Bruce Jordan, former chief detective of the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, has resigned effective today, officials confirmed Monday afternoon.

A one-car crash on Helmer Road Saturday evening killed the driver of the car, according to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

Coweta County Board of Education Chairman Asa Mitchell Powell, Jr., has died.

Powell, 53, was elected to the Coweta County Board of Education in July, 2004, and was elected Chairman of the Board of Education in January, 2005. He was a Mercer and Harvard-educated attorney, the Coweta County Board of Commission Attorney and a partner at Glover and Davis, P.A., in Newnan.

It was an event designed to present what Fulton County Commissioner Bill Edwards calls a little-referenced third option to the questions surrounding the future of south Fulton County. A town hall meeting Nov. 9 at Georgia International Convention Center provided the venue to Edwards to advocate for South Fulton remaining unincorporated.

Pam Cornelison’s K4 class at Landmark Christian School has been learning all about the Pilgrims, the Indians and the first Thanksgiving.

Although Tyrone will still have to return more than $60,000 in development fees to developers, the Town Council agreed Thursday night to conduct a feasibility study on building a new police station and town hall at their current sites.

A citizen’s action has helped spur the EPD’s actions against a Tyrone manufacturing company.

For the last two months, James Norton has implored the town’s leaders to do something about the dust problem emanating from Georgia Masonry in the town’s industrial park.

The Fairburn council Nov. 13 voted to postpone consideration of a lease of the old courthouse to the Old Campbell Historical Society over concerns raised by residents of St. John’s Crossing subdivision. St. John’s Crossing residents also wanted action from the city on issues such as area crime, clarification of the question over ownership of a greenbelt strip in the development and suggestions on ways to resolve shoddy construction problems faced by homeowners.

Two males were arrested and woman is being sought by Fairburn Police in connection with a Sept. 3 armed robbery at the Family Dollar store in Hudson Plaza.

A pair of Clayton County residents were charged on multiple counts in a Nov. 1 Union City home invasion. The arrests were aided by a camera at the residence that recorded the incident.

Tyrone’s annual tree lighting holiday celebration is set for November 28 from 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at the Triangle Park Gazebo, across from the post office on Senoia Road.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police from Nov. 1-14:

juvenile, male, 14, Fairburn, theft by receiving stolen property

A brand new house in the Centennial subdivision caught fire early Friday morning, but the flames were extinguished before the blaze spread far, according to Peachtree City Fire Chief Stony Lohr.

Although results of a recent survey of Peachtree City residents are still being processed, some of the data has been released culled from the approximately 500 persons who responded ... accounting for half the total surveys mailed out.

Bob Konrad of Peachtree CIty VFW Post 9949 bugles Taps in memory of deceased war veterans during Saturday’s Veterans Day ceremony in Peachtree City.

A Peachtree City family has sued the city for failing to properly mark a golf cart crossing where their son was struck by an oncoming car more than a year ago.

Volunteer, staffers also honored

The Peachtree City Parks and Recreation Department was named the 2006 Parks and Recreation Agency of the Year by the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association.

4 industrial park projects also get go-ahead

A plan to build a 145-unit senior apartment community in south Peachtree City has been resurrected.

Coweta Performance Learning Center students have volunteered at the current Habitat for Humanity build in Coweta County. Many students are looking for career direction and Habitat’s Americorp and Vista intern programs have initiated careers in social service for many of these interns and volunteers. Coweta’s Habitat was just accepted into the Americorp/Vista program and will be “hiring” 3 interns over the course of 2007. Photo/Special.

Sponsors are being sought to help make Christmas special for several needy families in what has become an annual event at Falcon Field in Peachtree City.

Parents have two weeks to make their feelings known on the Coweta County school calendars for the next two school years.

The announcement of The Legacy Theatre came early in 2006 when the town of Tyrone and theatre owner Bethany Smith stated that the theatre would now be built near the Millbrook subdivision, directly across the highway from the Publix shopping center. A formal reception was held in March and citizens could purchase seats and hear about the inaugural line-up of shows at the theatre and things went quiet as everyone got to work.

A 15-year-old Peachtree City boy has been arrested for using a handgun to threaten his mother just before he ran away from home Friday, police said.

A Canton man has been convicted of having an obscene internet chat with an undercover Peachtree City police officer whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

Fresh from strong criticism for one round of middle school boundary hearings, the Fayette County Board of Education decided Monday night that a possibly more comprehensive set of elementary school hearings will occur next fall.

As parents’ shoulders slumped and heads bowed, the Fayette County Board of Education voted 4-1 Monday night to approve the new middle school boundaries with a few minor changes.

Getting out the good news and achievements of students comes with a price tag in Fayette and Coweta counties.

In Fayette County, the public relations effort of the school system uses a number of different tactics and costs more than $183,000 on a yearly basis, according to information obtained by The Citizen.

To make way for TDK Boulevard’s extension into Coweta County, it cost the Peachtree City Airport Authority $1.41 million to acquire two golf holes and additional land for its runway safety area.

Fayette County’s 911 Communications Center has been named the 911 center of the year in Georgia by the state’s National Emergency Number Association.

It is back. Residents of Fayette and Fulton counties are again reporting a chemical odor in the vicinity of the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant on Spence Road near Fairburn.