Local detective lauded for break in case

A 46-year-old Riverdale man has been arrested by federal officials for the Aug. 15 armed robbery of the South Crest Bank in Fayetteville, police said.

The plan has been scaled back but questions remained on density and other issues with a request Tuesday by Oddo Publishing Inc. to rezone 57.88 acres at Ramah Road and Beauregard from R-30 to R-22 (PUD) for a proposed residential development.

9-12 daily citizen by Michael Boylan

Heather Reynolds (199, above) rides the cycling portion of last Saturday’s 5th annual Tri-PTC Sprint Triathlon. Millard Lovelace (863, right) washes off Lake Peachtree after the swim portion of the 5th annual Tri-PTC Sprint Triathlon last Saturday. To see results, click here. For more pictures, visit our photo gallery. Photos/StanProphitt

A special prosecutor from the Attorney General’s office could soon be determining whether the Fayette County Commission violated the Open Meetings Act.

Eric Maxwell, Peachtree City’s fill-in municipal court judge, switched roles and represented a client as a defense attorney last week in that same court.

Developer Doug McMurrain — responsible for Peachtree City’s Wal-Mart, Home Depot and other westside area shops — has won over the hearts and minds of many neighbors in the Cardiff Park and Planterra Ridge subdivisions, at least when it comes to bending the city’s big box rules for an 89,000-square-foot Kohl’s department store in their collective backyard.

‘Movie posters’ too large, in wrong locations, Rast says

Advertising signs recently erected at The Avenue shopping center in Peachtree City aren’t exactly what city officials had in mind when they signed off on a special “sign program” for the development.

PTC tract rezoned from industrial to commercial

The Peachtree City Council approved a rezoning Thursday night to put a shopping center on a 21-acre site directly across Ga. Highway 74 South from the Wilshire Pavilion shopping center.

Fayette County’s workers could soon be seeing a major change in how their benefits are figured.

During last week’s County Commission workshop meeting, the commissioners heard a report from attorney John Kimball. Kimball is part of a study committee, including former Commissioner Scott Burrell, that is examining whether it would makes sense to switch from the county’s current retirement benefit to a defined benefits package, where each employee would receive a “defined” monthly amount.

Now, the hard work starts.

Last Thursday, the committee charged with redrawing the county’s elementary school lines started looking at neighborhood planning units and maps to align each of the students in the county with an elementary school. The committee is slated to have new boundaries drawn for a November approval by the Fayette County Board of Education.

It was a small tract of land on White Road and Ga. Highway 314, 2.5 acres in all, that was annexed into Fayetteville Aug. 6. The only hitch for the owner of the unincorporated island was that he wanted to establish a convenience store and gas station on the site.

The Fayette County Board of Education learned Monday night that surplus land located next to Whitewater High School could be a boon for a developer or government looking for mitigation property.

Peachtree City planning officials are hoping for a good turnout Thursday night as input is sought on the future of the Braelinn Village area.

Peachtree City police are looking into five golf cart thefts that happened in five days from various places in Peachtree City.

Soon kids from all around the southeast will welcome a Fayette sixth grader into their homes as she reports on important local and regional events for Time for Kids (TFK) magazine and TFK online.

The internationally renowned Atlanta Shakespeare Company is bringing “Shakespeare in Your Own Backyard” to Fayette to benefit the county’s public high schools.

The 2007 Peachtree City Triathlon was held last Saturday. A record number of entrants enjoyed beautiful weather and a great race.

Salaries to average $50,000; plant will assemble concrete pumper trucks; 180-acre site last large parcel in industrial park

Landmark Christian School’s varsity football team shed memories of their loss to Ringgold in the opening week of the season with a 56-27 win over the Ola Mustangs last Friday.

Sandy Creek graduate and former member of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Calvin Johnson scored his first career NFL touchdown yesterday.

Fairburn Fire Department Division Chief Cornelius Robinson shows off the recently donated First Responder unit, outfitted by the department with transport capabilities.

Delay requested. Delay approved. The Fulton County Board of Commissioners (BOC) Sept. 5 approved a request by Carmichael Development, LLC and another by builder D. R. Horton to delay requests on development proposals on Oakley Industrial Boulevard just west of Ga. Highway 138. The proposals were recently denied by the county’s Community Zoning Board (CZB).

Fulton County’s first case of West Nile virus (WNV) was confirmed in a 56 year-old Atlanta man who was treated and released from an area hospital. The infection marks the twelfth in Georgia during 2007, with Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness urging residents to take precautions when outside and to clean areas of standing water.

Concerns over issues with pit bulls housed at some residences and questions about the number of dogs allowed to be housed on residential property inside city limits surfaced at the Sept. 4 meeting of the Palmetto City Council. City attorney Dennis Davenport will review the ordinance pertaining to the number of dogs allowed per household.

If the Fayette County School System wants to tie onto Tyrone’s sewer system, it’s going to have to wait a while.

The school system was rebuffed by the County Commission Wednesday afternoon in its efforts to get out of the wastewater business on Jenkins Road and connect to Tyrone’s municipal system.

Tyrone wasted no time in hiring a police chief to fill the position of outgoing Chief David Mullis. The Tyrone Town Council thursday hired the veteran officer Capt. Brandon Perkins as the town’s new chief. His hire came with a 3-2 split from council members.

Tyrone Town Council Thursday agreed to one move that paved the way for a business to stay in the town and another move to distance itself from a Peachtree City man charged with stealing from an area booster club.

It has to be a record-breaking qualifying period for the cities of south Fulton. A total of 41 people qualified last week in the mayoral and council races for Chattahoochee Hill Country, Palmetto, Union City and Fairburn.