The Peachtree City Council has decided to take the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority head-on.

Friday the city filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court challenging GRTA’s power to require the city to make transportation improvements on the TDK Boulevard Extension that are tied to the McIntosh Village project in the neighboring county.

Fayette County Attorney Bill McNally says he doesn’t see anything wrong with the way the county recently completed a land swap with Peachtree Holdings for the building of Lake McIntosh.

Whitewater’s Kait Loewecke (34) drives to the basket, while Fayette County’s defense, led by Beth Hayes (30) tries to stop her.

St. Andrews-in-the-Pines church in Peachtree City has bolted from the Episcopal Church in favor of a more “traditional” Anglican church.

The Fayette County School System is trying to decide what to do with more than 33 acres of excess property behind Whitewater High School.

When next fall’s attendance boundary hearings start for elementary schools, one resident is hoping the Fayette Board of Education learned a lesson from the Bennett’s Mill Middle School controversy.

A Peachtree City resident is proposing that the city establish a “city commission of education” to monitor education matters affecting the city and make recommendations to council on any actions deemed necessary.

There was no standing room left Feb. 9 as those on both sides of proposed changes in the state annexation law lined up to have their say at a hearing of the House Governmental Affairs subcommittee. The small hearing room in the Legislative Office Building could barely hold the nearly 90 people who came to weigh in on the proposed Fair Annexation Act (House Bill 2) authored by Rep. Doug Holt (R-Social Circle, House District 112).

Family’s home burned completely to ground

A College Park girl reported that she was robbed of her cell phone while at the Tinseltown movie theater in Fayetteville late Sunday night, police said.

District Attorney Scott Ballard, Griffin Judicial Circuit, was the featured speaker for the NAACP on Saturday. He conveyed a number of attention-grabbing points to the audience.

Peachtree City builder, Rick Conaway has been named 2006 Builder of the Year by Peachtree City Building Department officials. Conaway, an exclusive builder in the Smokerise Crossing subdivision in Peachtree City, was presented with the award by Peachtree City Building Official Tom Carty and Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon at the January 18 City Council Meeting.

Each year, J93.3 partners with local businesses to gather thousands of Valentine's cards and candy for children who are less fortunate in an effort to demonstrate "...that someone loves them and is thinking about them. "

The Fayette County Democratic Committee will hold elections for three representatives to the state committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia at its brunch meeting on Saturday, Feb. 17. The breakfast meeting will be held at Chaps restaurant in Tyrone. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m.. Meeting attendees may order from the menu.

Two teachers at North Fayette Elementary are sporting shorter hairdos in an effort to help sick children.

Fourth grade teacher Katie Coke and fifth grade teacher Michelle Derichsweiler donated a total of 21 inches of hair to Locks of Love. Their hair will be used to create hair prosthetics for children who have lost their hair due to a medical condition.

Fayette County Board of Education, Post 5 Representative to Address the North Fayette Community Association on Saturday, Feb. 17 at Liberty Baptist Church.

The elementary and middle school mathematics textbook adoption committees have selected materials to recommend for use in the Fayette County School System beginning with the 2007-2008 school year.

Parents with children entering kindergarten for the 2007-2008 school year can register their students at their schools of attendance on March 29.

The port of Rotterdam is built on the delta of which major European river? Most Fayette students would know the answer: the Rhine River.

Although the Dow and NASDAQ trended upward this fall, a faltering housing market, elections, war, and slowing economic growth all combined to make it a bumpy ride. Nonetheless, a group of shrewd young investors at McIntosh High School did the research, checked the numbers, and made some smart financial choices, making them winners of the Stock Market Game for Fayette County Schools.

Three Peachtree City students have been selected as candidates by the U.S. Department of Education for the 2007 Presidential Scholars Program.

An innovative foreign language teacher at Whitewater High uses fun, low stress techniques to get his students enthusiastic about learning Spanish. His innovative approach to learning has earned him one of the state’s top awards in foreign language.

The hard work and high achievement of one student has earned him a special recognition that is given to just one child per state.

The Fayette County School System is looking for a few good teachers to fill positions for the 2007-2008 academic year.

A Tyrone man has been indicted for distributing child pornography and possession of “several hundred images of what appears to be alleged child pornography,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Atlanta office.

The planned Lake McIntosh water reservoir, which would be built on Line Creek between Fayette and Coweta counties, is still in a holding pattern.

If you’re zoned for Bennett’s Mill Middle School for next year, that’s where you’ll be going.

After hearing reports from school system staff Monday night, the Fayette County School Board left intact the boundaries for the county’s newest middle school and decided not to allow rising eighth graders to remain at their current school, mainly J.C. Booth in Peachtree City.

If all the soil testing turns out correctly, the Fayette County School system may have found the site for its second new elementary school.

Oksana McGettigan pleaded with the Peachtree City Council Thursday night, asking for a city ordinance change so she could keep her hens.

The Peachtree City Council declined a citizen’s request Thursday to allow utility vehicles such as his to be used on the city’s golf cart path.