The Fayette County Commission is looking to save $1.5 million by asking the DOT to leave off sidewalks from the upcoming East Fayette bypass project.

A group of clogging dancers under the tutelage of Rachel Ferguson strut their stuff during the Shakerag Festival in Peachtree City last Saturday.

The new Fayetteville Police SWAT team was joined last week by SWAT team members from Peachtree City, each sworn for the other’s city by Judge W. Fletcher Sams at Fayette County Justice Center. The accompanying memorandum of understanding (MOU) gives the teams operational capability in both cities.

The community is invited to enjoy a night of music and eye-catching performances as Fayette’s high school marching bands showcase their talent at the second annual Fayette County Marching Band Exhibition.

Synovus, the Columbus, Georgia-based diversified financial services company announced the completion of the merger of three Synovus banks in metro Atlanta - First Nation Bank, based in Covington, Georgia and Peachtree National Bank, based in Peachtree City merged with Bank of North Georgia, headquartered in Alpharetta. The combined banks are using the Bank of North Georgia name.

Fayetteville - Whether it's sampling tasty food, viewing a pace car from Atlanta Motor Speedway "up close and personal", or having the chance to win prizes such as roundtrip AirTran Airways tickets or a vacation getaway to Seascape Resort in Destin, Florida, there's something for most everyone at the Fayette Chamber's upcoming Business Expo. Best of all, more than 130 local businesses and organizations will have displays to show visitors to the Expo a wide range of products and services and how to "Find It in Fayette." The Expo is at the New Hope Church in Fayetteville on September 25, from 3 to 7 pm. The 17th Annual event is free and is open to the community.

Brad & Stephani Moseley are the new owners of the Fantastic Sams salon in Fayetteville. Since taking over in April, the salon has earned several awards and ranks third in sales in the Atlanta Region which consists of approximately 35 salons.

The Fayette County School System’s After School Program (ASP) is working toward adding two more schools to its growing list of nationally accredited programs.

One Magnolia Lane, a specialty store located at The Avenue in Peachtree City, is hosting Power of Pink events October 4 and October 5 to celebrate the launch of Brighton’s new limited edition jewelry collection that benefits breast cancer charities. The events will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m on both days, and everyone is invited, especially those who want to support breast cancer research and awareness.

The Georgia Department of Labor and the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce have combined efforts to host a "Find It in Fayette" Job Fair at New Hope Baptist Church in Fayetteville September 24 from 3 to 7 pm. The event is free and open to the community.

Six seniors from McIntosh and Starr’s Mill High Schools are among 16,000 semifinalists nationwide competing in the 53rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

It was a different kind of swearing in ceremony. Members of Peachtree City Police SWAT team and newly formed Fayetteville Police SWAT team were sworn in for each other’s city by Judge W. Fletcher Sams in a 1 p.m. ceremony at the Fayette County Justice Center.

The plan has been scaled back but questions remained on density and other issues with a request Tuesday by Oddo Publishing Inc. to rezone 57.88 acres at Ramah Road and Beauregard from R-30 to R-22 (PUD) for a proposed residential development.

A special prosecutor from the Attorney General’s office could soon be determining whether the Fayette County Commission violated the Open Meetings Act.

Fayette County’s workers could soon be seeing a major change in how their benefits are figured.

During last week’s County Commission workshop meeting, the commissioners heard a report from attorney John Kimball. Kimball is part of a study committee, including former Commissioner Scott Burrell, that is examining whether it would makes sense to switch from the county’s current retirement benefit to a defined benefits package, where each employee would receive a “defined” monthly amount.

Now, the hard work starts.

Last Thursday, the committee charged with redrawing the county’s elementary school lines started looking at neighborhood planning units and maps to align each of the students in the county with an elementary school. The committee is slated to have new boundaries drawn for a November approval by the Fayette County Board of Education.

It was a small tract of land on White Road and Ga. Highway 314, 2.5 acres in all, that was annexed into Fayetteville Aug. 6. The only hitch for the owner of the unincorporated island was that he wanted to establish a convenience store and gas station on the site.

The Fayette County Board of Education learned Monday night that surplus land located next to Whitewater High School could be a boon for a developer or government looking for mitigation property.

Soon kids from all around the southeast will welcome a Fayette sixth grader into their homes as she reports on important local and regional events for Time for Kids (TFK) magazine and TFK online.

The internationally renowned Atlanta Shakespeare Company is bringing “Shakespeare in Your Own Backyard” to Fayette to benefit the county’s public high schools.

A Whitewater Middle school student found a gun in her bookbag Thursday morning and immediately reported it to a teacher, according to a letter sent home to parents by principal Sandra Kidd.

Thursday was a good night all around for Tyrone Police Capt. Brandon Perkins. The Tyrone Town Council hired the veteran officer as the town’s new police chief to take the place of outgoing Chief David Mullis.

A news report Thursday named the mainland China company expected to locate within the Peachtree City industrial park as Sany Heavy Industry Co.

Thursday night the Peachtree City Council will consider rezoning an industrial tract for commercial use to allow a 21-acre shopping center on Ga. Highway 74 South directly across from the existing Wilshire Pavilion shopping center.

Thursday night, officials from John Wieland Homes threw out a few very un-Peachtree City concepts for residential development on an undeveloped 89-acre tract it owns at the intersection of Ga. Highway 74 and south Kedron Drive on the city’s northwest side.

The Fayette County School System says it could “free up 45 classrooms in some of our elementary schools, while we are using 42 portable classrooms in other elementary schools in the county.”

Robbers struck a tire store and a cyclist on the cart path system in the past four days, getting away both times.

In the first incident, Peachtree City police are offering a reward, hoping to solve the armed robbery of a man on the city’s west side cart path system early Saturday morning.

Now that the qualifying period is over for Fayette’s municipalities, voters know what the menu will look like when they head to the polls Nov. 6.

Peachtree City’s two posts on the five-member city council have drawn seven contenders. (Six of the seven are pictured below. The Citizen was unable to contact the seventh, Mark Hollums, for a photo by deadline.)

For Post 1, incumbent Mike Harman, who was appointed to the post by council several weeks ago, will face off against Thomas J. O’Toole Jr. and Don Haddix.

Thieves looking for documents, increasing risk of identity fraud

Fayetteville police are asking residents to lock their cars and take their belongings inside, as 16 entering auto incidents were reported in the city during August.