Thousands of Fayette County residents have already taken advantage of early voting, and they’re making it even easier today by offering Saturday voting tomorrow at all three early voting locations.
According to elections officials, those looking for the quickest wait time might do well to make the short trip to Tyrone, where Town Hall has so far recorded the smallest...
For all the parents out there who think teenagers don’t listen to a word you say, you’re right – they don’t. For all the teenagers out there who think parents don’t understand anything you say, you’re right also. So if parents and teenagers don’t listen to each other, who should they listen to? Why, the old guy who writes...
In a few days, the citizens of the United States will elect a President. Either the incumbent will be re-elected or the challenger will take office in January.
It is not my place to tell people how to vote. It is my role, however, to articulate biblical morality and to stand firm on those issues that the Church throughout the...
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City is inviting elementary and middle school students to its free “Student Day” program Saturday, Oct. 27 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The program will give students a chance to see first-hand how math and science are used every day to compile weather information provided to millions of people across the country each...
It was on Sept. 19 that the Fayette County Board of Education and Superintendent Jeff Bearden entered into a mutual termination agreement that cited Dec. 31 as his last day of employment. But according to documents on the Floyd County School System website, Bearden completed an application and resume for superintendent’s job on Sept. 4, a full two weeks...
Hundreds of people stopped by the first Monster Golf Cart Rally at the Aberdeen Village Shopping Center on Sunday afternoon. The event was a fundraiser for a Team in Training endurance event to raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. There were 17 golf carts decorated in various spooky styles. This family is checking out the entry known...
An ethics complaint against County Attorney Scott Bennett has been lodged by Fayette County residents Richard and Judith Moore.
The complaints center on a beef between Bennett and the Moores’ attorney, Wayne Kendall, who at one point represented several other county residents and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a still-pending lawsuit filed against the county...
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Fayette County State Court Solicitor Jamie Inagawa in a legal battle with the Fayette County Commission over his salary for the past several years.
The court in an Oct. 15 opinion held that Inagawa’s salary was improperly calculated by the county from July 2007 through January 2009. The court also ruled...
The Fayette County School System will hold a community forum on bullying on Oct. 30 at Sams Auditorium in Fayetteville.
Bullying is the topic of the first community forum for this school year that is being sponsored by the Fayette County Public School System, the Fayette County District Attorney, Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, Fayetteville Police Department, Peachtree City Police Department,...
More than 100 voters last week got to hear it “straight from the horses’ mouths” at a candidate question and answer session hosted by the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce at Peachtree City United Methodist Church.
On the political hot seats for the Post 2 seat on the Fayette County Board of Education were incumbent homemaker and newly-proclaimed Democrat Terri...
Former Navy SEAL Benjamin Smith gave the crowd at the Restore America Rally at Drake Field in Peachtree City plenty to think about. Speaking on topics ranging from the current state of America and its potential future to the relevance of Christianity in American life, the North Carolina resident was one of a number of speakers at the Oct....
Two groups of kids, two very different property tax implications.
Group A kids — more than 300 of them — attend Fayette County public schools, but their parents pay no property taxes in Fayette County to support the Fayette system.
Group B kids — more than 2,000 of them — do NOT attend Fayette County public schools and thus make no...
The last time a recall effort was initiated in Fayette County it was County Commissioner Robert Horgan in the crosshairs. This month, another such effort has begun to recall Fayette County Board of Education member Bob Todd.
Tyrone resident Melissa Hill is heading the recall effort, citing ethics violations as the reason for her action. Though the recall effort is...
Fayetteville resident Justin Lake, 32, has an active personality. A black belt in karate at the age of 12, Lake, has also been snowboarding, skydiving and scuba diving. It was on a recent trip to Trinidad & Tobago for some scuba diving and hiking that an accident occurred, one that has changed Lake’s life significantly.
After a day of...
As of noon Monday, more than 8,000 Fayette County residents have cast their ballots for the upcoming November general election. That’s just under 10 percent of the total eligible voters — 81,792 — according to the Fayette County Elections Office.
Voting has been such a popular option in downtown Fayetteville at the county elections headquarters that the line stretches outside...
In his fascinating book “The Time Machine,” H.G. Wells’ character travels to a place in the future where a group of people called the Eloi live in a seemingly perfect setting. For the most part, they live a carefree life, but each night creatures called the Morlocks, come from underground and steal away with several Eloi and eat them. Yet the...
Congratulations to the Wildcat Marching Band for their outstanding performance Saturday. Oct. 13 at the “Georgia Contest of Champions” in Commerce, Ga. They received all Superior ratings for Band, Percussion, Color Guard and Drum Major. They dominated the 4A Class competition by placing 1st and taking every award in the Class....Best Band, Color Guard, Percussion and Drum Major. In...
Mary M. Cave, 72, of Fayetteville, passed away on Oct. 19, 2012.
She was very involved in her singing group, Celebration, at Christ's Church at Whitewater where she was a founding member. She retired from ASA/Delta Airlines in 1999 as an analyst.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Georgianna Thompson and grandson, Andrew Jordan Cave.
