It was an interesting display for a municipal landlord June 8 when representatives of Union City gave Kreative Kidz youth enrichment program less than a one-day notice to cease serving more than 140 youngsters in the organization’s summer program. Discussed at the city council’s June 11 work session, council members established six criteria that would potentially allow the program to operate at the city-owned facility on a temporary basis.

Expansion plans for CSX Intermodal got the go ahead June 11 when Fairburn City Council approved the conceptual site plan for the phase two development that will add another 700 parking spaces for trucks, add two sets of railroad tracks and double the amount of truck traffic into the McLarin facility. Current and future traffic directly affects all traffic traveling along Ga. Highway 74 near I-85.

Palmetto Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are seeking two men in connection to a June 8 armed robbery at RBC Bank on Roosevelt Highway. No one was injured in the incident.

Here we go again. Three men from Atlanta, Riverdale and Lumber City were arrested on multiple drug and firearms charges Wednesday evening in a drug deal on Ga. Highway 92 when they attempted to purchase 25 pounds of marijuana and one kilogram of cocaine from undercover agents. The men tried to convince agents to travel to Union City to complete the transaction.

It’s an upgrade intended to keep pace with the changing face of a city that has nearly tripled in size in the past seven years. Marketing consultant Pat Pallend June 11 gave Fairburn City Council a tour of the city’s newly expanding website. New to the site are city council agendas and meeting minutes, commonly used forms and applications and virtual tours.

It was one of those back and forth things with everyone standing their ground. South Fulton Municipal Regional Water & Sewer Authority hit another impasse Tuesday over the question of what to do with the funds that will come from refinancing the authority’s $41.7 million bond.

Expansion plans for CSX Intermodal got the go ahead June 11 when Fairburn City council approved the conceptual site plan that will add another 700 parking spaces for trucks, add two sets of railroad tracks and double the amount of truck traffic into the facility on McLarin Road.

It is like most every Saturday at Serenbe.

Palmetto Elementary School student Kendell Redding receives the Most Improved Student Award for 2007, presented at a recent ceremony by Old Campbell County Kiwanis Club.

CSX Railroad may get what it wants from Fairburn, but only if it makes good on issues that have plagued the city, and municipal neighbor Palmetto, for many years. Fairburn planning commissioners Tuesday tied their recommendation on the railroad’s expansion plans to a dozen conditions, including repairing and maintaining the three degraded and dangerous overpasses and consideration of establishing a “quiet zone” for the customary train whistles that blow throughout the downtown area in the dead of night.

Palmetto City Council heard a host of citizen’s concerns during the public comments portion of the June 4 meeting. Those concerns outlasted the remainder of the agenda and centered on trash pick-up and the continually expressed need for city-sponsored recreation and increased police officers.

The new Jones-Hall Middle School is ready for business. Registration for the fall term will begin next week just down the road at Renaissance Elementary located at 7250 Hall Road.

Two men fled with an undisclosed amount of money Friday afternoon after an armed robbery at RBC Bank in Palmetto. Palmetto Police Chief Bobby Fronebarger said no one was injured during the robbery.

Union City held the second of several public meetings last week at Liberty Point Elementary School to get input on the South Fulton Parkway Corridor Study. When completed later this summer, the corridor study is expected 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.

The June 19 vote in Chatt Hills will consist of one question: “Shall the act incorporating the City of Chattahoochee Hill Country in Fulton County and granting homestead exemption described therein be approved?”

It was a case of not having things in order when calling the police for assistance, especially if what the cops find leads to a long list of charges. That was the case May 29 when Fairburn Police arrested a man and woman after responding to a domestic call placed by Cambridge Faire Apartments resident Ronald Kendricks.

Residents of north Fayette and south Fulton counties reported illnesses by the hundreds beginning in the spring last year and continuing into the fall after inhaling what they initially thought must have been wild onions growing in the area. They later learned they were breathing MOCAP wash water, a combination of the chemical odorant Propyl mercaptan and the organophospate pesticide MOCAP, or ethoprop, released from the Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 in Fairburn.

Questions are beginning to surface over the finances of U.S. Congressman David Scott (13th District) and whether sums apparently totaling hundreds of thousand of dollars were spent appropriately.

The possibility of a delayed vote on the future of the new City of South Fulton became reality earlier this week. A signature on the enabling legislation by Gov. Sonny Perdue did not provide the required amount of time needed to properly advertise the election. The vote might come as early as September.

They say they are ready for June 19. And that sentiment was easily evidenced May 19 as 200 Chattahoochee Hill Country residents heard the latest information on the June vote to accept the charter of the new city and exercise local control for the first time.

Putting unity back in community. Those words echoed by the ever-resilient Volunteer Coordinator and Librarian Judy Henderson and the tireless volunteers at Rico Cultural Center could not be more appropriate as the center celebrated its one year anniversary Tuesday. And for such a small community the past year has overflowed with enough activities to make heads spin.

The Georgia Department of Transportation will scale back its construction projects across the state – suspending related lane closures on all interstate and major state system highways – through Monday to ease Memorial Weekend traffic congestion. Beginning at 5 a.m., Friday, May 25, and continuing until 10 p.m., Monday, May 28, there essentially will be no scheduled lane closures on any Georgia interstate highway or primary state route.

They say they are ready for June 19. And that sentiment was easily evidenced May 19 as 200 Chattahoochee Hill Country residents heard the latest information on the June vote to accept the charter of the new city and exercise local control for the first time.

Bear Creek Middle School is one of 29 schools in the United States chosen to be a NASA Explorer school.

If appearances hold true, it looks as if the vote to create the city of South Fulton will be postponed. But in the middle of the mix came a vote Thursday night by the pro-city South Fulton Concerned Citizens, Inc. (SFCC), asking Gov. Sonny Perdue to veto House Bill (HB) 725 on which the new city limits is currently based. Further west in unincorporated south Fulton County, the vote to create the City of Chattahoochee Hills is set for June 19.

Union City, Palmetto and Fairburn earlier this week gave approval to refinance the $41.7 million 2003 bond for South Fulton Municipal Regional Water and Sewer Authority through an interest rate-swap that would provide an additional $13 million to construct a reservoir and install water lines to serve the two cities and Palmetto. But for Fairburn there was more to the story.

Union City has upped the ante on the types of building materials developers can use on residential exteriors. The City Council May 15 approved an amendment to the Residential Zoning Ordinance, now requiring that a minimum of 75 percent of the exterior siding material for the facade facing the street must be brick or stone. The remaining sides of the structure must be 100 percent brick, stone, hardcoat stucco, cement-type siding or wood. vinyl and metal siding is now longer allowed, the amendment said.

It will be far from the usual Memorial Day commemoration where a small group of people gather in a cemetery or public place to remember local military heros. The Memorial Day Commemoration in Fairburn May 28 will be anything but ordinary.

It is nice gesture to give someone a ride, but things can turn bad even if the person is an acquaintance. That was the lesson learned May 3 by three women from the Fairburn, Fayetteville and College Park areas.

If appearances hold true it looks as if the vote to create the City of South Fulton will be postponed. But in the middle of the mix came a vote Thursday night by the pro-city South Fulton Concerned Citizens, Inc. (SFCC), asking Gov. Sonny Perdue to veto House Bill (HB) 725 on which the new city limits is currently based.