Clayton State University student Emily Poole (Fayetteville) recently received the Fayette Chamber of Commerce’s Young Professional of the Year Award at the Fayette Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon. Poole works at Allan Vigil Ford of Fayetteville in fleet sales, where she is primarily responsible for sales to commercial and municipal clients. She also occasionally conducts individual retail sales. Read More»

Flights will continue without interuption, says Global Aviation Holdings Inc., the parent company of World Airways, Inc., North American Airlines, Inc. and other subsidiaries, while the parent undergoes reorganization in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a press release Feb. 5 on PRNewswire.

The company — with world headquarters in Peachtree City — said it had too many airplanes, its labor costs were too high and it lacked the money to continue operating at its current size. Read More»

The recently elected members of the Fayetteville City Council during their campaign run used the idea of potentially relaxing some aspects of the sign ordinance as a way of stimulating business activity. Read More»

The lower unemployment rates seen in Newnan and Coweta County in November traveled north about a third of a point in December. Coweta’s jobless rate for December moved up to 9 percent while the rate in Newnan rose to 10.5 percent.

Figures released by the Ga. Dept. of Labor showed a December unemployment rate for Coweta County at 9 percent. That’s up from the 8.7 percent rate in November. While higher than anyone would like it easily outstrips the 9.6 percent rate a year ago.

Coweta currently has a workforce of 60,765, of which 5,441 are unemployed. Read More»