The Georgia Recreation and Parks Association recently recognized Lance Dennis and the Coweta County Recreation Department for the top Athletic Program Award.

As home prices continue to rise and speculation persists regarding higher interest rates, you may be hearing a lot of buzz about one of the mortgage industry's most popular products-interest-only (IO) loans. IO loans allow homebuyers to lower their monthly payments for a set period of time-and now make up 50 percent of the total share of mortgages in major competitive housing markets like San Diego, Atlanta and San Francisco.

Angela Cole has been named Assistant New Home Sales Manager for United Realty Group, the exclusive brokerage for The Parks of Olmsted in Coweta County and The Villages of Huntcliff in Hogansville in Troup County.

A workshop on the use of pesticide on sports fields will be held at City Hall in Peachtree City Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 5:30 p.m.

The Peachtree City Council meeting scheduled for Thursday night has been cancelled due to lack of a quorum, it was announced Wednesday morning.

A Peachtree City man was killed Friday evening in a four-vehicle auto crash at the intersection of Ga. Highway 74 and Senoia Road, police said.

Brown plots runoff strategy against Logsdon

Harvey Garcia, front, head landscape supervisor for Peachtree

The Fayette County Chamber of Commerce announced the 2005 Small Business of the Year recipient at their Annual Small Business of the Year Award Luncheon Wednesday at Glendalough Manor.

Peachtree City police apparently got some pretty good evidence against a city resident now charged with seven counts of burglary.

A fire Tuesday night damaged a workshop at a home on Sumner Road in Peachtree City, officials said.

The blaze was reported at 7:25 p.m. and fire crews from Peachtree City and Fayette County responded within six minutes to 307 Sumner Road, according to Capt. Pete Nelms of the Fayette County Department of Fire and Emergency Services.

The projected completion date for weekend construction along I-85 in December is closing in. But, of course, this is November, so travel plans this weekend should include time for traffic delays for those venturing onto the expressway.

In accordance with a new state truancy law, the Peachtree City Police Department has issued misdemeanor charges in three cases of parents and/or guardians whose children have more than 10 unexcused absences or tardies in a semester.

When it’s dry outside, sewer pipes in Peachtree City do just fine, according to a monitoring study of the city sewer system performed by DWC Technologies.

The Fayette County Health Department announced Wednesday that it is out of flu vaccine for the general public, but there are still 150 doses of pediatric flu vaccine (for ages 6-36 months) available.

By one of the narrowest margins in recent election history, Senoia residents elected a new mayor Tuesday.

A proposed new development in Sharpsburg will not have smooth sailing in dealing with the Coweta County Commission.

Coweta County sheriff’s investigators are continuing their search for the vehicle and one or more suspects sought in the Sept. 30 murder of Senoia business owner Ken Crook.

Senoia may soon have a new parks and recreation department if the 2006 budget gets the nod of the Senoia City Council.

Lisa Wilson, Miss Rome, is crowned the new Miss Georgia USA by last year’s winner, Tanisha Brito, at last weekend’s pageant in Newnan.

A Georgia Tech student was arrested Thursday at the Peachtree City Library after arranging to meet a girl he thought was 14 years old for a sexual act, police said.

The Peachtree City Airport Authority is waiting for written appraisals on two pieces of property it needs to acquire so the path for the TDK Boulevard extension can be routed around the runway safety area for Falcon Field.

Proposed Fairburn center would reshape Hwy. 74 corridor

It’s going to be big. Really big.

Members of the Hwy. 74 Alliance continued their beginning efforts to meet the impending challenges of the growth explosion along Ga. Highway 74 and other traffic corridors in the area at the group’s Wednesday meeting.

Four lanes before Thanksgiving on Ga. Highway 54 West in Peachtree City?

It’s not a joke. A small part of the project will have two lanes in both directions completed before Thanksgiving, as long as its not thrown off schedule by weather or other problems, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Money for shirts, used band instruments sought

McIntosh High School has “adopted” Pascagoula High School in Mississippi to help students there, many of whom lost their homes and all their belongings when Hurricane Katrina struck.

Peachtree City is estimating its new stormwater program will cost more than $550,000 for the coming year.

To pay for that cost, the city is planning to implement a stormwater utility that will result in residents of single family detached homes paying a monthly fee of either $2.69, $3.95 or $6 depending on the amount of impervious surface on the site. The total impervious surface on a site includes any buildings, any paved parking lot or driveway, and other improvements on the site that don’t allow water to seep into the ground.