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.

Santa Claus brought up the rear at Tyrone’s first ever night time Christmas parade.

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.

Paula Hyatt, owner of the new Merle Norman Cosmetics Store/ Kedron Village shopping center (across from Target), held a grand opening/chamber ribbon cutting this week with chamber board members, ambassadors, friends and family.

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.

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.

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).

An eight hour traffic blitz Dec. 3 by Union City Police resulted in nearly 250 traffic stops and five arrests. Periodic blitzes are designed to reduce the number and severity of crashes and to help free up emergency medical services for city residents, said Public Information Officer and Metro Atlanta Traffic Enforcement Network Coordinator George Louth.

Arrests are pending for five Palmetto juveniles on charges stemming from burglaries of two residences last month.

A homeowner on Carlton Drive interrupted a Nov. 6 burglary upon arriving at the residence. The perpetrators had busted a sliding door in the rear of the house to gain entry, said Det. John Cooper. the homeowner found that an Xbox 360 video game console had been stolen, Cooper said.

What to do? That was the question put to property owner Iliana Huerta over a potential condemnation of a house at 506 Griffith Street.

For years, Tyrone parade-lovers have only had the Founders’ Day parade to watch.

This holiday season some Fayette students will receive gifts that will truly make a difference in their lives.

For the sixth consecutive year, the Fayette County School System’s CARE (Children at Risk in Education) program is sponsoring an angel tree at the LaFayette Educational Center (LEC). What makes this angel tree different is that instead of collecting toys and gifts for needy children, it fulfills nontraditional needs such as hearing aid batteries, after school program scholarships, home repairs, band instruments, extra curricular activity fees and eye glasses, to name a few.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between Nov. 22 and Dec. 5:

Angela Dennis, 32, Fairburn, aggravated assault

The development of properties adjacent to Tyrone’s new Legacy Theater moved closer to reality Thursday with approval by the town Planning Commission to approve the site plan for Lot No. 4 at the Shops of Millbrook. Plans for Lot No. 6 at Millbrook was tabled while the conceptual site plan for Lot No. 13 at Shamrock Industrial Park was approved.

Union City Police are set to begin issuing tickets to speeders along the newly annexed portions of the South Fulton Parkway, Ga. Highway 92 and other recently annexed roadways.

Tyrone residents turned out in force Tuesday to witness the lighting of the Christmas tree and the arrival of Santa.

A Fairburn man has been arrested on charges of possession of 29 small bags of suspected marijuana with intent to distribute. Three other males were present in the vehicle, stopped by Fairburn Police Nov. 8 at Cambridge Faire Apartments. Police found the man’s one year-old sister in the vehicle.