A near sweep of the Griffin RESA 2007 High School Math Contest shows that Fayette’s students really know how to crunch numbers.

Seven Fayette elementary schools have been designated “distinguished” and awarded more than $10,000 combined from the Georgia Department of Education.

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past two weeks:

Fayette County Sheriff’s Office

Led chase from PTC Wal-Mart into rural Coweta

A suspect who showed up at the Peachtree City Wal-Mart to make a drug deal with undercover agents led deputies on a chase from the Peachtree City Wal-Mart into rural Coweta County Thursday night.

A bridge construction project just north of Fayetteville will shut down to one northbound lane Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The latest vision for a 379-acre tract John Wieland Homes wants annexed into Peachtree City was met with praise from the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night.

The city of Senoia is on the verge of completing a deal that could provide sewerage capacity to the massive McIntosh Village development proposed for Fayette’s doorstep.

A hunter has paid the price for shooting a Brooks family’s pet dog Fender back in November.

Tommy Grier, 32, of Palmetto must surrender his hunting license for a year and pay $100 towards the dog’s grave marker and $1,200 to the Fayette County Humane Society, according to the ruling by Fayette County Magistrate Joe Tinsley.

Fayette County’s newest school has its first principal.

Rae Presley-King, who is currently an assistant principal at Booth Middle School in Peachtree City was approved by the Fayette County Board of Education Monday night for the top slot at the new school.

The first development in the huge tract of land in Fayette’s center could be a new school.

School spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach confirmed Tuesday the Board of Education has entered into a contract to purchase 30 acres at the intersection of Sandy Creek Road and Tillman Road to build a new elementary school that would open in 2009.

After cordial complaints from several in-home music teachers, the Peachtree City Council held off on proposed changes to the city’s home business ordinance Thursday night.

The “bucket brigade” has had its swan song.

Under a new ordinance adopted by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night, no one will be allowed to set up shop on or near city streets and highways to hit motorists up for money or business.

After intermittent discussions over the past few months the Fayetteville City Council Jan. 18 adopted an ordinance outlining the use of motorized carts. The ordinance addresses registration, authorized and unauthorized uses, hazardous activities and special rules, and liability and penalties.

Last week, The Citizen’s columnist Sallie Satterthwaite wrote about a colorful but out-of-place Mandarin duck spotted bobbing in the Three Ponds recreation area in Braelinn Village.

The Fayette County Chamber of Commerce held its 40th annual banquet last Saturday night with 350 members present. Outgoing President Mark Gray said that the first banquets were held as pot luck dinners in the Fayetteville Masonic Lodge. A crowd of 40 people then was considered a success.

A traffic stop on a vehicle with a wanted suspect netted a significant drug confiscation for Fayetteville Police Saturday morning, police said.

What do ski trips and golf carts have to do with each other? At the 2007 “Angels Among Us” Dinner, Dance & Silent Auction, a ski trip, golf cart, and many other items will be auctioned off to raise funds for Fayette Youth Protection Homes, a local, non-profit organization which provides a safe and loving environment for children who have been the victims of abuse or neglect.

Friday is moving day for the Southern District Office of the Metro Atlanta Red Cross. The Red Cross office, serving Butts, Clayton, Fayette and Henry counties, is leaving its Mount Zion Rd. location in Morrow to share new office space in the national American Red Cross Disaster Field Supply Center in Forest Park, near the Georgia State Farmer's Market.

While students are just halfway through the current school year, now is the time to begin the application process for those families considering private school education for their child for the 2007-2008 school year.

The Fayette County Chamber of Commerce and Humana have joined forces to offer a discount to small businesses that offer health insurance for their employees.

When the Career and Technical Education Department (CTE) at Whitewater High went looking for a way to build a scholarship fund for their students while giving them some hands-on work experience, their ideas turned to a prom fashion show.

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

A server at El Ranchero in Fayetteville was arrested Thursday afternoon after an undercover drug agent bought two ounces of powder cocaine from him in the restaurant’s bathroom, deputies said.

During Saturday’s parade in Fayetteville honoring the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a group from Mt.

Last week, the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority upheld its ruling that the bridge over Line Creek for the TDK Boulevard Extension should be wide enough for four lanes instead of two.

The city of Senoia may soon embark on an ambitious upgrade of its sewer treatment facility that could provide treatment capacity to the huge McIntosh Village project in unincorporated Coweta County west of and adjacent to Peachtree City.

Maybe it was a case of hogs gone wild, at least in the neighborhood. It seems there is another side to the story of the Brooks Beast, the 1,100-pound hog shot Jan. 3 while grazing in a yard on Chappell Road.

One of newly-elected County Commissioner Eric Maxwell’s first motions swept more than two years of bad blood between the Sheriff’s Department and the County Commission under the rug for what he hopes is a long time.

Are 10 people living in a single-family home too many?

That’s just one of the issues the Association of Fayette County Governments plans to look at and study over the next few months as local governments grapple with an influx of situations where several families live in one home.

There is a proposal on the way that would forever change the view as motorists enter Fayetteville’s downtown historic district from the west along Ga. Highway 54. That proposal would place a three-story, 39,000 square-foot office building on 2.74 acres where Hwy. 54 splits into eastbound Stonewall and westbound Lanier avenues.