If you’re zoned for Bennett’s Mill Middle School for next year, that’s where you’ll be going.

After hearing reports from school system staff Monday night, the Fayette County School Board left intact the boundaries for the county’s newest middle school and decided not to allow rising eighth graders to remain at their current school, mainly J.C. Booth in Peachtree City.

If all the soil testing turns out correctly, the Fayette County School system may have found the site for its second new elementary school.

Oksana McGettigan pleaded with the Peachtree City Council Thursday night, asking for a city ordinance change so she could keep her hens.

The Peachtree City Council declined a citizen’s request Thursday to allow utility vehicles such as his to be used on the city’s golf cart path.

In a surprise reversal to what many thought was a done deal, Pathway Communities has decided to drop its annexation request to the town of Sharpsburg.

The call again this year to revise Georgia’s annexation laws is being proposed by Rep. Doug Holt (R-Social Circle, House District 112) through House Bill 2, entitled the Fair Annexation Act. Holt said the “annexation for revenue” approach being used for decades by cities does not adequately serve Georgia’s citizens, especially small landowners, and tends to create two classes of property rights.

It started with a call of “a shot fired” at a home in north Fayette County with a distraught young man holed up inside.

Magnolia Park Day Care Center and two of its employees have been sued by a Clayton County woman who alleges the center “covered up” and failed to report a serious injury to her 1-year-old son while he was in their care.

A three-car crash tied up traffic on Ga. Highway 74 near Peachtree Parkway for more than three hours Friday night, sending six people to the hospital.

Give the gift that will last all year…the gift of time. Volunteer to help Fayette Senior Services meet the needs of our seniors in Fayette County. Our greatest need is for volunteers to deliver Meals On Wheels.

A homemade breakfast is how McIntosh High is reaching out to current and future Partners in Education to show its appreciation of the business community’s support of the school.

The effects of herbs on bacteria, free radicals and DNA fruit extraction are just some of the examples of experiments conducted by Fayette’s budding young scientists at the 2007 Fayette County Science and Engineering Fair.

Some teachers say they knew as a child what they wanted to be when they grew up; others took different career routes that eventually lead them to the classroom. It is not how they got to the classroom, but what they have done once there that matters.

The Fayette Democratic Women will host Ms. Sonja Strickland, Executive Director-Promise Place February 10. The brunch will be held at Right on Thyme restaurant in Fayetteville. The brunch will begin at 10 a.m.

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

The standoff between a North Fayette man and Fayette County sheriff's deputies ended shortly after it began Monday afternoon.

In a move that left many residents stunned, Pathway Communities has decided to drop its annexation request to the Town of Sharpsburg.

It has quite a look to it doesn’t it? This conceptual rendering is the proposed Tyrone Main Street District plan, complete with commercial, residential and mixed use developments.

Here comes the future. What has long been the tree-lined vista of the South Fulton Parkway has begun a transformation at Ga. Highway 92 that is only the beginning of commercial, office and residential development in Union City’s 6.5-mile area of the parkway that will extend far into the future. The initial approved development will bring approximately 1.66 million square feet of retail, up to 2,900 residential units and 1.65 million square feet of warehouse space.

It is not common to have a decrease in serious crimes in an area that is experiencing rapid growth. But that is what happened in 2006 in Fairburn. Tallied for calendar year 2006, those crimes showed an overall 8.7 percent decrease over 2005.

It might be coincidence and is hopefully not related, but several members of the south Fulton and north Fayette communities began manifesting some of the same symptoms late last week that they experienced during the summer and fall months after breathing what they said were emissions from the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 near Fairburn. More than 750 Fulton and Fayette residents reported experiencing the same few symptoms in mid-2006 after breathing what many claimed were emissions of the chemical odorant Propyl mercaptan and organophospahte pesticide MOCAP that escaped the plant property.

Union City Planning Commission Jan. 29 adopted a 90-day moratorium on issues related to development along Roosevelt Highway. The move follows a late 2006 vote by the city council to adopt the Roosevelt Highway Corridor Overlay District guidelines.

The Georgia Society of CPAs (GSCPA) has honored one of Fayette’s future aspiring accountants.

Now is the time to begin applying for admission to Landmark Christian School for the 2007-2008 school year. A great first step is to check out Landmark's website, where you will find a wealth of information about Landmark and their admissions process.

Workshop at 6:30 in City Hall

The Peachtree City Council and the city’s planning commission will hold a joint workshop Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the two proposed annexations for the West Village area.

Coweta could vote to override GRTA requirement for McIntosh Village

Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon has asked the Coweta County Commission to override a regional agency’s requirement that the bridge over Line Creek for the extension of TDK Boulevard be four lanes.

Kiwanian Shant Harootunian congratulates Logan Austin, winner of the pancake eating contest at the club’s annual pancake breakfast fund-raiser at McIntosh High School.

Son was shot to death at party fueled by beer, marijuana

The parents of a Peachtree City teen who was shot and killed at a party in June have not only sued the accused shooter and the party host, but they also want to hold accountable whomever provided the drugs and alcohol at the party — and whomever provided the gun to Kevin Johnston, 17, of Sharpsburg.

Drug addicts have a hard time kicking the habit. Now it appears that drug dealers have the same problem, at least judging by an arrest made Tuesday afternoon at the Fayetteville Wal-Mart in the Fayette Pavilion, police said.

Bitterly cold temperatures did not keep runners away from the 10th annual Jingle Bell Trail 5K and one mile fun run benefiting Peachtree City Elementary.