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$30 million purchase will bring new ballroom, refurbished guest rooms to former Pitney-Bowes Center

If you drove by the Aberdeen Woods Conference Center in Peachtree City this weekend, you may have noticed something different.

Donations are being sought again this year for the annual Santa’s Co-pilots Toy Drop at Falcon Field on Dec. 15.

Organizers’ goal is to completely fulfill the wish lists of the 15 or so less fortunate children they will help this year along with some extra goodies.

A Fayette attorney seeking to fill the unexpired term of Ga. State Rep. Dan Lakly has signed two heavy political hitters to his campaign.

Residents and visitors who want an early start on the holiday season should head to Senoia this weekend.

Merchants are staging an open house in downtown Senoia from 1-5 p.m. Sunday and one of the highlights of the events will be an appearance from the world-famous Clydesdale horses.

Mike and Kevin talk about the cross country season and the top runners from the area.

A new development planned near Interstate 85 could dramatically alter the landscape in eastern Coweta County.

Two Atlanta-based firms,Diplomat Companies and Kennedy Capital Group, LLC, announced this week they have entered into a joint venture partnership to build a one million square foot, $150 million multi-use development on a 125-acre tract in Coweta County.

For the second time in two weeks, Northgate Vikings lady athletes took a ‘Walk of Champions’ around the Northgate campus to bask in the glory of a state championship.

Piedmont Healthcare this week signed a purchase agreement to acquire property for the new Piedmont Newnan Hospital. The agreement included two pieces of property located on Poplar Road at the I-85 overpass. With 95 acres on the west and 114 acres on east, the two parcels of land are split by the Interstate.

A Fayetteville woman died Wednesday afternoon when her car crossed the center line into oncoming traffic and was struck by a dump truck, sheriff’s deputies said.

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Fayette School Board delays elementary school boundary line redrawing to December; East Fayette closing draws criticism from BoE’s Smola

Before a large crowd at McIntosh High School’s auditorium Monday night, the Fayette County Board of Education made its opinion quite clear on new boundaries for the system’s elementary schools.

Plea deal for Internet threats to shoot McIntosh students: Banned from school, no Internet or email use, 6 p.m. curfew after 30 days house arrest, but no extra jail time beyond 12 days

County may be approving guarantee to employees of up to 100% of full-time pay as retirement income

Fayette County’s bid to convert its employees retirement package to a defined benefits plan could come up for a vote by the end of the year.

Fayetteville City Council Nov. 15 will consider a resolution on the submission of a $100,000 Recreational Trails Program grant request for property south of Burch Road.

It was a winning weekend for Fayette County High’s debate and speech teams as they racked up awards at various tournaments.

Three high school musicians are making history as inaugural participants in the first-ever U.S. Army All-American Marching Band.

There was standing room only at the Juvenile Justice Awareness Forum held at the Fayette County Library on Saturday, Oct. 27. The forum was sponsored by the Fayette County NAACP Youth Council and well attended by over 150 youth, adults and guests. The opening welcomed was presented by Youth President, Maurice Jeffries II a senior at Sandy Creek. Biahnca Blood, a senior and chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee planned and moderated the forum. Other members who volunteered to assure the success of the forum were Darius Johnson, Jonathan Owens, Shataria Traylor and Allison Ragins and a host of other volunteers and teens from various organizations. Advance questions were orchestrated by our Youth Council members to assure their concerns were presented to the panelists and other teens in attendance asked countless questions about laws and their Rights.

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

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Department and the Fayetteville Police Department are squaring off in a softball game Saturday for a special cause.

The lights this Friday night will shine a little brighter as the GHSA state football playoffs begin.

Four local teams will take the field with thoughts of a state championship dancing in their heads and a long road ahead of all of them.

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After a workshop meeting that lasted past 10 p.m., the Fayette County Board of Education said there were too many questions that needed to be answered about the redistricting maps to stage a public forum Nov.26.

Developer still wants PTC to sell him 2 city streets for revised project

A retail developer still wants to buy part of two city streets near Planterra Ridge on Ga. Highway 54 on Peachtree City’s west side, but the company has abandoned plans for any “big box” stores, a company representative said Monday evening.

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The current high price of copper has made it a lucrative commodity. That is also the case for criminals, with burglaries and thefts of the now-precious metal at epidemic proportions across southwest metro Atlanta, across Georgia and America. And all too often, copper theft is directly linked to the use of methamphetamine. An arrest made by Fairburn Police Nov. 2 is a glowing example of the problem. A Palmetto man who admitted being “messed up” with methamphetamine and alcohol was charged with tearing apart more than $1 million in heavy construction equipment just to get the radiators and other copper parts. The man used a trackhoe to rip the front ends off the heavy equipment to gain access to the radiators.

Our Lady of Mercy’s boys cross country team captured their second consecutive state title on Saturday. Their top seven runners were:

Tuesday night was nothing if not astounding, as votes tallied across the four cities of southwest Fulton brought a plethora of results in the form of upsets, close calls and runoffs set for Dec. 4. In all, history was made and the Nov. 6 vote was one for the record books.

The winds of change blew strong in Tyrone Tuesday. The political polarization so often witnessed through 2007 paved the way for the election of Don Rehwaldt as the town’s mayor-elect. Also winning in the Nov. 6 contests were Post 1 candidate Tracy Young and, in a closer race, Post 2 candidate Eric Dial.