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District Attorney candidate Rudjard Hayes, left, and current D.A. Scott Ballard field questions Tuesday night at another cand

• NAACP hands candidates tough questions
  Candidates for Fayette County Sheriff and District Attorney fielded tough questions from representatives from the local NAACP chapter in a forum Tuesday night at the Fayette County Library.
• Westmoreland on gas prices: We hear you
  Congressman Lynn Westmoreland has heard the calls for help.
• Three of four Fayette magistrate judges face opposition in November
  Three of the four Fayette County Magistrate Judges will face oppsition in the upcoming general election.
• Businesses will shine in ‘Find It In Fayette’
  The Fayette County Chamber will provide an opportunity for local businesses to showcase their products and services to the community at the "Find it in Fayette" Community Expo coming in September.

Former Sandy Creek star Larry Beard (55) is now a senior defensive captain at Georgia Southern

• The Eagle has landed...
  Larry Beard left Sandy Creek a little more than four years ago.
• Taylor goes back to World Championships
  Christian Taylor has qualified for the World Youth Championships -- again.
• The Governor races to victory at AMS
  HAMPTON--Friday Night Drags at Atlanta Motor Speedway featured an unlikely guest driver on June 27.
• SCAT makes waves at Swim With Dad meet
  Peachtree City’s Southern Crescent Aquatic Team hosted its annual Swim With Dad Invitational last weekend at the Clayton County Aquatic Center.

The Cambodian students Brittany Enterkin is helping changed her life, she says

• Brittany Enterkin reaches out from Fayette County to Cambodia....
  Over a year ago, Brittany Enterkin caught a segment on the evening news that changed her life.
• Over the Fourth weekend, why not go out to a drive-in movie in Peachtree City?
  Grab the kids and go to a drive-in theater. But there not around anymore. Or are they?

• Frederick J. Grant
  Peachtree City resident Frederick J. Grant, 84, passed away on July 2, 2008 at the Embracing Hospice in Jonesboro after a long illness.
• Margaret Elisabeth Hutson
  Margaret B. Hutson, (Peg) 87, Peachtree City died July 2, 2008. She was born March 29, 1921 in Baltimore, MD.
• Robert J. Poole, Jr.
  Robert J. Poole Jr., age 48, resident of Tyrone, GA, died on Monday, June 30, 2008.
• Theresa Corallo
  Theresa Corallo, age 85, resident of Peachtree City, died, Sunday June 29, 2008.
• Sarah Brewer Cochran
  Sarah Brewer Cochran, 89, of Newnan died Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at Southland Nursing & Rehabilitation in Peachtree City.

• Cyberspeak: 20 acronyms every parent should know
  A recent study was conducted as a result of the many incidences of sexual predators (through computers) luring unsuspecting (and some suspecting) kids into a dangerous encounter which often times leads to violence or death. 
• Our children deserve better than a brutal, vulgar society
  Bad behavior, whether mere rudeness or criminal activity, boils down to a lack of good standards.
• Thanks Scott Ballard for standing up against gangs
  It wasn't long ago in Georgia that many of our children and young adults were given rubber bracelets by their pastors and youth ministers which contained the letters W.W.J.D. (What would Jesus do?).
• Excited about Carol Jensen-Linton in school board race
  I was so excited to hear that Carol Jensen-Linton is running for the Fayette County School Board.
• The D.A.’s Corner
  Fayette County lost a giant on Tuesday. I lost a life-long friend. James F. “Jimmy” White, the former Fayette County Probate Court Judge, died. He was a very close friend of my parents, so I grew up loving him.

Rebecca Denise Pitts and Adam Seth Roper

• Pitts -- Roper
  Gary and Debbie Pitts, of Peachtree City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Rebecca Denise Pitts to Adam Seth Roper, son of Willard and Mary Ann Roper of Ellaville.