The Peachtree City Council voted tonight to allow voters to decide in November whether or not to build an expansion of the city’s Gathering Place and build two astroturf multi-purpose sports fields.

Bennett’s Mill Principal Rae Presley-King showed off the new middle school to the media and parents this week.

The Peachtree City Packers hosted a football camp at Booth Middle School this week, and local youngsters took part in various actitivies, including passing, catching and blocking drills.

LDI Reproprinting Center hosted a Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting in honor of their new location. They can be reached at 678-423-1773 or visit them at 20 Thomas Grace Annex Lane, Suite E in Sharpsburg. LDI does with modern electrostatic and digital technology what blueprinters do with old-fashioned blueprints. Photo/Special.

A commercial developer has scaled down its commercial rezoning request for property on Ga. Highway 74 south near Holly Grove Road.

Decision could provide solution for McIntosh Village

A decision by the Environmental Protection Division last week should provide enough sewer capacity for Senoia to grow through 2026. The increase in capacity could also help foster the development of McIntosh Village near Sharpsburg.

Citizen input sought for potential trash franchise contract

Peachtree City officials have announced they will take a second look at giving an exclusive contract for one company to provide trash service for the entire town in an effort to improve services for residents.

July 26 meeting will highlight challenges facing each village

Citizen input is being sought as Peachtree City continues to prepare its comprehensive plan.

Three area teens will be honored with the Boy Scouts of America’s extreme risk heroism award at a ceremony July 28.

The Coweta County Board of Commissioners is advertising tentative 2007 millage rates that reflect a more than 25 percent increases for Coweta property owners.

Senoia’s leaders Monday night tried their best to downplay the fact that the millage rate was not being lowered for the 2008 budget.

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Four Coweta County Schools are considered “Needs Improvement” schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and will offer school choice options for the 2007-2008 school year.

Mounting public concerns expressed at Union City council meetings during the past few months came to a head Tuesday night as residents called for Mayor Ralph Moore and Councilwoman Angelette Mealing to resign their elected positions. Residents also announced that a recall movement for removal of the two had begun.

It was a long journey for the final piece of Fayette County’s water puzzle.

After 30 years of jumping through government hurdles, Lake McIntosh received its final permit from the Army Corps of Engineers last week.

Twelve million copies of the final installment of author J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series will be released in the United States at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and local libraries and book stores are getting in on the magic act, helping muggles, young and old, get their hands on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

A developer is asking the Peachtree City Council to consider lifting the multi-family housing moratorium to consider a rezoning for a senior living community with up to 350 units on Ga. Highway 74 South near Holly Grove Road.

Peachtree City’s proposed $28.36 million budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year will be the subject of a public hearing at Thursday night’s City Council meeting, which begins at 7 p.m.

It will be a full agenda Thursday night as Fayetteville City Council looks to approve the 2008 budget and increases in the water and sewer rate and considers two annexation requests near Piedmont Fayette Hospital.

A tenure of nearly three decades came to an end Thursday night, despite the protestation of six former Fayette County Commission chairmen.

Bill McNally’s term as county attorney did not end quietly, and continues to dominate the news, as a letter in today’s edition indicates. (See Page A4 for the letter and publisher Cal Beverly’s opinion.)

Residents from Quail Hollow and Hunter’s Glen subdivisions had concerns July 10 as Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission heard a rezoning request that would put 109 single-family homes on a 58-acre site at the intersection of Beauregard Boulevard and Ramah Road.

Peachtree City Councilwoman Cyndi Plunkett knows that her request to increase the pay for the city’s mayor and council members will not be terribly well-received.

For the second time in two years, the Fayette County Commission turned down Heritage Christian Church’s request to connect to the Peachtree City sewerage system.

Congratulations to new Fayette Idols Callie Routon and Teria Litman.

Aspiring singers gathered at the Villages Amphitheater near downtown Fayetteville last weekend to perform in the fourth annual Fayette Idol competition.

Under low clouds and receding sunlight, contestants from across the spectrum of age sang before the crowd of several hundred for nearly three hours. The participants were divided into under-13 and over-13 groups, with a dozen in the former category and almost twice as many in the latter. Night had fallen as Teria Litman, 11, triumphed for her rendition of “Summertime,” while Callie Routon, 19, won with “Settlin’” by the country duo Sugarland.

Development plans for a proposed veterinary clinic at Summit Point Shopping Center include the construction of a one-story, 9,000 square-foot veterinary clinic on 2.37 acres at 565 South Glynn St., the Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission was told at the July 10 work session.

Toxicology tests have shown that Daniel Benoit, 7, was drugged with the anti-anxiety drug xanax at the time of his death, and his pro wrestler father Chris Benoit had been taking the steroid testosterone along with a “therapeutic” level of xanax, according to Georgia Chief Medical Examiner Kris Sperry.

One tailed burglar’s getaway path, directed deputies to location

Two quick-acting Fayette residents helped sheriff’s deputies foil two burglaries Monday afternoon by calling 911 to report suspicious activity near their homes, officials said.

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

Fayetteville police arrested three men early Thursday morning after an officer spotted them acting strangely in the parking lot of the Jiffy Lube.

Like a proud parent showing off a new baby, Bennett’s Mill Middle School principal Rae-Presley King showed off the county’s newest school to the parents and media Monday.