Sharpsburg News

The decorations have gone up in downtown Newnan and Main Street is kicking off the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season with its annual Holiday Open House on Sunday.

Today is election day in Grantville, Senoia and Sharpsburg. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for voters in those municipal elections.

Downtown Newnan will play host to tiny witches and princesses and pint-sized soldiers, ghosts and firefighters this morning.

Eugene Andrew Murphy, 21, entered a plea of guilty, but mentally ill, Thursday morning in Coweta Superior Court.

A Coweta County State Court jury deliberated five-and-a-half hours Thursday before awarding a $7.5 million verdict to Gary Stevenson and his wife, Vicky, for injuries and damages Gary Stevenson suffered in a December 2006 traffic accident on Sharpsburg-McCollum Road/ Highway 154 near Hammock Road, according to Stevenson's attorney, Randy Ebersbach, ...

There was a welcomed chill in the air this morning as I prepared for work. I put warm coats on my two Boston terriers before letting them out for their morning visit to their grassy haven.

An unidentified 14-year-old male from Sharpsburg is being treated for severe burns at the Grady Hospital Burn Center in Atlanta after an aerosol paint can tossed into a small outdoor fire exploded.

Longtime Sharpsburg resident and mayoral candidate Polly Garlington taught school for 22 years before beginning a real estate career.

Former Sharpsburg mayor and current mayoral candidate Wendell Staley was appointed mayor of Sharpsburg in 2003 when then Mayor David Mullins moved away.

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Early voting began Tuesday for the Nov. 3 municipal elections, and absentee ballots are now available.

Do you like the idea of two 'major shopping center developments' possibly getting approved in the Sharpsburg area at the Nov.

Plans for a major commercial and residential development near the intersection of Highways 16 and 54 near Sharpsburg and Turin have been submitted to the Coweta County Planning Department.

Coweta County Tax Commissioner Tommy Ferrell says that the 2009 state, county and school tax bills have been mailed and are due Dec.

The jackpot for Friday's Mega Millions lottery climbed to $105 million after no player matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night.

Autumn has arrived in Coweta County. With the heavy rains of the past week gone, cooler days and nights are in our forecast.

Tuesday's groundbreaking for the Chattahoochee Bend State Park in western Coweta County is a day 10 years in the making.

Closing arguments will begin today at 8:30 a.m. at the Coweta County Justice Center in the murder trial of Michelle Garner Hall.

Jurors listened to two key testimonies for the prosecution Tuesday in the Michelle Garner Hall murder trial.

The trial for Michelle Garner Hall in the shooting death of her husband, John Brittson "Britt" Hall, is scheduled to begin today in Coweta Superior Court.