Now that the list has been

whittled down to three candidates, the Peachtree City Airport Authority

may vote next month on a new airport manager for Falcon Field.

Chairwoman Cathy Nelmes said

she hopes to have a vote on the matter at the authority's regular

meeting Wednesday, March 10.

"They're all strong

candidates," Nelmes said.

Nelmes also said the authority

has received numerous positive remarks about the work of Drew Bolton,

who has served as interim manager since the negotiated resignation of

former airport manager Jim Savage. Bolton, who has served as the airport's

assistant manager, did not make the cut of the final three candidates,

but he did make the authority's top six list, Nelmes noted.

The final three candidates

identified by the authority are:

- Tim E. Whitman of Lawrenceville,

an airport consultant who has previously served as regional director for

American Airports Corporation.

- Robert Stapleton of

Griffin, manager of the Griffin-Spalding Airport.

- John W. Crosby of Blue

Ridge, former aviation director for Concord, N.C., who previously served

as assistant airport director of DeKalb Peachtree Airport in Atlanta.