Now that the qualifying period is over for Fayette’s municipalities, voters know what the menu will look like when they head to the polls Nov. 6. In Tyrone, current Councilman Mike Smola will run for mayor against retiree Don Rehwaldt.

A column of OPINION by the publisher

“Do what I want, or I will do my best to hurt you.”

If a man walked into your home or business and spoke the words above, he would be subject to arrest.

A developer’s proposal to build a 89,000 square foot Kohl’s department store and other shops at Ga. Highway 54 West and Line Creek drive will be discussed by the Peachtree City Planning Commission tonight at 7.

The Citizen Sports Blitz has decided to go with video. Sports editor Michael Boylan and staff writer Kevin Wandra discuss the results from last night's football games involving local teams. The video segments include photos from three of the games and video interviews with some of the players.

A Whitewater Middle school student found a gun in her bookbag Thursday morning and immediately reported it to a teacher, according to a letter sent home to parents by principal Sandra Kidd.

Fayette County - 21 Jonesboro - 0.

Starr's Mill - 21 Rockdale County - 14.

Whitewater - 10 Sandy Creek - 7.

East Coweta - 20 McIntosh - 10.

City says signs are in violation

Peachtree City may just have its first-ever billboards, and of at all places the luxuriously-designed Avenue shopping center.

But the city wants the signs taken down, as not only does the city have a ban on traditional billboards, but they are also apparently in violation of the special sign rules the city drew up for The Avenue when the development was approved, officials said.

Thursday was a good night all around for Tyrone Police Capt. Brandon Perkins. The Tyrone Town Council hired the veteran officer as the town’s new police chief to take the place of outgoing Chief David Mullis.

Tonight the Peachtree City Council unanimously approved rezoning a 21-acre industrial tract for a shopping center directly across Ga. Highway 74 south from the Wilshire Pavilion shopping center.

A news report Thursday named the mainland China company expected to locate within the Peachtree City industrial park as Sany Heavy Industry Co.

Imported marble floors. Dazzling fixtures. The hottest names in fashion.

Those are just a few of the items that shoppers will discover next Wednesday when Dillard’s opens its new location at Ashley Park in Newnan.

Developer wants new traffic light on Hwy. 54 West

A Tuesday night meeting at Peachtree City City Hall practically turned into a pro-big box lovefest.

Several residents from the Cardiff Park and Planterra Ridge neighborhoods spoke in favor of the City Council waiving its big box rules, which cap store sizes at 32,000 square feet, for a proposed 89,000 square-foot Kohl’s Department Store south of Ga. Highway 54 at Line Creek Drive.

Peachtree City may be losing one of its Kroger grocery stores.

City officials confirmed this week that the building department has received plans to renovate the Kroger at the Peachtree Crossings East shopping center.

When Coweta County added an “Arborist” position, many citizens and developers didn’t know exactly what that meant or how it might affect the county. In short, the job is the first line of defense in making sure that, no matter how fast we develop or how quickly landowners move to improve or subdivide their property, Coweta stays as “green” as possible. The official role of the Arborist is to enforce the new Tree Preservation Ordinance which was developed to benefit the environment and aesthetic quality of Coweta County.

Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon is lobbying state officials in a bid to improve sales tax collections and the data that state officials compile for sales taxes.

A new air charter service is opening at Falcon Field.

Connectafly has three planes including a Merlin turbo-prop that seats eight with a luxury cabin, and it is available for corporate customers as well as casual customers, a company official said.

Peachtree City will hold its annual Patriot Day celebration at Falcon Field Saturday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m.

The event will be located next to the hangar housing the Dixie Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, which is located on Echo Court. Parking and seating will be limited, so the public is encouraged to carpool with others and bring folding chairs or other portable seating. Bleachers and chairs will be available, but officials are unsure about the potential crowd for the event.

Senoia furniture magnate Frank Hollberg is not thrilled about the upcoming car show in Senoia’s historic downtown.

The car show is Sept.22 from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and the city’s leaders have agreed to close Main Street to allow the more than 100 vintage cars to be displayed in the city’s business district.

The city of Senoia could soon get bigger, thanks to an annexation request.

Coweta County Board of Education member and Newnan attorney Mike Sumner asked the City Council Monday night to annex 167 acres at the southeast corner of the Ga. Highway 85 and Ga. Highway 16 intersection. Sumner is acting as the court-appointed guardian for the Roy Tinsley family, who owns the property.

Here are The Citizen's football picks for week 2. Feel free to play along every week. We'll start readers off at 5-3.

Would allow for big box Kohl's at 89,000 square feet; neighbors support big box plan

The Peachtree City Council agreed Tuesday night to consider either a land swap or outright sale of two city-owned roads to make way for a large shopping center anchored by an 89,000 square foot Kohl’s Department Store.

Thursday night the Peachtree City Council will consider rezoning an industrial tract for commercial use to allow a 21-acre shopping center on Ga. Highway 74 South directly across from the existing Wilshire Pavilion shopping center.

Thursday night, officials from John Wieland Homes threw out a few very un-Peachtree City concepts for residential development on an undeveloped 89-acre tract it owns at the intersection of Ga. Highway 74 and south Kedron Drive on the city’s northwest side.

The Fayette County School System says it could “free up 45 classrooms in some of our elementary schools, while we are using 42 portable classrooms in other elementary schools in the county.”

Robbers struck a tire store and a cyclist on the cart path system in the past four days, getting away both times.

In the first incident, Peachtree City police are offering a reward, hoping to solve the armed robbery of a man on the city’s west side cart path system early Saturday morning.

Now that the qualifying period is over for Fayette’s municipalities, voters know what the menu will look like when they head to the polls Nov. 6.

Peachtree City’s two posts on the five-member city council have drawn seven contenders. (Six of the seven are pictured below. The Citizen was unable to contact the seventh, Mark Hollums, for a photo by deadline.)

For Post 1, incumbent Mike Harman, who was appointed to the post by council several weeks ago, will face off against Thomas J. O’Toole Jr. and Don Haddix.

Thieves looking for documents, increasing risk of identity fraud

Fayetteville police are asking residents to lock their cars and take their belongings inside, as 16 entering auto incidents were reported in the city during August.

Arrest warrants have been issued for two motorcyclists who led sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase early Thursday evening through south Fayette County, police said.

It should be a relatively short meeting Sept. 6 with virtually the only thing on the Fayetteville City Council agenda involving the annexation and rezoning of a 2.5-acre unincorporated island located on the west side of Ga. Highway 314 at White Road.

The late night hours along Ga. Highway 85 in Fayetteville Aug. 31 were wet and muggy, even after the rain stopped around 11 p.m. That is when Fayetteville Police and Fayette Sheriff’s deputies began a road safety check in locations around town that ran until nearly 3 a.m.