Fayette County will hold a public hearing on its proposed millage rate, but won’t adopt a final resolution of the rate until Aug. 28.

Former Fayette County Public Works Director Lee Hearn is ready to get to work on the Fayette County Commission.

With all the precincts counted from last week’s runoff, Hearn garnered 3,503 votes, or 59.8 percent, while Commissioner Peter Pfeifer received 2,354 votes for 40.2 percent of the votes.

When news came this weekend that war broke out between forces from the Republic of Georgia and Russia, one Fayette man in particular was taken aback by the fighting.

Topics like sewer rates and loitering might seem mundane to many people. But approval by Fayetteville City Council Aug. 7 of a rate increase for sewer use marked the end of a three-year process while an amendment to the city’s loitering ordinance was intended to address an issue of a more recent nature.

It was part of an emergency preparation for a different type of natural disaster that would make tornados, floods and hurricanes look mild in comparison.

The 89th Annual Georgia District Kiwanis Convention is in Peachtree City from August 15 – 17.   All activities will be in the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center at 2443 Highway 54 West, adjacent to Lake Peachtree. 

The 2008-09 school year is just beginning for Fayette County students but one group of students at Rising Starr Middle is already hard at work.

Thanks to grants awarded from The United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta and the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Fayette Senior Services, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, is able to continue its popular Voucher Transportation Program. The program is designed to benefit Fayette County residents age 60 and better as well as disabled adults age 18 to 59 who cannot drive through no fault of their own.

It looks like an increase by Fayette County School Board of .754 mills will not be enough to offset recently announced state education cuts of $2.25 million and possible decreased revenues if the state Homeowners Tax Relief Credit is withheld. Board members Monday morning voted to advertise a new rate of 19.75 mills for the Maintenance & Operations millage that will bring the increase to 1.154 mills over the current rate of 18.596. The millage had been advertised at 19.35 mills.

A project to spruce up the oldest part of the Kedron Village shopping center will be discussed by the Peachtree City Planning Commission tonight.

Fayetteville City Council members Aug. 7 approved a revised rezoning request that decreased the anchor store, decreased parking and increased buffers on the proposed Villages at Lafayette retail/office/residential development along Ga. Highway 54.

Final results from this week's runoff election are complete, with just a few potential extra ballots coming in from military absentee ballots remaining.

Smola pushes for 1-cent sales tax for schools; Todd charges ‘hurry-up’

It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Fayette County School Board members Monday night would adopt a resolution to put a 1-percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) on the November ballot. And that is what happened.

Higher taxes are on the minds of the Fayette County Board of Education. Three of the five members voted Aug. 4 to put a 1-percent sales tax hike on the ballot in November. Next week, on Aug. 11, they are scheduled to set the ad valorem property tax millage rates. Both items will bring tax increases for Fayette taxpayers.

Back in the 1980s, Fayette County was looked upon as shining beacon in the Atlanta region and New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen topped the charts with “Glory Days.”

But fast forward two decades, and some people are beginning to wonder if the county’s glory days can be seen only in the rear view mirror.

A Fayetteville man arrested for cocaine possession Saturday morning managed to briefly escape from a patrol car after he kicked out the rear windshield while the vehicle was moving.

For Jan Grogan it was an idea that made sense. The north Fayette resident just completed the installation of 54 solar panels on the roof of her barn.

Fayetteville Police are investigating two purse snatchings that occurred within hours of each other Thursday, one at the Fayette Pavilion and the other at the nearby Uptown Square shopping center.

Sewer rate increases, stiffer penalties for loitering and new residential and retail development proposals: Each of these were reviewed July 17 by Fayetteville City Council and all should be up for a vote at the Aug. 7 meeting.

The office of Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle will hold a listening session for Fayette County residents on Thursday, Aug. 7 from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the council chambers at Fayetteville City Hall, located at 240 S. Glynn Street.

Things got a bit testy Monday night as Fayette County School Board members discussed putting a one-percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) on the November ballot. The subsequent vote in favor of the initiative was no surprise.

A storm passing through Fayetteville Sunday damaged one of the buildings at Lafayette Educational Center (LEC) on Lafayette Avenue in Fayetteville. School system staff have been temporarily relocated to other on-campus areas.

A woman abducted by two men in Decatur in the early morning hours Aug. 2 was driven to a secluded location on Trickum Creek Road in Tyrone where she was raped. The woman later escaped and made her way to a residence from which police were notified.

Meetings of school boards are usually not the most heavily attended of the meetings held by elected officials in any county. Fayette County School Board’s meeting Thursday night to get public comment on whether to put a one-percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) on the November ballot was a possible exception. Eighteen of the 75 people in the room signed up to have their say. And their near unanimous position: bring on the SPLOST.

Isn’t it great when lawns and outside plants can be watered from above ground rather than below? Drought or not, that is what happened this week in Fayette, as welcome storm clouds brought more than two inches of rain to much of Fayette County.

In the span of roughly three hours, two women have had personal items taken from them at stores at the Fayette Pavilion this afternoon.

Peachtree City resident R. Clay Harris was found guilty in federal court Thursday on charges of bribery and conspiring to bribe a former Atlanta Public School (APS) official.

The Fayetteville Police Department is warning residents about a credit scam advertisement that claims to help people resolve credit problems and bankruptcy.

Pipe stolen from school construction site found at Fayetteville business

The owner of Sweet Returns Recycling in downtown Fayetteville has been arrested by sheriff’s deputies for failing to keep records on customers who sold more than four and a half tons of metal to his business, according to warrants for his arrest.

From the first published yearbook of the old Fayette County Training School, faces from 1964 peer across the years. Opened in 1955 — a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawing racial segregation in public schools — to educate black children on one campus, what is now East Fayette Elementary School sent its last students out the doors this past May.