Ms. Marie Muse Carr, of Peachtree City, Ga.

“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” — Plato. By 1974, with Bessemer Securities’ (Phipps Land Company) financial participation, there were 4,000 residents, a new Lake Peachtree, Flat Creek Country Club happens, and Aberdeen Village is almost complete. It was better...

Fayetteville logs 15 annexations, 30 rezonings in past 4 years — Where is growth the hottest in Fayette County? Look no farther than the once sleepy town of Fayetteville. Now home to one of the world’s largest assembly of movie and production studios — Trilith, on the city’s west side — Fayetteville is setting records in adding new territory to its city limits via annexations and new, more dense multi-family and commercial rezonings.

A disturbance at a local convenience store resulted in a long list of charges against a Maryland man that led to a trip to Fayette County Jail. Emmanuel Poindexter, a 36-year-old from Baltimore, was picked up the afternoon of Jan. 29 after deputies answered a call at the QuikTrip at the corner of Hwy. 85 and Hwy. 279, north of Fayetteville. The call came from employees of the store who had attempted to get the disruptive suspect to leave the premises.