Among recent arrests across Fayette County are various suspects who attempted to cover up their wrongdoing by pretending to be other people.
According to a police report, officers responded the afternoon of March 28 to an establishment in Peachtree City in reference to a suspicious female on the premises. During her encounter with police, she gave a false name and...
Yet another major drug offender found himself in custody in Fayette County on multiple felony charges simply because of the tint on his windshield.
Officials with the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said that was the reason for a routine traffic stop April 1 shortly before 10 a.m. at the intersection of southbound Hwy. 279 and Hwy. 138. Deputies found an...
Dorothy Mae “Dot” Ensley, business woman and dedicated member of the community, passed away on March 30, 2024, in Stockbridge, Georgia.
She was born on October 16, 1932, in Albertville, Alabama. Dot lived a remarkable life that spanned 91 years.
Dot was a woman of great ambition and creativity, known for her entrepreneurial spirit. While raising a family, she attended night...
Flash Jeopardy: Eclipse Edition
—Floy Farr Room
Tuesday, April 2nd @ 3:00pm, Wednesday, April 3rd @ 11:00am,
Thursday, April 4th @ 5:30pm, Friday, April 5th @ 3:00pm, &
Saturday, April 6th @ 2:00pm
How much do you know about eclipses? Join Peachtree City Library for a 30-minute Jeopardy-like trivia session. Same questions each day. Registration required. Please see important information regarding registration on Eventbrite. Register at https://ptclibrary.eventbrite.com
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The morning car rider line at Robert J. Burch Elementary was divine as members of the Divine 9 Fraternities and Sororities greeted the young Bears.
The Divine 9 represents five fraternities and four sororities which were originally established in Historically Black Colleges and Universities to combat racial inequities for African American scholars. Each organization has a common goal of educating, uplifting, and serving...
Whitewater High junior Destiny Cameron recently graduated from the Model Atlanta Regional Commission (MARC) youth leadership program along with 48 other high school students from across the region.
MARC is a program of the Atlanta Regional Commission that engages students in experiential learning about the region’s most pressing issues. MARC students explored real-world issues such as housing affordability, responsible water...
A total of 16 students representing each of Fayette’s public high schools have been selected to attend the 2024 Governor’s Honors Program (GHP) on the campus of Georgia Southern University June 16-July 13.
Representing Fayette County High is Alyssa Reed (Biology/Environmental Science).
Representing McIntosh are Arya Avya (Chemistry), Stella Christensen (Visual Arts), Sophia Farinacci (Spanish), Alejandro Gomez (Communicative Arts), Krish Sarin...
PEACHTREE CITY RUNNING CLUB holds its monthly meetings on the 1st Monday of every month (except July and December), at 7:30 p.m. at the Peachtree City Hotel and Conference Center (formerly known as the Wyndham). To confirm meeting location and for more information, go to ptcrc.com.
What happens in the minds of elected officials that they get so brazen as to want to silence anyone presenting an opposing view?
The agenda for the April 4 City Council meeting has been released and Peachtree City Mayor Kim Learnard is lowering the boom, again (see: https://peachtreecityga.portal.civicclerk.com/event/125/files/agenda/2912). More censorship and meeting violations are on the way.
Learnard will now be...
Assorted traffic stops in Fayette County during the past week for routine violations led to a trio felony drug arrests, apprehension of a man wanted elsewhere and one guy who just hasn’t bothered to get a driver’s license.
A spokesman for the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office stated that a car seen on the road without a license plate led deputies...
A woman recently in the business of selling narcotics saw her enterprise shut down by Fayetteville police late recently.
According to a Fayetteville Police Department spokesman, an officer doing routine business checks around midnight March 23 saw a vehicle sitting in a parking lot for an extended period of time. The officer noticed suspicious activity but no one entered or...
When you’ve done most of the things you want to do in life, sometimes it’s time to hit the reset button and try something new. Despite the concern from our employees, we’ve decided to launch a new hot sauce! Yes, you read that correctly.
I can’t think of a better way to spice things up than with homemade hot sauce....
By Dave Williams | Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA — Controversial legislation prohibiting the prescribing or administering of puberty blockers to minors experiencing gender dysphoria died in the General Assembly on the final day of this year’s session when the Georgia House declined to take it up.
The state Senate passed the Republican-backed bill 32-19 Thursday, voting along party lines. But...
By Dave Williams | Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA – Tax cuts, private-school vouchers, and health-care reform topped the list of accomplishments for the 2024 General Assembly session, which wrapped up just before 1 a.m. Friday following a frenetic marathon of nearly 15 hours.
Vouchers and reforms to Georgia’s Certificate of Need (CON) law came after years of unsuccessful efforts by...
Today is Easter Sunday. It is a glorious day. All our churches are spectacularly decorated and full of worshippers. All our music is exhilarating. People look great. All our offerings will probably be the most of any one Sunday. All preaching is inspired. Hallelujahs ring out everywhere. And the chant is repeated over and over again, “He is risen....
Fayetteville Police diligently continue their search for 19-year-old Adrian Jelks, a Walmart employee, who is now wanted for murder and aggravated assault in connection with the Friday shooting incident inside the Walmart store entryway.
Police said 19-year-old Antavius Holton of Riverdale, GA, succumbed to injuries received as a result of the shooting. A stray bullet incidentally struck a 9-year-old female...
Nell Howell, 81, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 28, 2024, at home with family by her bedside.
