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2010 in Review Senoians gather for ‘Stand By Me’ photo ■ City of Moreland announces plans to renovate and adapt the town’s old Moreland Mill for new purpose, and seeks other ways to attract tourists.

■ Coweta Guards Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans announces plans for involvement with upcoming 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War. ■ Helping Hands for the Elderly announces plans for new programs to aid local senior citizens.

■ Angel’s House announces it sheltered more than 130 children during just nine months of 2009.

■ More than 800 Senoia residents gather for “Stand By Me” photo to commemorate city’s millennium photo by Senoia photographer Gary Gruby.

■ Food Lion announces it will not build grocery store in Grantville.

■ Coweta County Zoning Appeals Board votes to deny permit for BelAir Family Center to remain in operation as family homeless shelter; local citizens protest.

■ Coweta County Zoning Appeals Board denies request for new church on Buddy West Road.

■ Former Coweta Sheriff’s Office deputy Donna Sheain is arrested and charged with selling methamphetamine.

■ Georgia Department of Transportation disallows traffic

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LaTonya Spears, executive director of BelAir Family Center, makes an appeal for a conditional use permit for the facility at the Coweta Board of Zoning Appeals hearing in January 2010.

signal at intersection of Macedonia Road and Hwy. 16.

■ Coweta County Board of Commissioners is sued after denying a rezoning request in Turin.

■ Coweta man hits $1 million on lottery scratch-off ticket.

■ Newnan City Council approves an additional $98,000 for renovation on swimming pool and pool house on Richard Allen Drive at Willie Lynch Park.

■ Bailey Drive resident is

charged with 23 counts of arson and cruelty to animals.

■ New charter school proposed for Senoia faces court challenges as it fights to open after having application denied

by Coweta Board of Education.

■ Coweta individuals and service organizations begin supplying aid to Haiti in aftermath of Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the impoverished nation.

■ Georgia Department of Revenue shuts down Grantville Package Store and Tucker Package Store in Grantville.

■ Ga. DOT promises money to install signal at intersection of Hwy. 154 and Hammock Road.

■ KIA manufacturing plant in West Point announces it will start a second factory production shift.

■ County studies options for adding sports practice fields.

■ Coweta County announces it will continue to mow median on Hwy. 34 east.

■ Newnan woman dies after vehicle leaves road and runs into stormwater detention pond on Newnan Crossing Bypass.

■ Last mature trees cut down, removed from grounds of historic 1904 Coweta County Courthouse as part of planned renovation.

■ Hollywood film “Get Low” — partially filmed in Newnan — opens at Sundance Film Festival.

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More than 800 Senoia residents gather for the “Stand By Me” photo on Jan. 1, 2010, to commemorate the city’s millennium photo by Senoia photographer Gary Gruby.

■ Proposed new church on Buddy West Road is officially denied building permit by a 3to-2 vote of the Coweta County Board of Commissioners.

■ Coweta County Commission reworks methodology for charging impact fees.

■ Coweta teachers join others at Capitol rally aimed at educating state legislators about teaching profession.

■ Senoia begins recruiting members for a cultural arts committee.

■ Demand for heating assistance is high in Coweta as propane prices soar.

■ Newnan man hit with

baseball bat, eventually arrested after crawling through home’s doggie door in attempted burglary effort.

■ Work begins on Fayette County water reservoir Lake McIntosh, which straddles Coweta-Fayette County line.

■ Second motorist dies in stormwater retention pond on Newnan Crossing Bypass after driving off road into pond.

Second death in two weeks in same spot.

■ U.S. Census announces plans to hire 10,000 temporary workers in north Georgia.

■ Major drug bust by Newnan-Coweta Crime

Suppression Unit results in the arrest of five Newnan men who are charged with intention to distribute and sell drugs.

■ Two Grantville liquor stores closed by Georgia Department of Revenue reopen.

■ BelAir family homeless shelter deemed unsafe by Georgia Stare Fire Marshal’s Office.

■ Annie Joe Berkowitz is honored as Coweta County 2010 Citizen of the Year.

■ Residents are vacated from BelAir family homeless shelter.

Ogletree brothers sign with Bulldogs ■ Nine Coweta County firefighters graduate from state’s Smoke Diver training program.

■ Fischer Crossings developer appeals to Coweta County Commission for changes to shopping center plan for Fischer and Highway 34 East; commissioners deadlock at 2-2 vote on plan.

■ Citgo convenience store in Sharpsburg caught in undercover video gambling sting.

■ Senoia votes to add temporary parking for Southern Living “Idea House.”

■ Twin brothers Alec and Zander Ogletree sign college football scholarships with University of Georgia.

■ Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority seeks estimate of costs to improve fire protection in Sharpsburg.

■ Georgia Department of Transportation approves flashing light “Stop Ahead” sign for intersection of Ga. Hwy. 16 and Macedonia Road.

■ Local law enforcement authorities seek public’s help in identifying pedestrian killed on Newnan Crossing Bypass.

■ Coweta County Development Authority says 100 new jobs to be added by existing industries.

■ Three Rivers Regional Commission outlines plans for future roads, transit plans in region.

■ Chattahoochee Valley Poultry Association announces it will hold 6th annual poultry show at Coweta Fairgrounds.

■ City of Newnan officials celebrate Arbor Day at local schools.

■ Coweta Charter Academy in Senoia one step closer to reality after receiving approval from Georgia Charter Schools Commission.

■ City of Newnan reveals new list of animal control ordinances.

■ Settlement of $725,00 agreed upon in incident where inmate at Coweta County Prison was killed when tractor tire he was repairing explodes.

■ State panel backs, approves Senoia Charter School; enrollment will begin soon.

■ City of Newnan announces plans to restudy feasibility of building a conference center adjacent to Centre for Performing and Visual Arts on Lower Fayetteville Road.

■ Coweta school officials say no evidence found locally of tampering with CRCT tests.

■ City of Newnan ponders lowering speed limit to 25 mph

February throughout downtown Newnan; discusses fees for use of facilities at new Willie Lynch Park swimming pool.

