The Coweta County Board of Education will hold three public hearings over the next two weeks concerning its intention to leave the school system’s current ad valorem tax rate of 18.59 mills in place during 2007.

Coweta’s foray into a new concept at its high school is nearly raedy for its close-up.

School spokesperson Dean Jackson said the ninth-grade campuses should be ready for the students when school starts August 6. The campuses were approved by the School Board in 2005 as a way of expanding the county’s three high schools and providing a transition for ninth-grade students into high school.

After 20 years in debt, the Coweta County School system is getting ready to be debt-free.

School spokesperson Dean Jackson said the school sold its first set of bonds in 1987 to expand the rapidly-growing school system. In 1998 and 2002, the school system consolidate all its bonds into two issues with more favorable interest rates.

The much anticipated move to place the South Fulton Parkway into the hands of Georgia Dept. of Transportation (DOT) came to fruition Wednesday. Being designated a state highway should preserve the parkway’s limited access as it becomes a major traffic corridor in the fast growing area of west metro Atlanta.

U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) has cleared the way for the vote on the city of South Fulton, likely to be held in September. The clearance came in a July 10 letter to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker.

A rezoning request that would put 109 single-family homes on a 54-acre site came before Fayetteville Planning & Zoning Commission at the July 10 work session.

Fayetteville Planning & Zoning Commission July 10 heard a proposal to construct a one-story, 9,000 square-foot veterinary clinic at 565 S. Glynn Street.

The parade just couldn’t come soon enough for one little onlooker.

Braelinn, Kedron tops in elementary scores, while Rising Starr leads county’s middle schools

Friday’s release of the individual school scores for the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests present an interesting overview of the differences at Fayette County’s schools.

The circumstances of the deaths of wrestler Chris Benoit and his family have stirred much attention locally and nationally in past weeks. So has the funneling of prescription medication to Benoit by Carrollton physician Dr. Phil Astin.

“It’s been a problem child for us. It looks like a landfill,” said Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon.

That blunt assessment Monday night of the Lexington Circle development in Peachtree City set the tone for what many residents and city officials hope will soon be a renaissance of the area.

If you mention the word “Democrat” almost anywhere in Fayette County, you may receive a sneer or laughter, perhaps even both.

The mental competency and murder trials for April Dawn Ulrich, set to begin Wednesday, have been delayed due to the death of the psychologist who was to be an expert witness for her defense.

It looks like Peachtree City has a decision to make. Fulton County Superior Court Judge John J. Goger ruled Friday that Peachtree City had two options: Either comply with Georgia Regional Transportation Authority’s (GRTA) insistence that the TDK extension bridge into Coweta County have four lanes or face possible GRTA-imposed funding restrictions on future transportation projects in the area.

It’s all smiles this week at the Fayette County School System after officials received the county’s Adequate Yearly Progress report.

The Fayette County Department of Fire and Emergency Services has inducted two new quints, fire apparatus with five major functions, into its fleet of response vehicles.

Brain Balance of Atlanta is bringing Dr. Dan Murphy, a nutrition and neurology expert and worldwide speaker, to Peachtree City July 20, 2007 at 6:30 p.m., to speak on the role of nutrition and brain functioning.

Two Fayette students are the recipients of the nation’s only federally funded scholarship program.

Craig Western of McIntosh High and Lauren Powers of Whitewater High have both been selected as 2007 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholars.

East Fayette Elementary took the President’s Challenge and proved they are serious about being physically fit.

Students in grades 3-5 participated in the Challenge, a program that encourages all Americans to make being active a part of their everyday lives. Participants took a physical fitness test to determine their level of physical fitness in five events: curl-ups or partial curl-ups, shuttle run, endurance run/walk, pull-ups or right angle push-ups and V-sit or sit and reach.

The Peachtree City Council approved allowing a church just outside the city limits to hook up to the city’s sewer system.

Coweta-Fayette EMC recently received an Award of Excellence for their employee newsletter “News Flash” in the 2007 “Spotlight on Excellence” national awards program, sponsored by the Council of Rural Electric Communicators and the National Rural Electric Association.

The Board of Regents, the 18-member governing body for the University System of Georgia, elected Regent Allan Vigil to a second consecutive one-year term as the board's chair.

The Fayette County Chamber of Commerce is adding an exciting dimension to its 2007 Job Fair and Business Expo.

As part of its “Entrepreneur Friendly” efforts, the Chamber, working with the Georgia Department of Labor, will include an Entrepreneur Extravaganza event presented by the Fayette County Development Authority in the Chamber’s Business Expo September 25 from 3 – 7 p.m. at New Hope Baptist Church’s North Campus in Fayetteville.

The Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) announced today that the Administrator of the Fair Business Practices Act of 1975, Joseph B. Doyle, has filed an action in the Fulton County Superior Court against Bill Heard Enterprises, Incorporated and Bill Heard Chevrolet Company alleging a repeated practice of sending false and deceptive advertisements to Georgia consumers.

Fidelity Bank is pleased to announce that Linda L. Schneider has been hired as vice president and manager of its recently opened branch in Newnan. Schneider has over 25 years of banking experience and joins Fidelity from Wachovia Bank in Fayetteville.

The American Legion, Fayette County Post 105, took advantage of Flag Day on June 14, to continue one if its ministries, the proper disposition of worn flags.

Al and Maridee Wise are about to open Golden's On The Corner in the Town Center shopping mall. The cafeteria will serve only food cooked from scratch in its kitchen and will be open every day from 11 a.m.

Summer is here, school is out and unfortunately, many kids in the Peachtree City area will be sitting in front of a TV, computer or playing video games all day. It’s usually the time of year when kids get lazy, apathetic and gain weight.

Starr's Mill High has been recognized by EF Foundation for Foreign Study as a 2007 School of the Year. This award is given annually to high schools that make hosting exchange students a top priority and that foster environments of international awareness and cultural celebration.

For more than two hours Monday night, the Peachtree City Council, along with the city's Planning Commission and Development Authority discussed the future of the Lexington Circle development on Ga. Highway 54.