The Wilbon Clay-Robert Wood Community Center will officially be dedicated on Saturday, August 18 at 11 am. The event will include a program, a ribbon cutting, tours of the buildings and refreshments provided by the American Veterans Terry Allen Post 910. The Clay-Wood Center is located at 135 Heery Road, Newnan, Georgia. The center had a “soft” opening on August 3, 2007

Coweta County school officials are still crunching numbers, but so far it looks like the county’s stratospheric growth is beginning to slow down.

Registration for Coweta County Night High School classes has been extended through Tuesday, August 28. Interested students can register Monday through Thursday, 12 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. during that period, at the Central Educational Center.

Coweta County and the city of Senoia will start negotiations Monday afternoon on a deal the could ultimately provide the proposed McIntosh Village with one million gallons of sewer capacity.

Sharpsburg resident and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center patient, Chase McCarragher (left), poses with Children’s Sibley Heart Center patient, Jacob Silis of Lawrenceville, at Camp Braveheart, an annual camp for cardiac and heart transplant patients of Children’s, held at Camp Twin Lakes in Rutledge, Ga each summer.

The Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity chapter celebrated another series of new homeowners. Pictured is Bob Peebles,vice president Habitat board, Deborah Kalish, Board of Directors Secretary, Atauya Sinkfield, new Habitat homeowner, Ermagene Sinkfield, Atauya’s mother and Leslie Merriman, executive director of Habitat. Photo/Special.

Mike Harman was chosen tonight to fill the remaining term left on the Post 1 seat on the Peachtree City Council.

Harman was unanimously selected by council after he was announced to have the most points of the four finalists selected by council at a meeting that ended right at 10:30 p.m. Each council member scored each candidate on a points system and the candidate with the most points was deemed the winner.

Undercover drug agents from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department recently arrested a Peachtree City man who was dealing marijuana out of his apartment at Balmoral Village, police said.

Police: Emails will help solve, prevent crime

Talk about hyper-connected.

Peachtree City police are rolling out a program in which residents and businesses can sign up to receive email alerts about certain crimes, wanted persons, missing persons, neighborhood watch programs and other events.

A total of 10 people have signed up to seek appointment to the unexpired term on the City Council previously held by Judi-ann Rutherford.

Police find $1,600 cash and ‘large quantity’ of marijuana

Peachtree City police arrested a 16-year-old teen Thursday afternoon who is suspected of packaging marijuana for distribution, police said.

City originally hoped to have cart path connection open in April

It’s been more than a year since the western leg of Ga. Highway 54 has been opened to four lanes of traffic, but the cart path bridge that was built as part of the project remains closed.

A group of Peachtree City residents is asking the City Council for help with problems golf cart drivers are having crossing Peachtree Parkway between the Peninsula to the Stoneybrook subdivisions.

Council interviews take place Monday

Four people so far have filed applications to be appointed to the unexpired term on the Peachtree City Council left vacant by the resignation of Judi-ann Rutherford last month.

Peachtree City residents interested in learning more about the operation of the City government are invited to sign up for the new PTC 101 class which begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 25.

A 25-year-old college student has announced he will run for one of the two Peachtree City Council seats up for grabs this November.

The Peachtree City Water and Sewer Authority will expand its program to match half of the retirement contributions employees make to their individual retirement accounts.

The Broadway musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” will premier at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts on Lower Fayetteville road on Thursday, August 9, through Saturday, August 11.

Developer Tom Reese once again swatted away any notions that his mega-development of McIntosh Village was off track.

The 1,500-acre development, located on McIntosh Trail in unincorporated Coweta County, would be one of the region’s biggest developments with more than 3,100 homes and 600,000 sq.ft of office space.

Coweta County kicked off a new employee service award program in July with a luncheon honoring all employees who had achieved a milestone anniversary from January through June of 2007. In addition, to help bridge the old program with the new program, all employees with more than 20 years service were invited to lunch as well.

Taxes are on the rise for residents in Senoia who had their property reassessed this year. On Monday, the Senoia City Council approved the millage rate at 6.11 mills. City administrator Richard Ferry,, presented the breakdown of millage rate and said 18 percent of the city’s tax base industrial, while 9 percent is commercial, and 73 percent residential. There were no public comments and the rate was agreed to unanimously.

Peachtree City police have released a sketch of the man who robbed the Home Town Dollar Plus store at the Wilshire Pavilion shopping center at gunpoint August 2.

A small handful of residents addressed the Peachtree City Council Thursday night about a potential doubling of the salary for the mayor and council members.

Police release detailed description of gunman

Peachtree City police are looking for a man who robbed the Home Town Dollar Plus store at the Wilshire Pavilion just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

In their first practice with helmets and pads on Wednesday members of the 2007 McIntosh Chiefs football program hit the sleds under the watchful eyes of assistan coaches.

Though the thermometer still shows readings in the 90s, Coweta County students are headed back to school Monday.

Now that Senoia has obtained up to two million gallons a day in sewerage capacity from the EPD, the tough decision making process starts.

The Coweta County Commission continued the trend of tax increases on the growing southside as it approved a one mill increase last week for unincorporated residents.

The Coweta County Board of Education voted to approve a 2007 millage rate of 18.59 mills for maintenance and operation of the school system’s 2007-08 school year, at a called meeting on July 26.

The August Grantville gospel singing will be held Friday, Aug. 24 and Saturday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m.

The Friday night singing will be outside in Colley Park adjacent to the depot and will feature Heavens Express from Flat Rock, Joyful Spirits from Whitesburg, Carter Trio from LaGrange, the Whites from Grantville, Amazing Grace from Franklin, and Marie Bulloch from Warm Springs.