6B — The Newnan Times-Herald — Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Year in Review Sept
Gunman found innocent in Tavern shooting
■■ Large crowds attend the annual Powers Festival, returning under a new management agreement between Coweta Festivals Inc. and Powers Pavilion promoters. ■■ Fire damages offices off Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard. ■■ A horse eventing competition draws big crowds to Chattahoochee Hills in South Fulton. ■■ A sewer line to the planned Corinth Road school is estimated at more than $1 million. ■■ Coweta Samaritan Clinic receives a $20,000 grant from Coweta-Fayette EMC. ■■ Investigators call the Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard office fire “suspicious.”
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■■ Newnan says bypass widening project delays are unacceptable, demands faster pace from State Department of Transportation. ■■ A former Burwell teacher is indicted, charged with sexual assault on a Northgate High School student. ■■ Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority and City of Griffin alter a water purchase agreement. ■■ A boater is rescued from B.T. Brown Reservoir. ■■ CLICK — Certified A man is rescued in September after falling from his boat at B.T. Literate is Coweta’s Key — Brown Reservoir. receives grant funds that will help create adult basic educa■■ A Coweta mother of three ■■ Goodwill announces it tion classes for reading, writwins a $250,000 lottery prize. will fill the long-vacant Save ing and math skills. ■■ Coweta County updates Rite building at Thomas ■■ Three suspects are arrestthe scheduling system for Crossroads with a store and ed in a fake ID, credit scheme. ■■ Coweta County approves dial-a-ride buses. employment center.
$50,000 for the under-construction Coweta Campus of West Georgia Technical College. ■■ A convenience store clerk is busted for gambling. ■■ Centenarians are named grand marshals for Grantville Crossties Day festival parade. ■■ Jury finds Adam Edmondson not guilty in Corner Tavern fatal shooting. ■■ Officials hope Budd Newnan Centre will open in April. ■■ Warren Budd is recognized by Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.
■■ Suspects are arrested after an attempted robbery of the BB&T bank branch office on Jefferson Street across from Newnan Police Department and Wadsworth Auditorium. ■■ Newnan-Coweta Historical Society names director as opening of McRitchie-Hollis Museum nears. ■■ Sunday alcohol sales begin in Grantville. ■■ Moreland OKs renovation work at the historic hosier mill. ■■ Coweta SAT scores are 24 points above state average. ■■ A Coweta teacher is fired for posting student pictures on Internet.
Day-care operator sentenced to life in prison
■■ Longtime Newnan industry William L. Bonnell Co. acquires midwestern aluminum extrusion firm AACOA Inc. ■■ Third suspect, Lennard Walcott Simmons, arrested for robbing BB&T bank on Jefferson Street. ■■ Coweta County Sheriff’s Office loses search dog Remko due to bone cancer. ■■ Coweta residents Terry Luttrell, 46, Old Carrollton Rd. and Mary James, 40, Shaw Road, Sharpsburg, among six arrested by Douglas County authorities for stealing two tons of AT&T copper wire. ■■ Ex-Grantville clerk Angela Glass, 40, arrested for stealing $20,000 from city. ■■ Becky Whitman is honored by Coweta County Commissioners for helping man who fell out of boat at B.T. Brown Reservoir. ■■ The Heritage School raises $3.8 million in capital campaign. Project includes renovations to two lower school buildings, a sixclassroom addition to ArnallMann Upper School building,
parking lot and The Heritage Center, a competition-sized, multi-purpose arena seating 850-900. ■■ Coweta School System bus drivers upset over lack of pay raises, demand answers. ■■ Coweta school enrollment climbing while neighboring counties seeing decline. System has 22,715 students. ■■ Long-vacant, 62-acre Adesa Atlanta auto auction property on Raymond Hill Road near I-85 bought by Euro Auctions USA. ■■ Unlicensed day-care operator Sol Jason Moon sentenced in Coweta County Superior Court to life in prison. Found guilty of eight felony counts, including child molestation, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and sexual exploitation of children. ■■ Newnan pharmacist and assistant arrested for illegal prescription drug sales and filling out hundreds of fake prescriptions. Arrested are Amy Hendrick Matistic, 43, who owned Summit Healthplex Pharmacy and recently opened Plaza
Pharmacy and Sweet 100 Cafe in Piedmont Medical Plaza off Poplar Road, and assistant, Katie Lynn Brown, 26. ■■ Joe H. Harless, nationally known expert on learning and achievement who helped start Central Educational Center, dies at age 71. ■■ Program “Letters Home” at Centre for Performing and Visual Arts launches 2012 Muster III of Coweta Commission on Veterans Affairs honoring post-Vietnam War veterans. ■■ Coweta County Administrator Theron Gay and Commissioner Tim Lassetter go before Grantville City Council hoping to obtain promised funding for Grantville library branch construction. ■■ Memorial is held for late civic worker and retired Lutheran Bishop Gerald Troutman. ■■ Fred Barrison Jr., 27, critical but stable after being shot in abdomen in west Newnan. Was also shot in June altercation on Landers Street. ■■ October foreclosure-related advertisements total 165.
■■ Second annual “Outdoors at the Bend” event held at Chattahoochee Bend State Park. ■■ Busload of “Occupy” activists come to federal court proceedings in Newnan, seeking to stop a Fayette woman’s eviction. Bankruptcy judge rules foreclosure against former Atlanta Police officer Jacqueline Barber done legally, and lifts temporary stay of eviction. ■■ O. P. Evans Middle School student sees Coweta County Prison inmate expose himself on school grounds. ■■ Only a few barrels block lanes on almost complete widening of Newnan bypass/ Farmer Industrial Boulevard. ■■ Season three of AMC TV’s hit show “The Walking Dead” premieres. Much of filming for zombie drama done in Senoia and around Coweta. ■■ Mid-October marks one-year anniversary of death of Coweta teen Blake Chappell. His body was found in October 2011 in a creek in SummerGrove neighborhood. ■■ Early voting begins
for November presidential election. ■■ Almost $40,000 in highgrade marijuana and $20,000 netted in Newnan Boone Drive raid. Arrested are Christopher Michael Smith, 22, and Brittney-Lee Michelle Orourke, 19. ■■ Two women are arrested for prostitution at a Bullsboro Drive motel; an 18-year-old son faces pimping charge. ■■ Airport renamed “Newnan-Coweta County Airport, Whitlock Field” in honor of late Newnan native Capt. Nicholas Whitlock, Air Force pilot who died in February in a crash in Djibouti, Africa. ■■ Coweta Deputy Jason Ross and Corp. Phillip Burkett are honored by Coweta Commissioners for lifesaving actions. ■■ Coweta Board of Education delays building proposed Corinth Road Middle School; will wait for economic upswing. ■■ Coweta woman Diane Dougherty ordained Catholic priest - Vatican does not recognize.
■■ Buildings take shape at new 38-acre Coweta campus of West Georgia Technical College on Turkey Creek Road, headed for Sept. 20, 2013, opening. ■■ Newnan City Council approves three-district map in redistricting. ■■ A $1.2 million renovation of old Palmetto train depot, with banquet hall and museum, is celebrated. ■■ Newnan City Council leading project to make old Newnan Hospital on Jackson Street the University of West Georgia satellite campus. Board of Regents expected to Johnson vote in January. ■■ Former Coweta Commissioner Leroy Johnson donates to county a rare book, 1886 Manual for Road Commissioners. Book to be displayed at 1904-era Coweta County Courthouse.
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