Former Coweta County Commissioner Vernon “Mutt” Hunter has always been a proponent of having good things happen for the eastern side of Coweta County.

For the first time in years, it will be a quiet election year in Senoia.

When qualifying had ended Wednesday afternoon, only two candidates had qualified for the two seats up for election this year.

New camp member Bill Byrom, left, is welcomed by John Todd, commander,Sharpsburg Sharpshooters Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Eastern Coweta County residents will probably receive a little sticker shock when they receive their tax bills in the late fall.

The average score for Coweta County students taking the SAT rose while test-takers nationwide did not perform as well on the college entrance exam, according to figures released by the College Board on Tuesday.

The new cart path bridge that will span the CSX railroad tracks in Peachtree City will be installed beginning Friday, Sept. 15, officials said.

Developer Tom Reese’s vision for eastern Coweta County staggers the imagination. His proposed McIntosh new community features more than 3,100 homes and a commercial center that will be pedestrian-oriented and look more like Destin Commons on the Florida Gulf coast than the Fayette Pavilion.

With a little design work left to finish and grass to grow — so two golf holes can be relocated — there’s little left to stand in the way of construction beginning for the extension of TDK Boulevard from the Peachtree City industrial park into undeveloped sections of eastern Coweta County.

It was a case where the officer said he was doing his job, and the homeowner said it was excessive. During the Aug. 21 incident, a 12-year-old dog in its accustomed place on its back porch was shot in the mouth during an attempt by Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies to serve a warrant at a Fayetteville residence on a man already in the Fayette County Jail.

Let me tell you about the birds and the bees. Many have vanished or are dying in north Fayette and south Fulton.

Let me tell you about the dogs and the cats. Many are sick and dying and refusing to go outdoors in north Fayette and south Fulton.

Shut the Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant down for good, says the Fayette County Commission.

Elected officials were joined by North Fayette Community Association, calling for a definitive resolution to the chemical release into communities that has sickened nearly 600 residents of north Fayette and south Fulton counties.

Fayette County school officials jubilantly released the school system’s Scholastic Aptitude Test scores Tuesday.

Fayette’s district-wide score of 1555 was third in the state for districts that had more than one high school. Only Cherokee County with a score of 1565, and Fulton with a 1580 score surpassed Fayette.

Whitewater’s Tavoris Dixon will be one of the Wildcats’ biggest threats on offense.

Levitt and Sons development company has committed to reducing the number of homes it is proposing to have annexed into Peachtree City on the west side.

The Fayette County Water Committee has recommended the Fayette County Commission look into the issue of owning and operating community and drip irrigation sewer systems.

Woman survives shot to the face

A man who shot a woman at a Fayetteville furniture store early Friday morning remained in custody Tuesday at the Fayette County Jail, police said.

A Fayetteville woman was robbed at gunpoint while walking from her car to her home just before midnight Sunday, police said.

The Fayette County Public Library and The Friends of the Library sponsored its second “Letters & Literature” dinner recently, and the honoree was Dr. Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. of Fayetteville.

Fayette County’s School Health Services program is the recipient of Georgia’s 2006 School Walt Orenstein Champion for Immunization Award.

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

A group of Chattahoochee Hills residents did what seemed at the outset to be unlikely, even improbable. They decided two weeks ago to forego the plans of having their own city and to link up instead with the City of Palmetto. In that two weeks, organizers said they obtained the signed petitions of more than 60 percent of the registered voters and 60 percent of property owners, the requirement for obtaining annexation. City officials are currently validating the petitions so that the mayor and city council can take up the issue.

Sandy Creek played Starr’s Mill last ni

“This is a huge partnership and a huge achievement,” said Fulton County Public Works Director Angela Parker at Thursday’s opening of the bridge between Oakley Industrial Boulevard and Ga. Highway 92.

Residents of Fayette and Fulton counties facing health issues they say were caused by the release of chemicals from the Philips Services Corp. (PSC) plant in Fairburn might have more to be concerned about than they first realized.

It was not exactly the average meeting of the South Fulton Community Improvement District, at least from Fairburn’s perspective. The Aug. 17 meeting brought the announcement that Fairburn is annexing large parcels owned by CSX Railroad along Roosevelt Highway and Hodges and Excel properties along Oakley Industrial Boulevard.

Fairburn City Council Aug. 14 continued its goal of establishing more industrial development with approval of the conceptual site plan for a 500,000 square-foot warehouse on Creekwood Road near Oakley Industrial Boulevard.

Diane Whitman, a business coach with Realized Potential Incorporated is one of a kind. She is the only person in the nation with memberships in three prestigious professional organizations; the PGA (Professional Golfers Association of America), LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association), and the International Coaches Federation. Serving as a Business Coach with Realized Potential Incorporated, Whitman prides herself on bringing the expertise derived from all three organizations to benefit her clients. Based in Tyrone Georgia, Realized Potential provides business coaching services to the sports, entertainment, and hospitality industries nationwide.

Georgia State University Police have arrested a man who shot a Gwinnett woman and opened fire on a Fayetteville police officer in an early-morning shooting Friday in the parking lot of Crumpton’s Furniture, police said.

A drug bust Thursday night at Publix grocery store in Tyrone resulted in three suspects arrested at the scene and a fourth shot before he fled the area, crashing into another vehicle minutes later north of Milam Road on Ga. Highway 74.

Massive subdivision proposed on PTC’s western border

Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon is curious to see how a proposed 3,100 home development just across Line Creek could possibly affect Peachtree City.