Poplar Road Kindergarten teacher Terri Buckland was announced as Coweta County’s 2006 Teacher of the Year Monday, at the county’s annual Teacher of the Year ceremony at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts.

Residents driving the busy Rockaway Road corridor may soon see Senoia’s first example of yard art.

Kevin Wright, who lives at 516 Rockaway Road, asked the City Council Monday night to allow him to place a brass statue in his front yard. City Administrator Richard Ferry said Wright runs his engineering business out of his home and originally wanted to place a sign that would enable customers to find his business.

The water quality at Line Creek has been back to normal for a week now, according to results from water quality testing conducted by the Peachtree City Water and Sewer Authority.

A greater percentage of Coweta County 11th graders passed science and social studies sections of the Georgia High School Graduation (GHSGT) on the first sitting, according to results returned to the school system this week.

On Saturday, May 27, Quail Ridge Farm and the Classic Show Series will host the May Dayz Classic, the first of four shows. The May Dayz Classic is open to the public with an admission fee at the gate. 100 percent of the gate proceeds are donated to Alzheimer’s Foundation in honorarium of Mrs. Patricia Willis, mother of Mrs. Joel (Sandi) Black. The admission gate fee is $5 per vehicle.

This month’s gospel sing held at the old depot in Grantville is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27, and will feature the following groups:

The Starr's Mill Panthers varsity baseball team was one strike away from a sweep of Tift County. Instead, the Blue Devils hit a two run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning of the second game on Wednesday to take a 4-3 win and force a game three at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Peachtree City’s latest foray into providing sewer for out of city residents received unanimous approval Monday from the Fayette County Board of Education.

For the most part, unincorporated parts of the county are unsewered, meaning residents rely on septic tanks for wastewater disposal. Residential septic tanks require a significant portion of an acre for the drainage field, in effect limiting the smallest county lot sizes beyond sewer lines to one acre or more.

Fayetteville continues to build up and out west along Ga. Highway 54. Council members May 18 will consider two requests that would add nearly 120,000 square feet of office and retail space at Brandywine Boulevard Extension and Grady Avenue.

Bye-bye, Days Inn. Hello, shopping.

A commercial developer plans to construct an “upscale shopping center” on the western border of Peachtree City, south of Ga. Highway 54 on a parcel currently occupied by the Days Inn motel.

Fayette CARE Clinic, the county’s first free medical and dental clinic, began seeing its first patients three weeks ago in a “soft opening” with little fanfare.

Haylee Griffith, a player for the Brooks pre-T-ball Bulldogs, takes a breather at third base recently before one of her teammates got a hit to drive her home.

The proposed 2006-2007 budget for Fayette County government totals $78.34 million after minor changes approved in the past few weeks by the Fayette County Board of Commissioners.

The Fayette County Board of Education Monday night gave the green light to spend $179.5 million next year to educate Fayette County’s students.

The Fayette County Marshal’s Department will have a presence at the new Kenwood Park recreation complex that will be built in north Fayette County off Ga. Highway 279.

The Target store at Fayette Pavilion is looking to move up in square footage. Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission May 9 heard a presentation of the development plans and a variance request that would add more than 9,000 square feet of mostly office space while decreasing the number of parking spaces. Target representatives were instructed to bring position letters from neighboring businesses and the Fayette Pavilion owner to the May 23 regular session.

The Metro Fayette Kiwanis has established a scholarship for a deceased member, Margaret M. Vail. She died Oct. 21, 2005.

Fayette’s school counselors celebrated their craft and honored their colleagues during the sixth annual Fayette School Counselors Association (FSCA) Installation of Officers and Awards Ceremony.

Fayette County High School student Tapan Shah has been chosen to participate in Georgia’s 41st annual Washington Youth Tour, an all-expense paid leadership experience sponsored by the electric membership corporations in Georgia, including Coweta-Fayette EMC.

Two Fayette Middle students recently had the honor of participating in the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Family Involvement Committee of Robert J. Burch Elementary School recently hosted a garden-theme reception in honor of their parent volunteers.

Teens have the power to make a difference in their communities and especially in younger people’s lives.

Patrons of the Publix at Summit Point recently had their groceries packed in decorated bags featuring the artwork of nearly 200 East Fayette Elementary students.

Since 1986, students at Fayette County High have been educating residents on the rich history of Fayette County through their own magazine, “Fayette Portraits.”

Forget the calculator and call one of the Fayette’s math bowl winners for the solution to those difficult math problems.

Since he was a youngster, Michael Raymer wondered what it would be like growing up in a Communist country.

He finally got an opportunity to find out from people who had experienced that lifestyle first hand when he visited Russia as a participant in the National Council on Economics Education (NCEE) Study Tour on Economic Education in Russia.

The Sandy Creek Winterguard made history by becoming the first team to medal four years in a row at the Southeastern Color Guard Circuit (SCGC) Championships.

Four projects developed by Fayette high school students have received first place recognition at the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair held recently at the University of Georgia.

Fayette’s eighth grade students have posted high scores on the 2006 Georgia Middle Grades Writing Assessment (MGWA), according to official score reports received by the school system.