The Brooks Elementary fourth- and fifth-grade chorus raised their voices to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the National Anthem Project Road Show Press Conference at the Georgia State Capitol.

Nearly 2,000 eighth graders from J.C. Booth, Rising Starr, Flat Rock and Fayette Middle schools attended the second annual Middle School Career Fair at the Kiwanis fairground.

Residents along Ellison Road near Tyrone Road got a little excitement Tuesday morning when a man led deputies on a foot chase after he was pulled over for speeding.

Union City Police have put the skids on a locally developing drug smuggling tactic, having netted 280 pounds of marijuana in the past three weeks valued at nearly $333,000.

The details are not as complicated as many once thought. Recently unveiled feasibility studies by Georgia State University’s Dr. Robert Eger showed that the proposed South Fulton cities of Campbell and Chattahoochee Hills can make it on their own.

A shoot out Tuesday morning between an armed robber and an armored car guard in front of a bank on Ga. Highway 138 in Union City resulted in a hail of gunfire and the robber fleeing.

Fairburn council members Feb. 13 voted unanimously to adjust the city’s electric rate structure. Expected to take effect in April, residential users will see an increase in rates while commercial and industrial users will see a mix of adjustments depending on their consumption rates.

The Blue Eyed Daisy in Serenbe is packed to overflowing Feb.

A request designed to locate a general contracting and consulting business at 290 Arrowood Road was approved Thursday by Tyrone Planning Commission. Board members agreed to amend the Land Use Map to from Commercial (C) to Office (O) and to the rezoning of the one-acre site to OI (Office-Institutional) over the current R-48 (Residential) designation.

Tyrone Planning Commission voted 3-0 Thursday to deny a rezoning request that would have added office space to a two-acre tract on Dogwood Trail. Commissioners decision was bolstered by several neighbors that believed rezoning the property from residential to office would essentially move the Market Hill development in their back yards.

No one was injured when a Tyrone family’s home caught fire late Monday morning in the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park off Senoia Road.

David Moore and Teddy Smyth, both 13 years old, plopped down on the floor in Alumni Hall gym at Gordon College and again checked their car before handing it to officials to be impounded.

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past week. All persons are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

The 2005-2006 basketball season for the Landmark Christian Lady War Eagles and the Sandy Creek Lady Patriots is over. Both teams were eliminated from the sweet 16 in their respective classifications on Thursday.

Peachtree City residents can look forward to just one bill a year from the city’s fledgling stormwater utility.

That means, however, that the bill will be bigger than the $2.69 to $6 per month for single family detached homes because the bill will represent 12 months. So the actual bills themselves, once mailed to city property owners, will be in the range of $32.28 to $72.

Members of local Boy Scout Troop 309 recently went backpacking on the Appalachian Trail.

The owner of a large, mothballed building adjacent to Peachtree City’s Falcon Field Airport is suing the airport authority to enforce an airport access agreement so the property can be sold.

The Peachtree City Council is officially opposing a bill in the Georgia Legislature that would essentially give Fayette County veto power over annexations.

The Peachtree City Police Department was honored Tuesday afternoon with a resolution from the Georgia Senate for its efforts to arrest child predators who use the Internet to meet potential victims.

Out-of-city golf cart owners wanting to use Peachtree City’s paths will also be required to get a new golf cart decal this year, and every five years.

The Fayette Family YMCA in conjunction with arts&expressions magazine, the Endowment Committee for the Cultural Arts of Fayette County and the Peachtree City Rotary is planning a county wide Festival of the Arts April 22 and 23.

What does the future hold for Senoia’s Downtown Development Authority?

That was one of the questions the Senoia City Council tackled Monday night during their regular meeting.

Developers for the biggest housing project underway in Senoia hit a small roadblock Monday in their quest to keep building homes.

Sharpsburg Sharpshooters Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1729 celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.

This year’s four Coweta County STAR students and their STAR teachers have been announced, and will be honored at the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce Early Bird Forum February 28.

The Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County will host Andrew Dietz, author of “The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit” February 28th at 7 p.m. for a lecture and reading. This is open to the public at no charge.

Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that Winpak Films, Inc. is expanding its current operations in Senoia.

“Winpak is a respected international company that has found great success in Georgia,” said Governor Sonny Perdue. “I am very proud that this great company has chosen to expand in Senoia.”

A Fayetteville man has been appointed acting director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.

Charley English was most recently the assistant director of the Georgia Office of Homeland Security, which is part of GEMA. He previously served as GEMA’s director of operations for seven years.

Early Wednesday afternoon, the Fayette County Commissioner's office announced that a controversial rezoning request would not be discussed Thursday night.

Peachtree City digs into uncharted wastewater territory with its decision last week to approve a 63-home subdivision just south of the Peachtree City limits to receive city-owned sewer service.