Defendants face mandatory minimum sentences of at least two decades

Jorge Olivo, 24, of Roswell, Ga., and Rene Perez, 32, of San Marcos, Texas, both pleaded guilty in federal court in Newnan Jan. 12 to felony charges of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 173 kilograms of cocaine that had been couriered by flight from Texas to the Peachtree City’s Falcon Field airport.

A proposal to rezone St. Paul Lutheran Church to allow for a new cellphone tower off Ga. Highway 74 North was tabled by the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night.

A proposal to rezone St. Paul Lutheran Church to allow for a new cellphone tower off Ga. Highway 74 north was tabled by the Peachtree City Planning Commission tonight.

Verizon Wireless is asking Peachtree City to rezone St. Paul Lutheran Church so the company can build a new cell tower on the site.

A proposal to annex 48 acres near Carriage Lane and Old Stagecoach Road was denied by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night.

Path rebuild necessary once bridge is finished

A cart path bridge that will connect homes in south Peachtree City to part of the industrial park is expected to be completed by the end of the month, barring any issues with the weather, city officials said this week.

A Peachtree City man who’s running for the Secretary of State’s office in the 2010 election is miffed at Gov. Sonny Perdue.

Starting this week Peachtree City residents 65 and over can pop by City Hall to register for the senior homestead exemption.

A Peachtree City woman was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 6 for striking her stepson, police said.

Nicole Fannin, 32, of Larkspur Turn, was charged with cruelty to children in the first degree and battery (family violence).

Without taking any public input, the new Peachtree City Council unanimously voted down a developer’s request to upsize one retail building for a new shopping center off Ga. Highway 54 West from 50,000 to 65,000 square feet.

Ramsey hopes to pass cellphone ban for drivers under 18

With state revenues continuing to fall short, the upcoming legislative session will be dominated by budget cuts, according to Rep. Matt Ramsey, (R-Peachtree City).

PTC to broadcast Thurs. meeting on web

Peachtree City residents can avoid the cold Thursday night and watch the first City Council meeting of the new year from the comfort of their easy chair if they want.

A proposal to upsize a “big box” store for a new shopping center on Ga. Highway 54 West at Planterra Way is up for a vote by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night.

Online form must be filled out, printed before fire is lit; Those without computers must visit fire station

Crews from Piedmont Landscaping recently began installing median landscaping on Ga. Highway 54 East in Peachtree City stretching from Peachtree Parkway to the city limits.

Peachtree City officials are still working to acquire the necessary right-of-way to allow the cart path tunnel underneath Ga. Highway 74 at Paschall Road to be completed.

Plans to add 600 more parking spaces to Peachtree City’s NCR campus were approved recently by the city’s planning commission.

By now the wrapping paper, boxes and most of the Christmas detritus have left the home.

Except for the Christmas tree, of course. To solve that dilemma, local volunteers and Peachtree City will accept Christmas trees for recycling Saturday, Jan. 9 at several locations between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

New mayor-elect says city needs to improve its tax base by attracting more employers to PTC

When the New Year rings in, Peachtree City will have three new rookies on the City Council and a familiar face as mayor.

Incoming Mayor Don Haddix, giving a preview of what to expect in the early going, is already ruling out one thing: further job cuts.

Peachtree City resident and Navy Reservist Corey Malmer returned home this month from a year’s tour of duty along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Malmer, an intelligence specialist, served on an embedded training team that helped train cohorts in the Afghan national army. Such work is considered crucial to the military strategy in the area as U.S. and coalition forces move towards the eventual goal of having the Afghan army, border patrol and national police trained well enough to take their country back with little if any outside aid.

An Atlanta man accused of robbing the Creekside Chevron in Peachtree City at gunpoint Dec. 19 has been arrested, police said.

Peachtree City police have charged an Atlanta man for the sawed-off shotgun robbery of Creekside Chevron on Ga. Highway 54 West in the early morning of Dec. 19.

Christmas is indeed the season of giving, and Peachtree City residents proved it again as they responded to the police department’s “Light Up the Night” toy drive.

With the community’s help, police were able to provide 42 children and six entire families with a Merry Christmas. On top of that, they were able to help the Fayette County Department of Family and Children Services help another 25 children at the last minute.

Accessing Ga. Highway 74 to the north from Rockaway Road has been a long standing vehicular nightmare. The beginning of the Hwy. 74 widening project is now under way and the first construction project will be the realignment of Rockaway so that it ties in to the traffic signal at Holly Grove Road. Weather permitting, that realignment work is expected to begin sometime in January.

It wasn’t the most wistful of sendoffs, but Harold Logsdon’s final act as mayor was a review of the successes, and some “disappointments” that marked his four years in office.

Haddix served on five-member arbitration panel

He hasn’t even been sworn in as Peachtree City’s mayor yet, and already Don Haddix has recorded a vote against an annexation.

$66K in stormwater funds approved on 4-1 vote

Peachtree City’s approval of a $62,782 contract for street sweeping services normally would not be such a noteworthy event.

The Rotary Club of Peachtree City named Corporal Brian Boynton as the 2009 Police Officer of the Year Saturday evening at the PTC Police Department's Christmas banquet held at Flat Creek Country Club.  The selection process for officer of the year is done by peer officers. Corporal Boynton has an excellent work ethic and is known throughout the department as the “Go to Guy” when an officer is needed for special detail.  Boynton was born in East Point, Georgia.  After spending some time in Texas, where he graduated from Kingwood High School, he returned to Georgia to live with his mother and sister. 

Peachtree City’s Community Development Division is hosting a special seminar for owners of rental property to help them keep their sites “safe and free of illegal activity.”

The new members of the Peachtree City Council will have a hot potato in their laps from Jan. 1.

That's because the current council, which has three outgoing members, voted 4-1 to postpone a decision on a big box special use permit amendment until the first meeting in January.