The town of Tyrone this summer became the first municipality in the county to give back money to builders who do business in the town.

“I moved here for quality of life, not to live through this.”

It has been an undeniable battle fought over political terrain that most people would rather sidestep. But like their conterparts just to the west in the new City of Chattahoochee Hill Country, supporters of the new City of South Fulton say the Sept. 18 vote will finally give residents the right to vote for local control over their own destiny.

Tyrone resident Dick Shelley has filed suit against the Town of Tyrone, town administrative staff, the mayor and council and planning commission over what he maintains was unfair and illegal treatment in zoning and other issues relating to his rental property located at 117-119 Palmetto-Tyrone Road.

Tyrone Town Council Thursday completed the second of three public hearings that will result in a 3.42 percent net tax increase for residents. While the council is holding the millage rate firm at 2.9 mills, the town did experience growth at approximately five percent, mainly through reassessments.

July 13 is the occasion for a special surprise for a very special lady.

John Wieland’s River Oaks neighborhood on Ga.

Fayetteville’s Mike Faulklner appeared before Tyrone’s Town Council alst night and received a special exception to operate a storage facilty in an M-1 industrial zoning.

Tyrone Police are seeking information related to an armed robbery near midnight Monday at the BP/Amoco station on Ga. Highway 74 and Tyrone Road. No one was injured in the incident.

Mounting public concerns expressed at Union City council meetings during the past few months came to a head Tuesday night as Retina Dawson-Young called for Mayor Ralph Moore and Councilwoman Angelette Mealing to resign their elected positions, followed by an announcement by Anika Madden that a recall movement for removal of the two had begun.

The announcement came in October 2005 that Fairburn was closing in on negotiations that would locate nearly one million square feet of retail space on 110 acres along the east side of Ga. Highway 74 between Milam Road and I-85. The development has not materialized, but Fairburn City Administrator Jim Williams is anything but concerned.

It was a gesture intended to lend a helping hand for those who need it. Representatives of John Wieland’s River Oaks development on Ga. Highway 74 presented Tyrone Police Monday with two bullet-proof vests as a show of support for local law enforcement efforts.

Arrests are pending in a July 14 incident that virtually destroyed and home at 304 West Broad Street in Fairburn and took the life of the family’s dog.

Union City conducted the third of several public hearings July 10, designed to solicit input for the city’s South Fulton Parkway Corridor Study. Expected to be completed later this summer, the corridor study is anticipated to provide a template for municipal decisions through 2027 that will directly affect the 6.5-mile stretch of the parkway annexed by Union City last summer.

Mounting public concerns expressed at Union City council meetings during the past few months came to a head Tuesday night as residents called for Mayor Ralph Moore and Councilwoman Angelette Mealing to resign their elected positions. Residents also announced that a recall movement for removal of the two had begun.

Tyrone Police are seeking information regarding an armed robbery near midnight Monday at the BP/Amoco station on Ga. Highway 74 and Tyrone Road.

Skies threatened but not a drop of rain fell July 7 as Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed in south Fulton at the Wolf Creek Amphitheater. More than 1,000 enjoyed the music, sponsored by Partnership for Tomorrow, Fulton County Commission and a number of corporate sponsors. Photo/Special.

Tyrone’s new library is starting to reach for the sky as construction continued this week. The library should be finished in December. Photo/Ben Nelms.

Despite the protestation of three former Fayette County Commission chairmen, the County Commission Thursday night decided to seek a different direction for its legal services.

With a 4-1 vote, the County Commission ended the 27-year career of county attorney Bill McNally. Commissioner Eric Maxwell made the motion to hire an in-house county attorney, and to use McNally’s law firm only if the scope of work exceeded what the staff attorney could do.

After 30 years of starts and stops, Lake McIntosh received its final permit from the Army Corps of Engineers this week.

The much anticipated move to place the South Fulton Parkway into the hands of Georgia Dept. of Transportation (GDOT) came to fruition Wednesday. Being designated a state highway should preserve the parkway’s limited access as it becomes a major traffic corridor in the fast growing area of west metro Atlanta.

A resolution to the standoff between members of South Fulton Municipal Regional Water & Sewer Authority came to an end Tuesday as representatives of Palmetto and Union City agreed to refinance the authority’s $41.7 million bond and use the savings to pay down the principal and interest.

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has cleared the way for the vote on the city of South Fulton, likely to be held in September. The clearance came in a July 10 letter to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker.

Fulton County erosion control inspector Don Mitchell faces up to 10 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines after pleading guilty to soliciting and taking cash and other bribes from a contractor during the course of his job.

Fairburn Police are seeking two men in connection with the armed robbery Tuesday at Hampton Inn on Ga. Highway 74 and Oakley Industrial Boulevard.

Topics as diverse as a new hotel on Ga. Highway 74 and a proposed garbage transfer station dotted the landscape at the Tuesday meeting of the Fairburn City Council. Approval of the conceptual site plan for Holiday Inn Express was voted in by the council, while the future of the transfer station on Bohannon Road was put on hold until August.

Members of the South Fulton and Fayette Community Task Force refuse to give up. It is now a full year since hundreds became ill after breathing the onion-like odor that state and federal investigators later said were emissions of the chemical odorant Propyl mercaptan from the Phillip Services Corp. plant near Fairburn. Residents say they are more committed than ever to pressing those same state and federal agencies to maintain medical follow-ups on the health status of affected citizens.

The much anticipated move to place the South Fulton Parkway into the hands of Georgia Dept. of Transportation (DOT) came to fruition Wednesday. Being designated a state highway should preserve the parkway’s limited access as it becomes a major traffic corridor in the fast growing area of west metro Atlanta.