The McIntosh Chiefs are quickly becoming the sleeper team to look out for in Region 2-AAAA.

McIntosh took advantage of its huge size advantage and depth to win its third consecutive game Friday, 62-31 over region rival Starr’s Mill in front of a jam-packed crowd at the Panther Pit in Fayetteville.

Mike and Kevin talk about the recent basketball scores and what lies ahead for area teams.

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Spc. Jonathan Colton of Peachtree City, a mortarman in Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, seeks cover and pulls security following a sniper attack at a pump station outside Kassipa, a village near Salman Pak.

Rebuffed more than two years ago from its initial plan to build in Peachtree City, Walgreens is looking at relocating to another parcel at the intersection of Ga. Highway 54 at Peachtree Parkway.

Planners to vote on retail for 54 West, 74 South

Four significant development plans will be up for a vote at Monday night’s meeting of the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

Coweta County School system spokesperson Dean Jackson confirmed this week that the system is down to missing just under 100 residency affidavits for its students.

Wednesday night, John Wieland Homes showed off its latest design schematic for an 89-acre site off Ga. Highway 74 at south Kedron Drive ... and an additional 66 acres to the north that extends up to the future location of MacDuff Parkway.

No legal papers have been served to Coweta County over the issue of the County Commission chairman...yet.

Public Information Officer Patricia Palmer confirmed this week the dispute between Commissioner Leigh Schlumper and the rest of the County Commission remains at a standstill after nearly three weeks of debate and discussion.

Answers will shape future recreation plans

Residents are being asked to fill out a new recreation survey to help shape the city’s 2007-2011 recreation master plan.

In 2006 alone 1,400 dogs, puppies, cats and kittens were euthanized at the Coweta County Animal Control Facility.

Euthanasia occurs there up to three times a week if they run out of room for these homeless pets.

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Representatives of Honor Flight Fayette made a presentation to the Peachtree City Council last week seeking promotional and financial support for the program.

Honor Flight will send local veterans of World War II on a free day-long trip via airplane to Washington, D.C. to visit the WWII memorial. The trip will be free of charge, and each veteran must have a “guardian” attend with them, who must pay their own way at a cost of $300.

The Peachtree City Building Department recently announced its annual builders awards winners for 2007.

Ravin Homes won the best industrial site award for the renovation of the Anderson 2000 building on Dividend Drive that now is home to Comcast. The project was redesigned inside and out.

For the second year in a row, Bank of North Georgia (formerly Peachtree National Bank) topped the list of conservation business donors to Southern Conservation Trust, a nonprofit land trust based in Fayette County. World Gym of Peachtree City was also a major donor supporting greenspace preservation in 2007.

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Fire was accidental; neighbors pitch in to help couple

A Tyrone woman escaped injury Tuesday afternoon when a fire started in her garage and eventually damaged the entire structure, officials said.

Mike and Kevin talk about the weekend basketball results.

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Layla Chreiteh, Adam Chreiteh, Matthew Smith, Zack Chreiteh and Calin Smith, all from Peachtree City, display their frozen art, a six-and-a-half-foot-tall snowman after Saturday’s snowfall around the county.

At Monday night’s NAACP forum on gang activity in Fayette County, not everyone was pleased with the get-tough attitude local officials are placing on gang activity.

It was a community forum sponsored by the Fayette County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) about how to deal with a reported increase in gang activity in Fayette.

Less than a month into its tenure, the new Tyrone town government is already doing things a little differently.

Town Clerk Valerie Caldwell confirmed Tuesday the Town Council will hold a special meeting this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Tim Lydell and Paul Van’t Hof are hoping to convince their fellow Peachtree City residents that the City Council should abandon Line Creek Drive and Line Creek Circle to make room for a “better” shopping center off Ga. Highway 54 West, next to Planterra Way.

Fayetteville City Council Jan. 17 approved a small increase in garbage pickup rates at the request of city contractor Waste Management.

The Fayette County School System has embarked on reworking its five-year facility plan that could ultimately lead to discovering the fate of East Fayette Elementary School.

Relief may soon be on the way for some very thirsty baseball and soccer fields in Peachtree City.

A proposal to irrigate those fields with treated sewage was approved unanimously by the City Council Thursday night. The fields at the city’s Baseball and Soccer Complex on Ga. Highway 74 South have remained dry since the state’s outdoor watering ban was enacted, but reclaimed wastewater is still allowed to be used for irrigation purposes.

State Rep. Matt Ramsey, R-Peachtree City, said last week that he supports a bill that forbids registered sex offenders from living, working or volunteering near any child care facility, church, school or other area where minors congregate.

The Fayetteville Police Department will host its second Citizens Police Academy and is currently seeking applicants for the free classes, which begin March 18.

Friends of Fayette County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Pruitt are inviting the public to help support him at a fund-raising breakfast Saturday in Woolsey.