■ City of Newnan pushes to complete sidewalks on Pinson Street.

■ Starship adult store files suit for damages against Coweta County, claiming county violated business’ First Amendment rights. County asks federal court to dismiss suit.

■ Newnan leaders meet to discuss future of Christmas lights in downtown area.

■ Yamaha announces plans to move manufacturing of its ATV (All-terrain vehicles) to the Newnan manufacturing plant on Highway 34 East.

■ Officials announce that hiring for Senoia charter school could begin in April.

■ Run for Angels, which benefits Angel’s House children’s shelter, draws more than 600 entrants.

■ Missing Coweta man found drowned in pond behind his home off Willis Road.

■ Local aid groups continue to ask for and supply to those affected by January earthquake in Haiti.

■ Chattahoochee Hills city police officer is shot to death on a dirt road in south Fulton County.

■ Dog helps save lives of Georgia soldiers serving in Afghanistan after unit is

attacked.

■ BelAir family homeless shelter receives permission to reopen if many conditions are met.

■ Wives of General Assembly members meet in Newnan.

■ Suspect arrested in slaying of Chattahoochee Hills police officer.

■ Federal trial of former Grady Hospital doctor Adam Lebowitz opens in Atlanta.

Lebowitz was arrested in Coweta by local authorities after attempting to solicit sex from a juvenile male on Internet.

■ Two female Newnan Police officers file charges against the department. One claims racial discrimination, the other gender discrimination.

■ After more than a year’s delay, construction begins again on Piedmont Newnan Hospital. Officials hope to open hospital in 2012.

■ Newnan marks 20 years as a “Tree City USA.” ■ Judge rejects Coweta’s offer to buy into Griffin water system.

■ Former Grady Hospital doctor Adam Lebowitz found guilty on charges of producing child pornography and attempting to coerce and entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual acts.

■ Newnan High’s John William Thomas selected as Coweta County’s STAR student.

■ Senoia approves site for new charter school.

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Brothers Alec, left, and Zander Ogletree signed National Letters of Intent to play football at the University of Georgia in February 2010. They were among six Newnan High School seniors to accept scholarship offers on National Signing Day.

The new I-85 north ramp at Bullsboro Drive, part of the multi-year improvement project through Coweta, gets finishing touches in March 2010.

I-85 North on-ramp opens at Bullsboro March ■ Cadets of the Marine Corps JROTC at East Coweta High raise $1,300 to help the family of Mark Allen, a soldier with the Bravo 2/121 National Guard group stationed at Jackson-Pless National Guard Armory who was seriously injured in Afghanistan.

■ U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal resigns from Congress to concentrate on the Georgia governor’s race ■ Michael L. Smith, founder of Sellers-Smith Funeral Home and a former Coweta Board of Education member, dies at age 50.

■ Cowetans see snowfall for the third time in three weeks.

■ Coweta Water and Sewerage Authority approves a 10 percent rate increase in the per-thousand-gallon charge for customers, which adds about $2.50 to the average residential water bill.

■ Piedmont Newnan Hospital announces that it will be constructing a medical office building adjoining the new hospital on its 105-acre campus on Poplar Road at I-85. Piedmont Healthcare hires Meadows & Ohly LLC to be the developer.

■ Georgia Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox visits Smokey Road Middle School to observe remediation programs and a teacher/parent resource center.

■ Ellen Rayburn is awarded the title of Newnan’s Junior Miss and Latrice Clark the title of Coweta County’s Junior Miss.

■ Newnan police seek the public’s help after the 10th arson fire is set near Savannah Street.

■ Newnan spends $184,000 to buy a high visibility crime suppression camera system for the police department.

■ Coweta Board of Education decides to file suit over a decision by the Georgia Charter Schools Commission to allow

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Tuskegee Airman Hirman Little received a rousing standing ovation from the standing room-only crowd during a Newnan visit, for his efforts to break the color barrier in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.

the establishment of Coweta Charter Academy in Senoia.

■ State Rep. Lynn Smith’s “water stewardship” bill overwhelmingly passes the Georgia House and Senate.

■ U.S. Census forms are mailed.

■ A bench warrant is issued for former Grantville city manager Scott Starnes after he failed to show at his arraignment on charges of possessing marijuana.

■ Joseph Chad Taylor pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of Susan Weaver and receives a sentence of 20 years.

■ A Coweta resident dies of the H1N1 flu.

■ Two members of the WWII Tuskegee Airmen visit Newnan.

■ Health care reform legislation passes U.S. Congress.

■ U.S. Census Bureau reports Coweta’s population climbs to 127,111 as of July 1, 2009.

■ Soldiers with the Newnanbased Bravo company return

home after a year-long deployment to Afghanistan.

■ Georgia Senate overwhelmingly approves Sen. Mitch Seabaugh’s “Common Sense Lawful Carry Bill.”

■ Cowetans learn that they will be getting a child support court to work with chronic nonpayers of child support.

■ Six of seven Republican gubernatorial candidates visit Newnan on the campaign trail.

■ New I-85 north ramp opens at Bullsboro Drive.

■ “Drop Dead Diva” films on First Avenue in Newnan.

■ Newnan City Council announces that it’s offering separate $5,000 rewards for the arrest and conviction in a Pinson Street beating and in arson cases.

■ McIntosh Commercial Bank’s branch on SharpsburgMcCollum Road at Thomas Crossroads becomes part of Charter Bank after it’s closed by the FDIC.

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A sea of red, white and blue envelopes Forest Lawn Memorial Park north of Newnan as the body of First Lt. Robert W. Collins is carried to its final resting place.

Lt. Collins laid to rest ■ Signs pointing the way to “Historic Newnan” are installed on I-85.

■ Rutledge Center, local program for mentally handicapped, becomes an independent non-profit separate from the “ARC of the United States.”

■ Newnan Hospital Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on East Broad is sold to affiliates of Ethica Health and Retirement Communities.

■ Former Grantville City Manager Scott Starnes pleads guilty to felony possession of marijuana and receives five years of probation.

