It takes more than courage to face some of life’s challenges. For Rodney and Waynette Peek, one of those challenges came three years ago when Mitochondrial Disease entered the life of their little girl. Bright-eyed and alert, Riley was only two years old at the time.

They were at the right place at the right time and willing to help. And that made the difference.

Off-duty Fairburn firefighter Sgt. Paul Bell and his wife Emily, a nurse at Southern Regional Hospital, were nearing their home on Strickland Street in Fairburn on the afternoon of April 9 when they spotted smoke coming from a house a few doors away.

Tyrone Town Manager Barry Amos confirmed this week the town is looking to increase its sewer capacity from the city of Fairburn.

A new look is coming to a short stretch of the often congested area of Palmetto-Tyrone Road between Ga. Highway 74 and the railroad tracks at Senoia Road. Work has begun that will bring a wider roadway with turn lanes and a landscaped median.

Fayette County Sheriff’s Office S.W.A.T.

Tyrone’s new library should be completed by the end of this year.

Thats’ the word after the Town Council unanimously approved a $1.3 million construction bid by Headley Construction of Newnan to build the structure.

The Union City Police and FBI agents are looking for a man on charges of armed robbery in the March 29 hold-up at the Bank of America office at 6737 Londonderry Way.

Residents of the Rico community in south Fulton always have a good time when a celebration is at hand. March 31 was no exception, as several hundred people attended the annual Spring on the Green festival.

Arrests are pending in two March 1 pawn shop burglaries in Palmetto where 12 handguns were stolen. The recovery of one of the guns was instrumental in cracking the case.

It is a process being used in only one place in Georgia. It is called Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs) and it is happening in the Chattahoochee Hill Country (CHC) area of south Fulton County. It is a process designed to facilitate the preservation of the historic rural landscape while promoting the sustainable development of livable communities.

The idea of having an annual music festival along the banks of the Chattahoochee River in south Fulton County was music to the ears of Fulton County Board of Commissioners. The project received a 7-0 vote at the April 3 commission meeting.

Georgia Department of Transportation contractor, Archer Western, announces the southbound outside lane on Interstate 85, south of Ga. Highway 34, will be closed each day from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. from April 9-April 12, beginning at Mile Post 47 south to Mile Post 45. This closure is due to the widening and lane reconstruction project currently underway. Shoulders are also closed in this construction area and extreme caution needs to be observed.

The new Chick-fil-A restaurant at Peachtree City’s Kedron Village shopping center became a tent city of sorts as residents camped out to be one of the store’s first 100 customers.

Ask and you shall receive. The Tyrone Planning Commissioners Thursday night approved a request by Abundant Life Church of God to have a five-acre tract adjacent to the church rezoned OI (Office/Institutional).

Union City Council has taken what it calls the next step in revitalizing the area around Union Station and Royal 85 Business Park, both located adjacent to I-85. Council members March 20 adopted a resolution to revise the Union City Town Center Redevelopment Plan and create a Tax Allocation District (TAD) in the two designated areas. The move awaits approval by the Fulton County Commission and Fulton County Board of Education.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced the successful completion of Math-A-Thon at Our Lady of Victory Catholic School in Tyrone.. Math-A-Thon, now in its 28th year, is an educationally based fund-raising program in which students obtain sponsors for the number of math problems completed in special workbooks provided for students in grades Pre-K-8. The program is sponsored nationally by Six Flags Theme Parks, who provide free passes to their parks for every student raising $35 or more.

“This is wrong. It is not the ideology of the American dream. We took a bite out of that dream and woke up in a nightmare.”

A March 18 incident at a residence in Fairburn where two people were injured as approximately 100 rounds were fired into the two-story house came to a quick conclusion by March 22 with seven arrests on 70 felony charges and multiple weapons confiscated.

The squeeze is on. Again. Union City residents dissatisfied with high-density residential zoning have even less to look forward to.

2 defendants plead after jury selection

An Atlanta man who attempted to run over several sheriff’s deputies and crashed into an innocent bystander while fleeing an undercover drug bust in Tyrone pled guilty Tuesday to several charges in the case.

It is an innovation in drug transport that did not pan out. Fairburn r

After Tyrone’s Town council voted down the latest proposal for downtown development, what’s next?

The Town Council could soon find out, according to town manager Barry Amos.

The vote is in. Eighty percent of Fulton County voters March 20 said yes to a renewal of the school system’s one-percent sales tax that carries a $893 million ceiling. The one-percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) renewal is slated to bring eight new schools to south Fulton.

Did north Fayette man try to grab deputy’s gun?

A north Fayette man accused of trying to take a deputy’s weapon during a scuffle in August walked away from court a free man Wednesday.

Another in a continuing series of meetings on the formation of the new City of South Fulton was held Thursday at Welcome All Park. But this time, Dr. Robert Eger had updated figures indicating that the new city will be financially viable despite the annexations of large portions of the proposed city by existing south Fulton cities.

Things may be getting questionable for the future of South Fulton Municipal Regional Water & Sewer Authority. Bonds totaling $42 million were sold in 2003 with the idea of constructing a reservoir and the infrastructure necessary to serve the drinking water needs of Union City, Fairburn and Palmetto. Today the project is still not off the ground and is need of another $13 million. In the meantime, residents of the three cities will watch this summer as the municipalities begin paying on the principal and interest, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

Two Morrow residents are in custody and others are being sought by Fairburn Police in a Sunday night shooting that resulted in two injuries after approximately 100 shots were fired into a home at 915 Fellowship Road. Nine people were in the home at the time of the shooting.

Anybody up for a music festival? Fulton County Community Zoning Board believed the idea would fly, voting March 21 to approve a permit request by Rivertown Entertainment, LLC to hold an annual music festival on a 2,047-acre site in south Fulton.

With a little creativity and help from local businesses and organizations, students at Sandy Creek High raised $3,000 for Pennies for Patients, nearly sextupling the amount raised over the last two years.

They came to have fun and that is exactly what they did. Several hundred people made their way to Tyrone March 17 for the St.