The Fayette County Health Department is waiting to hear when it will receive its full shipment of flu vaccine, officials said.

Peachtree City staff will be preparing new ordinances to address lake buffer violations along Lake Kedron and part of Lake Peachtree in addition to handling greenbelt violations for which rules already exist.

Just about anyone traveling Ga. Highway 85 through Fayetteville has noticed an increase in traffic during the past year or two. Plans to address the current and future flow of traffic came Sept. 21 with the approval by Fayetteville City Council to fund a downtown traffic study.

The fiancee of a Fayetteville City councilman was arrested last week for assaulting him during an argument, police said.

A Newnan woman has been arrested for using stolen credit card data to purchase gift cards at two Peachtree City restaurants, police said.

It has been more than a half a century in coming, but now Richard Dzio can officially say he is a high school graduate.

The Fayette County Branch of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will host their Ninth Annual Freedom Fund Banquet October 14 at 7 p.m. at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center. The branch is inviting the community to join them as they salute the accomplishments of distinguished citizens in Fayette County.

Nearly 200 teachers statewide were accepted into the program this year. Among them are Kimberly Fisher, Fayette Middle; Christine Campbell, Fayette Middle; Cindy Hendrix, Kedron Elementary; Angela Boze, Kedron Elementary; Suzanne Givens, Kedron Elementary; Sonya Farr, Peeples Elementary; Margaret Counts, Rising Starr Middle; Ann Collins, Rising Starr Middle and Josephine Rouse, Rising Starr Middle.

The community is invited to join Fayette Middle as students celebrate their reading achievements with a special showing of the movie “Hoot.”

Allan Vigil, chair of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) and trustee of the Clayton State University Foundation, presided over the inauguration of the University System of Georgia’s 11th Chancellor earlier this week. On the rostrum with Vigil were Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue and the Chancellor, Erroll B. Davis, Jr.

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

Days after he was brutally attacked by a young man he had employed part-time with his lawn-mowing business, Fayette resident Arthur Cardell — a former police officer — helped save the suspect’s life.

Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone hosted a large cross country meet on Saturday morning and nearly all of the local high schools were represented.

In less than a month, Fayette County parents will get their first glimpse at the new attendance lines for all the county’s high schools and middle schools.

Former Fayette County Sheriff’s Chief Detective Bruce Jordan is appealing his demotion and 10-day suspension and has hired noted criminal defense attorney Lee Sexton to represent him during the process.

U.S. Rep. David Scott Monday joined a growing list of local jurisdictions, elected officials and community organizations calling for answers to the illnesses experienced by more than 750 north Fayette and south Fulton residents.

State and federal officials confirmed Friday that tests showed toxic chemical presence of hundreds of thousands of times the accepted upper safe exposure levels for humans might have been present in south Fulton County beginning in late spring and early summer.

Members of the Fayette Fiddlers

Peachtree City may soon begin enforcing no-trespassing buffer zones along Lake Kedron and the west side of Lake Peachtree.

Traveling Ga. Highway 54 West in Fayetteville will soon call for paying closer attention to the flow of traffic. Four new traffic signals are in the works at Piedmont Fayette Hospital and at Tiger Trail.

A former Fayetteville man has been sentenced to 180 days in a detention center after pleading guilty to arranging a sexual encounter online with a girl he thought was 14 years old but who turned out to be an undercover police officer, police said.

The Fayette County School System’s crackdown on illegal students is drawing state-wide attention.

“We are the only system that is prosecuting these cases,” said Superintendent of Education John DeCotis, during Monday night’s school board meeting.

The era of the establishment of a medical mecca in Fayetteville is far from over.

Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission Sept. 12 heard plans for the construction of two additional medical office buildings on Ga. Highway 54 on property behind the new Southern Community Bank building located in Brandywine Office Park.

A countywide task force created to battle the devastating affects of methamphetamine abuse is inviting the community to a seminar on the issue Sept. 27 from noon to 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Peachtree City.

For many people, their school days are a source of nostalgia. School was merely a short stop during a long life, a place to look back on fondly while being glad that days filled with lectures, homework, quizzes and tests are over and done with.

Mathnasium Learning Center, an international franchise offering math-only, after-school educational programs, has opened in Peachtree City. This new center will provide a safe and supportive setting for grade-school students to develop much-needed math skills and to build confidence in their math-related abilities.

Sunday began the national celebration of Constitution Week. The weeklong commemoration of America’s most important document is one of our country’s least known official observances. Our Constitution stands as a testament to the tenacity of Americans throughout history to maintain their liberties and freedom, and to ensure those unalienable rights to every American.

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

A Fayette man testified Monday that he was afraid he was going to die after he was struck twice in the back of the head by a man who he had employed part-time at his grass-cutting business Dec. 2 2005.

UPDATED

Fayette County Chief Sheriff’s Detective Bruce Jordan has been demoted, suspended and will be re-assigned to another position in the department after an internal investigation determined that he violated department regulations, Sheriff Randall Johnson said in a prepared statement Thursday morning.