It was a winning weekend for Fayette County High’s debate and speech teams as they racked up awards at various tournaments.

Three high school musicians are making history as inaugural participants in the first-ever U.S. Army All-American Marching Band.

There was standing room only at the Juvenile Justice Awareness Forum held at the Fayette County Library on Saturday, Oct. 27. The forum was sponsored by the Fayette County NAACP Youth Council and well attended by over 150 youth, adults and guests. The opening welcomed was presented by Youth President, Maurice Jeffries II a senior at Sandy Creek. Biahnca Blood, a senior and chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee planned and moderated the forum. Other members who volunteered to assure the success of the forum were Darius Johnson, Jonathan Owens, Shataria Traylor and Allison Ragins and a host of other volunteers and teens from various organizations. Advance questions were orchestrated by our Youth Council members to assure their concerns were presented to the panelists and other teens in attendance asked countless questions about laws and their Rights.

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past week. All persons are considered innocent until proven guilty:

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Department and the Fayetteville Police Department are squaring off in a softball game Saturday for a special cause.

A Sandy Creek High School student arrested Tuesday for threatening to bomb the school via a text message is being held in the Fayette County Jail without bond.

November 6 was a day of upsets, close calls and required runoffs in the elections in south Fulton County’s four cities.

Both PTC bond questions defeated

Political novice Don Haddix overwhelmed a sitting councilman and a newcomer to win the Peachtree City Post 1 council race without a runoff.

Some McIntosh students boast of guns and drugs on MySpace pages

The 2007 Great Chili Challenge was a huge success for the Line Creek Civitan Club and fans of chili.

A 17-year-old Sandy Creek High School student was arrested Tuesday for threatening to bomb the school Thursday, sheriff’s deputies said.

A 17-year-old Sandy Creek High School student was arrested Tuesday for threatening to bomb the school Thursday, sheriff’s deputies said.

For the first time Monday night the elementary redistricting committee got to work on the second of two maps it will present to the school board Monday night: Map B.

The committee had less than an hour during the meeting to suggest possible changes to Map B, though they had worked on it some in previous meetings. They will meet again Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the Board of Education offices to further tweak Map B, which will be presented along with another map known as Map A.

Would you believe — radiator thieves? And not just any radiators.

Would you believe $1.5 million in damages to heavy equipment parked just above the Fayette County line brought on by thieves‘ sudden appetite for the shiny metal?

The Peachtree City Council now has the power to enact emergency water restrictions if necessary, a power once limited solely to the mayor and the mayor’s designee.

For almost three months, the Fayette County Commission has wrestled with the idea of converting the county’s pension plan to a defined benefits package.

Council not ready to start RFP bidding process

The Peachtree City Council has elected to seek formal “requests for information” from the city’s residential trash companies.

The Fayette County Public School System tips the scales when it comes to academics, the higher the numbers the better. But escalating numbers isn’t what the county wants to see when it comes to the weight of their employees.

The Bright Ideas grant program sponsored by the Fayette Coweta EMC has awarded over $9,700 in grants to 10 teachers from the Fayette County Public School System.

The Executive Board of Fayette Senior Services has announced that Debbie Britt has been named the agency’s new executive director. Britt assumes the position held by Andy Carden, who is retiring after nearly 13 years of service with the organization.

Last week, the Georgia Downtown Association (GDA) and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) joined forces to recognize Georgia's downtown leaders and their efforts to promote downtown and economic development through public awareness, governmental relations and education. "Setting the Scene - The Arts Downtown" served as the 2007 conference theme. Nearly 200 downtown experts converged on Columbus from Oct. 10-12 to discuss downtown development, specifically the impact and development of the creative, or "arts"-oriented, economy and exchange ideas. Fayetteville was presented with the award for the Most Creative Marketing Piece for their submittal of their 2007 Calendar of Events.

Committee due to present 2 maps to BOE Monday night at McIntosh

The grunt work of redrawing Fayette’s elementary school district lines is not over yet.

The committee plans to recommend two different maps to the school board for possible adoption, "Map A" and "Map B." But few if any committee members were totally happy with Map B, which they only got to work on for less than an hour Monday night in their first crack at it.

A south Fulton couple was found dead in their home off Cedar Grove Road Thursday night after Fulton County Police and SWAT officers had surrounded the Parkland Bend home in a multi-hour standoff.

Heintz has resigned from his position at Whitewater High School

A Whitewater High School assistant football coach arrested for one felony count of sexual exploitation of a minor, has been granted a $100,000 bond by a Fayette County Superior Court Judge.

The investigation into Coach Harry Heintz began with an allegation that he sent a text message to a student at the school, asking the student to send him a nude photo, sheriff's officials said Thursday morning.

It is getting close, one way or the other. Parent representatives of Fayette’s redistricting committee met again Thursday night, approving recommendations to the school board, reviewing the recently completed redistricting map and continuing on their important, and sometimes frustrating, task.

Plans for the massive African Village Project to be located in unincorporated south Fulton County took another step toward reality Oct. 27 at the U.S./Africa Conference at Georgia International Convention Center in College Park.

After months of deliberation and crunching numbers, the committee charged with redrawing elementary school attendance lines will reveal the final maps to the Fayette County Board of Education Nov.12.

Facing a quality control problem with various companies providing residential trash service in Peachtree City, the City Council will contemplate adopting a franchise for the service at its regular meeting Thursday night.

Fayette County elections officials entered uncharted waters this week with the untimely death of Rep. Dan Lakly.

Elections supervisor Tom Sawyer spent much of Monday afternoon researching the protocol of how Lakly’s seat would be filled. By Tuesday morning, he had a few answers.

The funeral for Fayette State Rep. Dan Lakly, R-Peachtree City, will be Friday at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Peachtree City.

Visitation will be from 6-9 p.m. Thursday at Mowell Funeral Home in Peachtree City.