Next week’s Planning Commission meeting in Tyrone could be contentious as a neighborhood group is rallying support against a proposed development.

It seems that South Fulton County is always on the radar screen these days. This week was no exception, when Gov. Sonny Perdue named Chattahoochee Hills resident Steve Nygren to the board of Georgia Dept. of Community Affairs.

The Chattahoochee Hill Country Conservancy has announced its new leadership for 2007. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization working to create and implement innovative land use and conservation programs that protect the environment, enhance the quality of life, and promote sustainable economic growth.

After nearly six years of work by its staff, the town of Tyrone will finally get to have one its dangerous railroad crossings fixed.

The Fayette County varsity boys basketball team defeated McIntosh 66-45 on Friday and defeated Westlake 72-68 on Saturday to win the region 2-AAAA championship. Noel Johnson had 18 against the Chiefs and 25 against Westlake to be the team's leading scorer in those two games.

The McIntosh Chiefs boys basketball team has qualified for the state tournament for the first time in the school’s history. The Chiefs beat the Creekside Seminoles 54-47 on Wednesday night, less than two weeks removed from a 58 point loss to Creekside. Coach Jason Eisele credited Robert Chubb (55) with playing a huge game on defense in the win. McIntosh will now take on their longtime rivals, the Fayette County Tigers, today at 5:30 p.m., for a trip to the region championship game. For more on this game and all region basketball tournament action, see the story in Sports Section. Photo/Ian Davis.

Lohr led department through change, improvements since 2000

Peachtree City Fire Chief Stony Lohr has announced that he will retire as of April 2.

Lohr notified his staff of his intentions in a memo to the entire department. He will also turn 60 in April, he noted.

“It’s time for me to do something else,” Lohr said in an interview this week with The Citizen. “... It’s time to go smell those roses."

Wife signed up with reserve to join hubby’s unit in Baghdad

Kathryn and Bill Carter of Peachtree City can say with honesty that their marriage is just like living in a war zone.

No storage, improvements allowed within 100-foot zone

Peachtree City staff has compiled a revised ordinance that will help protect water quality at the city’s two reservoirs: Lake Kedron and Lake Peachtree. The ordinance also forbids private improvements from city-owned greenbelt areas.

PTC hosting Tour de Georgia start April 16; traffic congestion expected

Georgia officials have unveiled the specific route the Tour de Georgia will take as the entire event starts in Peachtree City at noon on Monday, April 16.

If you forgot to submit your student’s affidavit residency, you child is no longer enrolled in the Coweta County School System.

Arbor Springs Elementary School has been named a 2007 Georgia School of Excellence for Greatest Continuous Gains for the 8th Congressional District.

Anything can happen in a post-season tournament and nobody knows that better this week than the McIntosh Chiefs.

McIntosh’s boys had a 10-14 regular season record and they had lost to their first round opponent, Creekside, on Feb. 2 by 58 points. The slate was clean on Wednesday night though and the Chiefs hung tight with the Seminoles and walked away with an upset victory 54-47. Using high percentage shots, terrific defense and their home court advantage, McIntosh had a 12-7 lead at the end of the first quarter and only trailed Creekside by three, 27-24, at the half. Seniors KC Erickson and Vaughn Page did a tremendous job of finding the basket and nearly every player contributed to the team’s biggest win in recent history.

It was 2,100 marijuana plants valued at $12 million being grown in nearly a dozen homes across south metro Atlanta. Headquartered in Fayette County by Merquides Martinez, his multi-county drug operation came to a screeching halt when he and wife Blanca Botello and 24 others across the area were arrested on drug trafficking charges earlier this week. The multi-jurisdiction effort was coordinated by Fayette Sheriff’s Drug Suppression Task Force.

Starr's Mill's Lady Panthers handed the McIntosh Lady Chiefs a 22-21 loss on Tuesday, ending the season for McIntosh and putting themselves into the state tournament. Starr's Mill was led in scoring by Alexis Shaffer, who scored 13 points. The Lady Panthers will take on Westlake on Friday at 7 p.m.

The Peachtree City Council has decided to take the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority head-on.

Friday the city filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court challenging GRTA’s power to require the city to make transportation improvements on the TDK Boulevard Extension that are tied to the McIntosh Village project in the neighboring county.

Fayette County Attorney Bill McNally says he doesn’t see anything wrong with the way the county recently completed a land swap with Peachtree Holdings for the building of Lake McIntosh.

Whitewater’s Kait Loewecke (34) drives to the basket, while Fayette County’s defense, led by Beth Hayes (30) tries to stop her.

St. Andrews-in-the-Pines church in Peachtree City has bolted from the Episcopal Church in favor of a more “traditional” Anglican church.

The Fayette County School System is trying to decide what to do with more than 33 acres of excess property behind Whitewater High School.

When next fall’s attendance boundary hearings start for elementary schools, one resident is hoping the Fayette Board of Education learned a lesson from the Bennett’s Mill Middle School controversy.

A Peachtree City resident is proposing that the city establish a “city commission of education” to monitor education matters affecting the city and make recommendations to council on any actions deemed necessary.

There was no standing room left Feb. 9 as those on both sides of proposed changes in the state annexation law lined up to have their say at a hearing of the House Governmental Affairs subcommittee. The small hearing room in the Legislative Office Building could barely hold the nearly 90 people who came to weigh in on the proposed Fair Annexation Act (House Bill 2) authored by Rep. Doug Holt (R-Social Circle, House District 112).

Family’s home burned completely to ground

A College Park girl reported that she was robbed of her cell phone while at the Tinseltown movie theater in Fayetteville late Sunday night, police said.

District Attorney Scott Ballard, Griffin Judicial Circuit, was the featured speaker for the NAACP on Saturday. He conveyed a number of attention-grabbing points to the audience.

Peachtree City builder, Rick Conaway has been named 2006 Builder of the Year by Peachtree City Building Department officials. Conaway, an exclusive builder in the Smokerise Crossing subdivision in Peachtree City, was presented with the award by Peachtree City Building Official Tom Carty and Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon at the January 18 City Council Meeting.

Each year, J93.3 partners with local businesses to gather thousands of Valentine's cards and candy for children who are less fortunate in an effort to demonstrate "...that someone loves them and is thinking about them. "

The Fayette County Democratic Committee will hold elections for three representatives to the state committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia at its brunch meeting on Saturday, Feb. 17. The breakfast meeting will be held at Chaps restaurant in Tyrone. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m.. Meeting attendees may order from the menu.

Two teachers at North Fayette Elementary are sporting shorter hairdos in an effort to help sick children.

Fourth grade teacher Katie Coke and fifth grade teacher Michelle Derichsweiler donated a total of 21 inches of hair to Locks of Love. Their hair will be used to create hair prosthetics for children who have lost their hair due to a medical condition.