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Things to do-Oct.22-Dec.13
OctoberOctober 22Award-winning local author and customer favorite, Debby Giusti, will sign copies of “Holiday Defenders,” which includes her novella”Mission: Christmas Rescue,” today from 4...
PTC man honored at ISB gala as Influential Georgia Muslim
Zaheer Faruqi, a resident of Peachtree City, was one of 50 honorees recognized as an “Influential Georgia Muslims” at the first gala sponsored by...
Williams speaks to Rotarians
Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for the State of Georgia, Mark Williams, spoke at a recent Peachtree City Rotary Club luncheon.
Commissioner Williams...
Gold award for pet cemetery
Julie Bedson, a senior at McIntosh High School, earned the Girl Scout Gold Award for identifying, planning and completing the building of a pet...
EMC gives money to CERT
The EMC community outreach program, Operation Round Up, recently funded a grant donation of $1,079.85 to the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) for three...
Helping support a good cause
Instead of the typical neon yellow or white, Coweta-Fayette EMC linemen and outside employees are wearing bright pink hard hats in October to support...
Learning about nature
The Fayette-Starr’s Mill DAR daughters were entertained and educated with a program at the October meeting about “Forest Diversity at the Ridge Nature Area”....
Family fun
Braelinn Elementary Family Game Day was a huge success. The weather couldn’t have been better when family members came together to have fun and...
New facility
The Starr’s Mill high school cheerleaders helped with the ribbon cutting of the new athletic building at the south Fayette campus last week. Coaches...
Malcom to be inducted in military hall of fame
U.S. Army Col. (Retired) Ben Malcom will be inducted in the Georgia Military Veterans Hall of Fame for Valor on Nov. 1 in Columbus.
Col....
Downtown Fayetteville will be alive this weekend
Downtown Fayetteville will be the place to be this weekend with a series of Main Street events for the whole family.
At the Gazebo, residents...
Barrow named to Ga. Ebola Response Team
Fayette County School Superintendent and Ga. School Superintendent’s Association President Jody Barrow has been named by Gov. Nathan Deal to the Ga. Ebola Response...
Thrift Shop helps out charities
The Fayette Thrift Shop recently celebrated its 24th annual Volunteer Appreciation Brunch.
The shop is staffed by volunteers and is nonprofit with net proceeds benefiting...
Teams move on in volleyball playoffs
Five local teams are rolling into the round of 16 in the GHSA state volleyball playoffs after strong outings this week.
In AAAAA action, Starr’s...
Crowds turn out for annual F’ville Cemetery Spirit Walk
There was plenty of ghostly action at the Fayetteville Cemetery Oct. 17 and 18 for the 7th Annual Historic Cemetery Spirit Walk.
Sponsored by Main...
Tigers fall 35-7 at Woodward
The Fayette County Tigers (3-4, 1-1) fell behind on the game’s first play and trailed by 29 points before getting their first score in...
Two injured in Hwy. 74 collision
A motorcyclist and a pedestrian were life-flighted Oct. 15 after an Indiana man was struck while in the roadway on Ga. Highway 74 North...
Early voting is underway in Coweta
Early voting is underway in Coweta County. Voters can cast their ballots between now and Oct. 31 at the voter registrar’s office in downtown...
What’s up with the Court and gay marriage?
Every year, on the first Monday in October, the U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term. This year it began with a bang.The court...
McCollom is now officially top cop
Peachtree City Manager Jim Pennington at the Oct. 16 meeting of the Peachtree City Council announced that interim Police Chief Will McCollom has been...
Cart safety path check results in three citations
The Peachtree City Police Dept. conducted a cart path safety check in multiple locations on Oct. 15. With 233 citizens contacted, the Wednesday afternoon...
New park set for Senoia
A large number of Coweta County residents joined city and county officials Oct. 15 at a 49-acre site along Ga. Highway 16 in Senoia...
EEOC suing Newnan company
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing a New Jersey-based company that operates a plant in Newnan after an employee was allegedly...
Annexation is now official
The Chattahoochee Hills City Council on Oct. 7 agreed with the Coweta County Commission to have 179 acres off Shell Road annexed into the...
Breaking the rules
Yep, I know. After reading this story, the parents of school-age kids out there will be irritated at me for months simply because I...
Going home
It had been a long time—a very long time—since I had walked through the doors. Some things had been changed, added to, moved, or...
Patriots, Panthers win Thurs. games
While the New England Patriots and New York Jets were getting it on several hundred miles to the northeast, a couple of local teams...
Traffic alert issued for Saturday due to road race
The Peachtree City Police Department has issued a traffic alert for Oct. 18, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., in the area around the...
Ground broken for GMC campus in F’ville
Officials from Ga. Military College, Fayetteville and Fayette County threw the first shovels of dirt at the Oct. 16 groundbreaking for the new GMC...
No Ebola – 5 W. Africa kids cleared by Fayette schools in Aug.
With the Ebola virus making news worldwide, questions have surfaced in Fayette County about whether any of the children in the school system had...
Commission dulls some iffy tree-cutting options
The Fayette County Board of Commissioners voted at its Oct. 7 meeting to approve a timber harvesting ordinance that all agreed was only the...
PTC Council has light agenda for Oct. 16
The Oct. 16 meeting of the Peachtree City Council will be light, with only one new item and no old business on the agenda.
The...
Arsonist torches house with owner inside
Fayetteville Police have arrested a Stockbridge man in connection with a Fayetteville house fire that occurred Sept. 27.
Rico Jermaine Williams 30, was arrested on...
Fayette jail inmate dies while in custody
An inmate in the Fayette County Jail was found unresponsive in the facility’s infirmary on Oct. 13 and was transported to Piedmont Fayette Hospital...
