It was a measure adopted to bolster home-based food preparation businesses. The Coweta County Commission Jan. 5 voted unanimously to amend a portion of the Zoning & Development Ordinance to allow at-home food preparation for retail distribution or catering as a home occupation.

The Coweta County School System at this time is monitoring forecasts from the National Weather Service that indicate precipitation will arrive sometime in the late afternoon. Therefore, schools will remain open and on their normal schedules on Thursday during normal operating hours (2:30 p.m. for elementary schools, 3:30 for middle and high schools).

The Georgia Dept. of Transportation (GDOT) has issued a travel alert for Thursday for large portions of the state. An incoming winter storm system has the potential for making travel on roadways hazardous.

Ramsey hopes to pass cellphone ban for drivers under 18

With state revenues continuing to fall short, the upcoming legislative session will be dominated by budget cuts, according to Rep. Matt Ramsey, (R-Peachtree City).

PTC to broadcast Thurs. meeting on web

Peachtree City residents can avoid the cold Thursday night and watch the first City Council meeting of the new year from the comfort of their easy chair if they want.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the shooting Sunday of a horse on property along Bankstown Road in Brooks. A veterinarian called to the scene removed three arrows. Officers said the horse survived the attack.

A proposal to upsize a “big box” store for a new shopping center on Ga. Highway 54 West at Planterra Way is up for a vote by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night.

Online form must be filled out, printed before fire is lit; Those without computers must visit fire station

Crews from Piedmont Landscaping recently began installing median landscaping on Ga. Highway 54 East in Peachtree City stretching from Peachtree Parkway to the city limits.

Peachtree City officials are still working to acquire the necessary right-of-way to allow the cart path tunnel underneath Ga. Highway 74 at Paschall Road to be completed.

A proposal to amend the Coweta County Zoning Ordinance to allow for small neighborhood agribusiness operations was approved Dec. 15 by the County Commission. The approval came after a request by Scott and Nicole Tyson, who own approximately 10 acres in Sharpsburg and want to establish an agribusiness and agritourism operation centering on organically-grown foods.

Plans to add 600 more parking spaces to Peachtree City’s NCR campus were approved recently by the city’s planning commission.

By now the wrapping paper, boxes and most of the Christmas detritus have left the home.

Except for the Christmas tree, of course. To solve that dilemma, local volunteers and Peachtree City will accept Christmas trees for recycling Saturday, Jan. 9 at several locations between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

New mayor-elect says city needs to improve its tax base by attracting more employers to PTC

When the New Year rings in, Peachtree City will have three new rookies on the City Council and a familiar face as mayor.

Incoming Mayor Don Haddix, giving a preview of what to expect in the early going, is already ruling out one thing: further job cuts.

It seems that the large Fischer Crossings retail development is back after all.

First came the announcement last month of Sam’s Club and NCG Cinemas. Now developer Scott Seymour says he would like to add to the 400,000 square feet already approved for the 44-acre northeast corner of Ga. Highway 34 and Fischer Road in east Coweta County, about a mile from Peachtree City.

Peachtree City resident and Navy Reservist Corey Malmer returned home this month from a year’s tour of duty along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Malmer, an intelligence specialist, served on an embedded training team that helped train cohorts in the Afghan national army. Such work is considered crucial to the military strategy in the area as U.S. and coalition forces move towards the eventual goal of having the Afghan army, border patrol and national police trained well enough to take their country back with little if any outside aid.

An Atlanta man accused of robbing the Creekside Chevron in Peachtree City at gunpoint Dec. 19 has been arrested, police said.

Peachtree City police have charged an Atlanta man for the sawed-off shotgun robbery of Creekside Chevron on Ga. Highway 54 West in the early morning of Dec. 19.

There are several American Red Cross blood drives upcoming in the Fayette and Coweta area.

To schedule a donation appointment please visit www.RedCrossBlood.org.

Christmas is indeed the season of giving, and Peachtree City residents proved it again as they responded to the police department’s “Light Up the Night” toy drive.

With the community’s help, police were able to provide 42 children and six entire families with a Merry Christmas. On top of that, they were able to help the Fayette County Department of Family and Children Services help another 25 children at the last minute.

Accessing Ga. Highway 74 to the north from Rockaway Road has been a long standing vehicular nightmare. The beginning of the Hwy. 74 widening project is now under way and the first construction project will be the realignment of Rockaway so that it ties in to the traffic signal at Holly Grove Road. Weather permitting, that realignment work is expected to begin sometime in January.

While the jobs picture certainly isn’t rosy, it improved slightly last month for Fayette and Coweta counties, according to statistics published this week by the Georgia Department of Labor.

It was in early summer that representatives of Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) met with government and business leaders from across Coweta County at Newnan City Hall to announce the city’s selection as the site of the company’s first hospital in the Southeastern United States. Earlier this week CTCA received a Georgia Dept. of Community Health Certificate of Need (CON) necessary to move ahead with the the 200,000 square-foot hospital in the Ashley Park commercial area.

Fischer Crossings to get 1st-run movie multiplex with 2,000 seats 1 mile west of PTC; free popcorn refills

It wasn’t the most wistful of sendoffs, but Harold Logsdon’s final act as mayor was a review of the successes, and some “disappointments” that marked his four years in office.

Peachtree City Police are searching for an armed man that held up the Line Creek Chevron station Saturday.

Police said a black male entered the Line Creek Chevron, brandished what appeared to be a sawed off shotgun, and robbed the clerk.

Haddix served on five-member arbitration panel

He hasn’t even been sworn in as Peachtree City’s mayor yet, and already Don Haddix has recorded a vote against an annexation.

$66K in stormwater funds approved on 4-1 vote

Peachtree City’s approval of a $62,782 contract for street sweeping services normally would not be such a noteworthy event.

The Rotary Club of Peachtree City named Corporal Brian Boynton as the 2009 Police Officer of the Year Saturday evening at the PTC Police Department's Christmas banquet held at Flat Creek Country Club.  The selection process for officer of the year is done by peer officers. Corporal Boynton has an excellent work ethic and is known throughout the department as the “Go to Guy” when an officer is needed for special detail.  Boynton was born in East Point, Georgia.  After spending some time in Texas, where he graduated from Kingwood High School, he returned to Georgia to live with his mother and sister. 

Peachtree City’s Community Development Division is hosting a special seminar for owners of rental property to help them keep their sites “safe and free of illegal activity.”