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.

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.

Multi-family reference draws resistance

Tyrone’s draft of its community assessment report — designed to help guide future growth — will undergo some changes now that the planning consultant has gotten some feedback from the community.

Thanks to a contribution from the Fayette County Board of Commissioners, the town of Tyrone has an additional $18,000 to spend on recreation this year.

Few local commuters will be surprised to learn that I-85 between Fayette County and I-285 is one of the least congested areas in metro Atlanta, according to a recent study.

Tyrone officials turned down a commercial rezoning request Thursday night for a 10-acre parcel off Ga. Highway 74 between Jenkins and Sandy Creek roads.

But property tax bills will go up

Tyrone residents will see an increase on their town property tax bills, but the town will be able to hold its millage rate the same as last year, officials said.

An article in Friday’s edition of the Peachtree Citizen incorrectly noted the date of the runoff election for the Post 5 County Commission seat and other statewide races. The correct date is Tuesday, Aug. 8.

They came to tell their story.

Residents from Fayette and Fulton County packed the Fayette County Commission chambers Thursday to tell of a health concern that has gripped an area with fear and left many residents ill after the pesticide Propyl mercaptan was released into the environment at a waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 in South Fulton County.

There have been a number of confirmed symptoms and illnesses reported by some residents in Fayette and Fulton counties after exposure in recent weeks to the onion-like smell present in the air.

The first step in Tyrone’s comprehensive plan for the next 20 years lays out in bare-bones terminology some of the critical issues and problems the town’s leaders will be trying to solve.

Court upholds disqualification for BOE seat

Any remote chance Greg Powers had for getting re-elected to the Fayette County Board of Education has essentially evaporated.

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

It was a real slice of Americana. Tyrone’s first July 4 Celebration at Shamrock Park was a mix of food, music, games and just plain fun. It was also the occasion to celebrate the lake’s recently installed fountain, outfitted with lights.

A proposal to develop the initial phase of an 88-acre office park along the east side of Ga. Highway 74 between Jenkins Road and Sandy Creek Road received a recommendation June 29 from Tyrone Planning Commission. The board recommended amending the Land Use Map to change a 10-acre portion of the tract from Office to Highway Commercial and to rezoning those acres from Office Institutional (OI) to Limited Use Commercial (LUC).

Three teenagers were arrested early Wednesday morning after a citizen reported suspicious activity in Tyrone’s Tullamore subdivision, police said.

William Thomas Overby was a Confederate soldier from Coweta County who entered service on May 31, 1861.

Out of the Box (OOTB), a youth based program designed to create and promote financial literacy among metropolitan Atlanta teens is accepting applications for its 2006 program, set to begin August 12.

Learning about renewable energy and its impact on the environment can produce a significant “yawn factor” for many students, but Sun Power for Schools, a new initiative of Green Power EMC and Coweta-Fayette EMC, has made lessons more interesting.

The Fayette County Board of Education is edging closer to let Tyrone take care of the system’s sewerage needs.

On Monday night, the board agreed to earmark $750,000 towards connecting to Tyrone’s system and getting out of the sewer business. The system currently spends $150,000 in maintenance costs for the Sandy Creek facility, and costs are continuing to escalate as the system ages.