Palmetto police are seeking an Alabama man in connection with a New Year’s Day kidnapping of a woman from her residence on Anna Avenue. The woman was released unharmed after being held at gunpoint for several hours on a journey that went from Palmetto to Alabama and to Atlanta.

It was an occasion for Fulton County residents to express their thoughts to the elected officials who represent them under the Gold Dome. But by the end of the Jan. 3 meeting at Atlanta’s Central Presbyterian Church, Fulton County legislators had received a diplomatic but determined earful from south Fulton residents who comprised the majority of those attending.

Long-time Southside Theater Guild member Marian Johnson accepts a $1,500 donation from United Community Bank President and Chief Executive Officer David Coxon.

Plans to develop 230 townhouse units on 50 acres at Oakley Road and Mall Boulevard came on step closer to reality Dec. 19 when Union City council members gave approval to a rezoning request to transition the area from General Commercial to Town Center Multi-family zoning.

It was a little piece of history Dec. 22 when Chattahoochee Hill Country residents Melissa Monk and Sean Ihndris became the second property owners to participate in a process that will help preserve the area’s rural nature while financially benefitting from that decision.

Police and Firefighters of the Year from Union City, Fairburn and Palmetto are honored Dec.

Fairburn Police are seeking an armed gunman in the Dec. 19 robbery at the Bank of Georgia on Ga. Highway 74 and Milam Road.

Fairburn Det. Ben Pace said a man wearing a black jacket, dark pants and an orange toboggan entered the bank’s front entrance at approximately 11:27 a.m. The man was described as a white male with dirty blond hair in his late 20s to mid-30s, 5’5”-5’8” in height and weighing 120-140 pounds, Pace said.

A deal that has been in the works for more than five years came to fruition Monday night as the Fayette County Board of Education decided to get out of the sewage treatment business.

Michael Plott continues his annual festiv

Visitors approaching Tyrone on Ga. Highway 74 will soon see new offices sprouting up on the busy corridor.

The Tyrone Town Council Thursday night approved a 45 acre rezoning for a tract on Ga. Highway 74. The tract is the first property in Tyrone approaching the town from Fairburn on Hwy.74.

The winds of change continue to blow around the Union Station area along Ga. Highway 138. A rezoning request to transition 30.74 acres near Goodson Road and Goodson Connector from General Commercial and Light Industrial to Town Center Mixed Use won approval Dec. 19 from Union City council members.

The Old Campbell County Historical Society presented a thank-you gift to its research room volunteers for their hours of volunteering.

Sometimes things just do not go as planned. That was all too true for a Fairburn man Dec. 12 who was arrested after he and three friends claimed he was the victim of a drive-by shooting.

Union City Council Dec. 19 unanimously approved a text amendment to the city’s zoning ordinance to include “inert waste landfill operations” in Light Industrial zoning areas.

The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety has a life-saving warning for motorists with travel plans for the Christmas and New Year holiday driving periods. “Over The Limit. Under Arrest,” declared GOHS Director Bob Dallas as he launched Georgia’s statewide Operation Zero Tolerance impaired driving campaign.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between Dec. 6-12:

Kenneth Martin, 40, Fairburn, burglary

Dexter Smith, 40, Fairburn, theft by taking

The bodies of a Fayette County man and woman were found Monday night on the property of Excel distribution center at 7300 Oakley Industrial Boulevard in Fairburn. Involved in what has been called a murder/suicide, the two were found a few feet from the roadway with man found partially slumped over the woman with a handgun lying next to him.

Congressman David Scott in September asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to close the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant near Fairburn until answers to hundreds of illnesses in Fayette and south Fulton counties could be found. EPA’s answer? No.

Two male juveniles in Palmetto with pending criminal charges were caught Wednesday morning while burglarizing a home on Carlton Drive.

It was not exactly what home builder Jay Knight wanted. But when the discussion was over and the vote taken, Fairburn City Council Dec. 11 delayed until late January its decision on the request to build three townhomes on one-half acre in the city’s historical district.

Customers will come for auto parts but it is the landscaping that will set off the new Auto Zone now under construction on Ga. Highway 74 adjacent to Black Jack Motorcycles. The store is located south of Milam Road near the Fayette County line.

Santa got a real workout when he stopped in Fairburn during a pre-Christmas trial run.

Union City Council Nov. 21 approved the submission of a grant application for a state and federally-funded recreational trails program to help develop a planned greenway in the Union Station area.

Suspect ordered held without bond

A doctoral student at the University of Georgia was arrested Wednesday for engaging in sexually explicit conversation online with a girl he thought was 15 years old, police said.

Road would affect traffic on Hwy. 74

Facing a midnight deadline, the Peachtree City Council voted Thursday night to accept the right-of-way for the proposed extension of TDK Boulevard.

Any remaining question that local, state and federal elected officials doubt the claims of illnesses by hundreds of Fulton and Fayette residents over exposure to chemicals from the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) plant in Fairburn evaporated Tuesday at Bethany United Methodist Church. Coming on the heels of an agreement between Fulton County and PSC that prohibits the company’s discharge of industrial wastewater into the county sewer system after Dec. 22, the South Fulton/Fayette Community Task Force town hall meeting saw a litany of elected officials rallying strongly to the citizen’s defense and joining residents in openly questioning the intent of Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the results of a recent study by Georgia Division of Public Health (DPH).

The town of Tyrone moved forward on two sewer contacts Thursday night, that could signal a decrease in rates for its sewer customers.

It definitely pays to hold you tongue and your temper. Two Fairburn residents learned that lesson the hard way after being arrested in separate domestic incidents.

Several of the class of new musicians at Christian City show their skills as graduates of the Guitars Not Guns Music Program Nov.

Philip Services Corp. (PSC) agreement Monday with Fulton County to no longer discharge industrial wastewater into the county sewer system will have an effect on its operations. The extent of that effect and all operational options are currently being evaluated by company officials and Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD).