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.

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.

Residents at Oakley Township subdivision on Oakley Industrial Boulevard are nothing if not persistent. Battling developer D.R. Horton on and off for years, the local homeowner’s association continued their tenacious ways Tuesday night as Fulton County Commissioner Bill Edwards, Rep. Virgil Fludd and Sen. Kasim Reed listened to residents’ concerns on proposed developments along Oakley Industrial and offered suggestions and advice on how to handle the issues.

Palmetto Police have arrested one man in connection with an Aug. 13 residential burglary on Menefee Street. Additional arrests are expected.

It is a completely different way of thinking about the fuel that powers the vehicles we all drive. But running a fuel such as used cooking oil through an engine equipped to handle it causes a dramatic decrease in pollution and provides an alternative for a world addicted to oil.

No curb cuts and driveways along South Fulton Parkway. The addition of a four-lane urban boulevard to mitigate traffic. Maintaining the highway’s current 300-foot buffer. And the addition of five new roads and traffic signals crossing west metro Atlanta’s only east-west state route corridor. Those were some of the recommendations proposed in the now-completed South Fulton Parkway Corridor Study that will be considered by the Union City Council in September.

Eighteen year-old Palmetto resident Brandon Horton was murdered late Wednesday night in Fairburn after he and three friends were attacked by up to nine males. Fairburn Police have warrants on three of the nine suspects.

The run up to election time in November is drawing closer. Candidates interested in running have just over two weeks to make their decisions and prepare for the qualifying period beginning Aug. 27. Seats for various offices will be open in Union City, Fairburn, Palmetto and Chattahoochee Hill Country.

It was nothing short of a coup Tuesday at Palmetto City Council when a proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance establishing an active adult residential (R-AA) zoning district failed on a 3-4 vote. Those opposed said the reason for the failed vote rested on Palmetto’s history of high density zoning and the proposed ordinance’s lack of language to enforce the 55 and older age requirement.

Nearly 500 people braved the hot evening hours Aug. 7, making their way to Duncan Park in Fairburn to attend the second annual National Night Out, a program designed to enhance communication and participation between law enforcement and the community.

Palmetto City Council Aug. 6 turned down a proposed zoning ordinance amendment to establish a residential active adult district.

Chris Lumley, vice president of Magna Aftermarket, center, presents 25 donated clek booster seats to Sheltering Arms for distribution to families enrolled in its program. Accepting for the organization are Elaine Draeger, president and CEO, left, and Paige McKay Kubik, vice president of development and communication.

Starting up a new city involves a lot more than just taking a vote or electing a new mayor and council. Such is the case with the new City of Chattahoochee Hill Country, where city ordinances and a host of other municipal functions must be in place when the city begins operations Dec. 1. Stakeholders met Wednesday at Rico Cultural Center to begin a conversation designed to address the unique planning and zoning apsects of the new city.

Union City Planning Commission July 30 voted to recommend the rezoning of 58.53 acres on Buffington Road near Ga. Highway 138 from General Commercial (GC) to Residential (R-1). The move came after a lengthy discussion and a defeated vote to table the request.

The Southern cuisine found at Mrs. Winner’s Chicken & Biscuits is not new to south Fulton County. But what is new are two of the company’s four co-owners, Darryl Berry and James Beasley, neighbors who make their home in the Cascade area. Beasley and Berry joined Mrs. Winner’s in early 2007, bringing with them decades of sales, marketing, management and motivational experience.

There is a change coming to unincorporated south Fulton County. It is one that affects juveniles up to age 17.

Fulton County Commission has imposed a curfew for juveniles and began Friday posting signs outlining the new measure. In a move that will be strictly enforced, the juvenile curfew ordinance will be effective Sundays through Thursdays from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m. the following day. Restricted hours for Fridays and Saturdays run from 12:01 a.m. until 6 a.m. the following day.

The evening of August 6 at Duncan Park in Fairburn will be a time for families to enjoy food, activities for the kids and receive information on a variety of personal and family safety topics. Now in its second year in Fairburn, National Night Out provides a way for law enforcement and the community to share ideas in a family-fun environment.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform at Hutcheson Ferry Park Friday, Aug. 10. The free concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The Joint Fulton-DeKalb Committee on Grady Hospital will meet at 3 p.m., Monday, August 6, 2007, in 4th Floor Conference Room 4056, Fulton County Government Center, 141 Pryor Street, SW, Atlanta. The public is invited to attend.

Chattahoochee Hill Country stakeholders met Wednesday at Rico Cultural Center to begin a conversation designed to address the unique planning and zoning aspects of the new city.

“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.

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

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.