When the final bell rings at McIntosh High School in Peachtree City on Friday afternoon, it will signal the end of the day, the end of the school year and the end of a 27-year era for Room 219 on the Social Studies Wing. It was 27 years ago that history teacher Joseph Jarrell first…
The Fayette County Democratic Committee is asking that Peachtree City leadership publicly disavow the sentiments expressed by Council Member Terry Ernst in a May 5 letter to the editor regarding rioting that occurred in Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, a widely covered national story that was the most recent in…
A Monday morning shooting death along South Jeff Davis Drive in Fayetteville turned out to be a suicide, according to Fayetteville Police. Police and other eyewitnesses say they saw a man sitting slumped by a wooden cross on the Merrill Chapel United Methodist Church property just a few feet from the roadway. According to Lt….
Backlash from a Facebook group called “PTC Wall of Shame” prompted Peachtree City Manager Jim Pennington to confirm Friday that the Starr’s Mill Band Boosters will get to have their “Spring Sampler” fundraiser event again in 2016. A letter from the Peachtree City Convention and Visitor’s Bureau (CVB) to the band boosters was posted on…
