A plan to build a shopping center on the south side of Ga. Highway 54 West will be discussed Monday night in a workshop meeting of the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

Transportation, tutoring among biggest needs

With some experience now under their belts, Peachtree City officials are wanting to improve the fledgling after-school program the city hosts for Booth middle school students.

Newnan High School was tops in the 2006 Can-A-Thon drive in Coweta Count, raising 30,167 in food items to help refill the local Food Pantry.

Candles will glow, polished wood will gleam, and you will step back in time to the sights and sounds of Christmas a hundred years ago. Catch a glimpse of an old-fashioned holiday celebration during the Senoia Candlelight Tour of Homes this Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. Five historic houses and a beautiful Victorian church will open their doors to enchant you with the charm of Christmas past.

Richard Nelson Brown was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the Sept. 30, 2005 murder of Senoia business owner Ken Crook. Convicted on all five counts, Superior Court Judge Marion Cummings called the murder a brutal and heinous crime.

Fund established to benefit couple’s daughter

April Ulrich, accused of shooting her ex-husband Eric Ulrich Oct. 26 outside the NCR offices in Peachtree City, had her case bound over to Superior Court after a preliminary hearing in Magistrate Court earlier this week.

53 homes axed; total reduced to 699 homes on 400 acres

Levitt and Sons has reduced the number of homes it is seeking to build in its proposed senior housing community “Seasons at Peachtree City,” which is part of a 779-acre annexation proposal for west Peachtree City.

The Georgia National Guard under the leadership of Major General William T. Nesbitt conducted a combined training exercise with the Peachtree City-Falcon Field Civil Air Patrol squadron recently.

The Youth Council of Fayette County is hosting a concert Friday, Dec. 15 that will feature several rock bands.

The headliner is Between the Trees, one of the hottest indie rock bands in the southeast which has almost a million plays on MySpaceMusic and Purevolume. Another band on the slate is 7 Sharp 9 of Atlanta, which tours the country and Kenotia from Marietta which just finished recording in New York and has more than 300,000 plays on MySpaceMusic and Purevolume.

There will no special election to fill the unexpired term of former school board chairman Mitch Powell.

Instead, the board will appoint someone from Powell’s 5th District to fill the last two years of his term. Powell succumbed to lung cancer earlier this month, and Coweta County school officials have been researching the method to replace him on the board.

Law enforcement agencies in Coweta and Fulton counties are seeking three men in connection with the Nov. 16 burglaries of two convenience stores in Newnan and Fairburn.

Saturday night, the city of Senoia kicks off its holiday festivities with “Light Up Senoia,” a colorful Main Street parade and celebration.

Although results of a recent survey of Peachtree City residents are still being processed, some of the data has been released culled from the approximately 500 persons who responded ... accounting for half the total surveys mailed out.

A Peachtree City family has sued the city for failing to properly mark a golf cart crossing where their son was struck by an oncoming car more than a year ago.

Volunteer, staffers also honored

The Peachtree City Parks and Recreation Department was named the 2006 Parks and Recreation Agency of the Year by the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association.

4 industrial park projects also get go-ahead

A plan to build a 145-unit senior apartment community in south Peachtree City has been resurrected.

Coweta Performance Learning Center students have volunteered at the current Habitat for Humanity build in Coweta County. Many students are looking for career direction and Habitat’s Americorp and Vista intern programs have initiated careers in social service for many of these interns and volunteers. Coweta’s Habitat was just accepted into the Americorp/Vista program and will be “hiring” 3 interns over the course of 2007. Photo/Special.

Sponsors are being sought to help make Christmas special for several needy families in what has become an annual event at Falcon Field in Peachtree City.

Parents have two weeks to make their feelings known on the Coweta County school calendars for the next two school years.

The announcement of The Legacy Theatre came early in 2006 when the town of Tyrone and theatre owner Bethany Smith stated that the theatre would now be built near the Millbrook subdivision, directly across the highway from the Publix shopping center. A formal reception was held in March and citizens could purchase seats and hear about the inaugural line-up of shows at the theatre and things went quiet as everyone got to work.

Police: Quick clothes change doesn’t help suspects

A well-dressed jewelry thief and his getaway driver were arrested by Peachtree City police Wednesday afternoon after stealing a $30,000 ring from a store at The Avenue shopping center, police said.

By the time all the votes were counted in Fayette and Coweta counties, it was clear the blue tide sweeping the country stopped before it hit two of the southern suburbs of Atlanta.

State officials are reconfiguring the timeline for cities such as Peachtree City to file their comprehensive plans, City Planner David Rast told the Peachtree City Council in a special called meeting Tuesday night..

Dallas man arrested in undercover PTC sting

A Fayette County jury has convicted a Dallas, Ga. man for sending computer porn to an undercover Peachtree City police officer who he thought was a 15-year-old girl.

Obscenity charge may be wiped from record after 10 years

A former Tyrone youth minister has pled guilty to using the internet for sharing obscene material with an undercover police officer he thought was 14 years old.

Two drug seizures by Grantville Police in the past week netted 82 pounds of suspected marijuana with a street value of $164,000. A controlled-buy Oct. 31 led to the arrest of two men from Fairburn and Union City. The subsequent seizure of 58 pounds of suspected marijuana came after two other UPS deliveries were made but no one arrived to pick them up at the residences.

Hundreds of spectators showed up on Main Street in Senoia last Saturday to bid on items from Hutchinson’s Hardware store.

Senoia City Administrator Richard Ferry unveiled the city’s budget next year during this week’s council meeting and said it’s a “very modest’ increase over last year.

There must be something intoxicating about the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest because not only does the audience grow every year, both at the event and watching from home, but it inspires many people to take up the fork and give the sport of competitive eating a try. Two local men, Larry “The Legend” McNeil and Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, both graduates of McIntosh High School (Mcneil graduated in 1989 and Yarbrough graduated in 1991) and current Newnan residents, were among those inspired by the spectacle, so much so that they entered a qualifying event for the contest at Zoo Atlanta the following year. Though neither won, Yarbrough did better than McNeil, the two were hooked and have continued to participate in International Federation of Competitive Eating events.

Members of the area's three veteran's organizations will memorialize the contributions of all U.S. military veterans during the second annual Veterans Day Remembrance on Saturday, Nov. 11 from 9:30 to 10 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial in Peachtree City.