Musician Eric Litwin, winner of the 2004 Parents Choice Recommended Award, will be entertaining children with his songs and stories during Storytime at Peachtree City Library on Tuesday, April 17 at 10 a.m. Litwin will be presenting a program called “I Hear America Singing” in celebration of National Library Week.

Houses are being cleaned and the yards are being spruced up as residents in Senoia get ready for their annual open house to the community.

Although the calendar only reads April, the Coweta County Board of Education towards working on next year’s budget.

Last year, the Tour de Georgia raced up Peachtree Parkway on its way through Tyrone and on to Rome.

Probes begin into high-level ‘interference’ in Fayette child abuse charge against 2nd-in-command of Fulton County DFCS

Two annexations that would increase Peachtree City’s population by an estimated 8 percent received a 4-to-0 go-ahead vote from the city’s planning commission Monday night.

Combined, the annexations requested from John Wieland Homes and Levitt and Sons would add nearly 1,200 single-family homes and 2,635 new residents to the city’s west side on two tracts north of the current end of MacDuff Parkway.

As discussions continue about Fayette maintaining its slow growth rate, tomorrow night’s discussion and vote by the Coweta County Commission could be the first step in positioning a brand-new city on Fayette’s western border south of Ga. Highway 54 and placing a wastewater treatment plant near Wynn’s Pond on Peachtree City’s western city limit north of Hwy. 54.

Should a large parcel of land in the center of the county be rezoned for one-acre lots?

That’s the weighty proposition the Fayette County Commission will decide tomorrow night when Dan Stinchcomb and Randy Boyd ask for 213 acres on Ebenezer Church Road and Davis Road to be rezoned from Agricultural-Residential and R-40 to R-50.

A small group of residents present April 5 at a called meeting of Fayetteville City Council heard the beginning of a conversation that could lead to a maximum residential occupancy of eight adults, with a variance for children, a maximum of eight vehicles per residence and a definition of group homes.

Will there soon be a big “vacancy” sign in Kedron?

Shock-waves rippled through the business community late last week as Peachtree City-based World Air Holdings announced that it was being acquired by Global Aero Logistics for $315 million in cash.

The Fayette County Bar Association has arranged for the Georgia Court of Appeals to hold hearings in Fayetteville on April 18, 2007, so students and other citizens can observe how the process works.

At its regular meeting last week, the Peachtree City Council declined a citizen’s request to form a volunteer school advisory board.

The Fayette County Board of Education is embarking on a process that could lead to the group being named a Board of Distinction.

It’s been a long time coming. It has been nearly a decade since Fayetteville had a presence on Fayette County Sheriff’s Drug Suppression Task Force. Those days ended April 5 with the appointment of a Fayetteville police officer.

It may be four channels into one. That was the April 5 agreement by Fayetteville City County to have the city’s community channel operated by Comcast Cable merged into one channel.

The meeting room at the Fayette County Commission was full April 3 as Congressman Lynn Westmoreland fielded questions and comments during a scheduled town hall meeting.

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

Four Fayette students are among the 27,800 winners nationwide receiving scholarships through the 2007 National Achievement Scholarship Program, a competition for African American high school students.

Emily Jennette, a second grade teacher from Marietta City Schools, was named the 2008 Georgia Teacher of the Year last Thursday.

Tour De Georgia’s first stage — Peachtree City to Macon — will bring brief rolling road closures to ensure safety

ATLANTA – The 2007 edition of the exciting Tour De Georgia, North America’s premier cycling race, begins Monday, April 16, with the day’s “first stage” taking the competitors 96.7 miles from Peachtree City to Macon.

Preliminary reports from around the state show most of the apple, peach, and blueberry crops were damaged in the below freezing temperatures that covered most of the state this past weekend, says Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin.

Fayette County Sheriff’s Office S.W.A.T.

Tyrone’s new library should be completed by the end of this year.

Thats’ the word after the Town Council unanimously approved a $1.3 million construction bid by Headley Construction of Newnan to build the structure.

The Union City Police and FBI agents are looking for a man on charges of armed robbery in the March 29 hold-up at the Bank of America office at 6737 Londonderry Way.