It was a far cry from a polarized group of seven candidates squaring off and battling through the issues. Instead, responses Monday night by candidates for mayor and two council seats in Tyrone were often in sync with each other.

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Tuesday's meeting of the elementary school redistricting committee has been postponed.

Assistant School Superintendent Sam Sweat told the Fayette County Board of Education that there was not enough time between last Thursday's meeting and Tuesday for consultant Kelley Carey to prepare new figures for the committee.

Starr’s Mill students and members of the Panther varsity football team Blake Debartola and Corey Coleman decided to have an eating contest between friends and hundreds of students showed up.

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Hector Leon of the American Red Cross prepares Sheilah Doyal of Tyrone to have her blood drawn Wednesday. The blood drive at Tyrone Christian Church will be repeated Wednesday, Dec. 5, which leaves enough time for those who donated this week to come back and donate again. Photo/John Munford.

It is being billed as the first of its kind in the world. And it is coming to south Fulton County. A sweeping project sponsored by the Africa Heritage Foundation, Inc. will feature a variety of economic, educational and nation-specific venues across portions south Fulton. The five-year project beginning in fall 2009 will contain multiple sites and venues constructed at a cost of $4-10 billion and provide a minimum of 10,000 jobs.

Fairburn City Council’s Aug. 27 denial of a request by Walker Brothers to establish a waste transfer station for construction debris and household trash on Bohannon Road is about to land the city in court. Walker filed a lawsuit Sept. 11 in Fulton County Superior Court, insisting that the site plan should have been approved because the property was already zoned for that use, according to city administrator Jim Williams at the council’s Oct. 8 meeting.

Reports last week of the significant presence of mold and the illness-causing fungus Scopulariopsis at the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Atlanta Center in Hampton led to a work stoppage by Peachtree Mechanical, Inc., the Fayetteville firm contracted to work on the center’s ventilation system. A majority of the hundreds of air traffic controllers and other employees at the facility have experienced unexplained illnesses they now believe is linked to exposure to Scopulariopsis, found in late September by an environmental contractor working at the site.

It was an informative update for nearly 100 residents of Chattahoochee Hill Country Oct. 9 as board members of Chattahoochee Hill Country Alliance provided a look at the organization’s multi-faceted activities on behalf of the community at the group’s annual meeting.

Fairburn Police are looking for an armed robber that held up the Citgo convenience store at Ga. Highway 74 and Milam Road Oct. 9.

Mike and Kevin discuss the continuing winning streaks of Fayette County, Whitewater and Landmark, while also discussing Sandy Creek’s win over Central, Carroll and Our Lady of Mercy’s loss to Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy.

Fayette County - 28 Creekside -0

Whitewater - 27 McIntosh - 0

Landmark Christian - 31 Whitefield Academy - 13

They just had to do it in Fayette County. The insistence of two Riverdale men that the sale of 20 pounds of marijuana Thursday be done in Fayetteville rather than Pike County went completely south.

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UPDATE: Scarborough plans to bring in builder that specializes in age category; city hasn't seen building elevations, amenities yet

Levitt and Sons has abandoned its plans to build a 650-unit senior subdivision on a 403-acre tract that was annexed in May by the Peachtree City Council.

At Thursday night's comprehensive plan meeting, city officials said that property owner Brent Scarborough has submitted the same plan for the subdivision that Levitt had proposed. However it is not yet known what amenities that Scarborough will provide; Levitt had proposed a robust package including a 39,000 sq. ft. community center with a theatre and educational kitchen.

The city is in the process of reviewing Scarborough's plans, which were submitted Wednesday.

Talks about extending Peachtree City’s sewer service into Tyrone have been broken off, City Council candidate and Post 1 incumbent Mike Harman said at the Rotary Candidate Forum Tuesday night.

Audience members at Tuesday night’s candidate forum sponsored by the Peachtree City Rotary Club heard many similar answers by candidates on a variety of hot-button issues facing the city.

Expect traffic for airshow

Peachtree City will get visitors from all over the metro area and parts beyond this weekend for the Great Georgia Airshow at Falcon Field.

Event at McIntosh H.S. hosted by civic association

If you missed the Rotary forum for Peachtree City Council candidates Tuesday night, you’ll get another chance to see them live in person.

Will take three months to fix dam, upgrade area

Construction is about to begin on repairs to Huddleston Pond that will allow it to return to its full level again.

Shock waves went throughout the small town of Senoia this week after a Senoia police officer was arrested early Wednesday morning. Charles Patrick Morgan, 40, was charged with three counts of robbery and one count of violation of oath by a public officer. The arrest followed a joint investigation by the GBI, Coweta County Sheriff’s Department and Senoia Police Department.

American Revolutionary Patriot Allen Gay will be honored with a Musket Firing and Full Color Guard on October 13 at 4 p.m. at the Macedonia Baptist Church, in Newnan. An SAR grave marker and a new military grave marker will be dedicated by descendants of Allen Gay, as well as members of the Georgia State Society Sons of the American Revolution Color Guard, Marquis de Lafayette Chapter Sons of the American Revolution, and General Daniel Newnan Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Boy Scout Troop 144 sponsored by Macedonia Baptist Church, Macedonia Church members, as well as other SAR, DAR and CAR (Children of the American Revolution) Chapters. The community is invited.

Coweta County’s newest elementary school could open for the 2009-2010 school year.

School spokesperson Dean jackson said the system is working on getting preliminary drawings to the state easily next year for a school at the intersection of Jim Starr Road and Tommy Lee Cook Road. The school system recently purchased a 30-acre tract, just behind the fire station at the busy intersection.

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizen.com

Audience members at Tuesday night’s candidate forum sponsored by the Peachtree City Rotary Club heard many similar answers by candidates on a variety of hot-button issues facing the city.

Influenza season is beginning and Fayette Senior Services is ready. In collaboration with the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), Fayette Senior Services is offering flu shots at its 8th annual Health and Wellness Fair November 1, at New Hope Baptist Church in Fayetteville from 9 a.m. to Noon. Flu shots are free for Medicare Part B participants and $25 for all other individuals. Pneumonia shots will also be available.

daily citizen 10-11 by Michael Boylan