After last week’s marathon session involving new school boundary lines, Assistant Superintendent for Operations Sam Sweat is reviewing all the comments, e-mails and phone calls from concerned parents who are beseeching the board to adjust the lines.

The Fayette County Health Department has already received some flu vaccine, but all the doses are spoken for as of Tuesday morning, according to County Nurse Manager Carolyn Callison.

A Peachtree City developer is challenging the determination of how much it owes per lot in impact fees to the city.

The City Council will hear the appeal from Ravin Homes, developer of the Cedarcroft subdivision off MacDuff Parkway on the city’s west side. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. tonight in the Floy Farr Room at the Peachtree City Library.

Proposed construction of a 68-home Stella Place residential development at 335 Grady Avenue is back on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of Fayetteville City Council.

In its ongoing quest to make the county’s sign ordinance user-friendly and defensible in court, the Fayette County Commission decided Thursday night to modify the ordinance.

An Oct. 24 epidemiological study by Georgia Division of Public Health (DPH) left the door open but fell short of establishing a direct link to questions from hundreds of sick residents in Fayette and Fulton counties who believe the onion-like smell of chemical odorant propyl mercaptan released at the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant in Fairburn is responsible for their illnesses. The door was also left open by a commitment for a larger state and federal health consultation expected by early 2007.

The rising costs of construction materials may force the Fayette County Board of Education to build only one new scaled-down elementary school instead of two in the next few years.

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin made a trip to Fayetteville Oct. 31 to see the firsthand the results of Georgia’s efforts to curb its population of unwanted dogs and cats. Meeting at Lafayette Center Animal Hospital, Irvin attended a spaying procedure at the clinic by Dr. Mike Younker.

Students, parents and faculty of Peachtree City Elementary are making a list and checking it twice as they prepare for the 10th annual Jingle Bell Trail set for December 9. Last year it drew more than 1,000 runners and generated nearly $9,000, which helped purchase new classroom computers.

Fayette County Schools is adding a new health and wellness site to its homepage and is seeking community input on a logo for the initiative.

Whitewater High School in Fayette County is excited! The faculty and students recently kicked off their campaign to help find cures for cancer and provide help and hope to thousands of patients and their families. The entire school is collecting spare change through The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program.

Fayette Senior Services is accepting contributions for Project Love – the program that provides delicious and nutritionally balanced holiday meals to senior citizens in Fayette County. For more then ten years the program has been a heartfelt gesture of kindness to many of the community’s homebound seniors.

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

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizen.com
and BEN NELMS
bnelms@TheCitizen.com

For Fairburn Police officers E. Roque and Eddie Saavedra it was not the usual day on the beat. By noon time Tuesday the officers had apprehended two of the men sought in connection with the armed robbery of a Peachtree City bank just minutes earlier. The robbery at the Kedron Village Wachovia bank along Ga. Highway 74 was followed by a high-speed chase and the apprehension of two suspects as they emerged from a wooded area adjacent to Fieldstone Manor subdivision on Plantation Road.

The Sandy Creek High School dance team got in a celebratory mood Thursday afternoon during the school’s annual homecoming parade.

Fairburn continued its annexation process Oct. 23 and 26 with the city council voting to bring nearly 2,000 more acres into the city. Fairburn’s total annexations since August total 4,113 acres, accounting for an 88 percent increase in the city’s size.

The Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Tyrone have appointed William David Mullis to serve as acting Chief of Police during their search for a new Chief of Police.

The five month trek from onions to outrage continued in full force Oct. 21, with a lare number of residents and a wealth of elected officials representing Fayette and Fulton counties maintaining the call for the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant near Fairburn to close its doors. Sponsored by South Fulton/Fayette Community Task Force, the Citizens Rally at Shamrock Park in Tyrone was designed to continue the two-county effort to keep in the forefront of public discussion the more than 750 illnesses said to be linked to the onion-like smell of chemical odorant Propyl mercaptan and organophosphate pesticide MOCAP.

Bethany Smith wants everything about her new theater in Tyrone to be first-class.

Last week, she approached the Town Council about allowing a 1940s old-fashioned marquee to be placed on the front of the building. Smith explained she had already scaled down the number of bulbs, and wanted the theater to be the showplace for the area.

Tammy Harrison, owner of Wild Bird Center located at 1211 N.

They have given so much to the community. Perhaps it is time for the community to help them. Members of Palmetto Seniors Center have their hearts set on building a Memorial Garden at the center on Turner Avenue. A Fall Festival and Hobo Supper fundraising event for the project will be held at the center Nov. 3 from 5-8 PM to help raise needed funds.

Tyrone Planning commissioners Oct. 26 approved a variance request to reduce building setbacks in Swanson Valley subdivision from 65 feet to 50 feet on lots 24, 25, 26 and 27. The board voted 3-0 in favor of the request contingent upon the inclusion of a four-foot vegetative berm or a six-foot visual barrier and the applicant dedicating sufficient easement to connect the town’s path system.

A Palmetto man was arrested Oct. 22 in connection with an Oct. 11 armed robbery at Genesis Gardens Apartments.

Donald Deloatch, 41, was charged with armed robbery in the incident at the apartments involving a Comcast Cable technician, said Palmetto Det. John Cooper.

South Fulton’s population continues to swell. And with it comes the need for more schools. Groundbreakings for Oakley Township Elementary School and Jones-Hall Middle School earlier this week should help offset the growing need in growing area.

Police: 2 Quarreled Tuesday over custody issue

The homecoming court of Fayette County High School won't get their moment to shine in front of the halftime crowd at tonight's football game with Banneker.

The Starr’s Mill’s Lady Panthers have made the final four of the Class AAAA softball tournament and Whitewater’s Lady Wildcats are still alive.

Teens to remain jailed pending further court hearings

When two men ran from the Wachovia Bank on Peachtree Parkway Tuesday afternoon, it caught the eye of Tyrone resident Lance McMillian as he went through the bank’s drive-through.

As National Fire Safety Month, October is the perfect time to help educate students about what they can do to help prepare their homes and families before a fire occurs.

Several more projects are in the hopper for south Peachtree City to coincide with plans to extend TDK Boulevard into Coweta County.