The Fayette County Health Department has already received some flu vaccine, but all the doses are spoken for as of Tuesday morning, according to County Nurse Manager Carolyn Callison.

A Peachtree City developer is challenging the determination of how much it owes per lot in impact fees to the city.

The City Council will hear the appeal from Ravin Homes, developer of the Cedarcroft subdivision off MacDuff Parkway on the city’s west side. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. tonight in the Floy Farr Room at the Peachtree City Library.

Proposed construction of a 68-home Stella Place residential development at 335 Grady Avenue is back on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of Fayetteville City Council.

In its ongoing quest to make the county’s sign ordinance user-friendly and defensible in court, the Fayette County Commission decided Thursday night to modify the ordinance.

An Oct. 24 epidemiological study by Georgia Division of Public Health (DPH) left the door open but fell short of establishing a direct link to questions from hundreds of sick residents in Fayette and Fulton counties who believe the onion-like smell of chemical odorant propyl mercaptan released at the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant in Fairburn is responsible for their illnesses. The door was also left open by a commitment for a larger state and federal health consultation expected by early 2007.

The rising costs of construction materials may force the Fayette County Board of Education to build only one new scaled-down elementary school instead of two in the next few years.

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin made a trip to Fayetteville Oct. 31 to see the firsthand the results of Georgia’s efforts to curb its population of unwanted dogs and cats. Meeting at Lafayette Center Animal Hospital, Irvin attended a spaying procedure at the clinic by Dr. Mike Younker.

Students, parents and faculty of Peachtree City Elementary are making a list and checking it twice as they prepare for the 10th annual Jingle Bell Trail set for December 9. Last year it drew more than 1,000 runners and generated nearly $9,000, which helped purchase new classroom computers.

Fayette County Schools is adding a new health and wellness site to its homepage and is seeking community input on a logo for the initiative.

Whitewater High School in Fayette County is excited! The faculty and students recently kicked off their campaign to help find cures for cancer and provide help and hope to thousands of patients and their families. The entire school is collecting spare change through The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program.

Fayette Senior Services is accepting contributions for Project Love – the program that provides delicious and nutritionally balanced holiday meals to senior citizens in Fayette County. For more then ten years the program has been a heartfelt gesture of kindness to many of the community’s homebound seniors.

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

More than 300 residents jammed the Willie Duke Auditorium at Starr's Mill Tuesday night and gave the Board of Education an earful about the proposed boundaries for next year.

From Starbucks at The Avenue to the Fayette Pavilion, the buzz in Fayette County this week has been the proposed new attendance boundaries for high schools and middle schools rolled out last Monday by the Fayette County Board of Education.

Non “The Phenomenon” Gyuinn faces Jerry Burns in one of the six pro fights last Saturday night at the Southside Slugfest held at the Frederick Brown Jr.

The complicated real estate transaction that will allow TDK Boulevard to extend into Coweta County and create a larger runway safety area at Falcon Field is nearly complete.

Congressman Lynn Westmoreland at a town hall meeting Oct. 19 in Peachtree City says he’s now on board to close the Fairburn waste treatment plant implicated in a release of chemicals that sickened hundreds last spring.

The five-month trek from onions to outrage continued in full force Oct. 21 with a large number of residents and some elected officials representing Fayette and Fulton counties maintaining the call for the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant near Fairburn to close its doors.

Fayetteville City Council appreciated the idea but said they expected more from the proposed residential development on Grady Avenue across from Fayette Middle School.

Every community changes with time. Tracking the many local changes and preparing to address the future was the mission of Fayetteville’s now-completed Comprehensive Plan. Now submitted to Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for review, the multi-faceted plan presents a bird’s eye view of Fayetteville’s future needs and goals.

K.C.’s Medical Home Care Supplies, Inc. proudly announces its award of accreditation status by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc. (ACHC) for the services of home medical equipment, clinical respiratory care, respiratory nebulizer medications, medical supply provider and post-mastectomy fitter.

A blood drive will be held Oct. 28 at National Heights Baptist Church at 103 Old Norton Road from 9 AM until 3 PM to benefit a Texas man who was struck Sept.

Pursuit reached 100 mph through Tyrone; halted by deputy's stop sticks

Two men involved in the noon-time armed robbery of a Peachtree City bank were arrested after they led police on a high-speed chase through Tyrone today, police said.

Fulton County Commissioners had their say on annexations of unincorporated land by south Fulton cities. The board recently adopted a resolution from Commissioner Bill Edwards saying the county will not approve any annexation proposals submitted after Sept. 30. The annexations are directly related to the passage of Senate Bill 552 earlier this year and the formation of the new City of South Fulton if approved by voters in June 2007.

A 13 year-old Fairburn boy was charged Sept. 22 in the molestation of an eight year-old College Park girl in the bedroom of his home. The Fulton County District Attorney’s office is requesting the juvenile be tried as an adult due to the charges.

Fayette and Fulton County residents committed to finding answers to illnesses they believe stem from Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant in Fairburn will hold a Citizens Rally Oct. 21 at Shamrock Park in Tyrone from 1-5 p.m.

There’s a new adventure in store for The Real Life Center (RLC) in Tyrone.

Palmetto Police are seeking two men wanted for aggravated armed robbery in an Oct. 9 hold-up at the Shell station at 400 Carlton Road. The men kicked the store clerk and struck him with a handgun after he complied with their order to lie on the floor.

A request by Gate City Elks Lodge No.54 to rezone 4.96 acres at 4900 College Street for use as the organization’s new Union City meeting place failed over concerns that traffic and noise might be a problem and that zoning changes from residential to Office-Institutional might pose long-term problems for the quiet neighborhood.

Congressman Lynn Westmoreland at a town hall meeting Thursday in Peachtree City responded to numerous questions about his commitment to assist the hundreds of residents of Fayette and South Fulton counties experiencing illnesses they say are directly related to emissions from the Philip Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant near Fairburn. Westmoreland’s call for the temporary closure of the plant came on the heels of a letter hours earlier to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calling for the closure. He told the two dozen in attendance the decision just weeks before the November election was not a political one.