Earlier this week, on Monday, March the third, children realized the power of the written word. On a day marking the birth of a man they call Seuss, students read all day and were allowed to cut loose. This story doesn’t take place on mountains or steeples, but in a third grade classroom at a school they call Peeples.

Fayette County’s Brandon Boykin has energized crowds with his aerial displays on offense this year.

Fayette Drug Task Force Capt.

Whitewater teacher came on to 11th grader via text messages; DA drops criminal charges

Harry Heintz, 28, a former Whitewater High School teacher, sent cell phone text messages to one of his female students in an attempt to start a personal relationship, according to logs of the texts that have been reviewed by The Citizen.

Economic slowdown crimps tax collections

Money and water — both will be topics March 3 at the Fayetteville City Council meeting.

It was a night where seats were at a premium, and the passion in the meeting room was palpable. But now, after 200 passionate residents told the Fayette County Commission their thoughts about district voting, the measure will be decided at the General Assembly.

The Peachtree City Fire Department is asking for seven new positions in next year’s city budget, citing a need to meet national guidelines for the minimum number of fire personnel on a scene.

Peachtree City police have recently begun patrolling the city’s cart path system, the City Council learned at its retreat this weekend.

The Peachtree City Council is looking at spending $1 million to relocate the city’s recycling center from its current location on the south side to the former Flat Creek wastewater treatment plant farther north off Ga. Highway 74.

Upset residents who hoped to leave the County Commission chambers Thursday night feeling better about the West Fayetteville Bypass went home dejected.

A Fayette County School Board retreat March 1 was essentially a planning session designed to look at the school system’s strategic plan and included a lengthy discussion of the system’s vision, mission and belief statements.

The bid to construct the new Rivers Elementary School was approved March 3 at a called meeting of Fayette County Board of Education. Also at the meeting, the board heard a presentation on a salary study conducted for all employees in the school system.

It may be small by some standards, but it is one more occasion where drugs are taken off the street. A buy-bust on Ga. Highway 54 and McDonough Road last week resulted in the arrest of two Fayetteville men.

Bill instead will get rid of auto ad valorem taxes

A bill that would have stripped the power of local school boards to collect property tax revenues has officially been amended by House Speaker Glenn Richardson, The Citizen has learned.

Pool-filling and hand-watering would be OK too

The Fayette County Board of Commissioners will soon determine whether the county will allow new landscaping to be watered every other day for 10 weeks.

It was a case of “doctor shopping” that brought notoriety to a woman who has seen more than her share of it in times past.

A home in north Fayette County was heavily damaged by a fire after 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon.

Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges previously filed against former Whitewater High School teacher and assistant football coach Harry Heintz.

Heintz was charged in November with one felony count of sexual exploitation of a minor, as sheriff's deputies said he sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.

Thursday afternoon Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard confirmed that the charge has been dropped. He said once prosecutors were able to get the entire content of the text messages between Heintz and the student, the statements in question were deemed to be "taken out of context."

“Free the Fayette Two.” A small but vocal group of protesters led by Universal Negro Improvement Association representative Chief Sundiata Kamara gathered Feb.

“This is a very special proclamation,” says Fayetteville Mayor Ken Steele (R) as he announces Feb.

Capital City Development has secured tenants for two big box stores at the rear of its property, but CCD principal Doug McMurrain declined to reveal them after Monday night’s meeting of the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

It could be an interesting evening tomorrow night at the Fayette County Administrative complex as two groups of citizens converge on the meeting hall to offer their opinions to the Fayette County Commission.

Fayette’s new ‘high-intensity drug trafficking’ label by the feds will bring more money, equipment to fight drugs

It’s a crime that didn’t harm a person, but is sure to cause outrage in the community.

The Fayette County Animal Control staff is seeking the public’s assistance in finding a man who abandoned and ran over a litter of puppies near Ga. Highway 314.

Their numbers were small, but organizers of the “Free the Fayette Two” protest said their message was not. The protest rally held outside Fayette County Justice Center Feb. 22 targeted the recent incarceration of two Fayette County High School students, convicted recently in juvenile court for their role in a gang-related “beat-in” fight in a school restroom in December.

The first two weeks of February have been busy for Fayette County Drug Task Force (DTF) agents in Fayetteville.

A series of arrests came Feb. 22 when three adults and two juveniles were taken into custody at a Butler Road residence in Fayetteville, according to DTF Lt. Jody Thomas.

So far there have been no surprises among the four Fayette residents who have filed elections paperwork declaring their intent to run for sheriff.

A 47-year-old woman was assaulted as she walked out to her car at the Swanbrook Apartments in Fayetteville Sunday evening, police said.

The first of several hurdles involved in establishing Pathway Communities Twelve Parks mixed-use master planned community in east Coweta County was jumped Feb. 19 as county commissioners approved a request by Coweta Water and Sewer Authority to provide those services to the proposed development near Sharpsburg.

Nearly 50 parents and others came to Sams Auditorium Monday night for a community awareness seminar on gang awareness and Internet safety sponsored by the Fayette County Board of Education. Speakers included District Attorney Scott Ballard and representatives from local law enforcement and the school system.