Residents get first glimpse at newest cultural venue

Sandy Creek’s Robert Jaracz got the start against Starr’s Mill on Wednesday and was charged with the loss.

Tyrone Town Council, Planning commissioners and Tyrone Focus Group members got their first look March 8 at the upcoming development of the town’s 20-Year Comprehensive Plan. Due for completion by February 2007, the plan will address Tyrone’s current and future needs through 2027.

Sandy Creek sophomore Steven Croteau worked on the long jump at a recent practice.

Will also remain assistant city manager

Instead of hiring a new developmental services director, Peachtree City officials have appointed Assistant City Manager Colin Halterman to the position, it was announced Friday morning.

It is more than a business. It is more than a family fitness center. It is a community. For Workout Anytime Family Fitness Center owner Daniel Bryant, it is a dream come true.

Students at Tyrone Elementary School got a surprise on Wednesday when Keith Brooking, a linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons and a graduate of East Coweta High School and Georgia Tech, addressed all of the students in a morning assembly.

Fayette County Sheriff’s Drug Task Force members seized the remnants of a methamphetamine lab Friday night at a vacant house on Sims Road near Dogwood Trail after the owner found that the house had been entered.

A request designed to locate a general contracting and consulting business at 290 Arrowood Road was approved Thursday by Tyrone Planning Commission. Board members agreed to amend the Land Use Map to from Commercial (C) to Office (O) and to the rezoning of the one-acre site to OI (Office-Institutional) over the current R-48 (Residential) designation.

Tyrone Planning Commission voted 3-0 Thursday to deny a rezoning request that would have added office space to a two-acre tract on Dogwood Trail. Commissioners decision was bolstered by several neighbors that believed rezoning the property from residential to office would essentially move the Market Hill development in their back yards.

No one was injured when a Tyrone family’s home caught fire late Monday morning in the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park off Senoia Road.

David Moore and Teddy Smyth, both 13 years old, plopped down on the floor in Alumni Hall gym at Gordon College and again checked their car before handing it to officials to be impounded.

No one was injured when a Tyrone family’s home caught fire late Monday morning in the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park off Senoia Road.

Now that the town's new library has a site, the Town of Tyrone is getting serious about cleaning up Shamrock Park.

Town Manager Barry Amos briefed the Town Council Thursday night on possible revisions to the town's master plan. Originally, the library, along with a new municipal complex was slated to be built in Shamrock Park. But Amos said residents objected to the idea and said they wanted the park to remain a park. Amos then suggested the town hire Jerry Petersen to re-work the city's plan for the area and detail what could take place in the park.

Emotions ran high Thursday night as a community leader clashed with Tyrone officials over his plan for a teen youth center.

The Legacy Theatre is moving locations before the ground was even broken on the previous location. Instead of being located on Senoia Road toward Peachtree City, the theatre will now be located on the end of Carriage Oaks Lane, close to Chaps on Ga. Highway 74. Both owner Bethany Smith and the town of Tyrone are very pleased with the new location.

By next fall, Sandy Creek High School will be able to hold track meets on campus.

As parts of its special projects list, the Fayette County Board of Education approved $300,000 Monday night to build an eight-lane rubberized track at the high school on Jenkins Road. Directory of Facility Services Mike Satterfield told the board the school currently has a six-lane asphalt track that’s fine for practice, but don’t meet standards for staging track meets at the school.

The City of Fairburn has received a copy of Tyrone’s recently approved sewer contract and should take up the issue at a February meeting.

From left, state Sen. Ronnie Chance of Tyrone, Peachtree City Mayor and Mrs.

Classy Cuts has opened its doors in Tyrone. A business with 25 years of operating experience in Union City, Classy Cuts brings their expertise to the new Shops of Southampton on Ga. Highway 74, midway between I-85 and Peachtree City. Across the street from Publix and next to Sonic, the owners of Classy Cuts, sisters Jody Shin Gannon and Samantha Kiernan, said they sought to find the ideal location to serve all their customers.

What do a hearing impaired teacher, science teacher and social studies teacher have in common? They represent the specialties of this year’s finalists for the 2006 Fayette County Teacher of the Year.

After more than two years of negotiations, the town of Tyrone Thursday night approved a new sewer contract with Fairburn that officials are hailing as a much fairer contract.

What should Tyrone's downtown look like in the next five to 10 years?

That was one of the topics the town's leaders discussed during last weekend's retreat in Peachtree City. For years, Tyrone officials have discussed trying to create more of a downtown atmosphere along the town's older business corridor on Senoia Road.

Tyrone’s town leaders have a busy Saturday planned in Peachtree City.

Mayor Sheryl Lee, along with the Town Council and staff, head to the Hampton Inn for their annual retreat.

Tyrone Planning Commission members Jan. 26 approved the final site plan for an office building to be located on Lot #13 at the Market Hill development on Dogwood Trail and Ga. Highway 74.

Alejandro Jimenez is a man with a dream.

Along with his wife Mercedes, he has opened South Fulton's first Hispanic supermarket, in Hudson Plaza in Fairburn. No small corner store, Cuatro Caminos Supermarket is a 13,000-square-foot full-service market.

Thursday’s Tyrone Town Council meeting got off to a fiery start as a resident accused the council of selective enforcement of the town’s ordinances.

The residents in the Ashland Trail subdivision hope speedy commuters will soon be slowing down.

Students at LaFayette Kids World in Tyrone collected items to send to U.S. soldiers that were fighting in the Middle East. The biggest box was sent to Randy Hansen, a Peachtree City resident fighting with the Georgia Army National Guard unit as a member of the Echo Troop 108 Cavalry.

The Fayette County School System will vote Monday night to surplus nearly 100 acres of property it recently purchased.