The Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 shut down Friday by Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) is back open.

Union City’s recent plan to annex 43 parcels of largely undeveloped land along South Fulton Parkway was turned down by Fulton County Commission at the board’s Aug. 2 meeting.

It was meager by the current standards of Union City and Palmetto, but on target for Fairburn during the rush by many South Fulton cities to beat the legislatively-imposed Oct. 30 annexation deadline. Fairburn Planning Commission Aug. 1 voted to recommend rezoning and annexation of approximately 12 acres located on six tracts.

It was quite an evening at Duncan Park on Aug.

The pilot who died in a plane crash early Thursday morning at Falcon Field has been identified as Leo Giles of Peachtree City.

Leadership for Tomorrow applications and nominations are now being accepted for professionals and community volunteers who live or work in the South Fulton area. Applications and nominations are due by Sept. 8.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between July 12-25:

Cyril Kirkland, 50, Fairburn, disorderly conduct-public drunk

Three-year contract puts Piedmont back in BCBS network

Just after midnight Thursday, officials representing Piedmont hospitals and physicians agreed to a three-year contract with Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Georgia, ending a statemate between the parties.

Members of the McIntosh football team hit the practice fields Wednesday night.

For Peachtree City and Tyrone residents, getting to and from Interstate 85 will be tough this weekend as part of Ga. Highway 74 in Tyrone will be closed.

Undercover drug agents arrested three Coweta residents last week for selling crack cocaine in the parking lot of The Avenue shopping center in Peachtree City.

The new design for the proposed Peachtree City First Baptist Church Community Life building was much more well-received than the initial drawings for the project.

Students attending Coweta County schools head back to class Monday to begin the 2006-07 school year.

Coweta County Schools are expecting well over 21,000 students to be enrolled during the 2006-2007 school year, following average growth of close to 1,000 students per year in recent years, officials said.

A contractor has been selected for the widening of Ga. Highway 74 from Ga. Highway 54 to just south of Crosstown Road in Peachtree City.

Homeowners whose lots back up to Lake Kedron are being reminded to follow city and state laws regulating the amount of buffer and greenbelt areas around the lake that must be undisturbed.

An experimental plane crashed at Falcon Field around 8 a.m. this morning, killing the sole occupant inside, officials said.

The Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 shut down Friday by Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) is back open.

A 14-year-old was assaulted early Tuesday evening while driving a golf cart on the path between Harmony Village Apartments and Balmoral Apartments, police said.

The source of a sickening onion odor is shut down, at least temporarily. And in a new development, nobody except plant officials has any idea what substances have been treated at the south Fulton plant for at least two years.

Georgia Environmental Protection Division Director Carol Couch late Friday issued an administrative order temporarily suspending the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant’s permit to treat solid waste.

They were not deterred by heat, humidity or pouring rain. A group of more than 130 residents of north and central Fayette and south Fulton counties participated in a day-long protest Saturday against the sickening onion-like smell of propyl mercaptan released from the Philip Services Corp. plant on Ga. Highway 92.

It’s going to be a little more crowded this year when school starts Monday.

According to school system public information officer Melinda Berry-Dreisbach, 23,093 students are expected for the first day of classes.

The Fayette County Board of Education stopped short of designating “official” bus stops Monday morning because of the legal morass a new law is causing school systems around the state.

A Fayette County man has pled guilty to murder in the shooting death of a local businessman a year ago.

In Superior Court Tuesday, Charles William Sangster, 46, admitted to killing Robert Groninger, 43, at Groninger’s business, Big Tree Tree Service on Ga. Highway 92 north July 6, 2005. The plea allows Sangster to escape a possible death penalty sentence.

Crews from the Fayetteville Fire Department spray down a tractor-trailer on fire at D&S Environmental off First Manassas Road in Fayetteville Monday afternoon.

Peachtree City’s cart paths are being used to transport and sell illegal drugs, according to Police Chief James Murray, who is asking citizens to be more alert and report suspicious activity on the paths to police.

Peachtree City residents will see the city’s portion of their annual property tax bill increase, as a .25 mill hike was approved by the City Council at a 7 a.m. Monday meeting.

In a possible about-face, the Peachtree City Council may vote Thursday to spend funds this year to help design an expansion for The Gathering Place senior citizen’s center.

Plans are unfolding for a new look at the triangle of land formed by the intersection of West Lanier and Stonewall avenues. A rezoning proposal to Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission would lead to the mixed use office and retail center on the 2.74-acre site.

The public is invited to the Fayetteville Outdoor Large Train Garden Railroad layout August 4 and August 5.

With hurricane season officially beginning June 1 and lasting until November 30, the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR) recommends that Georgians begin preparing now.