Patriots and Panthers win, Tigers lose

Sandy Creek continued their dominant play. The Patriots improved to 5-1 (2-0 region) with a 48-9 win over the McIntosh Chiefs (3-3, 0-2 region). Rajion Neal scored three first half touchdowns and didn’t play in the second half. More details on this game to come.

Peachtree City’s planning commission is expected to vote Monday on an annexation request that would allow a 177,000 square foot development in the unincorporated county to receive sewer services.

PTC, Tyrone, SPLOST elections crank up at county elections office

It will take a little ride, but Peachtree City and Tyrone voters itching to cast their vote for the Nov. 3 election will be able to do so starting Wednesday.

Due to safety concerns, police are asking parents and students at McIntosh High School to avoid using the Lexington Circle parking area directly across the street from the campus.

He may have been a surprise candidate when he qualified to run for Post 1 on the Peachtree City Council, but David Craig has apparently been giving it some serious thought.

Peachtree City’s Falcon Field Airport has been designated for $1.85 million in federal funding to construct an apron for its new hangar area currently under construction.

Each year there are approximately 15,600 residential structure fires caused by candles, which accounts for approximately 5% of all reported home fires in the United States. Some 1,270 civilians were reported injured and 150 perished. Property damage and loss is upwards of $550 million.

The following arrests were made by Tyone Police between Sept. 30 and Oct. 9. those arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The Men’s Ensemble at Sandy Creek High, made up of members of the Select Mixed Chorus, are $1,000 closer to funding a trip to perform with the Grammy award-winning group, Chanticleer, this spring in San Francisco.

An elderly north Fayette woman was forced by two phony female police officers to withdraw money from her bank account Wednesday, sheriff's detectives said.

After they drove her to Riverdale to do so, the suspects abandoned the victim at the Church's Chicken in Riverdale, detectives said.

Along with all the tasty fare there was a great selection of designer pumpkins at the Fall 2009 Taste of Newnan held Oct. 1. The bi-annual event draws a large number of restaurants from across the area and thousands of willing taste-testers.

East Coweta High School received academic honors Tuesday as a Region 4AAAAA winner in the statewide effort to improve SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores. The announcement was made by Gov. Sonny Perdue and state School Superintendent Kathy Cox.

Coweta County, like the remainder of the United States, is in a recession. But three public hearings scheduled for Nov. 12 include rezoning requests that could to lead to commercial and residential proposals that look more like the good old days of a couple of years ago.

Cookie, a national monthly lifestyle magazine for the modern mother published by Conde Nast, has included the Inn at Serenbe in its “3rd Annual Best of Travel” feature in the October 2009 edition. The feature heralds “eight dreamy escapes”: The Inn at Serenbe, The St. Regis in Bora Bora, Ardoor Art Camp in The Netherlands, The Greenbrier in West Virginia, Planet Baobab in Botswana, Mohonk Mountain House in New York, Natura Cabana in Dominican Republic, and The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. Features editor Miranda Crowell dubs Serenbe the “best southern comfort” and says.

Low prices for residential and commercial natural gas customers will be featured at the Oct. 10 annual members meeting of Coweta-Fayette EMC.

Fayetteville police today filed criminal charges against an Atlanta man in connection with the Aug. 15 robbery of the Bank of America off Ga. Highway 314 in north Fayetteville.

Michael Ray Baskerville Jr., 33, of Washington Street, Atlanta is currently being held in the Cobb County Jail. He was arrested by police in Cobb Monday during the robbery of a SunTrust bank in Cobb.

Coweta County commissioners Tuesday night voted to authorize a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a needs assessment and space analysis for a future expansion of the county jail. The board also voted to appoint a five-person committee to review the submittals. The expansion would be funded by a future 1-cent sales tax initiative.

The Coweta County Health Dept. has received a limited number of doses of nasal spray vaccine for the H1N1 flu to be administered only to healthy young children ages 2-4. Walk-ins are welcome but parents are asked to call before they come to the office.

The Georgia Department of Education (DOE) Oct. 1 announced that all 27 Coweta County Schools met the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act by achieving 2008-2009 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements.

Three new employees of TSG-USA, Inc., Peachtree City, recently spent two afternoons volunteering at the Newnan Coweta Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
 
Kohei Fukuda, a mechanical design engineer; Kazuha Shoji, a software programmer; and Makoto Yamada, a design engineer, will work at TSG-USA’s facility in Japan, but came to the United States for two weeks of employee orientation. 

The following is a summary of the most pertinent questions and answers fielded by Peachtree City's mayoral candidates during Tuesday night's candidate forum hosted by the Peachtree City Rotary Club.

The following is a summary of the most crucial questions and answers from Tuesday night’s candidate forum hosted by the Peachtree City Rotary Club. For simplicity’s sake, the Q&A summaries are split up by the various races.

A similar roundup of the Q&A with the mayoral candidates will be forthcoming later this evening.

Fayette County Health Dept. gets 400 doses of nasal spray for kids 2-4; vaccine free, but call first

Budget problems or not, Fayette County schools topped all others in the Atlanta metro area in one critical measure.

In its Oct. 1 report of the federally-mandated Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), the Ga. Dept. of Education’s figures show that Fayette County was the only system in metro Atlanta with 100 percent of its schools making AYP for six consecutive years.

And then, there were four.

Local gym owner Dar Thompson announced Tuesday that he has decided to drop out of the race for the Post 1 seat on the Peachtree City Council.

As Peachtree City’s Water and Sewer Authority ends the year with a projected shortfall of $294,000, customers will see another 5 percent increase added to their sewer bills starting this month.

For a heart attack victim, Todd Hellams was in pretty bad shape when the first medic crews got to him at Fayetteville’s Wings and Things restaurant Aug. 28.

The Environmental Institute of Georgia (EIOG) is at it again. Aside from their work as custodians of the 300-acre Fairburn Nature Preserve, reducing chemical exposures to humans and animals and coordinating Fayette County Earth Day activities, EIOG is sponsoring the Rivers Alive clean-up activities along Fayette’s waterways again this year. The first of five clean-up events was held Saturday.

Participants in the 10th Annual Alzheimer’s Memory Walk release their distinctive purple balloons Oct. 3 at the Frederick Brown, Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City. Perhaps as many as 2,000 people from Fayette and other south metro Atlanta counties were at the event just before starting on the 5K walk through the woods. The event was a fund-raiser for the Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Photo/Ben Nelms.

In the special local option sales tax arena, it’s the current Fayette County Commission versus Fayette Citizens for Open Government (FayCOG), which includes a couple of former county commission chairmen.