PTC police collecting toys at Kedron Village

Peachtree City police will be at the Kedron Village shopping center Wednesday and Thursday collecting new unwrapped toys for underprivileged children in the area.

Standards help department maintain professionalism

The Peachtree City Police Department has again won re-accreditation on the national level.

Content a good ‘supplement’ to in-person training

The Peachtree City Fire Department is offering online training courses for its 142 career and volunteer personnel.

The Peachtree City Police Department will be hosting a basic Community Emergency Response Team class beginning February 9th, 2010. The classes will be held each Tuesday for ten weeks concluding on April 13th from 6 p.m. to approximately 9 p.m.

Local children are being asked to help the Peachtree City Police Department trim its Christmas tree this year.

Children who want to participate are invited to bring an ornament by the department Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., place it on the tree and have their picture taken with an officer.

Peachtree City's second mayor, Ralph Jones, died today, The Citizen has confirmed.

Funeral arrangements have not been finalized but will be published here at TheCitizen.com once they are available.

Jones, 80, served from 1966 to 1969 and under his leadership the city bought its first fire truck, began fire services with that one pumper and a dozen volunteers, and established the police department.

Peachtree City voters will have to beat the turkey to the polls ... or wait until next Tuesday to cast their ballots in the runoff election for the mayor’s seat and two City Council posts.

Peachtree City officials are hoping a grassroots email campaign will convince a specialty grocer to fill the empty space left behind by the “baby Kroger” at the Peachtree Crossing Shopping Center in the geographic middle of the city.

A traffic accident Sunday has knocked out Peachtree City's newest traffic signal on Ga. Highway 74 north at Wisdom Road.

Peachtree City residents who are ready to vote can get their civic duty out of the way today, Tuesday and Wednesday downstairs at the city library.

Candidates dispute recreation cuts, ‘special interest’ allegations during Q&A

In many ways, Wednesday’s mayor and council candidate forum in Peachtree City was all about the mayoral battle between Don Haddix and Cyndi Plunkett.

Both candidates said they needed to “correct” misstatements and mischaracterizations made by the other during the campaign.

Following is an issue-by-issue breakdown of each candidate’s viewpoint during the forum, which was sponsored by the Peachtree City Youth Council.

Candidates in the runoff elections for the Post 1 and Post 3 city council races got another chance Thursday to share their views with the public.

Those participating were Post 1 candidates Eric Imker and Beth Pullias and Post 3 candidates Kim Learnard and Bob Walsh.

It won’t start until the Monday after Thanksgiving, but plenty of Peachtree City residents will be thankful it is finally underway.

Peachtree City Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) board members Wednesday at a special called meeting voted unanimously to approve a contract with Tennessee-based Environmental Power Strategies, LLC (EPS) to dry and haul sludge from the wastewater treatment plant. The move will be a cost-saving of $3 per ton over the current rate.

David Ring, who wears many volunteer hats working with recreation programs in Peachtree City, was recently named Volunteer of the Year for the population category of 30,000 to 80,000 by the Georgia Park and Recreation Association at their annual conference in Jekyll Island.

Each candidate in Peachtree City's runoff election will appear tonight at a candidate forum at City Hall beginning at 7 p.m.

Former Arkansas governor, likely 2012 presidential candidate and Fox News host Mike Huckabee rolled into Peachtree City Saturday night for a book-signing of his most recent release, “A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit.”

Peachtree City staff is proposing additional language to clarify how proposed exemptions to the city’s new business impact fee will be handled.

Early voting for the three runoff races for mayor and two Peachtree City council posts began in earnest Monday.

To vote this week, residents will have to travel to downtown Fayetteville to cast a ballot at the Fayette County Elections Office. The office is located in the county’s Stonewall government complex at the southwest intersection of Ga. highways 54 and 85.

The widening of Ga. Highway 74 south from Cooper Circle to Ga. Highway 85 is expected to begin this Tuesday, the Georgia Department of Transportation announced Monday.

Peachtree City staff is proposing additional language to clarify how proposed exemptions to the city’s new business impact fee will be handled.

Property tax hike, budget cuts likely to avoid $2.7M shortage

Since Fayette residents voted down a new 1 percent sales tax, Peachtree City faces some difficult budget decisions.

Request comes from resident bitten by 2 dogs last year

A Peachtree City resident has asked the City Council to look into creating special requirements for owners of pit bull dogs.

Peachtree City residents ready to vote in the runoff election for the mayor and two city council seats can get their fix on in Fayetteville starting Monday.

Residents worried about cell towers allowed in new OS-P category

Peachtree City is about to undertake a massive rezoning effort aimed at protecting the city’s natural areas, greenbelts and passive parks by zoning them from the current open space designation to “open space-conservation.”

With its ongoing expansion, Peachtree City’s NCR campus is looking to expand its parking options as well.

A proposal to add more than 600 parking spaces was presented to the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night. Most of the parking will be pervious, which allows water to seep into the ground instead of into a water detention system.

When Peachtree City native Emily Breault needed a project idea for her college ecology class, she didn’t have to go very far for an idea.

Lt. Dan Berschinski recovers from blast that claimed his legs

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This remarkable story about Lt. Dan Berschinski, a native of Peachtree City, was published Nov. 9 in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington. It is reprinted here by permission.]

By SCOTT FONTAINE
((The News Tribune), Tacoma, Washington)

WASHINGTON – No one knows how long the bomb lay under the packed earth of southern Afghanistan. How many times had the soldiers stepped over it? Each member of Lt. Dan Berschinski’s platoon had, at least twice. The Fort Lewis [Wash.] officer figures he walked by the area two times with no problems.

But the bomb lay there, inches below the dirt path. It was likely made of plastic and triggered by a pressure switch.

Bombs like this one kill and maim indiscriminately. It didn’t target Berschinski on Aug. 19 because he was an officer or because he was leading a Stryker platoon on foot into a Taliban-controlled area. Nor did other enemy explosives pick out his comrades from the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Of the 26 men from the brigade reported killed to date, all but one died in bomb blasts, and many others have been wounded by bombs.

Developers want sewer service for shopping center the size of PTC’s The Avenue; a 50-acre sewage spray field eyed

In mayor’s race, Plunkett raises $13,710 vs. $2,543 for Haddix

Peachtree City mayoral candidate Cyndi Plunkett may have come in a thousand votes short of challenger Don Haddix in the Nov. 3 balloting, but she is beating Haddix by more than 5 to 1 in campaign fund-raising, according to campaign disclosure forms filed with the city.