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Undefeated Majestics win cup
The Majestics of the Peachtree City Lazers finished the Fall 2014 season with a perfect 10-0 record.
This past weekend they capped off their undefeated...
SMHS wins first-ever state championship
The Starr’s Mill Panthers earned their first-ever state championship in cheerleading last weekend at the Columbus Civic Center, while two other Fayette schools finished...
SCHS moves up in playoffs
Last Friday was the busiest mid-November night in years for high school football in Fayette County, with four teams reaching the first round of...
High School Calendar
Wednesday, Nov. 19
Basketball: Fayette County at Norcross (girls).
Thursday, Nov. 20
Basketball: Fayette County at Norcross (girls).
Wrestling: Central-Carrollton, Locust Grove and Northgate at Whitewater.
Friday, Nov. 21
Football:...
Whitewater grad now airman
Air Force Airman Jeremy K. Barber graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in...
Nonprofit leader speaks to rotary, focused on families
Helene Prokesch from the National Lekotek Center spoke recently at the Rotary Club of Peachtree City.
Lekotek is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides an array of...
SMHS grad voted GT’s new president
Dillon Roseen, son of Erik and Lynne Roseen, a 2011 Starrs Mill High School graduate, was elected the Georgia Institute of Technology student body...
CAP’s wreaths of honor
For nine Decembers, Civil Air Patrol (CAP) members nationwide have shown their appreciation to our nation’s veterans by adorning memorials and veterans’ graves with...
Play performance will aid Promise Place
The McIntosh High School drama department will be performing an encore of the one-act play “Five Kinds of Silence” tonight (Nov. 19) at 7...
‘I’m with Stupid’
Chip Bok editorial cartoon. Nov. 17, 2014. Copyright 2014 by Creators.com.
‘You can fool some of the people all of the time’*
Editorial cartoon for Nov. 12, 2014 by Glenn McCoy. Copyright 2014 by Universal Uclick.
Brooks UMC to host holiday festival November 22
Brooks UMC will host a Holiday Festival Saturday, Nov. 22, from 11:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.
The event will feature ten “alternative giving” booths with...
Man in critical condition after beating
An incident at a central Fayette County residence shortly after midnight Nov. 14 resulted in a man being left in critical condition after he...
Patriots advance to second round of state playoffs
It was the busiest mid-November night in years for high school football in Fayette County, with four teams reaching the first round of the...
State football playoffs begin next weekend
Playoff action has already begun in all of the higher classifications and the field for the Class A state football playoffs will start next...
High honors, class and field
After being named to the Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference Team last week, redshirt-sophomore Danielle Gray of the Kennesaw State soccer team collected another academic...
Nov. roundup
Friday, Nov. 14
Football: First round of state playoffs.
Basketball: Fayette County at Mundy’s Mill; Mt. Vernon at Landmark (girls); Hapeville Charter at Sandy Creek (girls).
Saturday,...
Exploring the solar system
Students of Legacy Preparatory Academy (LPA) in Sharpsburg spent the month of October creating models of the solar system.
They presented their creations to teachers...
Free flu shots for families
Free flu shots are available for qualifying uninsured and low-income residents of Fayette, Coweta and South Fulton counties. Please call 770-681-0157 to reach the...
Fine or F.I.N.E.?
A few years ago, a clergy friend gave me a phone call. I answered and said, “Hello?”
He said, “Hey, Father David, it’s Kurt....
Christmas with choir
Griffin Choral Arts Presents “Follow That Star.”
“Follow That Star” will be presented on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at Griffin First Baptist Church,...
Crowned Cherokee Rose
On Oct. 5, Elizabeth Buckalew, an SMHS graduate, was crowned Miss Cherokee Rose, a preliminary in the Miss America system.
She will compete for the...
Gift of a meal
Meals on Wheels of Coweta, a not-for-profit organization that helps older adults who depend on home delivered meals, is accepting donations for elderly adults...
Swags for sale
Santa’s elves disguised as Coweta County Master Gardener Extension Volunteers (MGEVs) and 4-H Club members are busily creating holiday greenery for the annual Wreath...
Blue Angels headed to air show in 2015
Captain Jeff Kuss and Captain Corrie Mays get down from the F/A-18 they landed at Falcon Field Wednesday, Nov. 12. Kuss and Mays, representing...
Sullivan sings to No. 2 spot
Clayton State University (CSU) senior Christina Sullivan placed second in the Upper Division Adult Women (requirements are ages 26 or above with four or...
New hotel gets tabled by commission
A public hearing on a rezoning proposal that would locate a 62,000 sq. ft. Marriott Residence Inn in the largely vacant Kedron Office Park...
Bunny slippers return
This story was going to be entitled “True Confessions of a Retired Firefighter,” but that title was too long for the paper. Unbelievable as...
‘Prelude to a Kiss’ at NTC
“Prelude to a Kiss,” a 1988 play by Craig Lucas, tells the story of a young bride and groom that experience a supernatural event at...
Palmetto man is arrested in convenience store robbery
A Palmetto man has been charged with the Nov. 9 armed robbery of a convenience store on U.S. Highway 29 in north Coweta County.
Sean...
Police warn about pine straw scam
Need pine straw in your yard? Be careful who you hire to provide it. The Peachtree City Police Department is advising that residents be...
Police gearing up for holiday toy drive
The Peachtree City Police Department is about to kickoff the 2014 “Light up the Night” toy drive with a drop-of location at the Walmart...
City’s holiday celebration is set for Dec. 6
Mark your calendars for Saturday, December 6, for an evening of winter holiday fun. Peachtree City’s annual Hometown Holiday will kick off at...
Site work continues at new shopping center
Motorists traveling along Ga. Highway 54 between Peachtree City and Fischer Road in east Coweta County have doubtless noticed congestion in the past several...
