Federal judge orders district voting in Fayette

Fayette County is about to get district voting for all five seats on both the Fayette County Commission and the Fayette County Board of Education.

County Commission Chairman Steve Brown, while expressing his astonishment that the federal judge brushed past a significant legal hurdle to find for the plaintiffs, said Tuesday afternoon that an appeal is not certain. Read More»

Rivers Elementary School sold to Pinewood Studios group

It has been a long time coming, but the Rivers Elementary School property on Sandy Creek Road across from the future Pinewood Atlanta Studios property has been sold to River’s Rock II, LLC for $5.17 million — about half the cost of the original land and building. Read More»

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News

‘Endless Love’ shoot to shut down Redwine Road for Friday filming

Local residents will have to detour around a section of Redwine Road Friday to make way for the filming of scenes in a new movie version of “Endless Love.”

The road is slated to be closed from 2 a.m. in the morning of May 24 through midnight. Vehicles will be detoured onto Harris and Harp roads to navigate around the closed area, officials said.

Also, on the following Tuesday, May 28, there will be intermittent traffic delays on Redwine between Harris and Harp roads that motorists should be prepared for. Those delays will be ongoing all day from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Read More»

Breaking ground at the site of Calpis America’s new U.S. headquarters and manufacturing operation in Peachtree City are (L-R) Stephen Hogan, Peachtree City WASA; Nancy Price, Peachtree City Convention and Visitors Bureau; Vanessa Fleisch, Peachtree City Council; Masato Yoshida, CEO/President Calpis America; Don Haddix, mayor; Kim Learnard, Peachtree City Council; Jim Pennington, city manager; David Rast, P&Z. Photo/Special.
The 2013 Fayette County valedictorians and salutatorians include: (front row L-R) Whitewater Salutatorian Amy Melton and Whitewater Valedictorian Haley Brown; (middle row L-R) FCHS Salutatorian Tanaz Meghjani, FCHS Valedictorian Danish Dhanani, McIntosh Valedictorian Hannah Mason and McIntosh Salutatorian Tori Kinamon; and (third row L-R) SMHS Salutatorian Christopher Pham, SMHS Valedictorian Shane Mudrinich, SCHS Salutatorian Tyler Hall and SCHS Valedictorian Daniel Schoon. Photo/Ben Nelms.

Government

Commission to get first crack at budget Thursday

Thursday at 5 p.m., the Fayette County Commission will conduct its first workshop meeting on the 2013-2014 budget proposed by County Manager Steve Rapson.

The meeting will be at the county’s Stonewall government complex in downtown Fayetteville.

No property tax increase is planned and the budget is projected to add $728,964 to the county’s reserve fund by the end of the year, providing $33.48 million in reserve and rainy day funds. Read More»

Duane Lawson, Michael Dixon and Sherry Harris. Photo/Special.
Coweta County Administrator Theron Gay was recently awarded the 2013 Jerry R. Griffin Excellence in Public Service Award by the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia. Pictured, from left, are ACCG Executive Director Ross King, Theron Gay and Walton County Commission Chairman and ACCG 1st Vice President Kevin Little. Photo/Special.

Opinion

The editor responds to BoE member Presberg’s letter

Cal Beverly's picture

This response is directed not to his wife and children but to Mr. Presberg, who holds (appointed) public office and should know better than to expose his “progressive” worldview for Fayette voters to examine.

Mr. Presberg essentially makes three points:

1. How dare any student report such negative information about Sandy Creek High School to a parent?

2. How dare the parent write a letter based on that information to a newspaper?

3. And — most egregiously, in Mr. Presberg’s opinion — how dare this newspaper print such a letter? Read More»

Editorial cartoon for Jan. 30, 2013
Editorial cartoon by Glenn McCoy.

Lifestyle

Whitewater scholars honored by American Legion

Whitewater scholars

At this year’s Whitewater High School senior awards ceremony, two graduating seniors were recognized by Fayette County Post 105 with the 2013 American Legion School Award. Barbara Daniel and Frank Johnson were selected by the faculty for their qualities of courage, honor, scholarship, service, leadership and patriotism. Pictured are Dave Niebes, Post 105 Commander, Barbara Daniel, Frank Johnson, and Joe Bowler, Post 105 member. Daniel is the president of the Creative Writing Club, played varsity golf and has earned the Girl Scout Silver Award. She plans to attend Georgia in the fall. Read More»

Whitewater scholars
Rick Ryckley autographs a book for one of his fans. Photo/Special.

Community

American Legion honors scholars

McIntosh's winning students

Two graduating seniors, Courtney Williams and Haris Aslam from McIntosh High School were recognized by Fayette County Post 105 with the 2013 American Legion School Award. Fayette County Post 105 is in their ninth year of working with McIntosh to recognize deserving seniors for their qualities of courage, honor, scholarship, service, leadership and patriotism. Pictured are Joe Bowler, Post 105, Courtney Williams, Haris Aslam, and Pat Hicks, Post 105. Williams will attend Berry College after graduation. Aslam is undecided at this time on which college he will be attending. Photo/Special.

McIntosh's winning students
Stephen A. Martin, Sr.

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