Get ready for a 9-month detour on Lower Fayetteville Road. The portion of the road near Fischer Road in east Coweta County will be closed beginning Nov. 26 so that crews can replace the bridge over Shoal Creek.
Construction crews will close the bridge on Lower Fayetteville Road over Shoal Creek beginning November 26.
The detour route will be...
Thanksgiving is upon us, and that means the Christmas shopping season is ready to kick off. Everybody knows that “Black Friday” is the official first day of Christmas shopping that occurs the day after Thanksgiving, but how many people know about “Small Business Saturday?”
Small Business Saturday will take place Saturday, Nov. 24, the day after Black Friday. The day...
A business owner will get his wish in a bid to start a hair salon on a small parcel zoned light industrial near The Avenue shopping center in Peachtree City.
The new venture will fill the former My Gym location in the Clover Reach area which has been vacant for the past two years, and there is more room for...
Advancing to the next round is the most important thing in the state football playoffs. Style points aren't all bad though either. Both Whitewater and Sandy Creek advanced in convincing fashion and are now in their respective classifications' sweet sixteen.
It didn't take long for Whitewater to take control of the AAAAA first round playoff game against the Lee County...
J. Gertrude Murphy, 99, of Peachtree City, Ga. passed away peacefully at home with family on Nov. 12, 2012.
She was born in Chelsea, Mass. on October 19, 1913 and was the oldest of six children. She left high school to care for her family and at the age of 18, purchased her first home. Always determined, she went...
Streaking across the football field in his boxer shorts at East Coweta High School during halftime at the Newnan High School game last week left 16-year-old junior Gunner Cook facing obstruction charges from the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office. A video taken of Gunner’s run where he was tased by a deputy has Maj. James Yarbrough saying the deputy followed...
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Well, I don’t really know who “they” are, but over the years kids have grown up and invented some time-saving tools, and it was all because of their dads. Confused? Just keep reading. It’ll all make sense by the end.
The park encircled twin lakes just a mile outside our sleepy little...
For a number of years there has been a discussion among many about whether the United States is or is not a Christian nation.
What the recent elections have established is that the United States is no longer governed or overwhelmingly influenced by Christian values and that a culture that opposes the Christian culture has become entrenched.
One political party has...
Senator Ronnie Chance (R-Tyrone) was elected by the Senate Republican Caucus Nov. 15 to become the next majority leader of the Georgia State Senate, effective with the start of the 152nd Legislative Session of the Georgia General Assembly in January.
The Senate Republican Caucus held leadership elections Thursday during a retreat at Little Ocmulgee State Park, where they were scheduled...
Fayette County Commissioner Robert Horgan has filed an open meetings complaint with the state attorney general, accusing two of his fellow commissioners and the three newly-elected (but unsworn) commissioners, of failing to provide advance notice of their meeting as required by a newly amended state Open Meetings law.
The complaint centers around two meetings called on Sept. 26 and 27...
There are several organizational and administrative changes coming to the Fayette County School System. Approved by the Fayette County Board of Education Monday night and topping the list is the appointment of assistant superintendent Sam Sweat as the new deputy superintendent, former audits supervisor Tom Gray to assistant superintendent of business and personnel management and education director Tracie Fleming...
Recognize these guys? They are Fayetteville firefighters who volunteered to help raise money for the Breast Cancer Survivor’s Network by donning specially created bras for the auction on Nov. 10 at the old train depot in Fayetteville. Photo/Judy Ward.
Can you identify this fish? This 11-pound monster held by lifelong Fayette County resident J.C. Weston was caught last week in Lake Horton. Weston said it took 15-20 minutes to reel the big guy in. Photo/Special.
The moms raised the money and the work is done. Members of the MOMS Club of Fayetteville recently raised $20,000 to improve the Church Street Park near downtown. With the work now completed, it only took a minute for the kids to give their approval. Photo/Ben Nelms.
Qualified out-of-county students paying tuition to attend Fayette County schools? That policy was put on hold by a unanimous vote of the Fayette County Board of Education at the Nov. 12 meeting.
The idea of accepting out-of-county students in Fayette County schools as a way of increasing needed revenues, and an accompanying policy that would enable the measure, was...
The bottom line for the Fayette County Board of EDucation that the 2013-2014 budget is still slated to contain cuts in multiple areas and the applicants looking to be hired for the school system’s top job will have until Jan. 31 to submit their applications.
The school board met Monday night to hear about the upcoming budget and the search...
A Fayette County soldier deployed in Afghanistan was able to “come home” for a few minutes Friday morning to participate in the annual Veterans Day program at Spring Hill Elementary.
Using the video conferencing app Skype, Lt. Col. Clete Schaper was broadcast on a large screen, allowing him to communicate with students at Spring Hill including his daughter Wilson, a...
There will be a Knights of Columbus Memorial Mass and Veteran’s Day Celebration at Holy Trinity Catholic Church on Friday.
