’s tourism association and place it in Canongate’s hands is expected to be voted on Thursday night by the Peachtree City Council.

Despite some apprehension from several Fayette County Commissioners, the conceptual alignment for the second phase of the West Fayetteville Bypass was approved unanimously Oct. 11.

Lake McIntosh, a new reservoir long planned for the Fayette County Water System, may go out to bid within two months.

Budget time is just around the corner in Fayetteville. The proposed general fund budget for fiscal year 2010 beginning Aug. 1 totals $10,056,727, a 2.67 percent decrease from last year’s budget of $10.325 million.

Lunches at Fayette County public schools will increase by 5 cents beginning in August. Prices on reduced-price meals and breakfasts will remain unchanged.

The Fayette County Board of Education last week adopted a resolution that provides for the public offering of the school system’s 1999 bond for which nearly $25 million is owed. The action was required prior to the June 11 county commission meeting. The decision to go public came after the banks that had been approached had strings attached to their refinancing proposals.

Twenty-three-year-old Fayetteville resident Randy Dale Hubbard was charged with aggravated assault and criminal damage to property June 13 in a road rage incident at Gingercake Road and Hood Avenue.

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past week. all persons are considered innocent until proven guilty:

In addition to being asked to resign by a fellow Fayette County commissioner, Robert Horgan now has had an official ethics complaint filed against him following his May 23 arrest for misdemeanor possession of marijuana and driving with an expired tag.

A 10-year-old Fayette County boy died early Sunday morning after he was shot in the head the day before by his 12-year-old brother, sheriff’s deputies said.

10 of 80 lots in question due to FAA guidelines forbidding construction near Falcon Field

On a split 3-2 vote, the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night narrowly approved a recommendation to rezone a 37-acre site in the city’s industrial park for an 80-home subdivision that would have views of Lake McIntosh along with planes buzzing overhead due to the adjacent Falcon Field airport.

Fayette County residents can go back to their regular odd-even outdoor watering ways now that all drought watering restrictions have been lifted for Georgia.

Local campus about to graduate first MBA students

Thursday was a day to celebrate a dream in Peachtree City: one that keeps growing and growing.

The upcoming relocation of NCR’s worldwide headquarters to Duluth is expected to bolster the company’s internal collaboration with the Peachtree City facility. The move from Dayton, Ohio will not result in any additions or deletions of jobs at the local NCR facility.

The community is banding together to raise funds for a McIntosh High School student who has been hospitalized since late April.

Peachtree City police are encouraging residents to stow valuables in their vehicles out of sight.

Owners of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles are particularly asked to use caution, as criminals are using a tool to “punch” the door locks to gain entry to the vehicle, police said. In some cases owners may not even realize items have been taken from their car, police added.

Northgate High School wrestling will be holding its 16th annual Caveman wrestling camp June 22 - 25 from 9 to 4:30 at Northgate High School, Newnan.

Critics complain road won't accomplish goal ... but will hurt environment

Despite some trepidation from several commissioners, the conceptual alignment for the second phase of the West Fayetteville Bypass was approved unanimously Thursday night.

Fayette County Commissioner Robert Horgan has been asked to resign by one of his fellow commissioners in the wake of his May 23 arrest for misdemeanor marijuana possession and driving with an expired tag.

In a letter provided to The Citizen this evening, commissioner Eric K. Maxwell (pictured at right) indicated that he has asked Horgan to resign. Maxwell noted that his conclusion is shared by an “overwhelming” amount of dozens of Fayette residents and a number of county commissioners from around the state.

Staff Sgt. John Beale of McDonough, who died in Afghanistan and was returned to his home soil this afternoon, got a hero's welcome from Fayette residents Thursday afternoon.

Hundreds of people, many waving American flags, lined the route. Sgt. Beale was escorted from Falcon Field in Peachtree City where his jet landed and through downtown Fayetteville on the way to McDonough.

Coweta County School Board Tuesday night unanimously adopted a $172 million general fund budget for the 2009-2010 school year.

The attempt to start up a charter school in Senoia is officially in the pipeline. The Coweta County School Board’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee will review the proposal and come back to the board with a recommendation, likely by the July meeting.

Senoia residents last week got the chance to make suggestions on what they would like to see in their city in the coming years. More than 100 of them filed into the Freeman Sasser Building to make those suggestions known at the meeting sponsored by the Downtown Development Authority (DDA).  Topping the list was pedestrian accessibility, increased food choices, an outdoor entertainment venue and the availability of a home improvement business.

Cows are a lot like people. They get into the habit of doing something a certain way, and that is what they do. Over and over and over, even if it does not always make sense. And that includes things like grazing. That is where a concept called “rotational grazing” comes in. That approach was the topic of a recent workshop, “Grazing for Profitability,” held near David Brown’s Longview Farm near Haralson.

For a growing group of Peachtree City residents and those around Fayette and Coweta counties, a lot has happened since the April 15 tea party held at City Hall. Peachtree City event organizer Cindy Fallon and others last month formed the non-profit Peachtree City Tea Party Patriots that last week had a mailing list that included nearly 1,300 names from Fayette, Coweta and across south metro Atlanta. The group will hold their next event July 4 at the Fredrick Brown Amphitheater in Peachtree City.

As county commission meetings go, the June 16 meeting of the Coweta County Commission will likely be memorable for many with a stake in the outcome of the attempt by Starship Adult Novelties & Gifts to open its doors at Thomas Crossroads.

Gov. Sonny Perdue announced last week that the required certification had been submitted for $39 million in transit projects around the state that will be paid through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus package. Coweta County’s portion is $20,800. The funding is being routed through Georgia Dept. of Transportation (DOT).