Daily Archives: May 12, 2015
Lady Panthers reach state soccer finals
The Starr's Mill Lady Panthers soccer team earned a chance to play for the AAAAA state championship with a 4-2 win over Greenbrier in...
Bradley in spotlight at UGA
Peachtree City native and McIntosh High alum Kristin Bradley, who received her doctorate of pharmacy degree May 8 from the University of Georgia, is...
Garden tour set for May 30
The Coweta County Master Gardener Extension Volunteers’ Garden Tour is scheduled for Saturday, May 30.
“Gardens in White Oak … A Walking Tour” has two...
Fayetteville awarded $1.5 million loan for stormwater upgrades
The city of Fayetteville was awarded a $1,465,000 Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) loan by the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) board of...
Web site highlights student-created toy train designs
Drafting and design students at McIntosh High have a great summer project for anyone who enjoys woodworking and model trains.
The students have just published...
McIntosh student wins Porsche Driving Force Award
What started as a Girl Scout Gold Award project for McIntosh High student Lauren Ladouceur has turned into a successful nonprofit organization that teaches...
Sandy Creek AFJROTC unit receives highest ranking
The U.S. Department of the Air Force has ranked the Air Force Junior ROTC unit at Sandy Creek High among the best in the...
McRae to speak Saturday
Author and tea enthusiast Angela McRae will be presenting a program on the evolution of tea in the South this weekend. It is scheduled...
Promise 360 Award winners
Piedmont Fayette Hospital recently hosted a luncheon to honor 12 employees who were named Promise 360 Award champions. The monthly award is given to...
Planning Commission has one open seat
The Fayette County Planning Commission is a body comprised of five members who are appointed to three-year terms. The Planning Commission hears and makes...
Post 105 honors MHS seniors
At this year’s McIntosh High School Senior Awards Ceremony, two graduating seniors were recognized by the Fayette County Post 105 of The American Legion...
Religion Briefs 05/13/15
Weekend yard sale planned
St. Gabriel Catholic Church and the St. Vincent de Paul Society will host a yard sale Friday, May 15 from 8...
Hopewell’s Chick-N-Que is this Saturday
The United Methodist Men at Hopewell United Methodist Church in Tyrone will hold their annual Chick-N-Que this Saturday, May 16, from 10:30 a.m. to...
Mt. Olive to host Career Fair Day
Mount Olive Baptist Church will host a “Career Fair Day” on Saturday, May 16 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at 1565 Ga. Highway...
New LDS bishop
Brad Pickard (above center), local builder and Peachtree City resident, has been called to serve as the new bishop of the Peachtree City ward...
PTCUMC schedules concert to celebrate new organ
Peachtree City United Methodist Church recently installed a brand new digital organ.
Designed and built by the Allen Organ Company, the organ is a Quantum...
Sharpsburg Baptist plans 24-hour prayer and praise vigil
Sharpsburg Baptist Church will be the site of a 24 Hour Prayer and Praise Vigil beginning Friday, May 22, at 6 p.m., continuing throughout...
PTCUMC offers ‘Road Rules’ camp June 1-5
Peachtree City United Methodist Church is offering a unique summer camp, June 1-5 called “Road Rules.”
Dubbed “It’s a summer camp so cool it can’t...
CCWW plans cookout, silent auction
The public is invited to join Christ’s Church at Whitewater in an Old Fashion Summer Cook-Out and silent auction on Sunday, June 7, following...
All Saints’ summer music camp coming up
All Saints Anglican Church will conduct its annual free Children’s Music Camp June 8-12.
The featured theme, “Hearing God’s Call,” will be evident in traditional...
Cokes chapel selected as Grow Day Camp site
Grow Day Camp is coming to Sharpsburg. Cokes Chapel United Methodist Church has been selected as a 2015 host site for Grow Day Camp....
All Saints Anglican to host Israel pilgrimage in October
All Saints Anglican Church will host a pilgrimage to Israel focused on the life and world of Jesus, Oct. 6-17.
The tour will be professionally...
Things to Do-May 21-May 30
May
May 21
The Paws for the Cause fundraiser is today at 8 p.m.Stop by the Crosstown Grille, in Peachtree City, for dinner and drinks, as...
What is next for Peachtree City, the planned community?
During the recent controversy about the Great Wolf Lodges water park venture into Peachtree City, public questions arose about the nature of the “plan”...
One man, redefining marriage
A recent profile of Justice Anthony Kennedy begins with this: “The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II...
High school reunions
This is not only the time of the year for graduations, but there are also high school reunions to be attended. I graduated in...
Those British elections
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — “Shocked,” “surprised,” “stunned” were some of the words used by broadcasters, columnists, political “experts” and pollsters when a Conservative Party...
Diversity — Where’s the benefit?
Occasionally, I wonder whether I’m alone in some of my wonderings. Look at the claim that conservatives or Republicans have launched a war on...
Georgia gets students moving forward
While you were distracted by this year’s transportation funding or Opportunity School District debates – or possibly ignoring the Legislature entirely – Gov. Nathan...
The Gulf oil spill: A drawn-out tempest in a teacup
The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was called catastrophic by many. President Obama declared, This oil spill is...
Ordinary consumers are paying for so-called Obamacare ‘savings’
Federal programs rarely come in under budget. Consider Medicare, which will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary. In 1967, lawmakers projected annual spending in the...
Southerners love their nicknames
For some reason, Southerners, more than any other region, love nicknames. It’s really a show of affection when we care enough to bestow a...
A day to honor our fallen service members
All are invited to observe Memorial Day at City Hall on May 25 at 9 a.m.
While we honor all of our nation’s fallen on...
Lawrence White McIntosh, 81, of Peachtree City
Lawrence White McIntosh, 81, of Peachtree City, Ga. was born August 3, 1934 in Hapeville, Ga. to the late Bobbie White McIntosh and Eddie...
