For the last few months, when Coweta County has been mentioned, Fayette residents in person and on our website react like they have a bad case of heartburn.

“We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at 5, she can tell you ‘bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It’s interesting when people die — give us dirty laundry.”

I'm sitting in the green room and have just completed the makeup portion of the program. I've just been told by MSNBC that my first "hit" or interview will be at 9:15 a.m.

Watch the Red Hat Society honored at the Fayette County Commission Wednesday afternoon and listen to the musical stylings of Commission Chairman Jack Smith.

Hollywood returned to Coweta County Saturday morning. During a day-long shooting session at Riverwood Studios in Senoia, film crews shot a movie trailer for a family film involving the search for Confederate gold. The video shows one of the scenes being staged. If the film is picked up by Hollywood, more shooting would occur in Senoia.

On November 15, Sara Harp Minter Elementary School assistant principal Michael Smith was in the middle of his morning work-out at World Gym in Fayetteville. Smith collapsed, and the staff and fellow gym members responded quickly and used an automatic defibrillator to assist in Smith's treatment before the Fayette County EMS arrived on the scene.