The Chiefettes are back on top. The McIntosh High squad repeated as the GHSA Class 5A-6A state dance champions. They also won both the jazz and pom categories.
“It honestly feels surreal to win state again! That was our goal going into the season, but we had to fight for it; nothing was a given,” said coach Carmen Yarbrough. “Knowing what...
Whitewater High Vex Robotics is headed to international competition.
The team of Owen Gutierrez, Colby Shaffer, Tyler Klinger, and Schoch Weaver went 8-2 at the VEX Robotics State Championship, reaching the quarterfinals before being eliminated. Their effort qualifies them to compete in the 2024 VEX Robotics World Championship.
This makes three-straight years the Wildcats have qualified for the world championship. They will travel...
A fire destroyed a Fayetteville home over the weekend and made national news due to the fame of one of its occupants.
Farah Brown is the owner of the house on Mountain Laurel Way that burned Feb. 18. She is known professionally as Cocoa Brown, and comedian and actress with more than 60 television and film credits according to IMDb.
She...
Peachtree City has been recognized again as a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists for 2023-2027, rejoining 480 other cities in the United States and 11 other Georgia communities with this status.
This is the third renewal at the Bronze level, starting first with 2014 and repeating in 2019.
The rigorous application process: now a 92-page equivalent survey...
Last week I mentioned that Georgia had 159 county public school systems. There are also twenty city systems and over 40 charter schools. We have two nearby, Liberty Charter in Brooks and Coweta Charter School.
While the county and city-based systems are sustained by a combination of local property taxes, state educational funding, and federal money, charter schools depend mostly...
The state basketball playoffs will be filled with Fayette teams after 8 squads punched a postseason ticket, including four region champions.
In Class 3A, the defending state champion Sandy Creek boys won the region for the seventh-straight season. They enter the playoffs as a 1 seed and host Stephens County in round one of the state playoffs.
The Lady Patriots are...
Members and Fellow Republicans, don't miss the precinct caucus this coming Saturday.
I want to invite you to the Fayette County GOP Precinct Caucus to be held at the beautiful Flat Creek Country Club in Peachtree City, Saturday, February 23. Doors open at 9 a.m. for check in and close promptly at 10 a.m.
What is a precinct caucus?
ALL Fayette County...
The Fayette County Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has announced an entrepreneurial workshop set for April 20, 2024 from 12-4 p.m., at the Fayette County Library.
This event is an opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs and business enthusiasts to gain invaluable insights and forge meaningful connections.
The workshop is designed to be a powerhouse of...
Fayette County and Ripple Glass have announced a new glass recycling opportunity at the Transfer Station.
The Ripple Glass recycling program provides residents with the opportunity to drop off their glass for convenient and sustainable recycling.
Residents who desire to recycle glass can drop off their glass containers at the Transfer Station located at 211 First Manassas Mile Road. We do...
— Commissioner Eric Maxwell: Keep Fayette County moving forward —
I am announcing my campaign for Re-Election to the Fayette County Board of Commissioners, Post 1. Post 1 essentially covers the middle of Fayette County. It basically runs from southern Tyrone to northern Peachtree City to western Fayetteville. The district covers the Fayette County Hospital area as well as the...
In a rematch of the 2017 State Championship game, the #8 ranked McIntosh Chiefs began their season with an impressive 2-0 victory over Clarkston high school, thanks to standout performances from several key players.
Junior Adan Dollans and Senior Captain Gabe Mawanda were the motor offensively for the Chiefs creating problems for the Angoras (Clarkston Mascot) midfield. Early and often...
Piedmont Fayette Hospital is a registered Safe Sitter teaching site, offering a comprehensive babysitting training program for young teens (ages 11 and up). Nationally, over 600,000 graduates have completed the course and are able to stay home alone safely and handle emergencies when caring for younger children.
The next Safe Sitter course will be offered on Saturday, March 16 from...
Recently, my company had the pleasure of speaking about marketing at the third annual Coweta County Nonprofit Summit. After the presentation, one of the attendees approached me to ask some questions. She was a volunteer board member attending the conference to get information for her nonprofit but told me that her “real job” was operating a small business in...
OPINION — After watching Peachtree City’s February 6 workshop meeting and last week’s testimony regarding Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, it is bewildering how assertive the people abusing the system can be, acting outside the rules, and showing no remorse when caught.
I was hoping that Mayor Kim Learnard would offer some form of apology at the February 15...
A press conference. You know the drill.
The room is filled with “the press,” reporters wanting to know the facts and anxious to ask questions. The speaker comes to the microphone. The President, an athlete or a coach, a governor or mayor or law enforcement officer, whoever is in the know makes an opening statement. The statement lays out the...
by Dave Williams | Feb 16, 2024 | Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA – Georgia legislative leaders’ pledge to rein in some of the state’s generous tax breaks to industry is starting with the most expensive on the books: the film tax credit.
A bill introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives earlier this month would require film production companies to...
The I58 Mission, at 2450 Highway 85 in Senoia, will open their doors to the public to offer a look at the work that goes on behind the scenes at the mission on Sunday, March 10, 2024, from 2:00pm – 4:00pm.
The Open House event requires no registration or sign-up. Interested individuals are encouraged to simply visit the I-58 Mission...
