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Probe of former county attorney to get airing Thursday night

Fayette County Commissioner Randy Ognio. File photo.

Commissioner Randy Ognio will lead a Fayette County Board of Commissioners’ discussion Thursday night about “issues concerning former County Attorney Scott Bennett.”

Those issues revolve around a lengthy investigation conducted by the county marshal’s department into whether Bennett violated the terms of his contract by representing clients in four different legal cases from 2008-2010, a time frame during which he was forbidden to do according to language in the contract. Read More»

Fayette abolishes 21 job slots

Faced with losing a proposed $2 million in savings from the early retirement plan offered to county employees last year, the Fayette County Commission officially eliminated 21 vacant positions at its regular meeting Thursday night.

While 32 county employees took the early retirement package and its additional benefits, 22 of those people were replaced by the beginning of the year, which negated nearly all of the savings from the plan, county officials said. Read More»

Fayette increases EMS fees

A mix of rate increases and decreases will add significantly to the bottom line of Fayette County’s Emergency Medical Service operation.

The rate changes approved Thursday night could result in an additional $527,000 in fees and an additional $324,000 in other revenue.

County officials said the changes will put Fayette County in line with other metro Atlanta agencies, as Fayette hadn’t changed its rates since September 2006. Read More»

Dozens of firms seek Pinewood info

The team of professionals who worked on the Pinewood Studios project (L-R): architect Bill Foley, developer Jim Pace of Rivers Rock, LLC and developers Rick Halbert and Len Gough of Promaker Development. Not pictured is Matt Forshee, CEO and President of the Fayette County Development Authority. Photo/John Munford.

73 companies in related movie-TV fields interested in Fayette studio complex; project gets rezoning OK

With its rezoning approved by the Fayette County Commission Thursday night, an international movie and TV production studio is set to begin construction on the first phase of what will become the largest such facility in the metro Atlanta area, right in the middle of rural Fayette County and just across the road from Rivers Elementary School. Read More»

Green light: TV-movie studio gets county OK

In a decision likely to change the fabric of Fayette County's future, the county commission Thursday night approved a rezoning that will allow a television and movie studio to be built on a large tract of farmland in the rural center of the county. Pinewood Studios plans to make a home on a 288-acre site at the intersection of Sandy Creek Road and Veterans Parkway Read More»

Kedron water levels make big comeback

Fayetteville resident Mary Burton knows a lot about fishing and has spent a lot of time on Lake Kedron. And her trips to the lake just got a lot better since it is now full of water. Mary had three lines out on a recent Sunday afternoon ready to reel in the next catch. Asked about the largest fish she ever landed in her years fishing at the lake, Mary said it was a 15-inch crappie. Photo/Ben Nelms.

Lake Kedron in Peachtree City is full, thanks to recent rains, and the water level at Lake Horton in south Fayette County also is making a comeback.

Lake Horton was down as much as 16 feet, but much of that deficit has been erased by rains and the ability to pump more water from the adjacent Flint River, said Water System Director Tony Parrott. Lake Horton as of Monday stood 2.3 feet short of full pool. Read More»

Coweta Co. to save $115K in reorganization plan

The reorganization of the Coweta County Dept. of Information Technology and the Development and Engineering Dept. last week by the Coweta County Commission is expected to improve service delivery and save taxpayers an estimated $115,000.

Commissioners by a unanimous vote approved the reorganization proposed by Community and Human Resources Director Patricia Palmer. Read More»

TV/movie studio rezoning approved

In a decision likely to change the fabric of Fayette County's future, the county commission Thursday night approved a rezoning that will allow a television and movie studio to be built on a large tract of farmland in the rural center of the county.

Pinewood Studios plans to make a home on a 288-acre site at the intersection of Sandy Creek Road and Veterans Parkway (also formerly known as the West Fayetteville Bypass). Read More»

Pinewood Studios auditions for 289-acre rezoning tonight

A plan to rezone 289 acres in rural central Fayette County to make way for a multi-million dollar movie studio complex will be up for a vote before the Fayette County Commission tonight (March 28). Read More»

Tax digest decrease slows to just 1% less in ’13

The idea of a county’s tax digest showing declining numbers could hardly be called good news. But given the 20 percent decrease in the value of property that has occurred over the past three years, the potential of seeing the tax digest decrease by only 1 percent this year could make the argument that Fayette County may be turning the corner on the Great Recession. Read More»

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