Monthly Archives: September 2016
Saudade set for Oct. 28 at Newnan Centre
Paulo Manso de Sousa met Courtenay Budd last March at the annual Friends of Wadsworth concert. Manso de Sousa is founding artistic director of...
Swope to speak Sept. 26 to Rotary
The Senoia Rotary Club will meet Monday, Sept. 26, at 6:30 p.m. Senoia Coffee and Café, 1 Main Street in Senoia, to hear Deacon...
Storytelling festival is Sept. 24
Storytellers from around the globe are ready to captivate Newnan audiences Saturday, Sept. 24, 4-6:30 p.m. at the College-Temple Storytelling Festival.
NCHS is coordinating this...
Rivers Alive Clean Up set for Oct. 1
Since 1999, Rivers Alive has been Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in the State including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches,...
CIS gets $36K donation from AT&T
AT&T announced its continuing support of Communities In Schools of Coweta County through a $36,000 contribution that is designed help sustain the activities of...
Notable students and grads
Two area residents have been selected for Samford University's Fellows honors program. Joshua C. Lundregan of Newnan is a freshman mathematics major and a...
Still 2,653 students unverified as residents
13% of all Fayette students from 1,658 households still haven’t brought residency proof to school
The Fayette County Board of Education on Sept. 19 was...
Barrow is finalist for Ga. Sup’t. of the Year
Fayette County School Superintendent Dr. Joseph Barrow is one of four finalists in the running to be named Georgia’s 2017 Superintendent of the Year.
The...
Olympian Taylor returns as ‘Burch Bear’
Special to The Citizen
Gold medalist Christian Taylor returned to where the spark for his track and field career first ignited to inspire students at...
Cities briefed on ‘Fayette Branding’
Fayette County Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Carlotta Ungaro on Sept. 15 updated the city councils in Fayetteville and Peachtree City on the...
What’s Fayetteville’s ‘brand’? Historical
‘Authenticity is hard to fake, but you’ve got it. ... build your downtown around it.’
The long-awaited market analysis for the downtown Fayetteville area was...
Row, row, row your dragon boat…
Lake Peachtree is the place to be Saturday for the International Festival and dragon boat races in Peachtree City. See Page C2 for more...
Bringing back the old days on the farm
When it comes to anything dealing with farming and days gone by, there is nothing like Inman Farm Heritage Days at Minter’s Farm south...
Shakerag Festival hosts hundreds this year
Homemade jams and jellies were just a sampling of the wares of more than 130 vendors supplying an overflowing variety of offerings for the...
Higher property assessments bring higher tax bills
Fayette property tax bills are in the mail
Tax bills are coming in for Fayette County property owners and many will be seeing higher bills...
Fayetteville carjacking suspect arrested, woman driver unhurt
An Atlanta man was charged with robbery by force on Sept. 14 after he pulled a woman from her vehicle in the parking lot...
Fayette eyes $19.5 million in SPLOST road projects
The list of potential transportation projects for the upcoming SPLOST referendum is one step closer to being finalized.
Having been approved Sept. 6 by the...
Sailing, in a scaled-down sort of way, on Lake McIntosh
It was smooth sailing on the waters of Lake McIntosh for the 2016 Peachtree Regatta held Sept. 17 and hosted by the Turtle Pond...
Senoia man charged in theft of car
The time period of Sept. 13-19 came with a stolen vehicle recovered in Peachtree City and the theft of a vehicle and an entering...
Newest HOF inductees a deserving group
Back when I traveled the NASCAR circuit on a regular basis, people would sometimes ask about my racing background.
I’d tell them that I started...
This week’s high school football update
East Coweta (3-1, 0-0) lost 18-12 to North Cobb and will host Arabia Mountain Friday night.
Northgate (4-0, 2-0) won 61-48 over Creekside and will...
Fun golf and a fat check
The Flat Creek Niners hosted 55 golfers for their recent tournament and raised $11,279.29 for the Ferst Foundation, an increase of $3,000 over last...
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Benefit dinner set for Oct. 1
Midwest Food Bank’s “Harvest of Blessings” dinner is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m. at The Studio Café at Pinewood, 461 Sandy...
Tennis benefit set for Sept. 24
People You Need to Know Magazine will host a round-robin doubles "Tennis for a Cause" event Saturday, Sept. 24, 6-9 p.m. at the Peachtree...
Flat Rock students swim with the sharks
Entrepreneurial students at Flat Rock Middle proved that they could swim with the sharks when they participated in their own version of “Shark Tank”...
4-H students recognized at competition
Fayette County 4-H members recently participated in district 4-H Forestry Field Day Competition with exceptional results.
The junior team (grades 4-8) of Owen Leonard, David...
Hands of Hope receives grant
The Heritage Community Foundation presented a $2,000 grant Sept. 13 to Hands of Hope Clinic executive director Mollie Cole.
The funds will be used to...
County seeks scarecrows for contest
The Fayette County Public Art Committee has announced its third annual Scarecrow Competition. Participants will construct their scarecrows Oct. 15-16 at the county administrative...
Infant loss support group to meet
Rachel's Gift partners with hospitals to assist parents through the initial stages of infant loss. They hold a meeting the fourth Thursday of the...
Support group helps dementia caregivers
Sixty Plus Dementia Caregiver Support Group will meet Thursday, Sept. 22, 1:30-3 p.m. at The Gathering Place in Peachtree City.
Designed to be both informational...
Learn to preserve family recipes
“Preserving Family Recipes” is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 18, 1-2 p.m. at Fayette Senior Services’ Fayetteville location (The Life Enrichment Center, 4 Center Drive).
From...
School system job fair Sept. 24
While teachers and students are back in the classroom with the new school year in full swing, work is being done to fill open...
CCF to provide $4,500 in school grants
The Coweta Community Foundation has announced that it has begun accepting applications for its Coweta County Schools Classroom Educational Grants and will do so...
