Coweta County officials said Tuesday that last week’s vote by the Peachtree City Council to not build the extension of TDK Boulevard

The Peachtree City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to put the controversial TDK extension on hold indefinitely.

Watch as the council votes:

The Senoia City Council Monday night approved a measure that will allow golf carts to operate on city roads with speed limits of 35 miles per hour or less.

Coweta County’s jail may soon be needing an expansion.

That’s the word that Sheriff Mike Yeager delivered to the Coweta County Commission Tuesday night. The 350 inmate facility has become so overcrowded at time that inmates have slept on the floor, Yeager said.

The Coweta County School System is reminding parents that the deadline to renew all existing student transfers for the 2007-08 school year is coming this Monday, June 11.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its findings on an airplane that had a landing mishap at Falcon Field May 10.

Coweta County Schools wished over 21,000 students a good summer on Friday, as they sent them home on the last day of the 2006-07 school year.

They came from surrounding communities and the heart of Senoia to celebrate the memories of those who sacrificed their lives for their country.

On a gorgeous spring Monday, nearly 5,000 people packed the streets of Senoia to celebrate the city’s second Memorial Day celebration. The city’s downtown became a celebration of small-town life as churches and civic organizations sold everything from barbecue to fresh-squeezed lemonade.

As hundreds of new students move into the county each year, the Coweta County School Board constantly has to dealing with finding enough money to pay for all the programs the school system offers.

Smokey Road Middle School math teacher Clay Hildebrand was named the 2007 Teacher of the Year for Coweta County, at the annual Teacher of the Year program on May 22.

From left to right are Newnan High Valedictorian Brady Sumner and Salutatorian Natasha Wood; East Coweta High School Valedictorian Daniel Rahim and Salutatorian Ashley Nicole Phillips; and Northgate High School Valedictorian Sarah Spiller and Salutatorian Cody Borgstrom. Newnan held its graduation last night, while Northgate students graduate tonight and East Coweta’s ceremonies are tomorrow morning. Find a list of graduates in the Names and Faces section. Photo/Special.

Senoia residents now have the go-ahead to go riding around the town's historic streets in golf carts.

But City Administrator Richard Ferry said the city will continue to see if the ordinance can be further modified to meet requests from the city’s residents.

Senoia City Council did a slow burn Monday night at news of having its library site be dismissed by state officials.
The Council reacted with surprise as Library Board attorney Mark Mitchell said a state official from the library system had visited the site in the city’s park and said there were two main problems: being too close to power lines and the railroad tracks.

Coweta County Summer School for high school students will register students on June 4 through June 6 at the Central Educational Center in Newnan.

Synovus, the parent company of Peachtree National Bank, has announced plans to merge PNB with two other Synovus-owned banks: First Nation Bank in Covington and Bank of North Georgia in Alpharetta.

Fayette County ranked second in the nation in 2005 of communities with the highest percentage of homes having four or more bedrooms, according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Members of the East Coweta Marine Corps JROTC practice their silent drill routine at the Veterans Memorial in Peachtree City. The cadets will perform during the Peachtree City Memorial Day Celebration beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday. The public is invited to participate in a golf cart procession that begins at the Gathering Place at 8:30 a.m. that day and winds around Lake Peachtree to the Plaza for the ceremony. For more information on all the celebrations, including Senoia’s festivities, see page C1. Photo/Special.

The Georgia Department of Transportation will scale back its construction projects across the state – suspending related lane closures on all interstate and major state system highways – through Monday to ease Memorial Weekend traffic congestion. Beginning at 5 a.m., Friday, May 25, and continuing until 10 p.m., Monday, May 28, there essentially will be no scheduled lane closures on any Georgia interstate highway or primary state route.

From left are the Cowardly Lion, Antonio Mathis, Dorothy, Rachael Snow, Scarecrow, Dan LeeDay and the Tin Man, Chris Kilpatrick.

No victims found, but shell casings recovered

Fayetteville Police are investigating a shooting that occurred at Weatherly Walk Apartments early Tuesday night.

One of country music’s living legends will spend his Memorial Day in Senoia this year. Doug Stone, who grew up in Newnan and has four No. 1 country singles on his resume, will appear at this year’s celebration.

Newnan High School AP Teacher Linda Fields was named Wal-Mart’s Coweta County Teacher of the Year Monday, in recognition of Teacher Appreciation Week.

Coweta County’s Central Educational Center (CEC) is going to be well-represented at the state level, following appointments of two of its leaders to Georgia boards and commissions.

The Community Welcome House Domestic Violence Shelter is announcing the 2nd annual Stop Domestic Violence 1 Mile Walk/ 5K Run on May 26.  The event will be a fund raiser for the Community Welcome House of Coweta County and will begin at 8 a.m at the First Baptist Church of Newnan, just off the Courthouse Square in downtown Newnan.

Several past presidents of the Newnan Kiwanis recently spoke to the assembled group .

The McIntosh Chiefs will hope to complete a perfect season tomorrow with a state championship. The Chiefs, ranked number one in the state and two in the nation in a national soccer coaches poll, will host county rivals, the Whitewater Wildcats, at noon. Pictured are Cameron Black and Bilal Duckett going up for a ball earlier in this year’s state playoff chase. For more on the AAAA state championship boys and girls soccer games, see the story on Page C1. Photo Ian Davis.

PTC wants 2 lanes, not 4 on Line Creek bridge

The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority is asking a Fulton County judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Peachtree City challenging GRTA’s requirement for a four-lane bridge across Line Creek for the TDK extension into unincorporated Coweta County.

A woman who shot and killed her ex-husband in the parking lot of the NCR plant in Peachtree City Oct. 26 will go on trial for murder Monday.

Police said April Dawn Ulrich, 46, killed Eric Paul Ulrich by shooting him with a handgun concealed by a bag after she called him to meet her in the parking lot.

The Coweta County Board of Education approved two new principal and two new assistant principals for the 2007-08 school year, at their May 8 meeting.

Tickets are still available for one of the must-attend events of the spring social season on the southside.

The Senoia Area Historical Society is hosting its annual Progressive Dinner May 18-19. Guests will be served a five-course dinner, with each course served in one of the town’s historic homes. But this year, residents will also get to tour the city’s claim to Hollywood fame, RiverWood Movie Studios. Check-in begins at the studio at 6;30 p.m. The studio is located at 600 Chestlehurst Road.