Mark your calendars for Monday, May 26th, when the City of Senoia and the Downtown Development Authority will hold its third annual Memorial Day parade and festivities for the whole family. Entertainment, food, children's activities, and shopping from 10:00 to 5:00 will be followed by a fireworks display after dark. The U.S. Army Ground Forces Band will march in the 2:00 p.m. parade and present a concert afterwards. Emcees will be "The Car Guys," Scott Sargeant and Charlie Filkins.

Honored at the 2008 Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR) Friday were, left to right, teacher Dan Harrington and STAR student T.J.

Last weekend, hundreds of people headed to downtown Senoia to welcome several new businesses in the old Hutchinson’s Hardware store.

Companies that might want to construct wireless communications towers in Coweta County will have to wait a while before submitting an application to do so. County commissioners on Tuesday approved a 90-day moratorium on issuing permits and established an $8,500 application fee.

Senoia’s long-delayed new library will be located in the city’s newest park on Pylant Street.

After an executive session Monday night, the City Council announced plans to purchase a one-acre tract next to the park for $55,000. City Administrator Richard Ferry said the purchase will be paid by $40,000 in cash and $15,000 in a line of credit.

The Coweta County Commission will hold a public hearing April 10 on a rezoning request to establish a 694 single-family home development east of Sharpsburg.

It was a quick, painless fix to the 2007 Coweta County budget approved by commissioners March 4.

Addressing the call for a budget amendment, Assistant Finance Director Kelly Mickle in a Feb. 28 memo said actual revenues in the $52.22 million budget were approximately $5 million greater than the original budget and $3 million greater than the amended budget. Actual expenditures, she said, were approximately $900,000 less than the original budget and $3 million less than the amended budget.

A Coweta county resident who nearly caused the bankruptcy of one Senoia’s leading citizens was sentenced Thursday for transporting hazardous waste material.

Several members of Coweta County Commission may soon find themselves testifying under oath in federal court. Filed Feb. 22 in U.S. District Court, District 4 Commissioner Leigh Schlumper demanded a jury trail in her complaint that Commission Chairman Tim Higgins, Commissioner Tim Lassetter and Coweta County are guilty of gender discrimination, libel and slander.

The first of several hurdles involved in establishing Pathway Communities Twelve Parks mixed-use master planned community in east Coweta County was jumped Feb. 19 as county commissioners approved a request by Coweta Water and Sewer Authority to provide those services to the proposed development near Sharpsburg.

State Senator Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) has recently been appointed by Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle to chair the Senate Task Force on Value Government. The Task Force is responsible for identifying specific areas where government services can be delivered more effectively and efficiently to the citizens of Georgia.

Coweta Relay for Life representative Billie Cloudsdale is joined by county commissioners Feb.

The path that might lead to re-engineering Coweta County government and electing a countywide commission chairman took another incremental step Feb. 19 as commissioners approved local Georgia Power representative Jan Alligood to serve on the committee that will study the issues.

Coweta commissioners Feb. 19 upped the ante on aggressive behavior of animals causing significant injury to other animals by amending the county’s Nuisance Animal Ordinance to define and clarify the nature of the injury and provide for the imposition of monetary and other penalties.

Let there be light. That is the plan for two ball fields in Senoia after Coweta County Commission gave approval Feb. 5 to retain Atlanta-based Roberds Consulting Engineers to prepare bid documents for the lighting upgrade project.

Clay Hildebrand, a sixth grade math teacher at Smokey Road Middle School, has been named as a finalist for Georgia Teacher of the Year.

The Peachtree City Planning Commission signed off on two conceptual site plans Monday night, but urged the developers to continue tweaking the plans.

Coweta-Fayette Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) recently honored Northgate High School with a 2006-2007 Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship Award in recognition of exemplary sportsmanship exhibited by the student body, staff and school community at competitive events during the 2006-07 school term.

In celebration of Arbor Day, the Beautification Department of the City of Newnan, the Newnan Tree Commission, and Mayor Keith Brady are visiting each of the City’s five local elementary schools to meet with each schools’ kindergarten classes to emphasize the value of trees. This is the 7th year the program has been in existence.

Mary Lou Vogt, volunteer coordinator for Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity is painting hammers for tonight’s first Hammie Awards. The awards will honor the group’s outstanding 2007 volunteers. Gold, silver, bronze, copper, sapphire, emerald and pearl painted hammers will be bestowed to volunteers as a symbol of gratitude for all the hard work they have done for Habitat. Photo/Special.

New Georgia Dept. of Transportation Commissioner and Sharpsburg resident Dr. Gena Abraham is nothing if not plain spoken and down to earth. Those qualities served her well Feb. 5 at the annual South Metro Outlook at Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, as her remarks on state transportation challenges and opportunities came through as being both believable and forthright.

EPD: local water providers can sack rules if they deem necessary; lawn watering and car, pressure washing still off limits

Coweta County Administrator Theron Gay and other county staff will begin meeting with county municipalities to determine if the Coweta should maintain its affiliation with Chattahoochee Flint Regional Development Center or change that affiliation to Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC).

A Feb. 5 discussion by Coweta County Commissioners on the topic of making the chairman a countywide position led to an agreement to identify and establish a committee to study the move and report back to the commission.

Coweta’s voters Tuesday were in line with the rest of the state when they chose former Governor Mike Huckabee and Senator Barak Obama as the nominees for their respective parties.

Parents can apply for slots at Coweta County School System Pre-Kindergarten classes from March 10 through 21 at their child’s district elementary schools.

United Way Women’s Legacy is gearing up for the third annual Shoebox Project. Each year, individuals and companies throughout the metro area donate shoeboxes filled with toiletries to be given to homeless women and children in our community on Valentine’s Day. Last year more than 10,000 shoeboxes were collected and distributed to 48 homeless shelters across the 13-county region United Way serves. United Way in Coweta & Fayette Counties collected 325 shoeboxes from Coweta and Fayette last year. These shoeboxes were distributed to local women and children’s shelters, in addition to Coweta County DFACS.

After a meeting hiatus in January because of the King holiday, the Senoia City Council gets back to business Monday night.