The Peachtree City Church of God and Peachtree Christian Fellowship invite all youth in the area to attend the JesusCultureAtlanta Youth and Young Adult Conference, which starts tonight at the Peachtree City Church of God on Ga. Highway 34 in Sharpsburg. The event will continue through Friday, June 16.

As in past years, The Citizen is again opening its opinion pages to candidates for contested local and locally-decided political offices.

Tyrone native, Floy Farr, center, chats with Chip Young, left, and his father, Tommy Young.

Fairburn firefighters and those from Union City and Fulton County fight a blaze that caused extensive damage to a residence at 43 Washington Street.

“This is the new South Fulton.”
The message June 7 to the Community and Housing Development Corporation (CHDC) and Fulton County Housing Authority could not have been more clear. Residents of unincorporated South Fulton were adamant in their resistance to a proposal to build a 264-unit, revenue bond-funded apartment complex for largely low-to-moderate income families near the intersection of South Fulton Parkway and Ga. Highway 92. Articulate and determined, the 125 residents that filled the meeting room at Fulton County’s Stonewall Tell complex came through loud and clear. Their response to the proposal was “No.”

Services provided by Fulton County may be on the wane, but in Palmetto that cloud has a silver lining. The city council June 5 unanimously approved a Facility Use Agreement with Fulton County over recreational programming at Wilkerson Mill Park.

The gubernatorial campaign trail made its way to South Fulton Chamber of Commerce Thursday with the appearance of Georgia Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor. The long-time politician focused many of his comments on the importance of local business and his aim to restore cuts to the HOPE scholarship and provide healthcare to all Georgia children.

Like a microcosm of cities and towns across America once the school year ends, Fairburn is seeing a jump in crimes committed by some of its younger residents. Four young Fairburn offenders, ages 12-15, were arrested in the past two weeks for burglary, stalking, simple battery, trespassing and curfew and tobacco violations.

Tyrone’s controversial information policy may not pass legal muster.
Last week, the Town Council approved a policy that would only provide information to residents in a hard copy form, and forbid the use of email for answering residents’ questions.

Tyrone’s $5.7 million budget for next year will be up for final approval next Thursday.
One of the biggest items in this year’s budget is the town’s new library, which gobbles up nearly $1.73 million of the budget.

With less than a month to go before the town’s big July 4 celebration, tyrone residents are hitting the town’s park this weekend for a big clean-up.

Two top-ranking police officials questioned whether it would be wise to arrest the Peachtree City manager for DUI while driving his golf cart Saturday night after a concert, according to several police reports obtained Thursday morning under the Georgia Open Records Act.

Click here to view the police reports used in this article: Report 1, Report 2, Report 3, Report 4, Report 5, Report 6, Report 7.

Magican Ken Scott entertained enthusiastic kids this week at the Peachtree City Library.

Last week the Peachtree City Council voted unanimously to deny a request to allow a the city's Water and Sewer Authority to provide 500,000 gallons a day of sewer treatment services to the neighboring town of Senoia, located in Coweta County. What follows are highlights and tidbits of the give-and-take between the Council, city sewer officials Larry Turner and Mike Harman and Senoia Town Manager Richard Ferry.

Plan still needs county approval

The Peachtree City Council has approved allowing two office-zoned parcels in the county to hook up to the city's sewer system at the city's southern limits.

... But no stoplight; Target traffic feared

The roundabout is out for the intersection of Peachtree Parkway and Walt Banks Road.

Hundreds of Peachtree City’s kids showed up

Chances are patrons of Peachtree City's golf cart paths have noticed some golf carts tootling around with the new yellow decals on them.

If a disaster strikes, a batch of 78 specially trained people will be ready and willing to help in Peachtree City.

Members of the Community Emergency Response Team have learned how to render first aid, assess patient injuries, cut up fallen trees with a chainsaw and use radios to communicate with emergency officials.

After years of fits and starts, Senoia’s City park is getting a $1 million upgrade.

A Spalding County man was indicted this week by the Coweta County Grand Jury in connection with the slaying of Senoia businessman Ken Crook last fall.

An access road to Senoia’s public works building is the fly in the ointment that is giving the city and its biggest employer heartburn.

Brent Brewer, a recent Sandy Creek High School graduate, and Lee Hyde, a Fayette County High school graduate currently with Georgia Tech's baseball team in a hunt for the College World Series, have both been drafted by major league teams on the first day of the draft.

In light of this weekend’s DUI arrest of Peachtree City Manager Bernie McMullen, Mayor Harold Logsdon has taken over one of McMullen’s tasks: overseeing the police department. It’s a first for Peachtree City.

Click here to read the police incident report of McMullen's arrest.

Clean it or close it. That’s the word from the city of Fayetteville to Tinseltown.

Fayetteville City Manager Joe Morton sent a June 1 letter to Fayette Pavilion’s Tinseltown 17 theater manager Brian Ortega informing him that his day in municipal court later this month is not his only problem.

It’s summertime (nearly) and dozens of area youngsters are preparing for fall football.

The Fayette County Board of Education recently approved applying for a $5,000 planning grant to determine if the system has enough funds to establish the county’s first charter school in 2007 — a special school that would focus on drop-out prevention.

Thursday night, the Peachtree City Council unanimously denied a request to provide sewer access to Senoia, which would have doubled the town’s sewer capacity and paved the way for dramatic growth in the historic town across Line Creek.

The Peachtree City Council was presented the staff-recommended draft of the city’s budget for the 2007 fiscal year Monday night.

A long-time and well-known Peachtree City tennis pro died early Saturday morning in an auto crash on Ga. Highway 16 in Spalding County south of Brooks, police said.