Co-defendant to stand trial this week

A Fulton County jury has convicted an East Point man of murdering a long-time north Fayette resident in College Park Dec. 22, 2006.

Students from J.C. Booth Middle, Rising Starr Middle and Bennett’s Mill Middle schools wrote about their ideas of democracy as participants in the 2007 Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest.

Three Fayette students are among the 28,700 winners nationwide receiving scholarships through the 2008 National Achievement Scholarship Program, a competition for African American high school students.

Honor Flight Fayette has taken off with students throughout the Fayette County School System.

A call went out to schools in March asking them to help the nonprofit organization in its efforts to send local World War II veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit their memorial. Honor Flight pays all the costs of transportation, including meals. It costs approximately $400 per person for the one-day excursion.

A woman shopping at the Flash Foods store on Ga. Highway 54 and Gingercake Thursday afternoon left the store after receiving unwanted comments and became the victim of a brief sexual assault in the parking lot.

It went as smooth as silk. A public hearing April 10 at Coweta County Commission went like clock-work with only three public comments on plans by Pathway Communities for the 694-home Twelve Parks development on the county’s east side.

Fayette County deputies arrested four burglary suspects Thursday afternoon after they sped away from a Fayetteville police officer investigating a burglary call, police said.

Whitewater’s Erin Emerson (24) outpaces a Fayette defender and lines up a shot in the Lady Wildcats 7-0 win over the Lady Tigers last Thursday.

Fayette’s Open Campus program will serve students ages 16 and older

Students having trouble with regular high school classes and schedules now have another choice.

Potential jurors standing in line at the recent sessions of Fayette State and Superior courts found they had at least one thing in common.

Don’t tell Rod Wright that one man can’t make a difference in local government.

Wright, who is president of Peach State Land Development, appeared before the Fayette County Commission in March with an unusual request.

Facing a continued downturn in sales tax collections and nearly stagnant growth in the tax digest, Peachtree City officials are looking at cuts to make in the current 2008 budget, City Finance Director Paul Salvatore told the City Council last week.

Fayette County’s employees will have a new defined benefits retirement program when the fiscal year starts July 1.

After a lengthy actuarial presentation by consultant Clark Weeks, the County Commission learned that it would cost the county less than it currently contributes for a defined contribution plan.

State Sen. Ronnie Chance (R-Tyrone) has a strong list of legislation that passed both chambers of the legislature this year.

Do something to break up the “big box” look of the anchor, get rid of some of the parking and add more greenspace, make a commitment to the maximum number of luxury office/apartments and provide elevations that the council can rely on.

From the outside, the building at 1200 Commerce Drive in Peachtree City looks just like any other tastefully done office building. But head to the second floor, and you’ll discover the nerve center of Clayton State University’s Fayette operation.

Sen. Ronnie Chance (R-Tyrone) in a news release says he has secured $200,000 in state funds that will be used to plan, design and build a new emergency operations center and public safety facility for Fayette County.

It might seem to be a boring item to some, but it could lead to creative ways to construct future parking lots and other surfaces in Fayetteville.

Thanks to the generosity of Fayette’s business community, students in the county’s school system will receive some extra help in math and science.

Students involved in the Career Tech Student Organizations (CTSO) at Whitewater High showed the student body this season’s hottest prom attire while raising funds to help further their education.

The Fayette County Democratic Party is growing weekly, and is now consists of over 80 members.

They have been meeting each third Saturday at Starbucks in Peachtree City, but have outgrown its meeting room. An announcement will be made soon as to the new meeting place.

Do you know where open market operations are executed or what is the highest possible value of a Herfindahl Index? Do you know what a Herfindahl Index is?

The only thing left to do for the mass of Fayette County residents who flooded Gov. Sonny Perdue and the General Assembly with opposition to Senate Bill (SB) 458 is to pick out the casket and order the flowers. SB 458 is dead.

A missing 7-year-old boy and his friend were found safe ... and stuck ... in a swamp area behind Wynnmeade Parkway Thursday evening.

Peachtree City will soon have eight new school zones and eight larger school zones as part of an effort to increase safety for kids walking or taking golf carts to school.

Time running out for House to vote on amended bill from Senate

A bill that would drastically change how charter schools are approved in Georgia may still have some life as the legislature approaches its final day tomorrow.

The modified life-span and the controversy surrounding Senate Bill (SB) 458 has caused as much controversy as nearly anything in the recent history of Fayette County, at least in legislative terms.

Fayette County’s personnel budget is set to rise nearly $3 million next year, despite a near hiring freeze by the county.

The variety of illnesses reported by more than 750 north Fayette and south Fulton residents in mid-2006 after breathing chemicals emanating from the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant on Ga. Highway 92 in Fairburn appeared to pose no long-term adverse health effects and no public health threat, according to a March 7 Final Health Consultation study by the Georgia Division of Public Health (GDPH) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a division of U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services.

Call it a victory for north Fayette’s residents.

Last Thursday, the Fayette County Commission turned down two rezoning requests that were causing much consternation to residents who live near the intersection of Ga. highways 279 and 314.