Willis Road Elementary School held a "Pancakes with Santa" fundraiser on Saturday, December 17, to benefit the school gym.

“If my office closed and we all went home at five o’clock, I probably wouldn’t be up here,” said Coweta County Sheriff Mike Yeager to commissioners Dec. 15.

Coweta County commissioners Dec. 15 voted to sign a Memorandum of Understanding designed pave the way for construction of the PetSmart regional distribution center at Creekside Industrial Park. The MOU signatories include Coweta County Development Authority, PetSmart and the county commission.

Writer and television producer Sherri Smith Brown has been named editor-in-chief of the new real estate-oriented consumer magazine 20 South by the magazine's executive editor, Dan Langford.

In a concerted effort to help its Gulf States market centers recover from Hurricane Katrina, Keller Williams Realty Inc. and its public charity, Keller Williams Realty Cares (KW Cares) has raised $4.4 million.

The Homeowners Association of Arbor Springs Plantation gathered Nov. 12 to meet the new owners of Arbor Springs Golf & Resort. The residents were treated to breakfast prepared by Chef Tim Wade of Kelly’s on the Green restaurant.

Move over, “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” and “Trading Spaces,” there’s a new player in town.

The Home Source Realtors, the top-producing real estate company in Fayette and Coweta counties, is now offering designed to sell/home staging services through its partnership with Splendid Source Home Services, a Fayetteville-based home staging company.

The popular Persimmon Creek new home community in Coweta County announces the opening of a new phase of neighborhood construction. The new North Phase is located near I-85 on Canongate Road.

Patrick Malloy Communities, greater metro Atlanta’s most innovative and active homebuilder, was recognized with two awards at the recent Atlanta Homebuilder’s Association Annual Sales & Marketing Awards. Patrick Malloy Communities won the Gold Award for its architectural design, elevation and floor plan for a single cluster-home priced under $199,999. The Company captured the award for its Summerport home plan at Harmony on the Lakes in Holly Springs, Cherokee County.

Aroung 157 residents of Arbor Springs Plantation attended the community’s annual Christmas Party held at Kelly’s on the Green, the upscale restaurant at Arbor Springs Golf & Resort.

Pathway Communities recently won six Professionalism Awards for excellence in advertising and website development from the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association at its annual awards dinner.

State will align it with stop light in 2007

Commuters in Senoia may be overjoyed to hear there has been substantial progress in realigning Rockaway Road with an existing stop light on Ga. Highway 74 in Peachtree City.

An August resolution by Coweta County School Board designed to formulate a recommendation for new district lines for elementary and middle schools came to fruition Dec. 13 with the announcement that the work done by committees comprised of parents and school administrators had been completed.

Dr. Michael H. Deis, associate professor of Management at Clayton State University, has been awarded the University System of Georgia Board of Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award for Regional and State Universities. The system-wide award recognizes faculty and departments for a strong commitment to teaching and service to students.

The League of Fine Artists South (LOFAS) will exhibit in the gallery at The Winery -Chateau Élan in December. Five fine artists from Fayette, Henry and Coweta Counties will show selected juried art in oil, acrylic, ceramics, and mixed media. All of the art will be sold through the gift shop at the winery. There will be special work devoted to holiday gift giving.

Newnan High School student government officers Sarah Mitchell (treasurer), Greg Abt (president) and Miranda Hose (secretary) hold a few of the 23,858 cans and other food items brought in by Newnan High School students and teachers for this year’s Can-A-Thon. The high school ran a close competition with East Coweta High, which donated 18,837 to this year’s drive. In all, Coweta County schools provided over 102,000 cans to the drive’s total of 165,000 cans collected, not including the emergency can drive earlier in the year. Photo/Special.

Where will Senoia’s library be located?

An Elvis impersonator greets the spectators at Saturday night’s Christmas parade in Senoia.

Senoia business owner Greg Crook will be able to open his car wash after all.

After months of discussion with residents, the Planning Commission and the City Council, Crook left Monday night’s City Council meeting with a variance that will allow him to start moving dirt on the site.

It’s going to be awhile before there is any resolution to the ongoing dispute between Coweta County and Sharpsburg over Pathway Communities’ plan to annex 480 acres of land for a huge development.

Newly-elected Senoia City Councilman Perry Benson believes this year’s holiday kickoff in Senoia is going to be the best one yet.

Coweta County’s legislators heard an earful from the school board Wednesday about priorities for the upcoming General Assembly session.

Moreland’s six-year-old Payton Samples is going through his second round with leukemia.

He is in the Scottish Rite Hospital this week and is undergoing a blood transfusion, hoping to raise his blood count. If this is successful, he will be starting radiation and chemotherapy again. This will consist of four doses that last three hours, 12 hours apart, every three weeks for the next six months.

Oliver, played by Anna Marie Smith, asks for some more food in Newnan Community Theatre’s production of “Oliver.” The show runs Dec.

Coweta and Fulton Counties became the latest jurisdictions to sign off on an agreement to try and better plan growth on the Ga. Highway 74 corridor.

A 10-acre tract on Senoia’s western border is now poised to become the city’s newest shopping center.

Seven Coweta County Title I elementary schools have been recognized as “High Performing Schools” based on academic achievement which helped the schools receive “Adequate Yearly Progress” (AYP) ratings in all categories under the No Child Left Behind act, and four of the schools received monetary grants in recognition of their achievements.

Experts believe that the recent increase in the number of intense hurricanes-such as Rita and Katrina-experienced by the United States is but one indication that we are entering a 40 year cycle of more severe weather patterns.

“Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.”

In the nearly 200 years since those words were written — by John Howard Payne, for the opera “Clari” — they have become a comforting saying. But have you ever stopped to consider what they really mean? What makes a house a home?

Private mortgage insurance (PMI) programs have helped open a window of opportunity for a number of homebuyers-and analysts expect that window to open even wider.