The evening will begin with the 6:30 p.m. Mass in which the Knights of Columbus will honor and remember those Knights who are no longer with us. After the Memorial Mass and Ceremony, the Holy Trinity choir will join with Music Alive in presenting a patriotic concert featuring songs that have inspired Americans through decades and are dear to the hearts of those who served their country. The evening will end with a reception for the relatives of our Fallen Knights and those...
The Flat Rock Middle School Fine Arts Department is planning a benefit spaghetti dinner and concert to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy Thursday, Nov. 15.
The fundraising event will feature performances by the symphonic band and all orchestra classes. In addition to dinner and music, the school’s chapter of the Builder’s Club will be selling baked goods....
Jack and Cindi Polo of Peachtree City announce the engagement of their daughter, Kelly Way Polo, to 1st Lt Corey Matthew Wheeler, son of John and Lucie Wheeler of Savannah, Ga.
The bride-to-be is a 2008 graduate of McIntosh High School, and will graduate in December from Samford University in Birmingham Ala., with a degree in Nursing.
She will commission...
Ferne L. Clem, 99, of Fayetteville, Ga. passed away November 10, 2012.
She was born July 12, 1913 in Alma, Ill. to the late Riley Williams and Hattie Chance. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Mrs. Clem worked as a sales clerk for Mabry Paint and Glass for over 25 years and was a charter member of...
Ruth Marie Sams Cranford, 86, of Fayetteville, went home to be with her Lord on November 7, 2012.
Ruth was born June 24, 1926 in Charlotte, N.C., to Wendell and Selma Furr Sams, the fourth of their ten children. She grew up in Atlanta and was a resident of Fayette County, Ga. since 1979.
She was a devoted and loving...
Mr. Morgan was born in Fayette County on December 18, 1938.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Ernest W. Morgan, Sr. and Lula Mae Cox Morgan; sister, Margene Lindsey; brothers, Willie Dan Cox, Betrum Cox. He was a member of Panhandle Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Morgan; son and daughter-in-law, Wesley and April Morgan; daughters and...
Mr. Hiram Atwood Walters, age 87 of College Park, passed away on Saturday, Nov.10, 2012 at Sacred Journey Hospice.
Mr. Walters was born in Ovett, Miss. on Nov. 12, 1924.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
Mr. Walters was retired after 27 years as a Lt. Col with the United States Air Force, having flown missions in World...
As America has been hurling itself toward fiscal Armageddon in recent years, pundits have described the economic tipping point we will reach some day in the future, a point of economic calamity from which our country cannot recover.
Optimists have said with patriotic fervor that America is so resilient that it will rebound from the debilitating effects of liberalism and...
The grueling election season is finally over! And I must admit I am a bit surprised by the results.
Perhaps the only consensus one can gather from the results is that our nation is divided. Undoubtedly political scientists and pundits will continue to analyze the economic and political implications for the foreseeable future. But, I want to focus my comments...
Dear Mr. Obama: Congratulations, you won. Apparently Rush Limbaugh was right — we are out-numbered. There are more of you than there are of us.
So, since I like being in the majority, I have decided to join you and your acolytes. All my life, since my junior year in college, I have supported myself and been a Producer.
Starting next...
Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment — nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have.
The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least as far as 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey ran against...
One evening I was sorting through clothes in the bedroom while Tink, settled in a comfortable chair, was (as usual) fiddling with his phone. A message he read triggered a story.
He began to tell me a brief story (men leave out a lot of details) about a guy we know and a woman he had recently been dating. There...
Thank you to the large number of voters (over 5,000) who took the trouble to vote on the Redevelopment Powers Referendum.
For a city of just short of 16,000 residents with less than 8,000 registered voters, I think that is a fantastic turnout, especially in light of the fact that the referendum was on a separate ballot at a different...
The search for a new superintendent for the Fayette County School System is underway. A recently completed community survey had the community giving its perspective on issues such as academic and business experience and leadership capability.
A sampling of survey results showed that nearly 53 percent of respondents thought having a doctorate was important but not mandatory. Approximately 34 percent...
Now that the election is behind us, it is clear that nothing much has changed. There are some new faces in both houses of Congress, but the Democrats still control the Senate and the Republicans still control the House of Representatives. The same president is in office.
It looks like we have had a major “Bru-ha-ha” for the last three...
Well, the election is over and the looters, moochers, and losers of our country have reaffirmed their right to a large portion of our pay checks for another four years.
I am not sure how others feel. Maybe they want to compromise with the socialists or appease them. I ,for one, want to fight (not with guns, at least not...
Some post-election pundits are placing the blame for the GOP’s loss on Chris Christie. His lavish praise for Barack Obama in the aftermath of Sandy was a moment that could not be purchased with tens of millions of dollars of political advertising. The biased media, hungry for anything positive, portrayed the incumbent as Presidential and bi-partisan. As if one...
