This week was a busy time for some parents as they scrambled to get their children placed back in school.

Coweta County School System spokesperson Dean Jackson said that 140 students had been removed from the school system this week because proper documentation was not filed with the school system proving the students lived in the county.

Sharpsburg Sharpies Drama Team of Sharpsburg Baptist Church is presenting their annual dinner theatre over St. Patty’s weekend. “A Wedding and a Funeral,” a two-act comedy, premieres March 15-17 at 7 p.m. A Sunday dessert matinee has now been added on March 18 at 2 p.m.

A Fayetteville man working in Tennessee on a construction job was stabbed to death early Saturday morning, police said.

This year’s version of The Great Georgia Air Show will feature quite a bit of military firepower, as America celebrates the 60th anniversary of the United States Air Force.

Coweta County’s residents continued to voice their opposition to new zoning districts during Tuesday’s County Commission meeting.

Will the far stretches of northern Coweta County and south Fulton County soon have their own WalMart?

residents should have a better idea after the Coweta County Commission hears a variance request from retail giant March 6. County zoning technician Michelle Ward said the store is seeing a variance on buffer requirements for the store that would locate on Sharpsburg-McCollum Road, next to Interstate 85.

Senoia’s park on Seavy Street could be quite a showplace when its completed later this year.

The City Council voted Monday night to spend just under $40,000 for surfacing at the park around the new playground equipment. City administrator Richard Ferry explained the surface material would be shredded rubber, which would be durable and inhibit weed growth.

When you and your spouse disagree, the situation can get tense – quickly! That’s what is at the heart of “Don’t Hug Me,” the musical comedy being produced at Newnan Theatre Company through February 25.Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory anoints the new altar with holy oils during dedication rites at St.

Lohr led department through change, improvements since 2000

Peachtree City Fire Chief Stony Lohr has announced that he will retire as of April 2.

Lohr notified his staff of his intentions in a memo to the entire department. He will also turn 60 in April, he noted.

“It’s time for me to do something else,” Lohr said in an interview this week with The Citizen. “... It’s time to go smell those roses."

Wife signed up with reserve to join hubby’s unit in Baghdad

Kathryn and Bill Carter of Peachtree City can say with honesty that their marriage is just like living in a war zone.

No storage, improvements allowed within 100-foot zone

Peachtree City staff has compiled a revised ordinance that will help protect water quality at the city’s two reservoirs: Lake Kedron and Lake Peachtree. The ordinance also forbids private improvements from city-owned greenbelt areas.

PTC hosting Tour de Georgia start April 16; traffic congestion expected

Georgia officials have unveiled the specific route the Tour de Georgia will take as the entire event starts in Peachtree City at noon on Monday, April 16.

If you forgot to submit your student’s affidavit residency, you child is no longer enrolled in the Coweta County School System.

Arbor Springs Elementary School has been named a 2007 Georgia School of Excellence for Greatest Continuous Gains for the 8th Congressional District.

Rutherford: City not required to annex any property

They called it the “d-word” half-jokingly, half seriously.

Flexxon wants to buy tract behind PTC police station

A developer is apparently preparing to sweeten its bid to acquire a piece of city-owned property with highway frontage on Ga. Highway 54 West.

McIntosh High School graduate George “Frag” Collings is flying bombing missions out of Balad Air Base Iraq.

Collings, a 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force, is in the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, which provides close air support. In a recent mission, he helped with the Battle of An Najaf where more than 200 enemy insurgents were killed and 100 gunmen captured south of Baghdad Jan. 28.

DA: April Ulrich sent letters from jail to victim’s family

A woman accused of killing her ex-husband at an office in Peachtree City in October will be evaluated by mental counselors before the criminal case against her proceeds.

All five signals will be networked; not included are 2 lights outside city limits

The Georgia Department of Transportation is preparing to upgrade traffic signals on Ga. Highway 54 in Peachtree City between Flat Creek and Willowbend roads all the way to Walt Banks Road.

The Coweta County spiritual community is still in shock after one of its members was killed on a mission trip in Honduras.

A relationship gone bad has left one man dead and another in critical condition at Atlanta Medical Center.

The deadly shootout occurred about 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning at 15 James Place in Sharpsburg, according to Capt. James Yarborough of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Department.

Coweta County residents packed the County Commission chambers Tuesday and made it quite clear they were not too happy with one of the county’s new proposed zoning categories.

Starting next Friday Coweta County school System officials will start removing students from the school system.

The move comes after repeated efforts to get parents to file an affidavit of residency, said school spokesperson Dean Jackson.

40 Coweta County students have been nominated to the 2007 Governor’s Honors program. Nominated in a variety of academic areas, the students have held formal interviews to attend the prestigious summer academic program at the end of January through the beginning of February.

Coweta could vote to override GRTA requirement for McIntosh Village

Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon has asked the Coweta County Commission to override a regional agency’s requirement that the bridge over Line Creek for the extension of TDK Boulevard be four lanes.

Kiwanian Shant Harootunian congratulates Logan Austin, winner of the pancake eating contest at the club’s annual pancake breakfast fund-raiser at McIntosh High School.

Son was shot to death at party fueled by beer, marijuana

The parents of a Peachtree City teen who was shot and killed at a party in June have not only sued the accused shooter and the party host, but they also want to hold accountable whomever provided the drugs and alcohol at the party — and whomever provided the gun to Kevin Johnston, 17, of Sharpsburg.

Drug addicts have a hard time kicking the habit. Now it appears that drug dealers have the same problem, at least judging by an arrest made Tuesday afternoon at the Fayetteville Wal-Mart in the Fayette Pavilion, police said.

Bitterly cold temperatures did not keep runners away from the 10th annual Jingle Bell Trail 5K and one mile fun run benefiting Peachtree City Elementary.