An application for a new traffic light on Ga. Highway 54 West will be considered again by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night.

A plan to build 80 homes on 37 acres that are currently part of the Peachtree City industrial park was unveiled Monday night.

The Fayette County Association of Educators (FCAE) met last week so that school system employees could pose questions and get answers from legislators on the state’s position on impending education cuts.

A house fire Monday afternoon outside Fayetteville left no injuries but did cause extensive damage to the residence at 120 Smokemont Drive near Banks Road.

It will not be long before homeowners in Fayette and across Georgia find out the intentions of legislators dealing with the tax relief credit based on the homestead exemption that Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to withhold from county coffers.

Goal: to weed out ‘boarding houses’ and other improper residential uses

Fayette County may soon become the first county in Georgia to regulate personal care homes.

Donations sought to help family, which lost everything in blaze

A woman and three children safely escaped a house fire late Wednesday morning in downtown Fayetteville immediately adjacent to Allan Vigil Ford, officials said.

Donations are being sought to help the family which consists of one mother and eight children, ranging in age from 3 months old to 17 years old. The family lost everything in the fire, said the mother, Eronna Porter.

Employees are the Fayette County School System’s most valuable and important resource. In order to serve students in the best possible way, the system works hard to attract the most highly qualified, innovative and dedicated teachers and staff.

Planning is now underway for the 5th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Holiday Parade in Fayette County.

The Fayette County Branch of the NAACP is spearheading the plans to hold the 5th Annual Parade in celebration of Dr. King’s Birthday Holiday and would like to invite all community, civic, church, and other sponsored organizations to participate in the parade.

1 dealer brought 3 small children, left them in car during deal

Two men were arrested by undercover drug agents for selling crack cocaine at two different convenience stores Tuesday in Fayette County, officials said.

The Fayette County Commission is turning down a request to issue a new round of tax bills to cover a potential $3.5 million shortfall for the public school system created by a hold placed on the funds by Gov. Sonny Perdue.

It looked to be a case of attempted shoplifting. But it came with a twist. Two Florida men are in custody after exiting Best Buy at Fayette Pavilion Tuesday and being stopped by sheriff’s deputies on Ga. Highway 314 in a mini-van loaded with stolen merchandise.

A woman and her three children safely escaped a house fire late this morning in downtown Fayetteville immediately adjacent to Allan Vigil Ford, officials said.

Despite heavy winds that added to the danger of the fire, firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading to a nearby home to the east, said Fayetteville Fire Lt. Bill Rieck.

The mother did not remember where the fire was first started, as she panicked about getting the children out of the home, Rieck said. An investigation into the fire is underway and it was noted there were several space heaters inside the home though that is not an indication one of them somehow started the fire, Rieck indicated.

Send out new, higher property tax bills, says Fayette County School Superintendent John DeCotis.

DeCotis is asking the Fayette County Commission to take the unprecedented step of re-billing taxpayers to make up an expected shortfall caused by a tax relief measure now in limbo until the Georgia General Assembly acts.

The pressure is on. The Fayette County Board of Education met Monday to continue the cost-cutting conversation that has been going on for months, including a request for a voluntary teacher give-back of promised raises.

A College Park woman was arrested the morning of Dec. 29 after deputies said she ran over her husband with her car in the parking lot of New Hope Baptist Church, a sheriff’s official said.

Fayetteville has a new executive director of its Main Street Program: Brian Wismer.

He replaces Nancy Price, who became director of the Fredrick Brown Amphitheater in Peachtree City last fall.

A former employee at Hoffman Tire on North Glynn Street in Fayetteville was caught red-handed by Lt. David Webb early Monday morning as he stole tires after gaining entry to the building and disarming the alarm, according to police.

Two Fayetteville teenagers were injured early Monday morning after the driver lost control of the vehicle on Ga. Highway 92. The car was airborne before crashing into nearby trees and coming to rest on the shoulder. Neither occupant sustained life-threatening injuries.

It must have been a good night for celebrating New Year’s Eve, and for staying in place after the celebrating was done. A holiday roadcheck in Tyrone and Peachtree City amid frigid temperatures resulted in few traffic violations.

An arrest has been made stemming from the Nov. 14 incident at Honey Hair, Skin and Body salon in Fayetteville where a woman claimed she was sexually assaulted by the masseur.

The judge in the out-of-court settlement of a $4 million class-action lawsuit over illnesses to north Fayette and south Fulton residents caused by emissions at the Phillips Services Corp. (PSC) waste treatment plant in mid-2006 has extended the deadline for those residents to file claims. The new deadline is Jan. 30. Hundreds of area residents reported illnesses from the exposure.

This year has been one for the record books, Fayetteville City Manager Joe Morton said during a year-in-review interview — the bad record books.

A north Fayette teen was found delinquent last month on charges that he participated in a street gang called “Sur 13,” according to Fayette County Juvenile Court records.

UNINCORPORATED FAYETTE COUNTY

The housing sectors’ woes have hit Fayette County, with new residential construction in the areas outside cities down 61 percent from a year ago.

Get ready for more stop lights on your commute.

In the next 18 months Fayette County roads will be getting four new traffic signals to help improve the flow of vehicles, county officials said.

It was not that long ago that Fayette Counseling Center was faced with financial obstacles that made its continued existence problematic.

Three adults and a juvenile from Jonesboro were arrested for shoplifting Dec. 27 after one of the adults snatched a camera at the Kohl’s store at Fayette Pavilion.

The Agape Faith Center of Hope in Fayetteville, will be conducting the 2009 Homeless Count of Fayette County in January.

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a time of anticipation, excitement, confusion and anxiety for students of all backgrounds and abilities. These emotions are often amplified for families of students with disabilities.