The South Fulton/Fayette Community Task Force announces a public meeting Tuesday, Aug. 15 from 6-8 p.m. at Sandy Creek High School on issues surrounding community health concerns relating to the PSC plant on Ga.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between July 26 and Aug. 8:

Guerda Hyacinthe, 50, Fairburn, battery

When school starts back up on Monday, traffic at Senoia Road and Castlewood Road in Tyrone should move better than it has in the past.

The Fayette County Commission is leaning towards opposing an annexation proposed by the Town of Tyrone.

The property in question is 16.7 acres off Trickum Creek Road and it backs up to Trickum Creek, a fact that drew the commission’s interest at its Wednesday afternoon meeting.

The Town of Tyrone now has an $18,000 check from the Fayette County Commission to serve as the county’s contribution towards recreation.

Incident on cart path near Harmony Village

Peachtree City police have identified the three suspects responsible for attacking a 14-year-old visitor from out of town on the cart path near Harmony Village Apartments.

The Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 shut down Friday by Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) is back open.

Union City’s recent plan to annex 43 parcels of largely undeveloped land along South Fulton Parkway was turned down by Fulton County Commission at the board’s Aug. 2 meeting.

It was meager by the current standards of Union City and Palmetto, but on target for Fairburn during the rush by many South Fulton cities to beat the legislatively-imposed Oct. 30 annexation deadline. Fairburn Planning Commission Aug. 1 voted to recommend rezoning and annexation of approximately 12 acres located on six tracts.

It was quite an evening at Duncan Park on Aug.

The pilot who died in a plane crash early Thursday morning at Falcon Field has been identified as Leo Giles of Peachtree City.

Leadership for Tomorrow applications and nominations are now being accepted for professionals and community volunteers who live or work in the South Fulton area. Applications and nominations are due by Sept. 8.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between July 12-25:

Cyril Kirkland, 50, Fairburn, disorderly conduct-public drunk

Community assistance is being sought for an initiative to provide school supplies to needy children.

Help is needed urgently as there are quite a few children whose needs haven’t been met yet with just one week before school starts.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) late Friday ordered a temporary halt to all solid waste treatment activities at a south Fulton plant following persistent complaints of illnesses resulting from a pesticide component handled at the facility just beyond the Fayette County line.

They are a growing group of residents of south Fulton and north Fayette who are sick and impatient and will never back down.

Evidence of their commitment to get answers to their illnesses and have the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 shut down came Wednesday night at the first intergovernmental/citizens task force meeting to push for answers and action over the presence of pesticide component Propyl mercaptan that invaded their communities two months ago.

Crews to repair railroad crossing

Getting to and from the Interstate will be a bit tougher next weekend as part of Ga. Highway 74 in Tyrone will be closed so the CSX railroad tracks can be repaired, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Union City continues to be busy during the summer of annexation. Planning Commission members July 24 held 32 public hearings, recommending the rezoning and annexation of more than 580 acres north of the city and 39 acres as part of an existing unincorporated island.

Palmetto’s largest rezoning and annexation move thus far in South Fulton’s summer of annexation ended Thursday with a recommendation from the city’s Planning Commission to bring nearly 1,100 acres of property into the city. Commissioners also voted to table a move to annex Willow Oak Landfill and denied at request to rezone property on Beckman Drive for condominiums.

The Fayette County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will be holding a “Men of Valor” conference Aug. 12 at Sandy Creek High School from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Palmetto Elementary School will have an open house Aug. 10 from 4-6 p.m. Parents are encouraged to wear their college alumni T-shirts to help support our yearlong school theme “Palmetto Elementary School Where Students are College Bound.” Students are encouraged to wear their favorite college t-shirts, jerseys and hats, etc.

The comunity is invited to the new City Center open house today from 1-4 p.m.. City Center is located at 6502 Gresham Street in Union City.

Approximately 900 new Fulton County teachers will gather July 31 - August 4 for the school system’s annual New Teacher Orientation. The event is part of the pre-school year festivities to welcome teachers and help them acclimate to their new classrooms and teaching assignments.

They came for an answer and they got it. Now they are waiting to see the results. And for furious and fearful residents of unincorporated south Fulton, Fairburn, Union City, Tyrone and north Fayette County exposed and sickened for weeks by the onion-like smell of pesticide component Propyl mercaptan, the words of Fulton County Commissioner Bill Edwards will long be remembered.

Tyrone finally received funds for recreation from Fayette County, but the timing of the award has two City Councilman up in arms.

Residents in south Fulton and north Fayette counties fed up with being sick and finding no help from their county governments filed a class action law suit Monday over illnesses they say were caused by the onion-like smell of Propyl mercaptan coming from the Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92. To date, more than 225 say they are sick or have been since the smell began weeks ago and nearly 800 have signed a petition demanding immediate action.

The work of annexing one of Union city’s larger unincorporated islands came to an end July 18 as council members held 134 back-to-back public hearings to rezone and annex 67 parcels in Vickers Mill subdivision.

South Fulton Chamber of Commerce is no stranger to having more than its share of noteworthy speakers at its monthly meeting. The organization’s meeting Thursday was no exception as Gov. Sonny Perdue took the podium before a large crowd at Georgia International Convention Center in College Park.

Palmetto Elementary School held its annual Spelling Bee recently, with first place going to Trey McLendon in Ms. Tomecek’s fifth-grade class. Trey will go on to compete in the Fulton County Spelling Bee.

Georgia Dept. of Transportation announced that two southbound lanes of I-85 will be closed Monday, July 24 from 8 PM until 4 AM Tuesday morning.