Dylan Driver, a third grade student at Fayetteville Intermediate School, takes a closer look at one of the pumpkins in the school’s pumpkin patch.

Parents in or near Peachtree City and Tyrone, get ready for the great student shuffle of 2006.

The following arrests were reported by local police agencies for the past week:

Fayette County Sheriff’s Office

Fayetteville Planning and Zoning commissioners approved an annexation and rezoning request Oct. 25 designed to lead to the construction of two 40,000 square-foot medical and professional buildings on Ga. Highway 54 West.

The Fayette County Health Department is out of flu vaccine for adults, but they do have some doses left for children under 3 years old, officials said Tuesday morning.

Fayette County Commissioners Oct. 27 denied a rezoning request that would create 31 homes on 38.92 acres on New Hope Road

Fayette voters wanting to avoid lines at the polls Tuesday have their chance this week during the early voting period that ends Friday at 5 p.m.

Thursday night, the Peachtree City Council will consider a resolution encouraging the state legislature to double the distance a registered sex offender must live from schools, playgrounds and child care centers.

Peachtree City Councilman Steve Rapson has a new job, but he’s not exactly sure what all the buzz is about.

A staff proposal for golf carts to be registered every five years will be reconsidered by the Peachtree City Council at its Nov. 17 meeting.

The Georgia Department of Transportation recently repaved Ga. Highway 85 on the north side of Fayetteville

A student at Fayette County High School has been arrested for possession of a knife on campus.

Peachtree City Mayor Steve Brown has reported that more than 240 of his campaign signs have been stolen or destroyed over the past three weeks.

A court dispute between mayoral candidate Dar Thompson and the landlord for one of his former World Gym locations has been settled.

A Peachtree City woman was injured Monday morning in a motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Redwine and Quarters roads, police said.

The Fayette Starr’s Mill Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is just over one and a half years old, and is growing quickly.

Award-winning author Brian Jay Corrigan will visit McIntosh High Nov. 3 to speak to students and sign his book, “The Poet of Loch Ness.”

Eight seniors from Fayette County, McIntosh and Starr’s Mill high schools are among 16,000 semifinalists nationwide competing in the 51st annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

It’s going to be an oinking good time this Saturday night for patrons at the 2005 Fayette County American Cancer Society’s Barons’ Ball.

J.C. Booth Middle is proud to announce that 47 students, or 12 percent of its seventh-grade class, have met the qualifications to participate in the Duke University Talent Identification Program.

Two schools in Mississippi that were damaged by hurricane Katrina received assistance from a local elementary school and teacher.

A team of social studies coordinators from Fayette, Henry and Cobb County school systems have been awarded their second $1 million grant from the Teaching American History Project.

The singers in the chorale department of Landmark Christian School are preparing to sing in a seventy voice choir where they will join professional voice artists from Atlanta, Chicago, and New York.

Two local students are among the 1,600 semifinalists nationwide vying for scholarships in the 2006 National Achievement Scholarship Program, a competition for African American high school students.

The Whitewater High School Homerun Club is sponsoring a “Womanless” Beauty Pageant and Silent Auction.

Speeding suspect had outstanding arrest warrant

A former Tyrone town councilman is calling into question the town’s sewer deal with Fairburn.

Rezoning from commercial to open space proposed

The Tyrone Planning Commission has approved the landscape plan for the Waffle House site off Carriage Oaks near Ga. Highway 74.

The Sandy Creek High School Patriot Marching Band was awarded the overall “Best in Class” trophy Oct.