■ Yokogawa is nominated for Industry of the Year by West Georgia Technical College.

■ Coweta Board of Commissioners do away with short-lived rules governing commission meetings that limit public comment in most instances.

■ Coweta Airport Authority awards a $298,768 contract for grading and paving of new taxiways.

■ Amos Bennett Huff pleads guilty to aggravated child molestation and is sentenced to 25 years in prison.

■ Tea Party tax rallies take place on April 15, “tax day,” in Newnan, Peachtree City and Atlanta, to protest excess government spending.

■ Coweta Fire Department purchases new equipment to improve service and Coweta’s ISO rating.

■ Lt. Robert W. Collins, of Tyrone, is killed in Iraq on

April April 7. He was a soldier assigned to the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Stewart. He is laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Newnan.

■ It is announced that a planned partnership between Piedmont Healthcare and St. Joseph’s Hospital should not have any impact on day-to-day operations at Piedmont Newnan Hospital or on plans for the new hospital in Coweta.

■ Ramiro Luna-Urbina, a drug cartel boss, pleads guilty to drug trafficking charges and receives a 15-year prison sentence.

■ Newnan council establishes the Urban Redevelopment Agency, which will improve housing conditions in the city.

■ Two of Coweta’s state legislators — Rep. Lynn Smith and Sen. Mitch Seabaugh — are among those who report the most extra days worked and who receive the most money for those days, as well as the paid mileage associated with them.

■ Coweta Board of Education fires Newnan High Spanish teacher Glynn Servy for using a slang sexual term.

■ The Times-Herald wins 18 Georgia Press Association awards, including 13 first place honors.

■ Ga. Department of Transportation presses Georgia

lawmakers to “do all things necessary” to generate additional transportation funding.

■ A Coweta Superior Court ruling is in favor of Starship Enterprises in the company’s lawsuit against Coweta County, finding that Starship has a clear legal right to a business tax certification.

■ Coweta receives a $300,000 grant from GDOT to resume efforts to build Brown’s Mill Battlefield Park.

■ Georgia General Assembly passes a bill providing for a regional one cent per dollar sales tax to fund transportation projects.

■ Third District Coweta Commissioner Randolph Collins announces that he will not seek re-election.

■ Frank Saunders, of Midland, qualifies to run against Third District U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, RGrantville, as a Democrat.

■ Nancy Williams, of Madras Middle School, is named Teacher of the Year for Coweta County.

■ Coweta gets an “F” for ozone pollution in the American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2010 report.

■ Thomasina Mack and her boyfriend, Demario Smith, are each found guilty of murder in the Dec. 10, 2008, death of Mack’s child, Makayla.

■ David Stover and Robert M. “Bob” Blackburn qualify to run for the county’s third district commission seat.

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■ Money won by Georgia Supt. of Schools Kathy Cox on Fox TV show “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” is in federal bankruptcy court control in May 2010 after she and husband John declare bankruptcy.

She had pledged the winnings to three state schools — Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon, Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring, and Atlanta Area School for Kathy Cox the Deaf. In mid-May Cox resigned as superintendent to become founding executive officer of the U.S. Education Delivery Institute in Washington, D.C. ■ New swimming pool at Willie Lynch Park on Richard Allen Drive in Newnan is on target for a Memorial Day weekend opening.

■ State Sen. Mitch Seabaugh’s plan to overhaul Georgia’s rules on the carrying of handguns receives approval in final hours of the 2010 General Assembly session.

■ Work on a multi-year widening and upgrade of I-85 through Coweta is 95 percent complete.

■ Xpress Bus park-and-ride lot could be ready by November, officials say.

■ Coweta Board of Education sticks to early August start for school year calendar and a short summer.

■ Volunteers rally to build a new home for Sherrie Annette Dingler.

■ Lawsuit against the state regarding charter schools is

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■ Portrait of federal bankruptcy Judge W. Homer Drake

by Atlanta artist Clyde pending as Coweta Charter Burnette is unveiled. It hangs Academy plans to open in in the federal courthouse in Senoia.

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■ Chattahoochee River hits ■ Youth orchestra from flood stage, swelling from China — whose 2009 trip was storm run-off. abruptly canceled by the swine ■ A bill passed last day of 2010 General Assembly is step flu epidemic — is scheduled to perform in summer. toward reservoir in south ■ First 1.25 miles of hiking Fulton county to supply trail are completed by volunPalmetto, Fairburn and Union teers at the new City.

Chattahoochee Bend State ■ Coweta paid more than Park in western Coweta. $100,000 for legal services ■ Pioneering black enterfighting a proposed Starship tainer Lena Horne, with ancesstore. tral roots in Coweta, dies in ■ Coweta’s Dancing Stars New York. program raises a record ■ Coweta’s oldest school, $45,000 for Community Western Elementary, plans Welcome House shelter for women and children domestic 116th birthday.

■ Newnan Mayor Keith violence victims.

Brady asks stop work order for ■ Police seek a suspect in Holy Zion Center of the shooting death of Teresa Deliverance at 115 Temple Ave., Hood, 50, at Spring Lake pastored by Bishop Cecil Apartments — formerly Newton. Several extensions Lakeside Apartments — off are given for the church to Hwy. 34 E. Sought, and arrestbring former building supply ed is Darrell Eugene Tyre, 51, structure up to code. Church who lived with Hood. gets another chance.

■ Foreclosures in Coweta ■ Grantville starts over on dip below 200 for May. search for a city manager.

■ “Drop Dead Diva,” the ■ Kathryn Grams, dean of Lifetime Television cable University of West Georgia channel show, looks for School of Nursing, predicts 20 “trendy” extras in Coweta. percent shortage in nurses by ■ Movies filmed in Coweta are scheduled for release: “Get 2015.

■ Coweta school board Low” starring Robert Duvall, alters school year calendar to Bill Murray and Lucas Black begin Aug. 9. with scenes filmed at the ■ Coweta Water and Queen Anne-style home of forSewerage Authority receives mer Newnan mayor Gandy state license approval May 6 Glover, and the Katherine for bottled water operation at Heigl and Ashton Kutcher B.T. Brown Water Treatment action/romance “Killers.”

