Peachtree City police are continuing to investigate the sexual assault of a woman on the city’s cart path system but no further details of the incident early Thursday morning are being released at this time.

Performing well on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is nothing new for Fayette County high school seniors, and this year was no exception. Georgia SAT scores are sliding but Fayette test scores for 2009 continued their upward climb. All but Fayette County High School scored well above the state average for public schools.

Unemployment in Fayette County continued to rise in July with an 8.9 percent rate recorded by Georgia Department of Labor. A similar situation applied to Peachtree City where, for the first time, the rate climbed above 8 percent.

If flu strikes a business’s work force, what is the company to do?

To answer that, Summit Healthcare companies sponsored a flu pandemic preparedness conference for businesses Aug. 26 at the Coweta County Fairgrounds that was attended by companies from Coweta and Fayette counties.

The Fayetteville City Council at the Sept. 3 meeting will consider extending the use of temporary business signs to help offset problems caused by the recession. The council will also hear the first reading of a proposed amendment to the alcohol permit ordinance.

Feds: Golf pro drove to N. Georgia to meet with young child

A Peachtree City man was arrested Sunday in north Georgia after traveling there to meet with a person he thought was a minor child, federal officials said.

The Fayette Samaritans is a non-profit organization dedi- cated to the food and clothing needs of Fayette Countians. Their needs for September are as follows:

The “Find it in Fayette!” Community Expo is coming up on September 15, 3-7 pm at New Hope Baptist Church in Fayetteville, GA.

Square Foot Ministry is in the final stages of completing the Fayette Counseling Center on Bradley Avenue and hopes to be completed before Christmas. The ministry has some specific needs and would like to ask the community for help with these. Paint, paint, paint... 90 gallons of primer and 90 gallons of flat wall paint. Primer can be in a light color or regular primer and flat wall paint can be any brand but needs to be a specific color which donors can call me about, said ministry representative Beth Barron.

Gun drawn, deputy nearly run over during chase through PTC, Fayette

One car run off road, another struck during pursuit

Citing "an ongoing criminal investigation," a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has declined to provide details of a police chase that happened more than two days ago through Peachtree City and unincorporated Fayette County.

The spokesperson said ICE anticipates releasing details later this week but did confirm the pursuit was part of an ICE investigation.

A Peachtree City man was arrested Sunday in north Georgia after traveling there to meet with a person he thought was a minor child.

Fayette County got two touchdown catches from Eric Lauderdale, one from Ben Carley and a rushing touchdown from Kendall Palmore to defeat Stockbridge 26-20 in the first game of the season. The Tigers (1-0) will play at Houston County (1-0) on Friday. The Bears beat Groves 34-12 in their season opener.

The Fayetteville City Council at the Sept. 3 meeting will hear the first reading of a proposed amendment to the Alcohol Permit Ordinance. The principal changes relate to the rejection of an alcohol handling permit and the appeals process if a permit is rejected.

Thursday night the Peachtree City Council is set to significantly increase residential impact fees.

The same action would also require impact fees from non-residential development, a first for the city. Impact fees are one-time only and are collected from developers once a parcel is under construction.

Qualifying for two town council begins Aug. 31 and ends Sept. 4. Those interested should visit town hall on Senoia Road during the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Tyrone will soon be losing Town Manager Chris Venice and Town Clerk Nancy Goedker. Venice will be leaving at the end of the year while Goedker’s resignation will take effect at the end of September.

Another Peachtree City resident has announced plans to run for the City Council.

Beth Pullias is planning to run for the Post 1 seat currently held by Don Haddix, who has said he will resign from the unexpired term to run for mayor in November.

Mayor, 2 council seats up for election

Qualifying begins Monday at 8:30 a.m. at City Hall for those interested in running for mayor or either of the two city council posts in Peachtree City.

Electric membership cooperatives (EMCs) across Georgia, including Coweta-Fayette EMC, are warning consumers to be wary of imposters who have manufactured another telephone scam in order to obtain personal information.

The effort to remove Fayette County Commissioner Robert Horgan from office was dealt a legal death blow in LaGrange this morning.

The Lunch on the Lawn event in Fayetteville scheduled for today has been cancelled due to rain and rescheduled for next Friday, Sept. 4.

On a 3-2 vote, the Peachtree City Council Thursday night avoided a proposed property tax increase.

Instead the city will pull an estimated $451,000 from its cash reserves to balance the $26.53 million budget for the upcoming 2009-2010 fiscal year.

Senoia Historic Preservation Commission’s newest member is Boston native and history buff Mary Swinchatt. Preserving the physical past is crucial to getting to the future, Swinchatt explained.

The $1.5 million renovation of the Carnegie Building in downtown Newnan is coming to an end. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand re-opening for the historic building will be held Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Senoia Councilman Jeffrey Fisher on Wednesday went on the record with his response to a ethics complaint filed by Heritage Pointe resident Don Rehman. The ethics hearing will be conducted Sept. 3 by the committee established by the City Council last week.

It has been along time coming, but Coweta County’s unemployment rate declined half a point in July to 10.7 percent, while unemployment across the 10-county Three Rivers Region increased slightly to 13.2 percent.

Some flu-like symptoms are being seen in Coweta County schools, but those numbers are minor compared to some other southwest metro area school systems. As of Tuesday, only 107 students had manifested flu-like symptoms out of a student population of approximately 23,500.

A McIntosh graduate is convalescing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after he was seriously injured in Afghanistan last week.

Daniel Berschinski, a 1st lieutenant in the Army, lost both his legs in an explosion when he stepped on an improvised explosive device while his unit secured a village in Afghanistan Aug. 17, a family friend told The Citizen.

Coweta County school students have outscored their predecessors on the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), with 2009 scores coming in at the highest ever. The average 2009 SAT score increased to 1,516, a one-point increase over last year’s county-wide average. That score puts Coweta County’s average score 7 points over the national average on the college admissions test.

A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted early this morning on the cart path next to Lake Kedron and the cul-de-sac of Samuel Point and Larkins Landing, police said.