Note to the the driver of a green van, license APG 3002. Thanks for crossing a solid white line from the straight only lane to the right turn only lane at the last second at the intersection of Highway 314 and Highway 85. I brake with my left foot. That shorter reaction time is all that kept me from hitting you. Then, you crossed a solid yellow line to a left turn lane on Highway 85. You need to attend Driving Rules 101 before you kill yourself or someone else. Do you have any idea why the lines are solid and not broken?

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Here is the problem! Each week I retieve one to three beer bottles that have been deposited into my yard from passing automobiles. The bottles are predominately Bud Light. Now, is it that the sale of Bud Light is such that, due to pure statistical data, more Bud Light is sold or is it that the purchasers of Bud Light drink and drive and have no respect for other people's property and are, basically, slobs?

As an employee of Fayette Co. I attended the appreciation lunch last week. Thank You to the people that organized it and made it happen, the food was good and it was nice to talk to people in other departments. Of course Dunn & the other Commissioners were there - huddled together and whispering to each other, except the newest guy (Horgan), who spoke to folks. Dunn, why waste your time coming to a function such as this if you don't want to lower your high & mighty self to circulate among us peons that suffer from your actions. I just wish I had some bumper stickers for someone running against you to pass out while I was there.
Again, the overall experience of the lunch was a good one and Thank You agin to all you wonderful organizers.

Reference the article in Saturday's The Tyrone Citizen "Annexation plans bracket Tyrone on north and south.
As no one has addressed the changing outline of both Peachtree City and Fairburn in either The Citizens' Blog or Letters to the Editor, it seems time to present an alternative; i.e. all inclusive plans that would include Tyrone.
It is obvious that Georgia Highway 74 is well on its way to becoming another Memorial Drive! Additional commercial businesses crop up daily. Apartments and condos are being built on or near this thoroughfare. A major shopping center is being developed in Fairburn. Kedron Village is adding numerous shops, service centers, restaurants, etc. etc. And, probably, rightly so! Georgia Highway 74 is a major highway promoting easy access to Atlanta for work and play and to Hartsfield/Jackson Airport for national and international travel.
But, Tyrone continues to struggle with its problems! Residential development not in accordance with zoning and the purchasing sewerage from outside of Fayette County is limiting, at best. Tyrone has the highest tax rates in the County, has a non-responsive Mayor and Town Council, parks have not been maintained or funded, a town maintenance crew that tries but is seriously understaffed, no code enforcement officer, constant turmoil over a library coupled with the subsequent cost to Tyrone's taxpayers, etc.etc.
Currently, Tyrone has well run police force! It works in conjunction with the other law enforcement entities in the county by maintaining law and order within its borders. The major portion of their enforcement is on Georgia Highway 74. This highway is also patrolled by Georgia State Patrol, the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, Peachtree City, Fulton County and Fairburn. Absorbing the Tyrone Police Department into either the Peachtree City or Fayette County's police force would make good financial sense.

The county already provides dispatch service to both police and emergency services.

The county already provides fire protection for the Town of Tyrone.

Peachtree City has an outstanding maintenance crew that maintains that city. If fact, many services provided to Tyrone are now provided by Peachtree City.

Both the county and Peachtree City have viable administrative services that could provide the required oversight currently being funded by Tyrone citizens by a duplication of services, such as budgeting, accounting, purchasing, library services, storm water management, erosion control, zoning and rezoning, land use, etc.

Instead of constant bickering between members of Council, the developers and citizens about sewage and how to receive more capacity, annexation by Peachtree City would pave the way to maintaining proper sewerage control through Peachtree City facilities and provide the proper level of service that the people of Tyrone deserve.

Annexation of Tyrone by Peachtree City would eliminate redundant management and reduce the cost of maintaining the same.

Think about it, folks! Lower taxes, conceivably higher property values, more consistent services, better compliance with State and county code and ordinances coupled with cost savings through consolidation of purchasing, accounting and other municipal services! Also consider a savings of over one million dollars by expanding the current library and not building a new library and, not to mention, saving the thousands of dollars that would be required to maintain the new facility. Annexation would provide equitable funding for both the parks and road improvements.

But, would Peachtree City want Tyrone? Discussions concerning this proposal are in order.

HAVE YOU NOT REALIZED THAT THE POLICE HERE HAVE TONS OF THINGS THAT THEY COULD DO THAT ARE BETTER BUT INSTEAD THEY CHOOSE TO DO NOTHING AT ALL. OR, THEY CHOOSE TO SIT AND WRITE TICKETS. I SAW A COP DRIVE RIGHT PAST A PERON WHO WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT HANDICAPPED (THE TRUCK WAS ABOUT 20 FT OFF THE GROUND)PARKED IN A HANDICAPPED SPOT AND NOT EVEN TURN BACK TO LOOK. HONESTLY, DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO ASK IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO IN THIS TOWN?!?!? YOU HAVE 15 YEAR OLDS DRIVING AND INSTEAD OF TICKETING THEM, THEY HAND OUT MEANINGLESS TICKETS TO THOSE OF US WHO ARE DOING NOTHING WRONG OR SOMETHING THAT THEY COULD JUST WARN US ABOUT.

