Savvi Formalwear, previously Gingiss Formalwear, is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with Tyrone’s Etain Elite Formal Attire, a leader in the bridal boutique business. This new partnership allows Savvi Formalwear to provide convenient one-stop shopping for busy brides-to-be, offering both more choices in tuxedos for the groom and now dresses for the bride and her bridesmaids.

Local developer Brent Scarbrough has been named the new president of the board of directors for Fayette Youth Protection Homes.

Governor Sonny Perdue and State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox congratulated 98 school principals from all over the state yesterday at a reception at the Governor’s Mansion honoring Georgia’s High Performance Principals.

Governor Sonny Perdue announced that Georgia teachers will be able to use their $100 gift cards during the state’s tax free holiday. The 2006 tax-free holiday begins at 12:01 a.m., Thursday and continues until midnight August 6. It combines last year’s two tax-free shopping periods into one four-day period.

The Fayette County High School class of 1936 held its reunion recently and reminisced about that day long go, May 22,1936, when 38 young ladies and nine young men graduated. They each received their diploma from Charles Thornton.

Georgians have a new resource at their fingertips when they need information about a disaster or emergency, according to Governor Sonny Perdue. Developed at the Governor’s request, the newly launched Georgia911.org serves as a gateway to information regarding response and recovery activities, providing real-time information and a comprehensive list of available assistance during an emergency or disaster.

Community assistance is being sought for an initiative to provide school supplies to needy children.

Help is needed urgently as there are quite a few children whose needs haven’t been met yet with just one week before school starts.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) late Friday ordered a temporary halt to all solid waste treatment activities at a south Fulton plant following persistent complaints of illnesses resulting from a pesticide component handled at the facility just beyond the Fayette County line.

Meth, crack found at suspect’s PTC home

A drug dealer peddling from a golf cart near the Kedron Fieldhouse in Peachtree City was arrested early Saturday evening by officers who were tailing him, police said.

They are a growing group of residents of south Fulton and north Fayette who are sick and impatient and will never back down.

Evidence of their commitment to get answers to their illnesses and have the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 shut down came Wednesday night at the first intergovernmental/citizens task force meeting to push for answers and action over the presence of pesticide component Propyl mercaptan that invaded their communities two months ago.

Crews to repair railroad crossing

Getting to and from the Interstate will be a bit tougher next weekend as part of Ga. Highway 74 in Tyrone will be closed so the CSX railroad tracks can be repaired, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Union City continues to be busy during the summer of annexation. Planning Commission members July 24 held 32 public hearings, recommending the rezoning and annexation of more than 580 acres north of the city and 39 acres as part of an existing unincorporated island.

Palmetto’s largest rezoning and annexation move thus far in South Fulton’s summer of annexation ended Thursday with a recommendation from the city’s Planning Commission to bring nearly 1,100 acres of property into the city. Commissioners also voted to table a move to annex Willow Oak Landfill and denied at request to rezone property on Beckman Drive for condominiums.

The Fayette County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will be holding a “Men of Valor” conference Aug. 12 at Sandy Creek High School from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Palmetto Elementary School will have an open house Aug. 10 from 4-6 p.m. Parents are encouraged to wear their college alumni T-shirts to help support our yearlong school theme “Palmetto Elementary School Where Students are College Bound.” Students are encouraged to wear their favorite college t-shirts, jerseys and hats, etc.

The comunity is invited to the new City Center open house today from 1-4 p.m.. City Center is located at 6502 Gresham Street in Union City.

Approximately 900 new Fulton County teachers will gather July 31 - August 4 for the school system’s annual New Teacher Orientation. The event is part of the pre-school year festivities to welcome teachers and help them acclimate to their new classrooms and teaching assignments.

Agreement beats July 31 deadline for grant

An agreement in principle has been struck in a complex land deal that will allow officials to proceed with building the road extension of TDK Boulevard to link with Coweta County, officials said Wednesday.

An armed robbery Wednesday at The Herb Shop in Peachtree City bears an interesting similarity to other recent hold-ups in Fayette County.

Senoia City Councilman Perry Benson resigned Wednesday and the City Council is expected to decide Aug.7 whether to appoint an interim councilman or wait until the fall elections.

South Fulton County just keeps on evolving. The most current addition to the idyllic landscape dominated by lush rolling hills and upscale homes is the Martha Stewart-inspired Hampton Oaks community on Ga. Highway 92 at Butner Road. Open to the public beginning July 29, Stewart and builder KB Home provided a glimpse of the new community earlier in the week.

Former mayor says ‘intent’ was to vote in public

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizen.com
and MATT NOLLER

Peachtree City has put together a bid package to host the start of next year’s Tour de Georgia bike race.

If the bid is approved, the city would host a number of pre-race events and an estimated 350 hotel rooms will be full for at least one night if not more, said Lauren Yawn, executive director of the Peachtree CIty Tourism Association.

The Coweta County School System is moving forward in its efforts towards ending a 1973 injunction surrounding racial issues.

The Peachtree City Council proposed a plan to add one extra police officer to the force by the end of the year at its July 20 meeting.

Following a busy summer of construction, the Coweta County School Board plans to dedicate several schools before the first day of the new school year.

Peachtree City police are investigating a robbery that occurred at The Herb Shop on Commerce Drive Wednesday afternoon.

“Our goal is to have no source of [onion] odor emanating from our facility. What’s left now is the vapor that is lingering,” said Morris Azose, an official with a waste treatment plant on the Fayette-Fulton border.

For Sandy Creek Road resident John Abernathy and his wife Delores, there is no question that the onion-like smell of the pesticide component Propyl mercaptan coming from the PSC waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 across the county line in south Fulton is responsible for the renal failure he suffered in June.

If your house was reassessed this year — and most Fayette homes were — you’ll likely be paying more taxes to the Fayette County Board of Education this fall.