The Fayette Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated Sporting Clays Tournament, scheduled to take place on March 15, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Registration starts at 8:30 AM. The event will be held at the iconic Cherokee Rose Sporting Clays & Helice located at 895 Baptist Camp Road, Griffin, GA 30223. Sporting Clays...
(Editor’s note: Some words are not misspelled but authentic Appalachian words such as “heared.”)
Tink enjoys looking out a window to see me meandering through the yard, talking to imaginary people.
Usually, I’m working out a story but, not infrequently, I’m talking to someone special.
Recently, I was out in the yard, picking up limbs from River Birch trees which prune themselves,...
It is never a good idea to park one’s car on railroad tracks. In one particular case, it was a telltale sign of a different problem that led to the driver’s arrest.
According to a Peachtree City Police Department report, an officer arrived on the evening of Feb. 12 at a railroad crossing near Hwy. 74 and Kedron Drive and...
I was a kid when what was known as the “space race” between the United States and the Soviet Union began. Rockets were built, satellites were launched, dogs and monkeys went into orbit, all with the idea of eventually landing a man on the moon ... and to gain an advantage over the other nation.
Lots of youngsters, including myself,...
If you are a regular reader of this column, you know that a long, long time ago, on a street not so far away, there lived a typical family of seven for the time: a mom, a dad, four brothers, and one annoying older sister. For seven magical years, they all lived in the house built by the dad...
A trio of Rising Starr Middle 6th graders won in the annual Towaliga Conservation District poster contest.
Aaradhya Kamath won 1st place and will advance to the state contest. Sofia Caldwell finished 2nd, and Grayson Detorie placed 3rd.
The three Panthers won a total of $225.
The goal of the contest is teaching kids the importance of stewarding natural resources while engaging their...
A member of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, Investigator David Schrepfer is a vital member of the Wildcat family as the Whitewater High school resource officer.
Schrepfer always felt a calling to serve. Asthma issues kept him from enlisting in the Marine Corps, so he looked for other outlets. He began as an education major but decided teaching wasn’t his...
ROBERT LEE BAST — April 14, 1923 – February 7, 2024
Robert “Bob” Lee Bast, 100, of Peachtree City, GA, graduated to eternal life on Wednesday February 7, 2024.
Born on April 14, 1923 in Easton, Maryland, he attended Mercersburg Academy prep school in Pennsylvania, graduated from Lafayette college and went on to Virginia Theological Seminary where he was ordained as...
Peachtree City Library will welcome author Chad Davidson at Line Creek Brewing on Thursday, February 22, at 7 p.m. Davidson will talk about his most recent book, Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year (LSU Press, 2024). The book talk is free and open to the public.
The essays in Davidson’s Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year mainly concern the...
The Citizen ran a story headlined, “Counterpane Celebrates 30 Years in Fayette” on November 19th, 2003. Twenty years later the school is still located on 16 wooded acres on Highway 314, where all graduates have been accepted into 4-year colleges and universities, a place where learning is contagious, and “one of Fayette County’s best kept secrets.”
Counterpane School is accredited with...
A new initiative is bringing history to life for the Wildcats. District Attorney Marie Broder helped kick off the new “History in the Wild” series at Whitewater High with a deep dive into a cold case.
Hosted by the school’s Social Studies National Honor Society (SSNHS), DA Broder made a presentation about a cold case she prosecuted several years ago,...
‘Cookies with a Cop’ brought the Fayetteville Police Department back to visit their friends at Fayetteville Elementary for a good book and a sweet treat.
The program brings local law enforcement into 2nd grade classrooms, where officers with the Fayetteville Police Department read books, ask thought provoking questions, and eat cookies with the students. It’s all designed to encourage the...
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Employees at the Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation in Newnan have incorporated a unique volunteer opportunity into their daily routines, and the benefits can be felt by hundreds if not thousands of people every month.
Yamaha spokesman Jason Broshear said the company identified Midwest Food Bank as a potential CSR (corporate social responsibility) opportunity, and further investigation confirmed that the...
Residents of a Peachtree City apartment complex will be getting some of their mail a bit late this week, but it’s for a good cause.
A crime ring that specializes in breaking into mailboxes to obtain information for identity theft was thwarted by the Peachtree City Police Department in the wee hours of Feb. 13, according to the administrator of...
Michael Lynn Knapton, age 72, of Peachtree City, GA died on Monday January 29th, 2024.
Michael was born in Wells, MN to Marvin and Verle (Sahr) Knapton and spent his early days on the farm.
He graduated from Wells High School in 1970. He attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity....
In ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ when Alice tumbles down a mysterious rabbit hole, she finds
herself in a strange land where everyone is raving mad. With the help of a Cheshire Cat, an
astute Caterpillar, and a righteous Humpty Dumpty, Alice must find her way home and
discover who she really is. At times silly, and other times thrilling, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is
filled...
J.C. Booth Middle is making waves with its latest initiative aimed at empowering young girls.
Principal Deb Troutman has embraced the title of “community principal” as she leads the charge to create a supportive environment for female students. The heart of this initiative lies in the second year of the Girls Empowerment Group, a dynamic and inclusive space where a...
