Fischer Crossing developer Scott Seymour has maintained all along that 800,000 square feet of commercial space was destined for the intersection of Fischer Road and Ga. Highway 34 in east Coweta. A national recession and a Chapter 11 reorganization for the developer notwithstanding, it seems Seymour was right. The deal on the development’s first anchor store, a 136,000 square-foot Sam’s Club, closed Tuesday and construction work is expected to begin in mid-August.

Newnan resident Judy Yvette Rosser has ben sentenced to nearly three and a half years in federal prison for embezzling more than $1.2 million from Wachovia Bank.

A request to reduce sewer tap-in fees for a local ministry focusing on helping teens and young men conquer addiction was denied by the Senoia City Council Monday night.

Piedmont Newnan Hospital’s Women’s Imaging Center will be hosting its “Mammogram Saturday” on Saturday, July 25 from 8 a.m.

Keep Newnan Beautiful is proud to announce the City’s first pet waste station has been installed at Temple Avenue Park. The Newnan- Coweta Historical Society’s generous donation made the first pet station possible in the city. Citizens are encouraged to use this station when walking their dogs in the area. The station is located in Temple Avenue Park near the Male Academy Museum.

The Coweta County Fire Department will hold its 13th Annual Charity Golf Tournament on Friday, July 31st at Orchard Hills Golf Club. This year’s recipient of the fundraising event will be the American Cancer Society through the county’s annual Relay for Life. This tournament over the years has supported various charities and efforts across Coweta County, including Special Olympics, Coweta County Food Pantry and various public safety community outreach efforts like the “Ghost-Outs” held regularly at county high schools. 

Piedmont Newnan Hospital and the Georgia Poison Center will be conducting a Poison Prevention Instructor Training Program (ITP), on Friday, Aug. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This highly informative program is ideal for SAFE KIDS coalition members, educators, day care providers, healthcare and public safety professionals and all others interested in learning more about poison prevention.

Newnan Police are searching for an armed gunman who held up the Bank of Georgia branch at 471 U.S. Highway 29 North Tuesday morning. An undetermined amount of money was taken in the heist.

It is back to Georgia Dept. of Transportation (DOT) with a project proposal to close the CSX railroad crossing at Valleywood Road at Senoia Road and the extend Park Drive to East Crestwood. The Tyrone Town Council Thursday agreed to send revisions for the project back to DOT with the proposal that the town be responsible for a maximum of $225,000.

Psychic Shop! In Senoia? No, not really. It was actually the re-do of The Market on Main organic grocery store that was used July 14 as part of the set for Drop Dead Diva, the Lifetime Television series being filmed in Peachtree City and in locations around Senoia. Photo/Special.

What is next for Charter Schools USA’s bid to open a K-8 charter school in Senoia? Two options were addressed at a public meeting Tuesday as a small group of parents met at the Freeman Sasser building to hear the remarks of company Vice President Richard Page and Georgia company representative Danny Brewington.

Results of the 2008-2009 report released by the Georgia State Department of Education (DOE) earlier this week showed that all three Coweta County high schools, all 18 elementary schools and four of Coweta County’s six middle schools made the required Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). In total, 93 percent of Coweta schools met AYP requirements.

Georgia Dept. of Economic Development project manager and former Newnan-Coweta Chamber President Greg Wright has been named as the Coweta County Development Authority’s next president. Wright will replace Bill Harrison, who will be retiring at the end of July.

It is here. Coweta County’s long-awaited Dial-A-Ride program began operations transporting citizens on July 1. The program is funded with federal, state and local dollars and provides transit services to business, commercial and activity centers in Coweta County, said Coweta County Public Information Officer Patricia Palmer. 

Banners will be hung for the month of July around the courthouse square to observe the sister city connection. The city of Newnan and Ayr, Scotland have celebrated a sister city relationship since 1997.

Unemployment figures for Coweta County and the 5-county Chattahoochee-Flint area continue to surge. Preliminary figures for May showed Coweta’s unemployment at 10.5 percent and Chatt-Flint at 11.6 percent.

A Palmetto man was arrested on drug charges July 2 after more than a dozen Crime Suppression Unit officers from Palmetto Police and Coweta County Sheriff’s Office converged on a residence off Carlton Road.

Arrested at his home at 525 Seven Bark Court was 25 year-old Ramaro Thornton, according to Palmetto Crime Scene Investigator Joyce Phillips.

The Senoia City Council Monday night unanimously approved the purchase of two pre-owned vehicles for the Police Department. The purchase and outfitting price for the two 2008 Dodge Chargers is $41,723.

Susan Luciano, teacher at Arnall Middle School, recently completed a four-day coastal ecology workshop on Georgia’s Sapelo Island. The Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve (SINERR) offered the training as part of its teacher training series. Participants in the training investigated Georgia’s coastal systems with an emphasis on estuarine and marine ecology, coastal species identification and adaptations, commercial and recreational fisheries and management.

West Georgia Technical College received a measure of assistance from Coweta County commissioners July 7 when the board agreed to provide equipment and labor to pave a new roadway to the campus off Turkey Creek Road and to consider future financial support if funds are available. The measure passed on a 3-2 vote.

Members of the Coweta County Development Authority (CCDA) attended the July 7 county commission meeting to thank the board for supporting efforts that is resulting in the creation of hundreds of new jobs with the addition of Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) and D&H Distributing.

Newnan Public Works crews are making both temporary and permanent patches to potholes in streets all over the City of Newnan. The city is asking for public input to get a handle on potholes. The City's goal is to patch potholes within 72 hours of learning about them.

Senoia Downtown Development Authority (DDA) will be holding a free outdoor concert July 16 featuring Country music recording artist Erica Nicole in a debut CD release concert. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in downtown Senoia. The opening act will be the Southern Pride Band.

It was time for a cool treat July 4 at the Ice Cream Festival in downtown Newnan. The frozen festivities were a small part of the larger, day-long activities that included the July 4 Parade, fireworks and an endless supply of food, fun, music and rides for the kids.

The bid by Charter Schools USA to establish a K-8 charter school in Senoia was defeated June 25 by a unanimous vote of the Coweta County School Board. Charter Schools has the option of presenting the petition to the Georgia Charter Schools Commission for consideration later this summer.

For East Coweta High School student Kristina Matheny, summer vacation has been far from average.

Instead of lounging by the pool or watching television, the 17-year-old – who recently returned from the 2009 Washington Youth Tour (WYT), a leadership program sponsored by the electric membership cooperatives (EMCs) of Georgia, including Coweta-Fayette EMC – visited Congressional leaders in our nation’s capitol.

It was as professional a photography exhibition as anything you would see in Buckhead, as the photographic and interviewing skills of 12 Palmetto youngsters were displayed at the Palmetto Community Center June 27 and 28. Their efforts culminated in “Our Lives, Our Land, Our Legacy,” an exhibition of the Palmetto Cultural Arts Project funded in part by the Fulton County Arts Council and the City of Palmetto.

Bryan M. Cavan of Newnan was sworn in as president of the 40,000-member State Bar of Georgia on June 20 during the organization’s annual meeting at Amelia Island, Fla. Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Supreme Court of Georgia administered the oath of office.

Residents of Coweta and Fayette counties lost another local bank with the June 26 closing of Neighborhood Community Bank (NCB) by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (DBF). The Newnan-based bank operated two branches in Coweta County, along with branches in Peachtree City and Tyrone. NCB deposit accounts were transferred to CharterBank of West Point.

The Coweta County Commission last week gave unanimous approval to support proposed improvements to Newnan-Coweta Airport. The improvements are expected to be funded largely by federal dollars.