Mr. Oscar B. (O.B.) Harper, a longtime resident of College Park, Ga., passed away Jan, 25, 2012 at the age of 91.

O.B. was a World War II veteran serving in the Army Infantry. After the war, he was employed by the United States Postal Service. He retired from the Post Office after many years of service.

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Mr. Arnold (Arnie) Shaw of Peachtree City passed away Jan. 24, 2012.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Eva Wickens Shaw and is survived by his daughter, Brenda Shaw of Peachtree City; Linda Gilberg and her husband Richard of Lynn, MA; sons, Bill Shaw and his wife Donna of Peachtree City; Stephen Shaw and his wife Nancy of Tewksbury, M...Read More

Mildred Wells, 92, passed away Jan. 16, 2012. Born in 1919, Mildred grew up in the small community of Knoxville, Mo., the daughter of a farmer who raised hogs and grew corn and other crops.

She and her sister rode a pony to a one-room schoolhouse each day, and their Dad built a small shed to shelter the pony at the school during cold wint...Read More

Whether they recognize it or not, everyone has moments of clarity in their lives. One of the first I can remember was in Old Mrs. Crabtree’s third-grade class at Mt. Olive Elementary School.

• Bad people do bad things.

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From a recent article in the Newnan Times-Herald, Newnan, Ga.: “It is not wise to have photos of nude or scantily clad women on your phone, especially if your girlfriend will find them. But such was the case this weekend. And that ended up with the man and his girlfriend both being arrested on battery charges and ending up at the Coweta County J...Read More

The Fayette County School System is currently working off of a b...Read More

We’ve seen the zombies take over parts of Coweta County as AMC’s “The Walking Dead” filmed episodes of their second season in the area. Fans of that show and the horror genre in general will take over the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center in Peachtree City for a weekend in March (9-11) when Days of the Dead comes to town.

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Fayette County officials may challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to declare the county an ozone “non-attainment area” for air quality standards.

Filing the challenge will cost $35,000, but if the county wins, it would relieve existing and potential businesses of various regulatory burdens

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Tears trickled down my daughter’s face. She stood in front of me, shoulders slumped and her head down, as she admitted to something that I already knew she had done. The admission was from the heart and it wasn’t coerced. She was truly penitent. That little nine-year-old is an adult now, but I still remember my struggle as I tried to decide what...Read More

Millions of people are visually impaired or legally blind. Low Vision services can...Read More

On his last trip to the seashore, Coweta's Jesse Nieto wasn't hoping to get a tan. He was hoping to get justice.

From Jan. 16-18, Nieto and his wife, Connie, sat in a military justice facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and watched the United States of America begin the prosecution of the al-Qaida terrorist accused of killing Nieto's son...Read More

(Editor's note: This is the fourth installment in The Newnan Times-Herald's weekly Sunday series leading up to the opening of the new Piedmont Newnan Hospital on Poplar Road at I-85 this spring.)

Energy efficiency and environmental sensitivity are not the first things someone considers before or during a hospital stay. But the evidence...Read More

A new public safety complex is the single biggest project on the city of Newnan's list of projects to be paid for with the proposed renewal of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

The city is setting aside $8 million from SPLOST for the public safety complex.

Traffic flows and the conditions of roads are constantly changing.

An intersection that flows smoothly one year can become a congested nightmare the next. A road that seems to be in good shape can deteriorate quickly.

In order to achieve LEED certification, a structure is inspected and rated in several different categories.

The process follows a "Registered Project Checklist" under which all phases of construction are evaluated and assigned credits.

Senoia Mayor Robert Belisle minced no words in describing the importance of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax to his city.

"If you want the city to stand still and see nothing, I mean nothing, happen, don't pass the SPLOST," Belisle said. Because without that funding stream, "we simply go into maintenance mode, and it's going ...Read More

Coweta's smallest towns don't have much of a tax base -- or much revenue.

But their portions of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax allow them to make improvements, do maintenance, and offer their residents a little extra.

Local citizens offered suggestions about future uses for the Howard Warner School building in Newnan Thursday night during a meeting at Zion Hill Baptist Church on Pinson Street.

The meeting was organized by a volunteer citizen committee appointed by Newnan City Council and charged with recommending uses for the facility.

Coweta County has weathered the economic storms of the past few years better than most of her neighbors and is poised to make strides when the economy improves.

That was the central message Dr. Joey Smith, associate professor of economics at the University of West Georgia, brought to the Newnan Rotary Club on Friday. Smith spoke during...Read More

A truck driver was found guilty Friday of hit-and-run in a 2010 accident on Interstate 85 that also injured a sheriff's deputy.

A Coweta County State Court jury deliberated almost eight hours before finding Michael Ray Derrosett, 36, of West Virginia, guilty of the hit-and-run charge, as well as failure to maintain lane and violation o...Read More