Now that the qualifying period is over for Fayette’s municipalities, voters know what the menu will look like when they head to the polls Nov. 6. In Tyrone, current Councilman Mike Smola will run for mayor against retiree Don Rehwaldt.

The looks on their faces tell the story. Cochran Mill Nature Center was buzzing with activity Aug.

Rev. Bobby Alford offers words of inspiration Tuesday to law enforcement officers from Clayton County and those from Fayette County Sheriff’s Office and police officers from Tyrone, Fayetteville and Peachtree City at the monthly meeting of Fayette Fellowship of Christian Police Officers.

The run up to the November election should prove interesting in the cities of south Fulton County. The list of candidates for mayor and council races in Chattahoochee Hill Country, Palmetto, Union City and Fairburn were impressive as of press time, with a total of 38 candidates qualifying.

Applause broke out spontaneously in the Fairburn City Council chambers Monday night as the city council did something that most of the 150 in attendance had not expected. The council voted unanimously to deny a request to establish a construction waste and household trash transfer station on the city’s south side. Concern over the proposal was evidenced by the packed house of residents and the nearly endless list of local, state and federal elected officials.

The long arm of the law had quite a reach Wednesday as Tyrone Police and other agencies chased four males in a stolen car into Fulton County following a residential burglary at Southhampton subdivision.

The 2007 SAT scores are in. And Fulton County leads the state in test scores.

Fulton County led the state with a combined 1,595 average score out of a possible 2,400, followed by the City of Decatur and Oconee County. Cherokee and Fayette counties tied for fourth place, averaging scores of 1,548.

What began as a controversy in June ended last week as an amiable parting of the ways. Union City council members Aug. 21 voted to extend the lease for Kreative Kidz youth enrichment program, giving the organization until Nov. 31 to relocate.

Fairburn Police Chief Charles Long resigned recently, leaving behind an accountability policing program and a reduction in serious crime.

A growing number of residents across south Fulton and southwest metro Atlanta are addressing issues of safety and well-being in neighborhoods where their families live. One of those is the Magnolias subdivision in Fairburn.

It’s been a long hot summer, but things may cool down at Sandy Creek High School’s gym by the middle of September.

The meeting began with the commission swearing in new commissioner Kathy Winton and was followed by the approval of a conceptual site plan for Lots 9 and 10, Phase VII of the Shamrock Industrial Park. The lots will share a driveway and previous concerns about lighting were addressed. The lighting on the site will now being shielded and directed downwards.

Tyrone is losing a police chief. Long-time officer-turned-chief Police Chief David Mullis gave his resignation Aug. 27, citing a career as the reason. Mullis’ resignation is effective Sept. 21.

Now we will see what happens. But that will take until the November elections in Tyrone to determine the political landscape.

Announcing his bid for mayor, Don Rehwaldt said he will be a full-time mayor. Recently retired with 44 years of professional management experience, Rehwaldt said he is committed to improving Tyrone and enhancing property values.

Fulton County zoning commissioners cast their lot with residents of Oakley Township subdivision Aug. 21 as the Community Zoning Board (CZB) denied a request to construct 465 apartments and other residences on Oakley Industrial Boulevard and another to establish 26,000 square feet of retail businesses adjacent to the subdivision.

The murder of two children followed by the suicide of the father who killed them struck Oakley Township subdivision Monday night. The motive for the killings is unknown.

Fairburn residents bolstered their fight to keep a household trash and construction debris transfer station from being approved at the site of an inert landfill on Bohannon Road Thursday when they gained the support of Congressman David Scott.

Steven Cooper, left, acting director of the NWS Southern Region, presented Dan Collins of the Peachtree CIty NWS office with the Isaac M.

Fairburn Police have arrested two men in connection with the Aug. 8 murder of 18 year-old Palmetto resident Brandon Horton, who was shot in the head during an altercation near Johnson Road on Fairburn’s south side.

Complaints by many area residents that South Fulton Parkway has become a local substitute for the Autobahn seemed to hold true early Monday morning when a Newnan man fleeing Georgia State Patrol (GSP) on a motorcycle was killed near Hunter Road. He was clocked earlier traveling 137 miles per hour.

Staff from Fulton County Comprehensive Planning Division meet with residents of unincorporated south Fulton Aug.

Onsite sales are now open at John Wieland’s newest Fayette neighborhood, River Crest, located in Tyrone off Ga. Highway 74 just minutes from I-85. With a unique neighborhood plan distinguished by 100 acres of protected green space and dynamic club amenities, River Crest is offering a selection of homes from Wieland’s Signature Homes portfolio priced from the $400s.

Last week’s vote by the Tyrone Town Council to pursue additional sewage capacity from Peachtree City showed another difference of opinion on the Town Council.

The theft of copper wire in the tri-county area of Fayette, Fulton and Coweta continued Aug. 20 when a Tyrone business owner opened his doors to find $6,500 worth of the economically precious metal stolen.

Tyrone Town Councilman Michael Smola announced Thursday that he is running to become the next mayor of Tyrone.

Smola made his announcement near the conclusion of a Town Council meeting.

The new city of South Fulton is still viable. That was the conclusion of revised figures released last week by Georgia State University’s Prof. Robert Eger, noting that the new city will be in the black by approximately $900,000 for its first year of operation if voters approve the charter in the Sept. 18 referendum. The most outspoken opponent of the new city, Fulton County Commissioner Bill Edwards, is unconvinced that the figures will work. Standing diametrically opposed to that viewpoint is South Fulton Concerned Citizens who say Eger is on track.

Nearly 700 families and friends made quick work of the stifling heat Aug. 10 to hear Atlanta Symphony Orchestra fill the rolling hills at Hutcheson Ferry Park in Chattahoochee Hill Country. This was the third year the symphony’s Summer Concert Series schedule included Chatt Hills. Photo/Special.

There is a lot to be done in a new city between elections in November and the start-up of municipal operations December 1. It is within that short time window that Chattahoochee Hills Organizing Committee is recommending that the new mayor and city council select Denver-based utility, public works and municipal operations company CH2M HILL OMI (Operations Management International) to help design, implement and operate the municipal services.

The Fairburn City Council meeting Aug. 13 had a full agenda with a variety of topics. But nearly all in the standing room-only crowd of 100 came for just one item, a proposed garbage transfer station on Bohannon Road. A decision on the proposal is expected at the Aug. 27 meeting.