■ Fulton County judge rules Plant. Designer labels available. state law funding charter ■ More than 20 dead cats schools is constitutional. found in burning house on ■ Two seats on Coweta Board of Commissioners likely Belk Road.

■ Water heater pilot ignites to be decided in July 20 stored gasoline at Hamstead Republican primary, with no Park Drive home.

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First 1.25 miles of hiking trail are completed by volunteers at new Chattahoochee Bend State Park in western Coweta. Melisa and Carroll Wimett celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary volunteering, along with their children, to build trails at the park. From left are John Haggerty, Matthew Wimett, Benjamin Wimett, Melisa Wimett, Amber Wimett, and Carroll Wimett.

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■ Newnan Police seek help Continued from page 2B in Pinson Street beating, rape.

■ Teen dies after fall from bed of truck.

■ County changes impact ■ Ex-Baptist children’s home fees ordinance. Two major road worker pleads guilty in sexual projects removed.

■ Newnan High Student-Vet assault of 17-year-old.

■ West Georgia Technical Connect program brings miliCollege Foundation begins $5 tary veterans for first-hand million campaign for Coweta accounts of history, war.

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■ Coweta Red Cross chapter absorbed into a regional organization. Local board resigns.

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Steel goes up for new Piedmont hospital June ■ Remembered at Newnan Memorial Day 2010 ceremonies is Donald Steven Lowery, first Cowetan to lose his life in the Vietnam War. ■ Groundbreaking planned for early June and postponed due to weather for new Coweta Health Department on Hospital Road. Building replacing old Jackson Street facility.

■ Synovus consolidates group of banks, including Bank of Coweta, under Synovus Banks.

■ Firing of Newnan Police Department Lieutenant Nat Brown upheld.

■ Thousands turn out for Senoia Memorial Day festival and parade.

■ Joined by State Rep. Lynn Smith, R-Newnan, Gov. Sonny Perdue signs Water Stewardship Act. ■ U.S. Department of Justice opens preliminary investigation into Coweta denial of conditional use permit for All Souls Church of God in Christ for five acres on Buddy West Road.

■ Harold Barron, businessman and civic leader who served on Newnan City Council and Newnan Water and Light Commission and shared Newnan history with several waves of new residents, dies at age 89. He was active in development of Veterans Memorial Plaza on Jackson Street.

■ Buggy Shop Museum operated by Janet Baggarly in Senoia marks 15 years of operation.

■ Coweta Board of Education tweaks 2010-2011 calendar with Aug. 9 start date.

■ Summer to bring final funding push for West Georgia Technical College campus in Coweta on Turkey Creek Road at I-85.

■ Early voting begins in early June for July 20 primary elections.

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■ West Point Class of 2014 cadets receive copies of fallen soldier Robert Wilson Collins’ dog tags from his parents Deacon and Sharon Collins during West Point Parents Association gathering at home of Jim and Lisa Long.

■ Nick Caldwell, of Active Pest Control, tangles with believed rabid fox off Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard, hitting it with a pitchfork grabbed by a co-worker.

■ Coweta Charter Academy moves location to Senoia area church for fall opening.

■ Adaptive reuse project restoring 1904 Coweta County Courthouse to its former glory nears completion — workers put finishing touches including extensive faux wood-graining.

■ Civil claims in Hollis estate case are dismissed against the Coweta Community Foundation.

■ Southern Living Idea House opens in Senoia with tours through Dec. 12 and funds to American Cancer Society’s Cattle Barrons Ball.

■ Powers’ Crossroads plans celebration for 40th Labor Day weekend festival.

■ Replacement swimming pool at Willie Lynch Park on Richard Allen Drive in Newnan opens.

■ Coweta Fire Department station on Corinth Road near Blalock Lakes almost complete.

■ Charles Wadsworth,

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■ Coweta Board of Commissioners denies permit for Holiness is the Way Ministries for property on Ga. Hwy. 16. East.

■ Main Street Newnan holds second annual “Wine About the Economy” wine-tasting event.

■ Coweta’s Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy plans fall bicycle ride fundraiser for Oct. 3 in Moreland. Aims to provide monthly books to children.

■ Conference center back in picture for land beside Centre for Performing and Visual Arts on Lower Fayetteville Road as Newnan City Council moves project forward.

■ Coweta-based national developer Stan Thomas, owner of Thomas Enterprises, suffers setback on proposed railyards project in Sacramento, Calif.

■ Juneteenth celebration marking end of slavery held at Willie Lynch Park.

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West Ga. Tech nears $8M goal for Coweta campus ■ As “Twilight” movie fans eclipse theatres nationwide, lucky Newnan woman, Jeanette Underwood, 19, arrives for premiere in the replica of “Edward’s car” — a Volvo XC60s SUV she won, as July 2010 opens.

■ Contest selects winning logo for planned free health clinic. Dr. Kay Crosby of Coweta Samaritan Clinic recognizes Mills Adams, a graduate of The Heritage School.

■ With first steel in place, new nine-story hospital on Poplar Road at I-85 should go up fast, predicts Piedmont Newnan Hospital President and CEO Michael Bass.

■ Five families close on homes through NewnanCoweta Habitat for Humanity program.

■ Steve Bedrosian, former Atlanta Braves pitcher and chairman of Coweta Board of Education, does not qualify for re-election. Amy Dees, Andrew Krause and Larry Robertson vie for District 1 post. Michael Sumner faces challenge from April Parker for District 1, AtLarge post.

■ Coweta Zoning Appeals Board recommends approval for Coweta Charter Academy at Peachtree Baptist Church near Senoia. Proponents hope to have school open for K-2 for 2010-2011 school year. Coweta Board of Commissioners

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Newnan’s Jeanette Underwood, 19, got to drive “Edward’s Car” to the movie premiere of “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” June 30, 2010.

