Peachtree City faces steep decline; thus, city council must study annexing into eastern Coweta to build new city center, high-tech corridor, says Dar Thompson, PTC business owner and former mayoral candidate — Click here for full video interview. To prevent an increasingly rapid decline in Peachtree City’s growth prospects, the city must look west to […]
Ognio prevails; Oddo calls it ethics issue; Maxwell, Rousseau go along; Brown vehemently objects to “tyranny” A March 22 motion by Commissioner Randy Ognio that Fayette County commissioners not post county employee personnel file information on commission agendas or on a website was approved on a 4-1 vote. Commissioner Steve Brown was opposed. Making the […]
To be contested: 3rd District U.S. House, Fayette Commission, both school boards, 2 state Senate seats, 2 House posts Fayette and Coweta counties saw a flurry of qualifiers for the May 22 primaries and the Nov. 6 general election. Qualifying ended March 9, with numerous contested races in both counties. In Fayette, the District 3 […]
Retired U.S. Army Col. Edward “Edge” Gibbons (photo above) during public comments at the Feb. 15 meeting of the Peachtree City Council announced his run for the District 3 seat on the Fayette County Commission as a Republican. Current District 3 Commissioner Steve Brown is in his second four-year term and has indicated on several […]
Calls for County Administrator Rapson’s resignation; Vice Chairman Ognio says Brown broke law in accessing disciplinary file of 9-1-1 director During an extraordinary called meeting Wednesday at 1 p.m., Fayette County Commission Vice Chairman Randy Ognio and Commissioner Steve Brown shouted at each other several times during an acrimonious one-hour session with one agenda item: […]
Long-time Fayette County resident Rose Marie Harper (center) was honored Jan. 11 by the Fayette County Commission for her service to the county. Commissioners noted her tireless work on behalf of citizens, her service 40 years ago as the county’s first elected Republican and first female county commissioner, and her work, along with her husband, […]
A Dec. 7 field trip by 160 third graders from Newnan Crossing Elementary School, and their teachers, took them to the state Capitol. Riding with the kids to their destination was District 28 Sen. Matt Brass (R-Newnan). “Senator Brass showed our students what it means to be a caring and thoughtful legislator,” said 3rd grade […]
Madden swamps former Mayor Logsdon for Post 3 seat on City Council In a tale of two mayors, Peachtree City voters Tuesday decided they liked one — incumbent Vanessa Fleisch — but not the other — former Mayor Harold Logsdon. The resounding result: Fleisch gets a second term, and Logsdon fails to make a local […]
FINAL VOTE TOTALS 8:55 p.m., Dec. 5 — With all 12 city precincts counted, incumbent Mayor Vanessa Fleisch has won another 4-year term. The city’s first female mayor beat former Councilman Eric Imker 56 percent to 44 percent, with a spread of 513 votes. Fleisch had 2,360 votes, and Imker received 1,847 votes. Aviation executive […]
CORRECTION UPDATE — Peachtree City voters have their last chance to cast a ballot this Tuesday in the runoff election for mayor and City Council Post 3, both four-year terms. Above, clockwise from top left, Mayor Vanessa Fleisch, former Councilman Eric Imker, former Mayor Harold Logsdon and aviation company executive Kevin Madden. Photos/Submitted. Vying for […]
