Members of American Legion Post 105 gather at the log cabin in Fayetteville Sept. 18 for a semiannual ceremony prescribed in the flag code to retire a large number of worn American flags.

On eve of SPLOST vote, Fayette schools are 1,328 students short of filling all available desks in elementary schools; 600 more new slots coming next year

Newly released figures by the Fayette County Board of Education show a total enrollment of 22,084 students for the 2008-2009 school year.

Back-to-back incidents over the weekend in Fayetteville may not have been connected but they shared a couple of interesting similarities. The incidents involved two men with guns wearing masks in an aggravated assault at Zaxby’s and a kidnapping outside Tinseltown Theater. Investigations into both incidents are ongoing.

What started with symptoms of illness that some area doctors and health agencies attributed to psychological problems ended in a $4 million out of court settlement.

What Peachtree City didn’t want, Fayetteville may get — willingly.

A proposed Goodwill store and career center could add more than 60 jobs to the county, along with providing a career center for prospective employees.

Residents in north Fayette may soon be addressing their mail differently.

During the Sept. 11 meeting of the Fayette County Commission, Capt. David Scarborough of the county’s EMS division said that he had been contacted by the U.S. Postal Service about the impact of switching approximately 2,200 residents into Fayetteville’s 30214 ZIP code.

Fayette County Health Department will hold a flu vaccine clinic Oct. 14-16 at its health center by appointment only. Flu vaccine will continue to be offered each day while supplies last.

The Fayette County Board of Education in October will become the first tax-levying entity in the county to have recordings of meetings available to the public. It will start with podcasts of board meetings and could in the future include video recordings on local access cable.

After their trials had started Monday, two men pled guilty to drug charges in two separate cases in Fayette County Superior Court.

Resident called 911 after they tried to enter window of home

Sheriff’s deputies arrested three young men Thursday morning after they tried to break into a north Fayette home while someone was inside.

The Fayette County Youth Council NAACP will host its fourth annual Fashion/ Talent Show on Sunday, September 28, 2008 starting at 2 p.m. This event will be held at The Banquet Hall, 372 N. Glynn Street in Fayetteville.

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Gas shipments are beginning to make their way to Fayette County.

In the span of an hour late this afternoon, The Citizen spotted tankers at three local gas stations and several others that were back open selling gas.

Sometimes it’s not a matter of dipping into your wallet or writing a check. In this case, it’s almost as easy as just rolling up your sleeve.

Fayette County District Attorney’s Office on Sept. 12 successfully petitioned the court to try 16 year-old College Park resident Robert Eugene Crawford as an adult for the August 30th aggravated assault on a police officer at Tinseltown Theater at Fayette Pavilion. Crawford pulled a handgun and attempted to fire it at the officer.

Smith, Smola line up against write-in candidate File on system’s school buses used for Great Georgia Airshow

Things are heating up between Fayette School Board Post 1 write-in candidate Nicole File and Post 1 board member Janet Smola.

[Editor’s note: Miriam Fulton, a true pioneer in the state’s first planned community, died Sunday at the first home built in the fledgling Peachtree City. This is a remembrance by The Citizen’s Carolyn Cary, whose first association with newspapers in Fayette County began nearly 40 years ago.]

Special to The Citizen

It’s one-stop shopping at the 2008 “Find it in Fayette!” Community Expo. Over 100 exhibitors will showcase their products and services at the Fayette Chamber’s annual trade show, offering show specials and give-away items to visitors.

The Fayette County School Board Monday decided to say thanks but no thanks to an offer by Fayette County to buy 49.4 acres of surplus wetland property at the Goza Road school complex.

Circuit split would cost $1M to county, state combined

The four Superior Court judges in the Griffin Judicial Circuit, which serves Fayette County, are asking the state to consider creating a fifth judgeship for the circuit.

The state’s fiscal crisis has a chance of hitting Fayette’s residents in their wallets.

Governor Sonny Purdues’s pledge not to send local governments Homeowner Tax Relief Grant money is sending a shiver through tax offices across the state as tax commissioners are trying to figure out how the loss of funds would affect the county’s coffers.

She is back in the news. But this time on lesser charges. The Fayetteville woman that previously gained notoriety as the “Deadly Magnolia” was arrested Sept. 12 for possession of Vicodin (hydrocodone) without a prescription.

It should be smooth sailing for an annexation and rezoning request by Piedmont Fayette Hospital to include 17.85 acres north of the hospital for future use as a day care center, parking spaces and for stormwater detention.

A Lilburn man was arrested for trafficking in heroin Sept. 5 during a buy bust conducted by Fayette Sheriff’s Drug Task Force at the Fayette Pavilion Wal-Mart.

Bank of Coweta Sept. 6 advertised a notice of indebtedness on a portion of property that is the site of the future Fischer Crossing retail center located on three corners of Ga. Highway 34 and Fischer Road in east Coweta County.

Due to the ongoing construction on Jimmie Mayfield Boulevard the speed limit has been reduced to 35 miles per hour, Fayetteville Police said Friday.

What was expected to be a class-action lawsuit by residents of north and central Fayette County and south Fulton County sickened in mid-2006 by what they insisted were chemical releases from the Phillip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant near Fairburn has reached an out of court settlement agreement.

Corynn Tant and Emily Gainous of Fayetteville Girl Scout Troop No.

A three-hour standoff involving 53 year-old Robert Suttles at his 230 Patricia Lane home off Ginger Cake Road near Fayetteville ended without incident after he surrendered to Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies and SWAT team members. No one was injured in the incident and no charges had been filed at this time. The reason for the standoff is currently unknown.

A standoff at 230 Patricia Lane is over. An unidentified man has been taken into custody without incident by Fayette County Sheriff's deputies and the county SWAT team. It is not known if anyone else was in the house at the time.