She is survived...
John Albert Nowacki, SR., 85, of Peachtree City, Ga., passed away Oct. 20, 2012.
Mr. Nowacki served his country during WWII and the Korean War in the U.S. Navy. He had worked for The Pure Oil Company as a CPA and a forecaster, and retired from Eastern Airlines after 33 years of service.
Survivors include his wife of 42 years...
Mr. Leslie John Sanders, of Fayetteville, formerly of East Point and Riverdale, passed away on Oct. 20, 2012 at the age of 89.
Leslie was a proud veteran who served his country in the United States Army in WWII and in Korea. Following his military career he had a long career with General Motors where he worked in the...
Jack Andrew Westbrook, 75, of Fayetteville, passed away Thursday, Oct.18, 2012.
Mr. Westbrook was a retired Financial Manager for Barclay's American.
He was preceded in death by his daughter Tamra Joy Westbrook.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years Joyce Efird Westbrook; daughter Traci & Brian Keeley of Douglasville, daughter Trisha Westbrook of Atlanta; 3 grandchildren Ashley &...
While the mainstream media was studiously looking the other way so they didn’t have to tell you, something happened last week that affirmed the fundamentals of capitalism. I am referring to the principle that profit motive is the most effective determinant of the proper balance between risk and potential reward.
The much-ignored event was the bankruptcy filing of A123 Systems,...
To many citizens it is mystifying why, in the current economy, so many Americans are still casting their votes for President Obama.
They cite statistics like 23 million people unemployed or under-employed, one out of six Americans in poverty (earning less than $23,000 per year), net incomes decreasing by more than $4,000 per year, and an increase in the cost...
California was once the land of opportunity, but it is going down the tubes. Several of California’s prominent cities have declared bankruptcy, such as Vallejo, Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino. Others are on the precipice, and that includes Los Angeles, California’s largest city.
California’s 2012 budget deficit is expected to top $28 billion, and its state debt is $618...
It was a sweet sight, no doubt. My heart is always drawn to God’s animal creatures, especially those who have found themselves abandoned young.
Nicole and I were working out in her basement one afternoon when Rodney stomped down the stairs and ambled in.
“I got a pen,” he said to her. “Where do you want me to set it up?”
They...
Please, stop all the “push granny off the cliff” rhetoric about Georgia public schools that are chartered by the state.
The Georgia Supreme Court, in a May 2011 4-3 split decision, ruled that the state Constitution authorizes the state government to approve only special charter schools (typically, for deaf and blind students). Approving K-12 charters was effectively ruled the sole...
Remember, the “Redevelopment Powers” granted by the referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot do not increase anybody’s taxes, (except the property owner who directly benefits from the improvements to his property).
Passage of the referendum gives the city the authority to create TADs (Tax Allocation Districts). A TAD is a tax leveraged financing vehicle that promotes redevelopment of depressed properties...
Although I usually find Bonnie Willis’ columns well researched, reasoned, and balanced, I respectfully disagree with the assessment and prediction she cites in her column titled “The Day After the Elections: A Prediction.“
Ms. Willis predicts that we will come together as a nation after the election (regardless of who wins) just as two sibling brothers usually come together to...
In a Bible study I’m now involved in, the instructor said there were five reasons for Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit: 1) a desire for something beautiful; 2) a twisting of words by the Serpent; 3) a desire for power (knowledge of good and evil); 4) a suspicion that God was holding out on them; and...
Today we are seeing more terrorist attacks where sovereign soil is brutally invaded, and Americans are tortured and killed.
That attack killed nearly 3,000 Americans. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in Benghazi. Ambassador Stevens was missing for eight hours, tortured, raped and executed. Egyptian protesters engaged in terrorist attacks ransacking and destroying the American flag...
Much has been written and spoken about the EMS unit and DNR helicopter crew rescuing a young man injured in a fall while hiking.
My intention is not in anyway to detract from their great work, but only to remind others of the work our military is doing.
What we all saw on TV or saw in the printed media, as...
In the 1800s, an acrobat named Blondin became famous for walking across Niagara Falls on a tightrope numerous times. One day, a crowd gathered to watch him push a wheelbarrow carrying a sack of cement across the tightrope. With that extra weight, the slightest miscalculation could tip the wheelbarrow and send him plummeting into the falls.
Thousands watched breathlessly as...
Christian music artist John Waller of Coweta County will tell his family’s story of the recent adoption of two children from Ukraine and will lead worship at Legacy Christian Church on Rockaway Road in Senoia on Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m.
Waller’s story also will detail the activities of Project One Forty Three, a non-profit organization that advocates for older...
Senoia United Methodist Church will welcome Payton Silvers as the guest soloist on Oct. 28 at the 10:55 a.m. morning worship service.
Silvers is a Southern Gospel tenor singer from Kingston who has been singing since the age of eight. He is a sergeant with the Bartow County Fire Dept.
He has attended the Steve Hurst School of Music...
