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Woman robbed at gunpoint at Franklin Road store
Published in Local
A woman entering her car was robbed at gunpoint Sunday evening in the parking lot of a west Newnan gas station, Newnan Police Department officials say.
Residency affidavits needed for return to school
Published in Local
Parents were still streaming into the Coweta County School System's office on Jackson Street the last few hours before Christmas break to submit residency affidavits for their children.
Mrs. Teresa A. Nadolny
Published in Obits
Mrs. Teresa A. Nadolny
Mrs. Helen Austin Callaway
Published in Obits
Mrs. Helen Austin Callaway
Deaths published on 1/5/2009
Published in Obits
Helen Austin Callaway died Jan. 4, 2009 at Piedmont Newnan Hospital. There will be a private burial service at Oak Hill Cemetery. The memorial service is Thursday, Jan. 9, at 11 a.m. in the auditorium at Wesley Woods of Newnan-Peachtree City. McKoon Funeral Home, Newnan, Ga.
Georgia Power nuclear hearings continue Jan. 12
Published in Local
Georgia Public Service Commission will continue hearings on the Georgia Power Company request seeking certification of two new nuclear power generation units at Plant Vogtle near Augusta at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 12.
Coweta Commission will elect chairman, set meeting dates
Published in Local
Election of a chairman and vice chairman, and setting of meeting dates and times will be some of the first business undertaken at 2009's first meeting of the Coweta County Board of Commissioners tonight.
Georgia wins national charter school award
Published in Education
McEachern, preacher, writer, will be buried Tuesday
Published in Religion
[Editor's Note: Times-Herald Assistant News Editor Winston Skinner shares his thoughts and memories of Dr. Alton McEachern, who died Saturday and will be buried today.]
As drought washes away, prayer sessions end
Published in Religion
The people prayed, and the rains came.
Don't give Caroline a 'bailout'
Published in Opinion/Op-ed
We saw what happened when the mighty and powerful captains of Wall Street and the big banks asked for a giant blank check from Congress. What was promised to be a stimulus to our economy turned out to be a money grab in which the banks can't or won't tell us how they are using the money. They aren't making loans; they aren't assisting families or small businesses. They've turned out to be arrogant parasites.
Created for reality
Published in Opinion
If you add a column of numbers 20 times and get 20 different sums, you know that 19 (maybe all 20) are incorrect. The truth, the correct sum, is intolerant, dogmatic -- call it fundamentalist, if you will. The only solace the incorrect answers have is to profess that "there is no correct answer." All is relative. The wrong sums, free from the annoying constraints of truth, remain uncorrected and useless.
While we wait on I-85 work, there's talk of extending highway through Alabama
Published in Opinion
While Coweta County motorists must contend with another year of construction to widen Interstate 85 throughout our county, there is continuing talk in Alabama of extending the interstate from Montgomery through Western Alabama into Mississippi.
Pastor's Corner: Spending the holidays with Billy Graham
Published in Religion
I ended 2008 with Billy Graham in two different indirect ways.
The Summit Family YMCA launches Latin dance-inspired program
Published in Close-up
Since the fall of 2008, the Summit Family YMCA has been offering the fitness party, Zumba, and the classes are bursting at the seams. On Saturday, The Summit Family YMCA in Newnan is opening its doors to the public for a free Zumba Party from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Support Group Meetings
Published in Health
Upcoming health-related regular meetings:
Genealogists gather at Macedonia Baptist Church
Published in Religion
There was a lot of talk about the surprises found in the U. S. Census, travels to cemeteries near and far and that elusive line of one great-grandmother,
Arts & Entertainment
Published in Close-up
Alligood to address Women Entrepreneurs
Published in None
Women Entrepreneurs Thrive in Coweta, which meets the last Monday of every month at 6:30 p.m., will have a special speaker for the Jan. 26 networking event.
Church Activities
Published in Religion
Offshoot to have whodunit show
Published in Close-up
Offshoot Productions' latest audience-participation mystery, "Rehearsal for Murder," is headed to a new venue. The popular show, which played to standing room only audiences in the fall, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, at Atlanta Bread Company in Peachtree City.
Red Cross, Piedmont Newnan join together in blood drive efforts
Published in Health
The American Red Cross and Piedmont Newnan Hospital have announced a 2009 schedule and campaign for blood drives to benefit the Coweta County community. "You Could Be the One" is the 2009 theme, illustrating that it takes just one donor to save a life by donating blood.
Young Artists kick off new year of programming
Published in Close-up
The second semester of The Young Artists of Newnan and Coweta County Art Classes will begin the first full week of January in 2009. These art classes are sponsored by the Coweta County Recreation Department and are held at the Harriet Alexander Art House, located off of Hospital Road and Temple Avenue in Newnan.
Christmas with Dad
Published in None
Schedule change announced for Christ the King
Published in Religion
After a full calendar of events in late 2008, Christ the King Charismatic Episcopal Church is making a schedule change as 2009 begins.