Newnan News

Odyssey Charter School PTO is hosting a Touch-A-Truck event to be held at Ashley Park Mall in Newnan on June 15 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the parking lot near Firehouse Subs.

The city department is working to make the city a better place for its citizens and has held a number of cleanup and recycling efforts.

The manager of the Main Street Newnan program, JoAnn Gentry, has left the city's employ, according to an email sent out at 4:45 p.m Monday afternoon by Newnan Business Development Director Hasco Craver IV.

We'd like to take a moment and thank the more than 450 local residents who participated in The Newnan Times-Herald's recent readership survey.

Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

The photo above is a sampling of the Northgate Honors Night photos available in the NTH Photo Gallery.

Brewton-Parker College students Robert Joseph Lytten and Lakeitha Consuelo Williams of Newnan were recognized during Honors Day Chapel April 30 in Saliba Chapel on the Mount Vernon campus.

Furnishings, textiles, and the newly renovated 1937 home on Jackson Street at Clark Street in Newnan create a unique experience for all ages at the McRitchie-Hollis Museum.

The 2013 March for Babies began at Carl Miller Park Saturday, led by ambassador family Cati and Justin Rhodes and their twins Tripp and Cole.

Helga Loesche and Marilyn Petry, a mother-daughter team who has worked at Juliana's Furniture Gallery for the past 17 years, enjoy a break on one of the couches in the store's showroom.

Mr. Ian L. Cross, 56, a native of Louisville, and resident of Newnan, Georgia, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at the Piedmont-Newnan Hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Soon after taking Exit 41 off Interstate 85 just south of Atlanta, I saw the harsh reality of nearly 12 years at war in Afghanistan.

You may have noticed a brown plastic bag in your mailbox in the past few days. Today, your mail carriers will be hoping to pick up those bags again - this time filled with canned goods and other non-perishable food.

Cross-country bicycle rider Peter Mygind of Copenhagen, Denmark, front, got help and some Southern hospitality from Newnan residents Ryan Brooks and Danny Beck.

The state will spend $14 million to line portions of two major metro Atlanta interstates with new sound walls, and Channel 2 consumer investigator Jim Strickland has learned there are no plans to actually test whether they'll do any good.

About 20 residents - and at least 50 more via petition - spoke out Thursday against a developer's plans to build "home-style" apartments on Webb Road, on what would become annexed into the city of West Point.

Coweta Firefighter Charles Franklin "Frank" Jones III, right, was honored with a proclamation for his heroism by the Coweta County Commissioners Tuesday.

Newnan Police officers and Coweta Sheriff's Office deputies wait outside the home on Brookfield Drive off Shenandoah Boulevard Wednesday for updated information from investigators, seen in the background.

"The Walking Dead," based on the graphic novel series of the same name, is the story of groups of survivors in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.

We would like to take this opportunity to let the people of Newnan and Coweta County know how very much we appreciate the outpouring of love and affection shown in the illness and death of Danny "Boomer" Bishop.