Peachtree City residents who failed to pay their annual stormwater fee will face a 27 percent surcharge if they don’t take care of the matter soon.

For many years, Crook’s Tire Center in Senoia has emphasized customer service and treating customers like family.

Chief: process helps improve service to citizens

For the fifth time in a row, the Peachtree City Police Department has earned its national accreditation.

What a difference a week makes.

Last Monday, Senoia residents were up in arms over the design for the new library in the city's park and looking for other architects to submit proposals.

The Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce is a recipient of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) 22nd annual, coveted Award for Communications Excellence (ACE). The chamber's entry, the Genius Series, received an Award of Excellence, while the Be Something Different Campaign, received an Award of Merit. Entries receiving an ACE Award for Excellence surpass the fundamental standards and criteria for communications excellence.

Tonight's special called meeting of the Peachtree City Council is necessary to avoid a contract provision that would void the Airport Authority's recent land acquisition for its runway safety area, officials said.

House ordered to be sold in divorce judgement

Officials are still investigating what has been called a “suspicious” house fire in the Smokerise subdivision late Sunday evening.

Citizens watched as Peachtree City’s “Grand Christmas Tree” was lit Saturday night near Drake Field.

Senoia’s residents made their disdain quite clear Monday night of the proposed design for the new library.

Architect Brian Haun presented a proposal to the City Council for the new $500,000 library to resemble an old-fashioned train station. Haun showed slides of other train station during the early 20th century, and then unveiled his proposal, which was met with an almost universal disappointment.

The Peachtree City Library now has a kiosk where patrons can check out their own books.

Hundreds of residents ventured to downtown Senoia last Saturday to kick-off the holiday season.

The Booth Middle School eighth grade band is participating today in a performing arts workshop at Walt Disney World in Florida.

A plan to build a shopping center on the south side of Ga. Highway 54 West will be discussed Monday night in a workshop meeting of the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

Transportation, tutoring among biggest needs

With some experience now under their belts, Peachtree City officials are wanting to improve the fledgling after-school program the city hosts for Booth middle school students.

Newnan High School was tops in the 2006 Can-A-Thon drive in Coweta Count, raising 30,167 in food items to help refill the local Food Pantry.

Candles will glow, polished wood will gleam, and you will step back in time to the sights and sounds of Christmas a hundred years ago. Catch a glimpse of an old-fashioned holiday celebration during the Senoia Candlelight Tour of Homes this Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. Five historic houses and a beautiful Victorian church will open their doors to enchant you with the charm of Christmas past.

Two cell phone stores were burglarized this week in Peachtree City, with a large quantity of cell phones and accessories taken, police said.

Six vehicles were broken into Wednesday morning at the Braelinn Golf Course parking lot, police said.

The windows of the vehicles were broken and a purse was taken from each vehicle, police said. The incident occurred sometime between 10:30 and 11 a.m., police said.

Police and fire officials are investigating a “suspicious” fire that damaged a home in the Smokerise Estates subdivision Sunday night, according to Police Chief James Murray.

Peachtree City Police said the former boyfriend of a Peachtree City woman ransacked her apartment and a separate apartment belonging to an acquaintance.

The Peachtree City Council will hold a workshop meeting Tuesday night to discuss a new teen activity program and learn about the master plan for the library.

Richard Nelson Brown was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the Sept. 30, 2005 murder of Senoia business owner Ken Crook. Convicted on all five counts, Superior Court Judge Marion Cummings called the murder a brutal and heinous crime.

Fund established to benefit couple’s daughter

April Ulrich, accused of shooting her ex-husband Eric Ulrich Oct. 26 outside the NCR offices in Peachtree City, had her case bound over to Superior Court after a preliminary hearing in Magistrate Court earlier this week.

53 homes axed; total reduced to 699 homes on 400 acres

Levitt and Sons has reduced the number of homes it is seeking to build in its proposed senior housing community “Seasons at Peachtree City,” which is part of a 779-acre annexation proposal for west Peachtree City.

The Georgia National Guard under the leadership of Major General William T. Nesbitt conducted a combined training exercise with the Peachtree City-Falcon Field Civil Air Patrol squadron recently.

Michael Gant and Andrew McDougal, members of Boy Scout Troop 309 in Peachtree City, complete Christmas cards to be mailed to U.S.

The Youth Council of Fayette County is hosting a concert Friday, Dec. 15 that will feature several rock bands.

The headliner is Between the Trees, one of the hottest indie rock bands in the southeast which has almost a million plays on MySpaceMusic and Purevolume. Another band on the slate is 7 Sharp 9 of Atlanta, which tours the country and Kenotia from Marietta which just finished recording in New York and has more than 300,000 plays on MySpaceMusic and Purevolume.

There will no special election to fill the unexpired term of former school board chairman Mitch Powell.

Instead, the board will appoint someone from Powell’s 5th District to fill the last two years of his term. Powell succumbed to lung cancer earlier this month, and Coweta County school officials have been researching the method to replace him on the board.

Law enforcement agencies in Coweta and Fulton counties are seeking three men in connection with the Nov. 16 burglaries of two convenience stores in Newnan and Fairburn.

Saturday night, the city of Senoia kicks off its holiday festivities with “Light Up Senoia,” a colorful Main Street parade and celebration.