Chattahoochee Hill Country residents get a look at Georgia Dept. of Transportation’s take on the roadway needs for unincorporated south Fulton County. The April 19 presentation was made at Rico Community Center. Photo/Ben Nelms.

Five members of Junior Girl Scout Troop No. 147 of Tyrone recently took a trip to Crystal River, Florida. While there, they took a three hour tour where they got to swim in the river and interact with manatees in the wild.

A 41 year-old resident of the Fairburn and Union City area has been charged in the mid-April burglaries of three businesses at Hudson Plaza in Fairburn.

The final and most significant phase of Tyrone’s 2027 Comprehensive Plan, the Community Agenda, was presented April 26 to the town’s Planning Commission. Commissioners voted 4-0 to recommend the plan to the town council.

It will be a new look to the landscape along Palmetto-Tyrone Road. Tyrone Planning Commission Thursday voted 3-0 to approve the preliminary plat and site plan for a project that will establish seven commercial buildings on 7.3 acres between Swanson Road and Olde Town Drive.

A resident’s request to annex into Tyrone failed this week after the town learned the application violated state law.

Residents whizzing by on Ga. Highway 74 in Tyrone may soon see a new office building/ The Tyrone Town Council 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.

Friday the 13th was the unluckiest of days for two cousins from the Savannah area who were charged by Fairburn Police with possession of firearms and counterfeit bills. One of the men was also identified in a March armed robbery at a Fairburn grocery store.

For most of his life, Mike Johnson has been in public service. For 25 of those years he worked with Fulton County Fire Department. Today, as the City of Palmetto’s code enforcement officer, Johnson supports the idea of helping people to help themselves in cleaning up the city and making it more attractive.

The 2nd Annual May Day Celebration at Serenbe will be held Sunday, April 29 from 1-8 p.m. in the rolling hills of south Fulton. The event is the culmination of the week-long Earth Week at Serenbe. More than 20 vendors will be featured, including Blue Eyed Daisy Bakeshop, The Farmhouse Restaurant, Bella Cucina, Serenbe Organic Farms, Olive Boutique, Tiffany Mooring and EcoMeme along with local barbecue and kettle corn vendors and local artisans.

It is hard to tell if it is winter or Easter. But at the annual Palmetto Easter Egg Hunt April 7 it was both.

Mike Holmes, franchised operator of the stand-alone Kedron Chick-fil-A presented Drew Johnson with the award.

Peachtree City’s plans to develop high-density developments in the West Village is drawing critical comments from the town of Tyrone.

What has been called a mistake during a move to new a Fulton County Elections Division warehouse led to more than 30 boxes of voter registration applications cards and other documents ending up in a dumpster. An official with the elections division said the accidental disposal of approximately 75,000 previously processed voter-related documents should not pose a threat to theft of personal identity of the applicants. Meanwhile, a war of words appears to be erupting over the incident.

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.

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.