She won the Volvo XC60s SUV — an exact replica of the one driven by lead vampire Edward Cullen — in an online contest in fall 2009.

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■ Suspect arrested in attack of elderly Pinson Street woman — after making unwanted sexual advances on a 78-year-old Jackson Street woman.

Clairvoyant Kate Cadore credited with helping Newnan Police arrest suspect. But charges were later dismissed. Pinson Street case is unsolved.

■ Newnan City Council considers another streetscapes project for downtown as part of the Jefferson/Jackson Street Corridor Improvement Project Concept Plan.Also, bid is awarded for 1,579 linear feet of concrete and brick sidewalk and related upgrades on Perry Street, Spring Street, East Broad Street and East Washington Street.

■ Asa Powell Sr., after whom the Powell Expo Center is named, dies at age 88.

■ Heatherwood Baptist Church sends 2,600th box to U.S. troops overseas.

■ New Grantville Public Library set to open in late July.

■ Coweta youngster Kylie Ferguson, 7, credited with finding fossil skull of extinct saber tooth cat, Dinictis, at Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

■ Lower Fayetteville Road bridge on Shoal Creek to be closed a year starting in 2012, Coweta commissioners learn from Georgia Department of Transportation.

■ Virginia Yarbrough retires from First Choice Bank’s branch on East Broad Street after a 38-year career in local banking.

■ Newnan-based Alliance for Children’s Enrichment’s future is in jeopardy in wake of a financial dispute with Newnan Housing Authority. Director Jan Taylor resigns in late July, citing health reasons.

■ One Roof outreach gets a $10,000 challenge donation.

■ Main Street Newnan and Powers’ Festival agree to cross promote downtown businesses and decades-long Labor Day weekend festival.

■ Cowetan Dustin Fuller overcomes medical obstacles to become a U.S. Marine.

■ STAR - Superintendent’s Theatre Arts Resource group performs “Once Upon A Mattress” at Centre for Performing and Visual arts July 16-18.

■ Former Grady Hospital physician Adam Wayne Lebowitz, 50, is sentenced in U.S. District Court to 26 years and 8 months in prison following February conviction for producing child pornography and attempting to coerce and entice a minor for sex.

■ Standing-room-only crowd hears update on Cancer Treatment Centers of America regional hospital planned on Newnan Crossing Bypass.

■ In a final order on Hollis estate lawsuit, Coweta Superior Court Judge William F. Lee scolds local CPA Mayo Royal for “taking excessive and

July improper administrative fees” while he served as executor following Edgar Hollis’ death in 2006. Royal’s actions constitute “fraud,” Lee writes. Royal planned to appeal.

■ Stan Thomas sues Wells Fargo bank for $2.8 million.

■ Senoia Area Historical Society Museum opens.

■ Soldiers of Bravo 2/121 get rousing welcome home in ceremonies at First Baptist Church.

■ Van hydroplanes, striking a Coweta ambulance on Raymond Hill Road.

■ Newnan High and Evans Middle fail to make Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind.

■ Tim Lassetter re-elected to District 2 Coweta Board of Commissioners seat. Bob Blackburn, David Stover head to runoff for District 3 seat.

■ Celebration for $1.7 million health department construction held, with employees signing the structure pieces.

■ Gregory Packaging worker seriously burned in chemical leak at Shenandoah Industrial Park facility.

■ Turin approves zoning ordinance in works three years.

■ Preliminary site plans presented for conference center proposed beside Centre for Performing and Visual Arts.

■ Chattahoochee boat ramp property improved and renamed Coweta County Riverside Park.

■ Wenlan Chinese Orchestra students bring music and friendship, staying in Coweta homes. Perform at Centre.

■ Georgia working to get more virtual schools. Only one in state is Georgia Cyber Academy, affiliated with Newnan’s Odyssey School.

■ Federal District Judge Paul Magnuson raps all sides in tri-state water war rulings.

■ Old school house in Turin — built as part of the Rosenwald School Building Program founded in 1912 — being restored as community center.

■ Fire department’s new Corinth Road station opens.

■ Striping for proposed fourth lane on I-85 north in Coweta delayed as newly-paved lanes in multi-year widening project are opened and speed limit returned to 70 mph.

■ West Point-based CharterBank files 17 civil cases seeking repayments on separate real estate loans totaling $3.5 million.

■ West Georgia Technical College Foundation has $7.3 million of initial $8 million goal for new Coweta campus.

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■ In late June, steel goes up for new Piedmont Newnan Hospital on Poplar Road at I-85.

■ Renewal permit from state Environmental Protection Division sought for Georgia Power’s Plant Yates.

■ Car of suspect leading Coweta Sheriff’s Office deputies on chase through east Coweta gets stuck on tracks at Standing Rock Road and Hwy. 16 E. ■ No time frame established

for distribution of Hollis estate funds, City Attorney Brad Sears tells Newnan City Council.

■ Construction begins on new Coweta Fire Department headquarters on Turkey Creek Road behind current facility.

■ Newnan woman Christa Scott charged in death of state intern in Atlanta.

■ Coweta pupils exceed state on Criterion-Referenced Competency Test scores.

■ Cowetan Sophia Santos in New York to perform at Carnegie Hall for American High School Honors Performance Series.

■ Great American Bake Sale part of two-day July 3-4 Independence Day celebration in Newnan.

■ $6,500 sponsor sought to create final piece of Brown’s Mill painting series for Newnan-Coweta Historical Society’s Depot History Center on East Broad.

■ Retail development including Sam’s Club proceeds at Fischer Road and Hwy. 34 East.

■ Senoia charter school zoning permit before Coweta Board of Zoning Appeals.

■ Funding approved for Moore’s Bridge Park near Whitesburg.

■ Developers’ foreclosures concern Grantville leaders.

■ Coweta Fire Department rescues cat from well on Welcome-Arnco Road.

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Alec McNaughton found guilty of murder ■ Alec McNaughton is found guilty of murdering his wife on Feb. 15, 2009, and sentenced to life in prison by Coweta Superior Court Judge Jack Kirby.

