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.

Sales taxes down 8 percent; property tax growth minimal

Despite the slowing economy translating to lower sales tax collections, Peachtree City is only short $40,000 in this year’s budget.

To attract younger police officers and firefighters, Peachtree City will explore the use of “cafeteria” benefits.

National builder will be selected for ‘active adult’ subdivision

Timbering operations are due to begin Monday on the extension of MacDuff Parkway, according to Donna Black of Scarborough Properties, which owns a 403-acre tract the road will partially cut through.

Registration for this year’s Fourth of July parade in Peachtree City will begin Monday, June 2, officials have said.

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.

Peachtree City’s Ruby Tuesday restaurant will likely be torn down in 2011 to make way for a Walgreens drug store.

A change in Emergency Medical Service fees approved Thursday night by the Peachtree City Council includes new fees for services that haven't been charged for in the past.

The county's only radio station could soon be moving to Tyrone.

During Thursday night’s Town Council meeting, Tyrone’s leaders heard a presentation from Wayne Wilkins, who owns the Legacy Theatre building.

Would take place of Ruby Tuesday at 54/Parkway

A plan to raze the Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Peachtree City and replace it with a Walgreens drug store in 2011 will be considered by the city’s planning commission Monday night.

Peachtree City has tightened up its industrial zoning rules, which will forbid any retail uses on lots zoned for general industrial use. Another change would allow retail-related uses in limited industrial districts, but the business would be limited to no more than 10,000 square feet in size. The new ordinances were approved unanimously by council Thursday night.

With his litter grabber and trash bag in hand, Al Yougel helped promote the new Keep PTC Beautiful campaign at Thursday night's City Council meeting. Yougel has been named chairman of the campaign, and he said the city will need the help of residents and groups in not just picking up litter but also changing attitudes toward litter. Photo/John Munford.

The Peachtree City Council voted Thursday night to table a decision on spending another $720,000 to fix the city's police headquarters.

Grocery store also being courted for shopping center

Now that the Peachtree City Council has agreed to sell two roads that will become part of a new shopping center on the south side of Ga. Highway 54 West, Capital City Development is working on securing retailers for the site.

This is your opportunity to showcase your artistic abilities and hidden talents! And don’t forget about the over $4000 in cash prizes to be awarded to the contestants winning the judge’s approval. It’s time to get ready for the 2008 23rd Annual Art & Talent Showcase sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Peachtree City. Competition is open to all public, private or home schooled students in Fayette County in 1st through 12th grades.

Peachtree City officials spent Saturday morning grilling four different candidates for the position of police chief.

The City Council, which met for more than 90 minutes in executive session at noon, instructed City Manager Bernie McMullen to continue conducting background checks on all four finalists for the position, said Mayor Harold Logsdon.

Citing the pending receipt of further information on the matter, the Peachtree City Council Thursday night tabled a vote to authorize $720,000 in repairs for the city's police headquarters.

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 Council will hold a special meeting Saturday at noon to wade through applicants for the vacant police chief position, Mayor Harold Logsdon confirmed Tuesday.