A 14-year-old girl visiting Peachtree City from Buffalo, N.Y. was injured Friday night when she fell out of a golf cart while it was turning, police said.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its findings on an airplane that had a landing mishap at Falcon Field May 10.

The pilot, who was not injured, lost directional control after the main landing gear of the small plane touched down while the tail landing gear was still in the air, the report said.

The Peachtree City Council got a detailed lowdown of the proposed $36.43 million budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year at a workshop meeting Tuesday night.

‘No’ vote should have halted discussion for 6 months, Worley says

A Peachtree City man has filed a lawsuit against the city, asking the court to nullify a vote taken May 3 to annex two large parcels of land that would house 1,075 homes on 782 acres in the city’s West Village area.

Meetings set for Tuesday, Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

The first draft of the 2007-2008 budget for Peachtree City includes a quarter-mill tax increase and a dip of nearly $550,000 into the city’s cash reserves.

City fights retail use on industrial-zoned land

A pending lawsuit between a local developer and Peachtree City could end up with a Lowe’s Home Improvement store being located just off Ga. Highway 74 south and TDK Boulevard.

Cars will detour onto TDK Boulevard, Dividend Drive

Starting Friday at 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. Monday, Ga. Highway 74 between TDK Boulevard and Dividend Drive will be closed as work progresses on the highway widening project, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

No contaminants found; barrel likely leftover from previous water tests

It turns out the unmarked barrel found at a former construction dump site now owned by John Wieland Homes didn’t have contaminated waste inside it after all.

Bishop Neil Alexander of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta will visit St. Andrew’s in the Pines Episcopal Church in Peachtree City to celebrate Holy Eucharist with the congregation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 5.

Local residents got an up-close view of this Air Force WC-130J plane which is equipped with special meteorological equipment to fly into hurricanes.

Coweta County Schools wished over 21,000 students a good summer on Friday, as they sent them home on the last day of the 2006-07 school year.

They came from surrounding communities and the heart of Senoia to celebrate the memories of those who sacrificed their lives for their country.

On a gorgeous spring Monday, nearly 5,000 people packed the streets of Senoia to celebrate the city’s second Memorial Day celebration. The city’s downtown became a celebration of small-town life as churches and civic organizations sold everything from barbecue to fresh-squeezed lemonade.

As hundreds of new students move into the county each year, the Coweta County School Board constantly has to dealing with finding enough money to pay for all the programs the school system offers.

Smokey Road Middle School math teacher Clay Hildebrand was named the 2007 Teacher of the Year for Coweta County, at the annual Teacher of the Year program on May 22.

City notified Thursday of withdrawal for S74 rezoning

A commercial development company has withdrawn its bid for a controversial commercial rezoning on the south end of Ga. Highway 74 near Holly Grove Road for what would have been a 300,000 sq. ft. shopping center with a large home improvement store and a large soft goods store.

Starting Friday, June 1, sections of Ga. Highway 74 will be closed three weekends in a row as the contractor installs cross drains under the roadway, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Harvey Garcia, supervisor of the Peachtree City public works landscape crew, assists the Peachtree City Veterans of Foreign Wars by installing one of the 123 new memorial bricks at the Veterans Memorial in City Hall/Library Plaza.

From left to right are Newnan High Valedictorian Brady Sumner and Salutatorian Natasha Wood; East Coweta High School Valedictorian Daniel Rahim and Salutatorian Ashley Nicole Phillips; and Northgate High School Valedictorian Sarah Spiller and Salutatorian Cody Borgstrom. Newnan held its graduation last night, while Northgate students graduate tonight and East Coweta’s ceremonies are tomorrow morning. Find a list of graduates in the Names and Faces section. Photo/Special.

Application was delayed by paperwork freeze at Corps of Engineers

A bureaucratic snag at the federal level that temporarily froze progress on the Huddleston Pond repair project has cleared up.

DOT will proceed with design review for RR bridge at Hwy. 54

A new design for cart path approaches to a new bridge over Flat Creek in south Peachtree City is significantly more expensive than the original design.

The leading cause of death among children ages 2-6 in the United States is accidents. In light of that fact, the Rotary Club of Peachtree City is launching an effort to address those preventable tragedies here in Peachtree City beginning this summer.

Fairly soon the Peachtree City Council will get its first crack at the proposed 2007-2008 city budget.

Two workshops have been scheduled so the Council can ask detailed questions about the first draft of the budget proposed by the City Manager. That draft hasn’t been completed yet but could be available as early as Friday, June 1, according to Assistant Finance Director Janet Camburn.

Senoia residents now have the go-ahead to go riding around the town's historic streets in golf carts.

But City Administrator Richard Ferry said the city will continue to see if the ordinance can be further modified to meet requests from the city’s residents.

Senoia City Council did a slow burn Monday night at news of having its library site be dismissed by state officials.
The Council reacted with surprise as Library Board attorney Mark Mitchell said a state official from the library system had visited the site in the city’s park and said there were two main problems: being too close to power lines and the railroad tracks.

Coweta County Summer School for high school students will register students on June 4 through June 6 at the Central Educational Center in Newnan.

Registration starts Friday June 1 for entries in the 2007 July 4th parade in Peachtree City.

City residents, churches, service organizations and businesses can register for free starting June 1. A week later all other Fayette County residents, churches, service organizations can register for $25 and Fayette County businesses can register for $50.

Synovus, the parent company of Peachtree National Bank, has announced plans to merge PNB with two other Synovus-owned banks: First Nation Bank in Covington and Bank of North Georgia in Alpharetta.

Fayette County ranked second in the nation in 2005 of communities with the highest percentage of homes having four or more bedrooms, according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Members of the East Coweta Marine Corps JROTC practice their silent drill routine at the Veterans Memorial in Peachtree City. The cadets will perform during the Peachtree City Memorial Day Celebration beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday. The public is invited to participate in a golf cart procession that begins at the Gathering Place at 8:30 a.m. that day and winds around Lake Peachtree to the Plaza for the ceremony. For more information on all the celebrations, including Senoia’s festivities, see page C1. Photo/Special.

The Georgia Department of Transportation will scale back its construction projects across the state – suspending related lane closures on all interstate and major state system highways – through Monday to ease Memorial Weekend traffic congestion. Beginning at 5 a.m., Friday, May 25, and continuing until 10 p.m., Monday, May 28, there essentially will be no scheduled lane closures on any Georgia interstate highway or primary state route.