A daytime burglary Oct. 28 at a Foxford Run residence in Tyrone resulted in the theft of a large flat screen television and a laptop computer. Police advise residents to be aware of their surroundings and report unusual activity in neighborhoods.

The Peachtree City Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss possibilities relating to the future of the tennis center.

The Sandy Creek Lady Patriots varsity volleyball team has made the AAAA final.
Sandy Creek faced Whitewater’s Lady Wildcats in the state semi-final and their best 3 out of 5 match went the distance.

Former Rising Starr Middle School teacher and Senoia resident Craig Bowen was convicted Oct. 28 in Coweta Superior Court on four counts of child molestation. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 5 years probation.

The new look of Coweta County’s historic courthouse is underway. Visible now from the street is an unobstructed view of the courthouse, now in its rehabilitation phase, with the removal of the old water oak trees and one magnolia. The last of the 100 year-old oaks was removed Wednesday.

Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority (CCWSA) and Coweta County filed suit against Shell Oil Company Oct. 23 for $25 million and damages over faulty water pipes that have cost the county millions to repair. The suit alleges breach of contract, negligence, product liability, fraud and violations of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act over the misrepresentation, marketing and sale of Blu-Max pipe, which uses a polybutylene resin manufactured by Shell.

One arrest has been made and others are pending in an Oct. 27 home invasion in Sharpsburg where a couple was pistol whipped and one of their vehicles stolen.

The intersection of Raymond Hill Road and Fischer Rd will be closed November 1 and 2. The planned closing last weekend could not be accomplished due to inclement weather.

Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine is urging Georgians to change the batteries in their smoke alarms at the same time they change their clocks back to standard time this weekend.

Twenty-two citizens of Coweta County have begun a seven-month course of study as part of Leadership Coweta, a community leadership development program offered by the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce.

The Georgia State Patrol is cautioning drivers to be prepared as they travel this coming Friday. Traffic is expected to be heavier than normal this Halloween with additional motorists traveling the state’s roads for the weekend.

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

Regional law enforcement officials announced today the seizure of $22 million in cash and 41 people indicted in an investigation of a drug cartel that was caught twice transporting drugs and cash through Georgia.

Officer Keith Issac of the Peachtree City Police Department checks a motorist’s license at one of several roadblock locations Friday night. The program was aimed at arresting impaired drivers as part of a special enforcement campaign over the Halloween holiday. Photo/John Munford.

One of Peachtree City’s oldest industrial tenants is poised for a major growth spurt.

Gov. Sonny Perdue and NCR Corporation Senior Vice President Christine Wallace announced Tuesday that NCR, a Fortune 500 technology company, will establish a global Center of Excellence in Georgia, co-locating several key components of its Worldwide Customer Service operations and creating 916 new jobs in the next 26 months.

Schools, law officers battle about 8 gangs now operating here

Gang expert Wally Marchant, noting that gangs are prevalent in Clayton and south Fulton counties, summed up Fayette County’s problem in a seminar of local officials Friday afternoon:

The latest plan for a shopping center at the corner of Planterra Way and Ga. Highway 54 is a little bit smaller.

One of the proposed tenants, a sporting goods retailer, has backed out of its previous commitment, so the plan has been tweaked a little to compensate. The net result is the shopping center has been trimmed from 175,000 square feet to about 165,000 square feet, said Doug McMurrain of Capital City Development.

Wally Marchant has made gang investigations his life’s work.

So at a seminar Friday in Fayette County, local officials were all ears when he spoke about how to recognize the signs of gang activity.

Special to The Citizen

After more than three decades of service to Fayette County, Sheriff Randall Johnson will officially retire at the end of this year. Sheriff Johnson’s distinguished career will be recognized with a public celebration in his honor on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Kiwanis Fair Complex, 939 Goza Rd. in Fayetteville.

A lot of Fayette residents decided not to wait until next Tuesday to go to the polls. A whopping 36 percent of the county’s eligible voters had cast their ballots by noon Tuesday.

Special to The Citizen

The portion of Ga. Highway 314 from the Fulton County line to its junction with Ga. Highway 85 in Fayetteville has been designated the “General William Livsey Highway” in honor of the four-star general who has resided in Fayetteville since his retirement from active duty in 1987.

Some Fayette County employees in all county departments will be able to swipe their way toward minor purchases instead of filling out tedious purchase orders.

With incomplete information from John Wieland Homes, the Peachtree City Planning Commission voted Monday night to postpone a vote on a proposed residential rezoning.

Victim robbed at PTC Kedron Wachovia while making night deposit

Two men suspected of robbing a local store employee making a night deposit at the Kedron Wachovia Saturday night were arrested soon after by police in College Park, police said Monday afternoon.

Our Lady of Mercy’s Bobcats opened up their game against Mt. Pisgah last Friday with a 7-6 lead at the end of the first quarter, but turnovers (three in all) would doom the team to another region loss as Mt. Pisgah left Fairburn with a 44-14 win.

Voter turnout in Fayette County is impressive, with approximately 34 percent of the county’s eligible voters having cast their ballots by 1:20 p.m. Monday.

OLM’s boys placed third in the Class A-AA division of the Last Chance Invitational at Carrollton on Saturday.

The top five runners for the boys were:

Sandy Creek made the AAAA final four on Thursday and then waited all weekend to see who they would be seeing there. It turns out, they will meet some familiar faces in the state semifinals.

By Nick Bray
Special to The Citizen

The Viking football team has clinched at least a third place finish in side A of the Region 5. This means Northgate now has a legitimate chance at making the state playoffs.

By Jen Johnson
Special to The Citizen

Tension. Such a simple word could be used to describe the atmosphere as inter-county rivals, Fayette County High and Whitewater High, battled each other last Friday night