Stupid Driving Situation #1. You are at an intersection wanting to make a right turn. You have a red light. What do you do, oh what do you do? You think hard, really really hard. Then you decide to make the turn forcing a driver going straight through the intersection with a green light to slow down. Alas, you have successfully joined the jerk club.

Thank you to the PTC Police Officer who had nothing better to do than to sit at Wal-mart and give me a citation for sitting in the car at the front of Wal-Mart while waiting for my mom. You should be out on the streets giving tickets to people who go thru a pure RED light and cause deadly accidents. My mother ran in to get flowers to take to a friend and I thought she would be right out. If a fire were to break out, I would have moved out of the fire lane. I wasn't causing any harm to anyone.

My parents bought a house here in fayetteville in 96 so I have been kicking around fayetteville for the last 10 years and just recenntly bought my first house here in fayetteville myself and I just wanted to comment on some of the service at the restraunts here in fayetteville.
Some restraunts have excellent service while others are just plain horrible. Since I can get in trouble for name which ones I have had a horrible time at I will just list the ones that Always have excellent service. First of the chick-fil-a on the south side of fayetteville. They have some of the nicest staff you could ask for . always polite and freindly and will go out of there way if there is something you need not like there compition directly across the street. The China Bistro ..Excellent. freindly staff and very good food , their lunch specials are a very good bargin. Locos is another restraunt with very nice wait staff with good food. And HOTLANTA WINGS , what a deal!! I can stuff myself all day long there. Du Rocks Bar-b-que I have freinds from out of state that come and visit me just to get to eat there stuffed baked potatoe its so good. Unfortunatly there are more restraunts on my " I don't think I will eat there again list" not because of food qaulity but because of there customer service skills. A lot of these people act like when a customer comes in and orders that it is a pain in there day and wishs the customer would just go away instead of glad that people are coming in and ordering keeping them in business and being employeed. Has anyone else had bad service experinces in fayetteville?

You Delta pilots are too much. Of course your salaries are less than AirTran: AirTran is making money. Just in case you've been snoozing in the cockpit, Delta is loosing money. How do YOU spell B-A-N-K-R-U-P-T-C-Y? You say you're educated and can seek employment elsewhere? By all means go ahead, but you should refrain from applying for positions in the field of economics.

MeNPTC

The decision of the board was correct for some schools but making no decision on any schools left Peachtree City Elementary with the same over crowding problem that it has had for years. I am puzzled why the school board would choose not to improve this situation when other nearby schools are under utilized. Not addressing the over crowding at Peachtree City Elementary has caused problems with, the quality of education, safety and security at the school, and has caused the county additional unnecessary cost in the use of portable buildings.
The quality of education at Peachtree City Elementary is compromised by, overcrowded classrooms, portable classrooms that are so noisy when the HVAC is running the children cannot here the teacher and vise versa. If you have experienced the noise of the air conditioners, running in the portable buildings you would know that the noise makes a very poor environment to teach.
Allowing our children to go to and from the portable buildings at the PTC Elementary school is a security problem that no one at the board has addressed. In fact, they have created a situation that would make it relatively easy for a predator to lurk between the buildings waiting for an unsuspecting child going from the portables to the school building.
All taxpayers should be appalled that the school board would pay for additional utilities and portable buildings when they already have empty classrooms that are available near by. These are classrooms that they are already paying utilities on but are sitting empty. Where is the fiscal responsibility in that!
Now that 41 children from the Pinegate subdivision have voluntarily transferred from PTC Elementary to Kedron, to alleviate the over crowding, the FCBOE will not provide a school bus. Worse then that is that an under utilized school bus is available at the end of the subdivision that picks up from the Honeysuckle subdivision. One would have to ask again, why the board would not want to fully utilize the resources available. I guess they would rather have an extra 20 or 30 cars on the road and in the drop off circle at Kedron Elementary.

What I said last year was true then and is even more so this year. The administrator's kid does not belong on that team. All the goals scored against that team happend when the Ad-kid was in on defense. The 40 or 50 school workers who signed the letter condeming me last year must have never attended a game. This year it is even more obvious. And it is time for the administrator to stop his stroll over to the bench that is immediately followed by his kid being put back in. If you still disagree, go to a game!

