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Whatever is ultimately decided about the fate of the TDK Boulevard Extension into Coweta County, at least some Peachtree City residents have voiced their feelings that the project be cancelled.

Pathway Communities’ Twelve Parks at Sharpsburg planned community got an icy reception Monday night from the more than 200 people that packed the recreation center in the tiny eastern Coweta town.

The Peachtree City Planning Commission now knows more about two large subdivisions that are proposed as part of a 869-acre development, most of which must be annexed into the city limits — by John Wieland Homes and Levitt and Sons.

“We have no records,” admits the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.

The wheels are in motion for a possible criminal investigation into the chief detective of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office over the assignment of two detectives to a security detail for a local youth baseball team on a trip to Tennessee and allegations they were paid with money from the sheriff’s drug seizure fund.

County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn knew something like the current controversy surrounding Lt. Colonel Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriffs’ Department was going to happen.

It’s all for God and country. And it shows.

After the summer concert series at The Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater is over, some real heavy hitters will come to town.

It’s the time of year that parents and school administrators dread: Redrawing school boundaries for the opening of a new school.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is about to get tough with parking scofflaws on Christopher Road in front of Whitewater Middle School.

Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Whitewater High School. The funds will be used for several school improvement projects, including locker room construction and beautification of school grounds.

The Fayette County Women's Connection, a Christian fellowship organization, will meet Sept. 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Becoming the first to do something remarkable is a hallmark of greatness. In March 2007, 72 musicians from the Rising Starr Middle Symphonic Band, along with their director Steve Tyndall, will learn just how that feels when they go down in the history books as one of the first two middle school bands selected to perform at the Bands of America (BOA) National Concert Band Festival.

A group of Fayette elementary teachers got an up close and personal look at the inner workings of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during a recent visit to the Big Apple.

Becky McQueen, a teacher at Fayette County’s Whitewater High School, was honored this summer by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) for service to education and to her professional association.

Internal investigation to focus on security detail for youth baseball team

The chief detective of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office was placed on administrative leave Friday pending an internal investigation sparked by a TV news report about two deputies being paid to provide security for a local youth baseball team at a tournament in Tennessee.

A masked man robbed a downtown Fayetteville antique store Friday afternoon, police said.

The man entered the back door of Brannon Antiques at 165 West Lanier Avenue around 1:50 p.m. and brandished a chrome revolver, police said. He demanded money from two employees and after he got the money he forced them to walk outside the store in one direction while he took off in the other direction on foot, police said.

A convenience store in north Fayette was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Coleman’s, located on Ga. Highway 92 North, was targeted by a black male driving a red Chevy Blazer, said Lt. Col. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

Fayette County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn has been involved in the ongoing struggle for years to get TDK Boulevard Extension built and is philosophical about the recently renewed debate about the wisdom of constructing a new corridor into Coweta County.

The Peachtree City Council is slated to discuss the potential impact of a proposed 3,100-home city on its western border at Thursday night’s council meeting.

A teen arrested Friday for shooting his girlfriend at his north Fayette home was out on bond at the time from an attempted carjacking in June, police said.

It was an ordinary Friday night that ended in horror for a household on Corinth Road. What began as a simple phone call on the back porch Aug. 25 ended moments later with the family’s 10-pound dog being snatched and taken away by what was likely a coyote. Their experience that night is one they hope others will avoid.

Yvette Tilton is meeting a lot of new people these days. They call her, they drop by her house, they write letters and some even send money.

The number keeps climbing. More than 750 people in north Fayette and south Fulton counties have reported illnesses they believe are related to exposure to the organophosphate pesticide MOCAP originating at the Philip Services Corp. plant on Ga. Highway 92 near Fairburn.

by JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@TheCitizen.com
and JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizen.com

School officials are still sorting out their response to the incident at Whitewater High School on the first day of classes that sent a shiver down every parent’s spine.

Friday afternoon, Linda Wallace bade goodbye to a place she called home for 22 years.

The hundred-year-old home that served as the Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home for the past 42 years, has been relocated a couple blocks away.

For individuals or families that seem to have gotten crossways with life, there is hope and caring for them at the Real Life Center.

The 8th annual reunion of descendants of Eli and Drucilla Turner Quick, originally in Inman, is Sept. 9.

The event takes place at the New Salem Baptist Church in Griffin. It will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 2 p.m.