Rinnai plans a $69 million manufacturing facility in Griffin Fayette gets Rinnai’s new headquarters expansion, as announced last week, but neighboring Spalding County will get up to 300 jobs over 10 years and a new tankless water heater manufacturing facility in the Griffin business park. “Rinnai America Corporation plans to build its first North American […]
New intersection coming at Kenwood Road It will take a while, but Ga. Highway 85 just inside Clayton County will be widened to six lanes. In Fayette County, the project will replace the bridge over Camp Creek and install a new intersection at Kenwood Road. Planned for sometime around 2022, Hwy. 85 will go from […]
Visitors from 13 states travelled to Peachtree City on March 10 for an American Cornhole Organization major tournament. Now in its third year in the city, nearly 500 ACO participants, friends and family members arrived at the tennis center for the two-day event. ACO founder and president Frank Geers said the group was glad […]
Georgia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol Glider Operations was training in Warms Springs Roosevelt Airport Saturday. Lt. Col. David Mitchell, Glider Operations Director said, “Great job by volunteers at Warm Springs Saturday with new and recurrent qualifications for Cadet Orientation Glider Pilots and Tow Pilots. Of special note is the completion of Major […]
If you’re like most people who live or work on the south side of metro Atlanta, you have heard of Christian City. Some know about the 52-year-old nonprofit’s mission to care for abused and abandoned children, while others know Christian City as a faith-based senior living community. To celebrate newly completed renovations to the Assisted […]
UPDATED FORECAST, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, 8:30 a.m. — There’s a winter storm warning for Fayette and Coweta counties and most of north-central Georgia beginning at 4 p.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City. The NWS is predicting from 2 to 4 inches of snowfall beginning Friday evening, with […]
James (Jim) Lloyd Chaille, Jr., of Georgetown, Texas, passed away on December 23, 2016 in Round Rock, Texas. He was born December 30, 1930 in Miami, Florida to James Lloyd and Martha Evans Chaille. He was married to Doris Reagin on December l6, 1951 in Macon, Georgia. James attended the Georgia Institute of Technology where […]
Mr. William Eddie Burnette, of Brooks, passed away Monday, December 19, 2016. He was preceded in death by his parents, Bill and Pearl Burnette; son, Karl Burnette and is survived by his wife of 56 years, Hazel Burnette; children, Connie Brown and her husband, Tommy of Newnan, Phillip Burnette and his wife, Mona Lisa of […]
Kathleen May Rutlind, 79, of Rex, Ga., passed away December 11, 2016. She was born in Atlanta, Ga. on August 10, 1937 to the late Marvin and Ruby West. She was raised in Fayette County and graduated from Fayette County High School in 1955. She was Past Grand Royal Matron Order of the Amaranth […]
Col. Vernon Olin Darley, 91, of Morrow, passed away December 11, 2016. He was born on May 29, 1925 in Harlem, Ga. to Ellis and Evelyn Darley. He proudly served his country in the United States Air Force during the Korean Conflict. He continued his service in the United States Air Force Reserves for […]