Nell was born on Thursday, May 7, 1942, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. She was the third child of the seven children of her parents, James Perry and Opa Reta Atkins.
In 1959, Nell met her future husband at...
Fayette County residents were reminded again this week to be aware of unfamiliar animals around them after the most recent rabies case in the county was reported.
Animal control officials received a call shortly before noon March 22 about an aggressive cat who had bitten someone. The animal was located behind the Kroger on Crosstown Drive in Peachtree City near...
By DISTRICT ATTORNEY MARIE BRODER
Prosecutors engage in the acts of mercy on a regular basis. So we are clear, I mean mercy in the sense that you show compassion or forgiveness towards someone that is within your power to punish.
The decision to pursue criminal charges against someone is an enormous responsibility. While a judge has ultimate control over the...
In the modest, country home where I grew up, prejudices were not allowed.
Though there was a serious bias against what Daddy called “no accounts,” men who laid up drunk and didn’t feed their families.
So, Daddy had a list, always, of about four or five women, with squalling kids and electric company cut-off notices, that he called weekly to make...
The City Council of Peachtree City has appointed Justin Strickland as the interim city manager during a special called council meeting held on Thursday morning.
Strickland, currently serving as the assistant city manager, emphasized continuity in city operations after the vote, while also expressing gratitude to outgoing City Manager Bob Curnow for his leadership.
“We embraced uncompromised excellence during Bob’s tenure,”...
Dorothy Virginia Cates Cash, 81, of Ball Ground, Georgia passed away on March 24, 2024 (Palm Sunday) at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas after a brief battle with a rare cancer.
Virginia was born in Jonesboro, Ga on June 28, 1942. It was in Jonesboro where she grew up and met the love of her life, Billy Cash,...
With over 6,570 days until that new baby turns eighteen, you never really know what one thing during that time will shape their personality — and the one they’ll remember forever.
Such an event happened last weekend when our two granddaughters, Little One and Sweet Caroline, went on our first hike of this year. But even though what we saw...
When I was sitting in a service a couple of Fridays ago, I began to look around at the bishops gathered there. We were consecrating a bishop to take the place of a retiring bishop. It struck me that, when the bishop of the Diocese of the West retires in May, I will be the third oldest active bishop...
Once dependent on grants from Fayette’s local governments, the county’s Development Authority has its own money now, and it’s giving big bucks to all the municipalities, the county commission and the school system “to serve as the catalyst for transformative projects that contribute to the economic vitality of Fayette County,” the FCDA said in a news release.
Here’s who’s getting...
In June of last year, physicians in Ecuador declared Bella Montoya dead, but as family members gathered for her wake, she suddenly showed signs of life as she rested in her coffin.
Four months earlier, workers at a Long Island nursing home pronounced an 82-year-old woman dead, but three hours later, funeral home staff discovered she was still alive and...
FOSTER CARE INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS are held every Thursday at 10 a.m. at Bloom Our Youth, 150 Marquis Dr., Fayetteville. Get your foster parenting questions answered at this free, no-commitment, casual, meeting. Speak directly with Bloom associates about the requirements and journey to becoming a Bloom foster family.
For more information, contact Shannon Hoy at s.hoy@bloomouryouth.org or call 770-461-7020.
Mrs. Evelyn Bailey Farr, 90, passed away Sunday morning, March 24, 2024.
She was a teacher for thirty-three years in the Fayette County system, beginning as a substitute teacher, then working as a para-pro at Hood Avenue Elementary School.
Later she attended Clayton State College and West Georgia University and earned her bachelor, masters, and T-6 degrees in teaching and applied...
By CATHY VAUGHT
Fayetteville citizens who wanted to maintain their quality of life stepped up and achieved a major victory last Thursday on March 21.
They hype and controversy of the last three months surrounding a proposal to build Avila Fayetteville, a 254 (down from the original 265) horizontal cottage-style apartment complex on 30 acres of land at the intersection of...
Peachtree City Elementary enjoyed an epic experience when a paleontologist gave a presentation on fossils and organisms.
Rick Spears with the Fernbank Science Center wowed the 3rd grade with a talk about how fossils are formed while highlighting the various roles of paleontologists. Students learned how paleontologists study fossils to learn about the environments and animals of the past. Each student...
A pair of local students were victorious at the 2024 Young Georgia Authors regional writing competition.
Bella Grimmage of Peeples Elementary won for 1st grade, and Hailey Frame of Inman Elementary won for 5th grade.
Winning entries advance to the state-level competition this May.
The contest, sponsored by the Georgia Language Arts Supervisors and the Georgia RESA Network with support from the...
A support group for men with prostate cancer and their families meets the fourth Tuesday of each month. The group, which is intended to share information and enhance prostate cancer understanding, meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Thomas F. Chapman Family Cancer Wellness Center at Piedmont Fayette Hospital.
Call 770.632.2898 for more information.
This Thursday, March 28th the Starr’s Mill High School soccer teams will face off versus McIntosh in the annual Battle For The Troops. The game will be at Starr's Mill High School.
This game will showcase the crosstown rivalry between two soccer powerhouses while also raising money for the American Legion. Our local posts — Post 50 and Post 105...
Five years ago, I was invited to give a presentation to a group of entrepreneurs and small business leaders in a program series entitled "Meeting of the Minds." The host of the program, local entrepreneur Annie Singh-Quern, told me that I could talk about anything. I surveyed the previous presentations, and they were all excellent, but most focused on...
