A traffic stop early Monday morning in Fayetteville led to the discovery of approximately $2,000 in counterfeit bills and the arrest of eight people in the vehicle after no one admitted ownership of the bogus bills.

The Fayette County Board of Education Monday night approved the placement of two orders, but not the purchase, for new school buses before Dec. 31.

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

It is a grant award that can be put to good use. Fayette Senior Services, Inc. (FSS) has been selected for a $62,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.

Halloween isn’t just about ghosts and goblins! The Frederick Brown Amphitheater will host the “Not so Frightful” Storytelling and Halloween party on October 24 and even Pete the Cat promises to show up and provide fun for children of all ages! The party is scheduled to begin at 4 pm and is a free event.

It was an event that was 30 years in the making and now it’s a done deal. The Georgia Safe Dams agency gave its final approval Friday for the long-awaited 650-acre Lake McIntosh dam and reservoir to be constructed on the Fayette-Coweta line.

Those itching to cast their vote for the Nov. 3 SPLOST and city elections will be able to do so in downtown Fayetteville starting this Wednesday, Oct. 14.

The Fayette County Commission gave approval Oct. 14 for two intersection improvement projects funded by 1-cent sales tax dollars.

Delta Community Credit Union is rolling out a new range of products for small businesses to provide low-cost, interest-bearing deposit products.

Fayette County was the setting Tuesday morning for the production of a training tape on administering the flu vaccines that will be part of the curriculum for paramedics and emergency medical technicians statewide.

The Fayetteville City Council at its Oct. 15 meeting will hear the first reading of the final amendment to the 2009 budget. Essentially a housekeeping issue, the amendment will address the General Fund, Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) and Vehicle Rental Excise Tax Fund budgets.

Those itching to cast their vote for the Nov. 3 SPLOST and city elections will be able to do so in downtown Fayetteville starting Wednesday morning.

The Southern Crescent Tea Party Patriots will hold a Town Hall meeting Oct. 15 on Cap & Trade and Healthcare Town Hall meeting Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at Christ Church at Whitewater. Organizers said the emphasis will be on healthcare.

The Men’s Ensemble at Sandy Creek High, made up of members of the Select Mixed Chorus, are $1,000 closer to funding a trip to perform with the Grammy award-winning group, Chanticleer, this spring in San Francisco.

An elderly north Fayette woman was forced by two phony female police officers to withdraw money from her bank account Wednesday, sheriff's detectives said.

After they drove her to Riverdale to do so, the suspects abandoned the victim at the Church's Chicken in Riverdale, detectives said.

Fayetteville police today filed criminal charges against an Atlanta man in connection with the Aug. 15 robbery of the Bank of America off Ga. Highway 314 in north Fayetteville.

Michael Ray Baskerville Jr., 33, of Washington Street, Atlanta is currently being held in the Cobb County Jail. He was arrested by police in Cobb Monday during the robbery of a SunTrust bank in Cobb.

Fayette County Health Dept. gets 400 doses of nasal spray for kids 2-4; vaccine free, but call first

Budget problems or not, Fayette County schools topped all others in the Atlanta metro area in one critical measure.

In its Oct. 1 report of the federally-mandated Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), the Ga. Dept. of Education’s figures show that Fayette County was the only system in metro Atlanta with 100 percent of its schools making AYP for six consecutive years.

And then, there were four.

Local gym owner Dar Thompson announced Tuesday that he has decided to drop out of the race for the Post 1 seat on the Peachtree City Council.

As Peachtree City’s Water and Sewer Authority ends the year with a projected shortfall of $294,000, customers will see another 5 percent increase added to their sewer bills starting this month.

For a heart attack victim, Todd Hellams was in pretty bad shape when the first medic crews got to him at Fayetteville’s Wings and Things restaurant Aug. 28.

The Environmental Institute of Georgia (EIOG) is at it again. Aside from their work as custodians of the 300-acre Fairburn Nature Preserve, reducing chemical exposures to humans and animals and coordinating Fayette County Earth Day activities, EIOG is sponsoring the Rivers Alive clean-up activities along Fayette’s waterways again this year. The first of five clean-up events was held Saturday.

Participants in the 10th Annual Alzheimer’s Memory Walk release their distinctive purple balloons Oct. 3 at the Frederick Brown, Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City. Perhaps as many as 2,000 people from Fayette and other south metro Atlanta counties were at the event just before starting on the 5K walk through the woods. The event was a fund-raiser for the Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Photo/Ben Nelms.

In the special local option sales tax arena, it’s the current Fayette County Commission versus Fayette Citizens for Open Government (FayCOG), which includes a couple of former county commission chairmen.

It is a sign of the economic times. The Fayetteville City Council Oct. 1 took the advice of city staff and approved the removal of several unfilled job positions from the personnel roster.

Commissioner on plea calendar for marijuana, tag offense

Fayette County Commissioner Robert Horgan is expected to appear in state court Oct. 22 to enter a guilty plea on charges of misdemeanor possession of marijuana and driving with an expired tag.

James Taylor, a chaplain with the Peachtree City Police Department, recently completed 20 hours in specialized in-service training offered by the Georgia Association of Law Enforcement Chaplains. Taylor, who also serves as a chaplain for Piedmont Fayette Hospital is a member of The Cathedral of Christ the King, Sharpsburg, Ga. where he serves as a Licensed Liturgical Minister.  He and his wife, Karen Romano-Taylor, are both active in the leadership of Peachtree City's Community Emergency Response Team.

The Southern Crescent Tea Party Patriots will hold a Healthcare and Cap & Trade Town Hall meeting on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at Christ Church at Whitewater. Organizers said the emphasis will be on healthcare.

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

Fayette Citizens for Open Government (FayCOG) is gearing up to attempt to defeat the 1-cent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) initiative up for vote in November. The group held a planning meeting on the issue last week.