The decision of the board for not moving children was correct for some schools but making no decision on any schools left Peachtree City Elementary with the same over crowding problem that it has had for years. I am puzzled why the school board would choose not to improve this situation when other nearby schools are under utilized. Not addressing the over crowding at Peachtree City Elementary has caused problems with, the quality of education, safety and security and at the school, and has caused the county additional unnecessary cost in the use of portable buildings.
The quality of education at Peachtree City Elementary is compromised by, overcrowded classrooms, portable classrooms that are so noisy when the HVAC is running the children cannot here the teacher and vise versa. If you have experienced the noise of the air conditioners, running in the portable buildings you would know that the noise makes a very poor environment to teach.
Allowing our children to go to and from the portable buildings at the PTC Elementary school is a security problem that no one at the board has addressed. In fact, they have created a situation that would make it relatively easy for a predator to lurk between the buildings waiting for an unsuspecting child going from the portables to the school building.
All taxpayers should be appalled that the school board would pay for additional utilities and portable buildings when they already have empty classrooms that are available near by. These are classrooms that they are already paying utilities on but are sitting empty. Where is the fiscal responsibility in that!
Now that 41 children from the Pinegate subdivision have voluntarily transferred from PTC Elementary to Kedron, to alleviate the over crowding, the FCBOE will not provide a school bus. Worse then that is that an under utilized school bus is available at the end of the subdivision that picks up from the Honeysuckle subdivision. One would have to ask again, why the board would not want to fully utilize the resources available. I guess they would rather have an extra 20 or 30 cars on the road and in the drop off circle at Kedron Elementary.

MeNPTC

RE: My comment about adopting babies instead of aborting them. You wanted me to post my name in the paper. Well, I don't think so. You see I'm afraid you might resort to violence if I do. Also, you and I both know how hard it is to adopt a baby in this country. My point still stands; abortion is murder. We don't come from cows or dogs, we come from humans and when an abortionist removes fetal tissue he is killing a human. What is so hard to understand about that? You same people who protest the war will turn right around and have an abortion. What's the difference? Killing is killing.

Since PTC gov't was brilliant enough to come up with the Big Box ordinance for department stores, it's a shame they didn't think ahead and create a "Small Box" or "Lunch Box" ordinance for all the restaurants that now sit vacant in PTC.

PUHLEEZE someone bring a Whataburger franchise to this town. We need a real hamburger joint that serves quality food with exceptional service and at a reasonable price.

What happened at Wings and Things? went in this week to eat and the original wings and things taste like somebody tried to do a remake that didn't work! bring back the old wings or lose your customers.

I had a love-hate relationship with the old hard-copy free speech. Hated that people could be so mean-spirited--but loved the humor and great insights!

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Glory be! I found the way.

Your questions answered. No the department is not a union shop. However over 50% of the paid staff are members of the International Association of Firefighters who support issues such as increased safety in the workplace and legislative issues at a national and local level that affect our jobs. No we cannot strike. It is against our beliefs and in our charter. It is also against the law for any public safety union to strike. We would not put our community at risk. Instead we take our issues to you the public and ask for help by educating the public on the issues. Lastly, stop by the Peachtree City Fire Department and anyone would happily answer any questions you have. If we can't then we will get you in touch with the people who can answer your questions.

Anybody figure out how to read this week's Free Speech or is that now this online stuff? I can't figure out how to pull it up online.

Boy, did folks get their feelings hurt with the Delta comment! While accusing Delta employees of "walking on water", you must have been holding your head under it. It was NEVER stated that Delta was the only company to put Atlanta on the map...simply ONE of the companies. As far as Eastern being "king"; maybe in Miami, but not Atlanta. There was always a fun rivalry between the two about who would be the biggest or best for the month. Eastern would have 250 flights for the month and the next, Delta would have 260. I know...I grew up in a Delta/Eastern family. It was good dinner conversation (remember those?)to see what would happen next. Now, it's folks hoping Delta goes under because we deserve it. I have never expected anyone to bow to me, and I never thought I was better than someone, but I have never been ashamed to be a Delta employee either. In the early days in Atlanta, Delta was "THE" place to work...now it just a "place" to work; another victim of corporate greed, a la Frank Lorenzo. Also, you had better check again on the help that you say AirTran didn't receive. Never did it say AirTran wasn't paying their bills, but it is a fact that most upstart carriers get MANY breaks that the older carriers don't ever see. And since you say, "why pay twice for a ticket just to say you flew Delta?"...I'll bet you one of those high dollar tickets that you don't say the same thing when it comes to you buying Levi's versus Sears Toughskins, or Coke vs. Sam's Cola! Now all of a sudden you become "brand conscience" and cost is no object. Go figure!