The Peachtree City Council and the city’s development authority voted Wednesday night to settle two pending lawsuits over the city-owned tennis center for $920,000 and use a revenue bond to finance the settlement over 10 years.

The City Council of Peachtree City will consider approving next week a nearly $1 million payment to a bank and two contractors to settle a long-running lawsuit about the city-owned Tennis Center, according to a city news release Wednesday.

A brand new house in the Centennial subdivision caught fire early Friday morning, but the flames were extinguished before the blaze spread far, according to Peachtree City Fire Chief Stony Lohr.

Although results of a recent survey of Peachtree City residents are still being processed, some of the data has been released culled from the approximately 500 persons who responded ... accounting for half the total surveys mailed out.

Bob Konrad of Peachtree CIty VFW Post 9949 bugles Taps in memory of deceased war veterans during Saturday’s Veterans Day ceremony in Peachtree City.

A Peachtree City family has sued the city for failing to properly mark a golf cart crossing where their son was struck by an oncoming car more than a year ago.

Volunteer, staffers also honored

The Peachtree City Parks and Recreation Department was named the 2006 Parks and Recreation Agency of the Year by the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association.

4 industrial park projects also get go-ahead

A plan to build a 145-unit senior apartment community in south Peachtree City has been resurrected.

Coweta Performance Learning Center students have volunteered at the current Habitat for Humanity build in Coweta County. Many students are looking for career direction and Habitat’s Americorp and Vista intern programs have initiated careers in social service for many of these interns and volunteers. Coweta’s Habitat was just accepted into the Americorp/Vista program and will be “hiring” 3 interns over the course of 2007. Photo/Special.

Sponsors are being sought to help make Christmas special for several needy families in what has become an annual event at Falcon Field in Peachtree City.

Parents have two weeks to make their feelings known on the Coweta County school calendars for the next two school years.

The announcement of The Legacy Theatre came early in 2006 when the town of Tyrone and theatre owner Bethany Smith stated that the theatre would now be built near the Millbrook subdivision, directly across the highway from the Publix shopping center. A formal reception was held in March and citizens could purchase seats and hear about the inaugural line-up of shows at the theatre and things went quiet as everyone got to work.

A 15-year-old Peachtree City boy has been arrested for using a handgun to threaten his mother just before he ran away from home Friday, police said.

A Canton man has been convicted of having an obscene internet chat with an undercover Peachtree City police officer whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

A Canton man insisted that he was role-playing when he transmitted pornographic images via the Internet to a girl he thought was 13 years old who turned out to be an undercover Peachtree City police officer in January.

Police: Quick clothes change doesn’t help suspects

A well-dressed jewelry thief and his getaway driver were arrested by Peachtree City police Wednesday afternoon after stealing a $30,000 ring from a store at The Avenue shopping center, police said.

Dozens of individuals and organizations gathered at Shakerag Knoll in Peachtree City last Saturday to have people try their chili at the annual Line Creek Civitans Chili Challenge.

By the time all the votes were counted in Fayette and Coweta counties, it was clear the blue tide sweeping the country stopped before it hit two of the southern suburbs of Atlanta.

State officials are reconfiguring the timeline for cities such as Peachtree City to file their comprehensive plans, City Planner David Rast told the Peachtree City Council in a special called meeting Tuesday night..

Dallas man arrested in undercover PTC sting

A Fayette County jury has convicted a Dallas, Ga. man for sending computer porn to an undercover Peachtree City police officer who he thought was a 15-year-old girl.

Larissa Romanow, a student at J.C. Booth Mid

Obscenity charge may be wiped from record after 10 years

A former Tyrone youth minister has pled guilty to using the internet for sharing obscene material with an undercover police officer he thought was 14 years old.

Two drug seizures by Grantville Police in the past week netted 82 pounds of suspected marijuana with a street value of $164,000. A controlled-buy Oct. 31 led to the arrest of two men from Fairburn and Union City. The subsequent seizure of 58 pounds of suspected marijuana came after two other UPS deliveries were made but no one arrived to pick them up at the residences.

Hundreds of spectators showed up on Main Street in Senoia last Saturday to bid on items from Hutchinson’s Hardware store.

Senoia City Administrator Richard Ferry unveiled the city’s budget next year during this week’s council meeting and said it’s a “very modest’ increase over last year.

There must be something intoxicating about the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest because not only does the audience grow every year, both at the event and watching from home, but it inspires many people to take up the fork and give the sport of competitive eating a try. Two local men, Larry “The Legend” McNeil and Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, both graduates of McIntosh High School (Mcneil graduated in 1989 and Yarbrough graduated in 1991) and current Newnan residents, were among those inspired by the spectacle, so much so that they entered a qualifying event for the contest at Zoo Atlanta the following year. Though neither won, Yarbrough did better than McNeil, the two were hooked and have continued to participate in International Federation of Competitive Eating events.

Members of the area's three veteran's organizations will memorialize the contributions of all U.S. military veterans during the second annual Veterans Day Remembrance on Saturday, Nov. 11 from 9:30 to 10 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial in Peachtree City.

Fire official: No hazardous chemicals involved

Three railcars carrying plastic pellets derailed at a Peachtree City business Thursday morning, injuring one employee, according to the Peachtree City Fire Department.

Developer wants $350,000 credit for building road

The Peachtree City Council has postponed consideration of a request to reduce the amount of impact fees owed by Ravin Homes on behalf of the Cedarcroft subdivision.

Peachtree City firefighters got some first-hand training this week using three small apartment buildings that are scheduled for demolition across from First Baptist Church.