Shelly McLemore has every reason to smile.

Fairburn city officials say 2006 was a great year and 2007 should be even better. That was the message at the annual city council retreat held Jan. 13.

A new group has come into existence in Chattahoochee Hills. The group may be new but the message is not. That message calls for a June vote to form a city that will control the development and the destiny of one of the last remaining large areas of rural metro Atlanta. Nearly 225 area residents filled the gym at Georgia Baptist Children’s Home for the Jan. 20 meeting.

A chill was in the air and the heat was on during the late night hours of Jan. 20 as Union City Police conducted roadchecks along some of the city’s highly traveled roads. Temperatures falling into the high 30s during the eight-hour exercise did not prevent officers from checking the licenses of hundreds of drivers and making 22 arrests.

Tyrone Planning Commission members David Nebergall, Ginger Blackstone and Jesse Nasiancerno are sworn in at the board’s Jan.

A Roswell man has been charged in the Jan. 17 burglary of D.J.’s Grocery at 504 Main Street. Photos taken during the burglary and items found in his vehicle led to his identification after he was arrested the next day in Newnan.

It may not be the most colorful topic on anyone’s short list but it clears up a problem that has been years in the making. Fairburn City Council Jan. 22 approved a measure adopted by the Tyrone Town Council in late 2006 that settles what has been a sticky issue over a portion of the town’s sewage needs.

Tyrone Planning Commission Jan. 25 approved a variance request to reduce setbacks to 10 feet on two adjacent lots located along Brentwood Road between Arrowood Road and Howell Park. The properties are in the Main Street area near Triangle Park.

Led chase from PTC Wal-Mart into rural Coweta

A suspect who showed up at the Peachtree City Wal-Mart to make a drug deal with undercover agents led deputies on a chase from the Peachtree City Wal-Mart into rural Coweta County Thursday night.

Council to consider change for Kedron commercial tract

The Peachtree City Planning Commission has approved the rezoning of a commercial tract to a multi-family use.

East Coweta’s first mega-development received its first approval Monday night by the Sharpsburg Town Council.

The council voted to accept the first read for the rezoning and annexation for nearly 500 acres near the intersections of Reese Road, McIntosh trail and Ga. Highway 54.

Work has started on the the latest building project in downtown Senoia at the corner of Main Street and Seavy Street.

The Peachtree City Planning Commission has expressed concern about two different site plans filed with the city that show large big box retail stores in the works.

Developer wants to give lake parcel for city-owned tract

The Peachtree City Planning Commission is asking the city to limit the extent of a proposed land swap with a commercial developer involving a city-owned tract on Ga. Highway 54 West north of the Line Creek Nature Area.

Tower height a problem near airport; 2 existing towers in question

The Peachtree City Council has denied a request to build a cell tower in the city’s industrial park because it is located too close to Falcon Field.

To celebrate Saturday’s 15th Annual Pancake feast sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Peachtree City, Kiwanis member Rich Bowerman read pancake-themed books to approximately 20 pre-school children during storytime at the Peachtree City Library.

Peachtree City now has more than 7,700 golf carts which have been registered as part of the city’s new registration process.

Coweta county’s newest water resource should be up and running in March.

That’s the word from County Administrator Theron Gay who said the B.T. Brown Reservoir in the northwestern part of the county will provide the county with added water for the growth that is on its way.

The Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity recently selected a new board chair and members.

Registration for next year’s Coweta County kindergartners and pre-kindergartners will be held through March 12 through 23 at district elementary schools.

A bridge construction project just north of Fayetteville will shut down to one northbound lane Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The latest vision for a 379-acre tract John Wieland Homes wants annexed into Peachtree City was met with praise from the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night.

The city of Senoia is on the verge of completing a deal that could provide sewerage capacity to the massive McIntosh Village development proposed for Fayette’s doorstep.

A hunter has paid the price for shooting a Brooks family’s pet dog Fender back in November.

Tommy Grier, 32, of Palmetto must surrender his hunting license for a year and pay $100 towards the dog’s grave marker and $1,200 to the Fayette County Humane Society, according to the ruling by Fayette County Magistrate Joe Tinsley.

Fayette County’s newest school has its first principal.

Rae Presley-King, who is currently an assistant principal at Booth Middle School in Peachtree City was approved by the Fayette County Board of Education Monday night for the top slot at the new school.

The first development in the huge tract of land in Fayette’s center could be a new school.

School spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach confirmed Tuesday the Board of Education has entered into a contract to purchase 30 acres at the intersection of Sandy Creek Road and Tillman Road to build a new elementary school that would open in 2009.

After cordial complaints from several in-home music teachers, the Peachtree City Council held off on proposed changes to the city’s home business ordinance Thursday night.

The “bucket brigade” has had its swan song.

Under a new ordinance adopted by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night, no one will be allowed to set up shop on or near city streets and highways to hit motorists up for money or business.

After intermittent discussions over the past few months the Fayetteville City Council Jan. 18 adopted an ordinance outlining the use of motorized carts. The ordinance addresses registration, authorized and unauthorized uses, hazardous activities and special rules, and liability and penalties.

Last week, The Citizen’s columnist Sallie Satterthwaite wrote about a colorful but out-of-place Mandarin duck spotted bobbing in the Three Ponds recreation area in Braelinn Village.