The Peachtree City Packers hosted a football camp at Booth Middle School this week, and local youngsters took part in various actitivies, including passing, catching and blocking drills.

LDI Reproprinting Center hosted a Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting in honor of their new location. They can be reached at 678-423-1773 or visit them at 20 Thomas Grace Annex Lane, Suite E in Sharpsburg. LDI does with modern electrostatic and digital technology what blueprinters do with old-fashioned blueprints. Photo/Special.

A commercial developer has scaled down its commercial rezoning request for property on Ga. Highway 74 south near Holly Grove Road.

Decision could provide solution for McIntosh Village

A decision by the Environmental Protection Division last week should provide enough sewer capacity for Senoia to grow through 2026. The increase in capacity could also help foster the development of McIntosh Village near Sharpsburg.

Department to relocate temporarily while repairs are conducted

Peachtree City officials have doubled the estimated cost for fixing moisture problems at the police department’s headquarters to $600,000.

Citizen input sought for potential trash franchise contract

Peachtree City officials have announced they will take a second look at giving an exclusive contract for one company to provide trash service for the entire town in an effort to improve services for residents.

July 26 meeting will highlight challenges facing each village

Citizen input is being sought as Peachtree City continues to prepare its comprehensive plan.

Three area teens will be honored with the Boy Scouts of America’s extreme risk heroism award at a ceremony July 28.

The Coweta County Board of Commissioners is advertising tentative 2007 millage rates that reflect a more than 25 percent increases for Coweta property owners.

Senoia’s leaders Monday night tried their best to downplay the fact that the millage rate was not being lowered for the 2008 budget.

Available through Thursday, August 2

Four Coweta County Schools are considered “Needs Improvement” schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and will offer school choice options for the 2007-2008 school year.

A woman charged two weeks ago with misdemeanor vehicular homicide stemming from a fatal crash in Peachtree City in March was arrested early Saturday morning for DUI, Peachtree City police said.

The Peachtree City Police Department is looking for persons 18 and over who are interested in learning how to help themselves and the community after an emergency event.

Peachtree City officials have achieved further savings in the upcoming 2007-08 budget, largely by factoring in salary savings from ongoing vacant positions in the city’s police department.

Georgia Army National Guard Cpl. Tom Andris of Peachtree City (left), a rifleman with Covington’s Company B, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry, watches as Command Sgt.

The Peachtree City Rotary Club’s Safety Town program is underway at several local schools. The event is designed to teach chlidren from 5-7 years old various safety issues including traffic, fire, school bus and bike safety along with stranger awareness, poison prevention, Internet safety and litter control. Photo/Special.

Traditions Framing, “life inside ninety degrees,” celebrated their grand opening with a Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting.

Work continues on one of the signature new buildings in Senoia.

Beer found in injured driver’s car; other driver arrested for DUI

Two Fayetteville men were racing each other when one lost control of his car on Walt Banks Road in Peachtree City across from McIntosh High School late Tuesday night, police said.

Peachtree City recreation officials have determined to ask voters to approve the larger option for expanding the city’s Gathering Place senior citizen’s center.

Peachtree City residents can now recycle a plethora of electronic items, with a few exceptions, at the city’s recycling center.

A Peachtree City Boy Scout is collecting school supplies that will be donated to children whose families cannot afford to purchase them.

The Coweta County Board of Education will hold three public hearings over the next two weeks concerning its intention to leave the school system’s current ad valorem tax rate of 18.59 mills in place during 2007.

Coweta’s foray into a new concept at its high school is nearly raedy for its close-up.

School spokesperson Dean Jackson said the ninth-grade campuses should be ready for the students when school starts August 6. The campuses were approved by the School Board in 2005 as a way of expanding the county’s three high schools and providing a transition for ninth-grade students into high school.

After 20 years in debt, the Coweta County School system is getting ready to be debt-free.

School spokesperson Dean Jackson said the school sold its first set of bonds in 1987 to expand the rapidly-growing school system. In 1998 and 2002, the school system consolidate all its bonds into two issues with more favorable interest rates.

It looks like Peachtree City has a decision to make. Fulton County Superior Court Judge John J. Goger ruled Friday that Peachtree City had two options: Either comply with Georgia Regional Transportation Authority’s (GRTA) insistence that the TDK extension bridge into Coweta County have four lanes or face possible GRTA-imposed funding restrictions on future transportation projects in the area.

The Peachtree City Council approved allowing a church just outside the city limits to hook up to the city’s sewer system.

Coweta-Fayette EMC recently received an Award of Excellence for their employee newsletter “News Flash” in the 2007 “Spotlight on Excellence” national awards program, sponsored by the Council of Rural Electric Communicators and the National Rural Electric Association.

Peachtree City’s Water and Sewage Authority is looking toward the near future of the city’s south end, particularly on how to best provide sewer service for new and existing development.