■ Sgt. Chris Duke and “wonder dogs” Rufus and Target readjust to life back home following tours of duty in Afghanistan, where the dogs gained world-wide publicity after they foiled a bombing attempt on an Army barracks.

■ Newnan-filmed “Get Low” — featuring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, and Sissy Spacek — has its Los Angeles premiere.

■ Alliance for Children’s Enrichment (ACE) and Unveiling Outreach Ministry hand out book bags and school supplies for area school children for 2010-11 school year.

■ New Grantville library holds grand opening.

■ Cowetan Keith Tompkins fails to qualify to run against State Rep. Lynn Smith for the 70th District House seat after coming up 66 signatures short on his petition drive.

■ Coweta County announces it will oppose the Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority’s decision to issue

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■ Tensions escalate between Coweta Commissioner Randolph Collins and candidate David Stover. Bob Blackburn defeats Stover in primary by only 41 votes.

■ Logistics and aviationrelated companies look at Coweta as a possible location.

■ Copper work on restored Coweta County Courthouse receives national recognition at 2010 North American Copper

in Architecture Awards.

■ Pianist Charles Wadsworth and late country music songwriter John Jarrard are both inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

Wadsworth is a Newnan native and Jarrard’s mother grew up on a south Coweta farm.

■ Newnan City Council votes to limit each city lot to displaying only three flagpoles/four flags.

■ Ninth-grade campus at East Coweta High School has tough time keeping up with scorching August weather, and students and their parents complain of temperatures in the building for weeks.

■ Coweta County School System announces it will hold millage rate at 18.59 mills.

■ Armies of armyworms invade Coweta County lawns.

“The grass was completely covered. It was unbelievable,” said David Stephenson of Sullivan Road.

■ Foreclosure ads continue to increase, going up 42.1 percent in a month.

■ An animal rights group voices concern over the treatment of a dog at the county animal shelter.

August ■ Five firefighters receive awards for distinguished service in the line of duty: Bart Henson, Travis Hall, Capt.

Denise Freeman, Barry Watson, and Chris Calhoun.

■ SummerGrove and Stillwood Farms residents complain about overgrown lots becoming eyesores and petition city government to do something about it.

■ Independent review finds racial hostility not a problem for Newnan Police Department.

Review was prompted by two claims of discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Cultural sensitivity training required for all city employees, however.

■ Fares increase for GRTA’s Coweta Xpress transportation system.

■ Navy recruiters help rehabilitate two homes through Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity.

■ Sheriff Mike Yeager foresees more waves of illegal immigrants coming into Coweta. Federal immigration

laws should be enforced, he said.

■ Military training held at Coweta County Fairgrounds.

■ County outlaws tethering of animals, as well as placing them in the backs of pick-up trucks.

■ Moreland officials talk about ways to increase tourism.

■ Turin holds 16th Annual Antique Farm Power and Tractor Show.

■ Kason Industries fined $3.3 million in antitrust judgment.

■ Jobless claims fall 26.9 percent.

■ Powers’ Festival celebrates its 40th year.

■ A standing room-only crowd attends a storytelling event sponsored by Senoia Area Historical Society.

■ Fourth Quarter Properties 166 LLC files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the latest in a wave of financial woes that beset developer Stan Thomas.

■ Grading work begins on a new Xpress bus park-and-ride lot off Highway 34 East.

■ Local pedestrian, Allan Scott, 59, is struck and killed by a 2002 Freightliner from Decatur, Ala. ■ Rob Tornow, recent

Coweta County Citizen of the Year and chair of the Veterans Plaza committee, dies.

■ Newnan children help firefighters rescue a kitten from a drain.

■ Malfunctioning medical equipment leads to a house fire that claims lives of three Palmetto residents: Jerry Millar, Marcus Usher, and Irene Wiggle.

■ “Construction cam” is set up at new Piedmont Newnan Hospital site on Poplar Road.

■ Roland Haas, called by some a “James Bond wannabe,” dies from accidental gunshot that struck his femoral artery.

Three years earlier, Haas had published a book called “Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life As a CIA Assassin.” The CIA denounced the book as a hoax, but his wife described Haas as a “patriot.”

■ Runaway teenager Leslie Fain is found safe in NC. ■ Repaving on U.S. Hwy. 29 reaches Newnan.

■ Central Educational Center celebrates its 10th birthday.

■ Work begins to install turn lanes on Hwy. 154 at Lower Fayetteville Road.

Restored Coweta Courthouse opens to public ■ A fully restored Coweta County Courthouse opens to the public in September.

Hundreds turn out for grand opening ceremonies.

■ Local police probe the finances of Alliance for Children’s Enrichment - ACE, a Newnan charity organization, which closed its doors by year’s end.

■ Hogansville philanthropist Holland Ware gives $1.4 million to PETA. ■ Southern Living Idea House in Senoia attracts more than 12,000 people as of September.

■ State Senator Mitch Seabaugh fined $2,500 for campaign finance disclosure violation.

■ Foreclosures fall 25 percent from a year previous.

■ Newnan Hospital, Inc. makes a $1 million gift to West Georgia Technical College.

September ■ A Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony is held on the Court Square.

■ Coweta Charter Academy opens its doors in a church building near Senoia.

■ Coweta County’s first pediatrician, Dr. Howard Glover, dies at age 101.

■ A new drug court begins operation.

■ Royal Baptist Church’s “Bridging the Gap” fundraising event is judged a success.

■ SAT scores in Coweta County decline, but still top state and national scores.

■ Former county commissioner Leroy Johnson reports he is “still going strong” at age 94.

■ QB Convenience Market is denied an alcohol license request by Newnan City Council.

■ Casey Allen Spradlin is charged in death of a Luthersville toddler.

■ Abandoned structure burns to the ground on Kelly Farm Road.

■ Audrey Bray, longtime aide to Congressmen Newt Gingrich and Mac Collins, dies at age 78.

■ United We Stand holds annual family picnic.

■ A gift of $2 million is given to the University of West Georgia nursing school by the Newnan Hospital Foundation.

