The Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity ReStore started in Senoia with a yard sale under a tent and in a garage for one Saturday a month. After realizing the needs of the people and with the strong support from the community, the ReStore was able to re-locate to its current location on Ga. Highway 16 East in May of 2005.

The Coweta County Board of Education has named Lesley Goodwin as the new principal of Poplar Road Elementary School for the upcoming year. Goodwin, currently the assistant principal of Thomas Crossroads Elementary School, will succeed Rebecca Gibson, who is retiring at the end of the school year.

Registration for Coweta County’s 2008 high school summer school is today, June 2 and 3, at the Central Educational Center (CEC) in Newnan.

The grass growing season is upon us and Coweta County has begun its yearly time of cutting rights of way to maintain the safety of our roadways. The Coweta County Road Department maintains a regular route that is followed, insuring that all county roads are cut on a regular basis, said county Public Information Officer Patricia Palmer. Four cutting crews, running three bush hogs each, cover the route. The crews cut rights of way on county roads from May through the end of October or early November.

Peachtree City police are hoping a $500 reward helps to get more information on two recent explosions of homemade bombs.

Next week the Peachtree City Council is expected to rule on whether a proposed shopping center can exceed the city’s size guidelines by 25,000 square feet.

The crowd at Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony in Peachtree City was vividly taken back to the moments before and after a deadly terrorist attack that killed 241 servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 23, 1983.

Peachtree City resident Frances Meaders was named the "Notable Woman of Fayette County" for 2008 recently by the Fayette-Starr’s Mill Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Thompson hunts down violent criminals with special unit

A Peachtree City man was honored recently with the Georgia Heroism Award presented by Gov. Sonny Perdue.

Boy Scouts salute the flag at last year’s Memorial Day ceremony in Peachtree City. This year’s event, as always, begins with the golf cart procession at the Gathering Place facility off McIntosh Trail, with patriotically themed golf carts leading the way to the ceremony at the veteran’s memorial at City Hall. Photo/File.

Are you looking for something new and fresh to do in your spare time? Look no more. The Peachtree City Parks & Recreation Department has NEW activities for all ages.

Members of East Coweta’s JROTC program presented the flag at last year’s event. Senoia Memorial Day will feature a parade, live entertainment, fireworks and much more. For more information on this year’s event, see the Weekend Section. Photo/John Thompson.

A resurfacing and widening project on Ga. Highway 54 in Coweta County will cut traffic down to one lane during the overnight hours starting Tuesday.

Senoia officials are once again eyeing a possible change in the length of terms served by City Council members.

This time, however, it’s being motivated by a conflict in the city’s charter with a new state law, explains City Administrator Richard Ferry.

The Coweta County Senior horse judging team won 2nd place honors at the State 4-H Horse Judging Contest in Athens, GA on May 3, 2008. Emilee Brinton, Erin Davis and Megan Smith faced nine other teams and will represent Coweta County and Georgia 4-H in Colorado in January 2009 for their success.

The city of Newnan Public Works Department is gearing up for its annual mosquito program. This year the program will begin June 1st. Every year the city of Newnan sprays city neighborhoods with a synthetic pyrethroid product. This product is a synthetic version of a natural insecticide produced by chrysanthemum flowers. This spray helps control adult mosquito populations within the City.

By Phyllis Hanson

FORT HOOD, Texas - There's no fast way of "getting back" to normal for soldiers who are deployed away from home for more than a year. Separation from loved ones and friends, along with an accustomed way of life can be hard for even the toughest GI.

Let the work begin. A total of 35 county roads around Coweta.

Coweta will get a facelift beginning May 22. The road improvements will be made through a process called Full Depth Reclamation (FDR.)

Rodney Pendleton, the owner of Area 54 Tattoos in Peachtree City, was arrested early Wednesday evening by the Fayette County Drug Task Force for an outstanding warrant for manufacturing marijuana, police said.

Two juvenile foxes survey the Wednesday morning sunshine from their drainage pipe/den near the Flat Creek Country Club in Peachtree City.

13,720 moved here between 2001 and 2005; Coweta 3rd with 3,647 into Fayette

A regional snapshot compiled by the Atlanta Regional Commission offers a fascinating view of the migration of neighboring counties’ residents into Fayette County.

Despite some serious concerns about having only one road in and out, the Peachtree City Planning Commission voted unanimously Monday to recommend approval for a west side shopping center to be built larger than the city’s size threshold.

The Peachtree City Council has begun the detailed process of examining permitted uses for each zoning district in the city.

Traffic predicted as biggest problem with only one way in, out

The Peachtree City Planning Commission voted unanimously Monday night to recommend approval for a shopping center to surpass the city's size guidelines.

The hit won't be as costly as originally proposed, but Peachtree City businesses will get a sting on their city taxes starting next year.

Peachtree City staff will be looking into the possibility of lifting its recent ban on "brown bagging," which would allow residents to bring their own alcohol at local restaurants.

New shopping center would downgrade traffic at Planterra

The developer’s traffic study is projecting that nearly 700 vehicles will go in and out of a proposed shopping center on Ga. Highway 54 West on any given weekday between the peak hours of 4 and 6 p.m.

Group rental fees scuttled for now

A proposal to charge $10 to $20 a year for each person meeting at regular "groups" at the Gathering Place in Peachtree City was tabled by the City Council Thursday night.

The guest speaker at Peachtree City’s 10th Annual Memorial Day Celebration on Monday, May 26th, will connect the dots between today’s Global War on Terror and the 1983 bombing of the U.S. military barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

It’s a literary accomplishment, literally.