Students attending Coweta County schools head back to class Monday to begin the 2006-07 school year.

Coweta County Schools are expecting well over 21,000 students to be enrolled during the 2006-2007 school year, following average growth of close to 1,000 students per year in recent years, officials said.

A contractor has been selected for the widening of Ga. Highway 74 from Ga. Highway 54 to just south of Crosstown Road in Peachtree City.

An experimental plane crashed at Falcon Field around 8 a.m. this morning, killing the sole occupant inside, officials said.

A 14-year-old was assaulted early Tuesday evening while driving a golf cart on the path between Harmony Village Apartments and Balmoral Apartments, police said.

Meth, crack found at suspect’s PTC home

A drug dealer peddling from a golf cart near the Kedron Fieldhouse in Peachtree City was arrested early Saturday evening by officers who were tailing him, police said.

An armed robbery Wednesday at The Herb Shop in Peachtree City bears an interesting similarity to other recent hold-ups in Fayette County.

Senoia City Councilman Perry Benson resigned Wednesday and the City Council is expected to decide Aug.7 whether to appoint an interim councilman or wait until the fall elections.

South Fulton County just keeps on evolving. The most current addition to the idyllic landscape dominated by lush rolling hills and upscale homes is the Martha Stewart-inspired Hampton Oaks community on Ga. Highway 92 at Butner Road. Open to the public beginning July 29, Stewart and builder KB Home provided a glimpse of the new community earlier in the week.

Former mayor says ‘intent’ was to vote in public

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizen.com
and MATT NOLLER

Peachtree City has put together a bid package to host the start of next year’s Tour de Georgia bike race.

If the bid is approved, the city would host a number of pre-race events and an estimated 350 hotel rooms will be full for at least one night if not more, said Lauren Yawn, executive director of the Peachtree CIty Tourism Association.

The Coweta County School System is moving forward in its efforts towards ending a 1973 injunction surrounding racial issues.

The Peachtree City Council proposed a plan to add one extra police officer to the force by the end of the year at its July 20 meeting.

Following a busy summer of construction, the Coweta County School Board plans to dedicate several schools before the first day of the new school year.

Peachtree City police are investigating a robbery that occurred at The Herb Shop on Commerce Drive Wednesday afternoon.

The Peachtree City Council proposed a plan to add one extra police officer to the force by the end of the year at its July 20 meeting.

Two Peachtree City residents have been cited for failing to keep their children in school as prescribed by law, police said.

Police have connected two Peachtree City teens to the theft of two golf carts in the city.

One of the carts was stolen from the Wilshire Estates subdivision and the other from the Morallion Hills subdivision, police said. Both were later found abandoned, which is a typical occurrence in the summer as the carts are stolen for “joyrides.”

A routine traffic stop led to the arrest of an escapee from a work release program in Hall County, Peachtree CIty police said.

“This is one of the greatest things that’s ever happened in my life.”

Those words spoken by County Commission-elect Eric Maxwell to a crowd of devoted supporters at the Longbranch Restaurant in Fayetteville brought one of the county’s hottest elections to a close, just before 11 p.m. Tuesday night.

The new traffic light on Ga. Highway 74 at Georgian Park and Ardenlee wasn’t up and running as expected Wednesday afternoon.

Litter is on the rise in Peachtree City, both along the 90-mile cart path system and along city streets, officials said.

Peachtree City has purchased a vacant parcel of land near the Fairfield subdivision in hopes of solving a flooding issue at a home in the subdivision, officials said.

A Peachtree City teen who passed out at the Twiggs Corner Condominiums late Tuesday night will face drug charges, police said.

“My goal is simply this. Since there is no answer and nobody knows anything, then let’s shut the plant down until we find some answers,” Edwards said. “This stuff is serious.”

Motorists who travel the western leg of Ga. Highway 54 between Peachtree City and Coweta County experiences less traffic congestion Thursday morning.

Coweta County Commission Chairman was ousted Tuesday night, in the only locally-contested races.

Tarbutton lost to political newcomer Tim Lasseter, who stressed that he was a life-long Coweta County resident. When the unofficial results were tabulated Tuesday night, Lasseter received 792 votes to Tarbutton’s 705 votes in the western commission district.

Starting Monday, Coweta County and Senoia residents will see their outdoor watering times severely limited.

The Coweta County Commission voted Tuesday to impose level three drought water restrictions on county residents because of the lack of rain and Newnan Utilities implementation of the more severe restrictions.

Four Coweta County Schools are considered “Needs Improvement” schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and will offer school choice options under some circumstances for the 2006-2007 school year.

Four linemen from the East Coweta football program won the truck push event at the Velocity Sports Lineman Challenge last Saturday.

$2 million grant expires July 31; mayor optimistic

The clock is ticking, with a July 31 deadline for Peachtree City to reach an agreement to buy land near Falcon Field Airport to extend TDK Boulevard into Coweta County.