■ Main Street Newnan’s fall art walk draws a crowd to downtown Newnan.

■ Alabama Poet Laureate Sue Walker gives a master class at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts.

■ A historic marker recognizing Gov. William Yates Atkinson of Newnan is dedicated on Coweta Courthouse grounds.

■ Planned expansion of a development at Fischer Crossing is denied.

■ A ribbon-cutting marks the official opening of a Mercer University satellite campus at Central Educational Center in Newnan.

■ Senoia decides to move forward with plans for a new library.

■ Georgia Supreme Court upholds the murder conviction of Michelle Garner Hall, found guilty of killing her husband on Sept. 25, 2009.

■ County officials announce that the new health department facility on Hospital Road could be ready by the end of the year.

■ Coweta Board of Commissioners will pose no objections to Sharpsburg’s plan to annex 109 acres.

■ Despite dry weather, local water reservoirs nearly full.

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■ Coweta County’s monthly jobless rate is the lowest in the Three Rivers area.

■ A space analysis at the county jail reveals the need for 350 more beds.

■ Latrice Clark is Newnan High School homecoming queen.

■ Carly McKnight is East Coweta High School homecoming queen.

■ Northgate freshman Toryn Garrett wins grand prize at the “Putting on the Glitz” contest with her performance of “The Girl in 14-G.” ■ Second Annual Asian Culture Festival is held on Newnan Court Square.

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■ Moreland continues to investigate new ways to bring in tourists.

■ Newnan High School history teacher Stephen Quisenberry says he has tracked down about 14 local fallout shelters from the Cold War era.

■ Sondra Lynn Reece is struck and killed on Hwy. 16 near I-85 by 21-year-old Clark Atlanta University student Zachary Campbell-Hovland.

■ The 2010 Kiwanis Coweta County Fair opens, sporting an all-new midway and shows.

■ Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority works to approve the sale of $47 million in bonds.

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■ Starr’s Mill High School JV ■ Fischer Crossing football player Grant Aasen and Development Group sues the medical personnel and first Coweta County over denial of responders who helped save his rezoning petition. life are honored before kickoff ■ Willie Mack is arrested and at the Northgate-Starr’s Mill charged with four arson fires in varsity football game. Eight the Pinson/Savannah street days earlier, Aasen had colarea. lapsed after a hit to the head in ■ Debbie Louise Grantham the JV game. dies in a crash on Corinth Road.

■ Several Republican candiGrantham lost control of her dates, including Nathan Deal, vehicle after striking a deer. campaign in Newnan as part of ■ A jury finds Albert R. a Republican bus tour.

Griffin not guilty in the April 19, ■ Newnan High School stu2009, shooting death of Antonio dent Hugh “Tyler” Langley, 16, Roderkist Ellis. is killed in a shooting at a home ■ One Roof Outreach celein Marietta. Langley’s brother is brates its third anniversary. injured. Donald James ■ Shooting suspect Daniel Thompson, 19, is charged in the Harris is arrested by the U.S. shooting.

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■ Authorities discover a meth ■ A Veterans Muster gatherlab on Happy Valley Circle and ing is held in downtown arrest three men. One, Terry Newnan.

■ Lewis Grizzard Hometown Ray Smith, was allegedly a member of the Crip gang.

Reunion events are held in ■ Darrell Eugene Tyre pleads Moreland and Newnan. guilty in the May 2010 shooting ■ Federal prosecutors in the death of his girlfriend, Teresa Jack Camp case filed a motion requesting that disclosure in the Hood. case not be made public.

■ Newnan Convention ■ Candidates for two seats on Center Authority scrutinizes the Coweta County Board of revised architectural plans for a Education, as well as proposed conference center on Congressman Lynn Lower Fayetteville Road.

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■ The movie remake “Footloose” films at the Senoia Raceway.

■ Graduates of Central High commemorate the school with a parade and tailgate event, celebrating the 40-year reunion of the last graduating class.

■ Zellers Day is celebrated in Grantville, commemorating Thomas E. Zellers.

■ U.S. District Judge Jack Camp of Coweta County is arrested on drug and weapons charges. He is caught trying to buy cocaine with an exotic dancer who was working Camp as a confidential informant for the FBI. ■ Bernard Coyle of Colorado Springs, Co., dies in a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Sullivan Road and Ga. Hwy. 34 East.

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■ Real estate developer Stan Thomas assures public that plans for Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital in Newnan will be worked out, despite his financial standing.

■ Coweta Samaritan Clinic, a planned free health clinic, finds a home in the Coweta County Health Department on Jackson Street, once the health department staff moves into its new location on Hospital Road.

■ The Newnan High Cougars push through to defeat East Coweta’s Indians 14-12, winning their 8th straight meeting between the two.

■ Newnan Civitan Club disbands, but leaves a legacy by donating vans to the Rutledge Center.

■ Newnan city employees undergo a mandatory culture sensitivity training session, prompted by the filing of two claims of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

■ Newnan approves a rental car tax to help pay for a proposed conference center on Lower Fayetteville Road.

■ Former Moreland Mayor Sara Haynes, a beloved Coweta citizen, dies in early November.

■ Donald Joseph Miller pleads guilty in Coweta Superior Court to malice murder in the 2009 death of 77year-old Betsill Phillips. He receives a life sentence.

■ Absenteeism at Coweta schools is on the rise due to confirmed cases of the ■ Newnan officials consider influenza B strain.

■ Courtney Lockhart is reverse angle parking but convicted in the slaying of an soon drop the idea.

■ Steel work on new Auburn University student.

Piedmont Newnan Hospital Lockhart was also suspected off Poplar Road at I-85 nears in a robbery attempt in a completion. Beam signing cer- Newnan parking lot. Newnan emony held. police assisted in the investi■ Foreclosures in The gation.

Times-Herald hit a new ■ Senior U.S. District Court record high for November, Judge Jack Camp of Coweta crossing over the 300 mark for County enters a guilty plea to the first time ever. two misdemeanor counts, and ■ Coweta County School one count of aiding and abetSuperintendent Blake Bass ting another’s drug possesannounces his retirement.

Steve Barker, current adminis- sion. He resigns as a federal judge. trative services director, ■ Clearing is set to begin on named successor.

■ James Goodrum is named Lower Fayetteville Road in preparation to put the Veteran of the Year locally in the ceremonies held at Newnan Conference Center Veterans Memorial Plaza. project out to bid.

■ West Georgia Technical ■ Newnan’s Oak Hill College’s Coweta campus Cemetery is named to the receives a $20,000 donation National Register of Historic from Coweta-Fayette EMC. Places. The designation was ■ Newnan Hospital pursued tirelessly by local hisFoundation gives $1 million to torian Elizabeth Beers and the Coweta Samaritan Clinic Main Street’s Linda Kee. in the form of annual operat■ Plans for a third new hosing funds of $100,000. pital in Coweta are announced ■ Coweta Animal Shelter — to be a HealthSouth facility receives a donation of offering rehabilitation therapy. $125,000 from the Holland M. ■ Grantville hires Mike Ware Charitable Foundation.

Renshaw as its new city man■ Approval of cell towers ager, and Clyburn Halley Jr. as becomes an issue for the the town’s new police chief.

Coweta County Commission with extensive public com■ Newnan Community ment. The county approves Development Director one tower on Parks Road, and Cleatus Phillips is named tables approval for another finalist for the position of nearby.

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■ Chamber of Commerce ■ Intersection improvement announces support of extend- project at Sprayberry Road, ing E-SPLOST, the special Roscoe Road and Jackson sales tax for Coweta schools.

Streets may be in jeopardy ■ Georgia Supreme Court due to unexpected expense in comes to Newnan to hold sesmoving utilities, say Newnan sion in the courtroom of the City officials. historic Coweta County ■ Smokey Road Middle Courthouse.

School is named a 2011 ■ Town of Moreland plans to celebrate its 122nd birthday MetLife Foundation National Association of Secondary at a Nov. 23 open house.

School Principals ■ Coweta Board of Breakthrough School, only one Commissioners approves a special use permit for a cell of five middle schools in the tower on Lora Smith Road. nation to receive the honor.

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Soldier from Senoia dies in Afghanistan December ■ The death of U. S. Army Private Austin Garrett Staggs, 19, in Afghanistan on Nov. 29 is announced in early December.

Staggs was from Senoia.

■ Piedmont Newnan Hospital asks people in the community to recommend names for the new hospital.

■ The Coweta County Board of Education once more requires parents to show proof of residency — part of an effort to allow the school system to be released from a desegregation order dating back 40 years.

■ U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates announces the U.S. Justice Department plans to look into past rulings by former U. S. District Court Jack Camp — examining them for racial bias and for any impact from drug use.

■ Joseph Michael Robinson, 24, is arrested Dec. 1 and charged with burglaries at nine churches.

■ Newnan Fire Department personnel use an aerial rescue platform when a worker at the Lewis R. Morgan Federal Building becomes ill while on scaffolding on Dec. 3.

■ Tyler Hambrick, diehard Coweta “Smokey and the Bandit” fan, participates in filming of an “American Trucker” TV episode inspired by the Burt Reynolds’ film.

■ Joe Crain, Newnan businessman, and Bob Coggin, retired airline executive, give back to their alma mater, Western School, with donations to the school’s music program.

■ State tourism officials visit Senoia. They browsed in shops and learned about the movie industry’s ties to the town.

■ Greg Wright, president of Coweta County Development Authority, is named to the board of the West Georgia Technical College Foundation.

■ Retired teacher Craig Blount Humphrey, 56, of Sharpsburg is charged with trafficking marijuana after he is arrested with 25 pounds of

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■ Rebecca Allwine, a teacher at Willis Road Elementary School, resigns after several months of national attention as a result of her arrest for alleging lacing her husband’s drink with drugs that could have killed him. Her last day at work was Dec. 3.

■ Capt. Nicholas Grady Jones becomes commander of Bravo Company — headquartered at the Jackson-Pless National Guard Armory in Newnan. He succeeds Capt. Michael Persley.

■ Local political cartoonist David Boyd is grand marshal for a colorful Christmas parade in Newnan on Dec. 5.

■ Park-and-ride lot for the Xpress Bus system moves from Ashley Park to Hollz Parkway across from the Summit on Highway 34 East.

■ Peachtree City Mayor Don Haddix sends letters to developers at Fischer Crossing, informing them their planned developments are not in Peachtree City.

■ Results from the Georgia High School Writing Assessment show a 97.5 passing rate for Coweta County students — higher than the statewide rate of 94 percent.

■ Barry L. Brown, co-author of “Crossroads of Conflict,” speaks at the Carnegie at a program sponsored by the Newnan-Coweta Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee.

Brown recommended preservation of the Brown’s Mill battlefield as a park.

■ Melinda Ingle of Chattanooga travels to Newnan to present a plaque of appreciation to Newnan Fire

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■ Josh Moore drives a Coweta County Fire Department tanker as part of the funeral procession for his grandfather, Marvin Cook, the first chief of the Moreland Volunteer Fire Department.

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■ Coweta County plans to look at pay increases for future commissioners.

■ Williams/Transco receives permission from federal regulators to upgrade their natural gas compressor station on Keith Road.

■ Newly-planted white oak trees complete the planned landscaping at the historic Coweta County Courthouse.

■ Veterans from several wars meet with Newnan High School students at the annual Vet Connecct on Dec. 10 at the Jackson-Pless Armory.

■ A heating system problem causes Smokey Road Middle School to be evacuated on the afternoon of Dec. 13 — after students are already being dismissed for the day.

■ Christmas parades are held in Grantville, Senoia and Haralson. The angel on the Haralson Christmas Tree is dedicated to the memory of Lynn Storey, a longtime Coweta County School System bus driver.

■ The famous Budweiser Clydesdales visit downtown Newnan and downtown Senoia, and across Coweta County families fill their yards with lights for the enjoyment of others.

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