News Line for Newnan

'Notify Newnan' Text Service Offered
The city of Newnan is reaching out to its citizens with a new capability to send text messages to mobile devices through its “Notify Newnan” program.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan Upgrades Digital Radio System
The city of Newnan’s public safety and public works departments have switched over to a new enhanced digital radio system.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

A New UWG Campus Moves Closer
Tuesday was a huge day for the city of Newnan and, in fact, all of Coweta County. City council approved three big contracts - architectural, construction and environmental compliance - as part of the $15 million project to convert the old Newnan Hospital into a new University of West Georgia campus here.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Cleaning Up The Town
Keep Newnan Beautiful is getting some help from Coweta’s corporate community. 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.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Main Street Receives National Accreditation
The Main Street Newnan program has been designated as an accredited National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Main Street Starting Community Farmers Market
Newnan’s downtown food offerings will get a little bigger — and a little fresher — starting May 1, when Our Community Farmers Market opens in cooperation with Main Street Newnan and the city Business Development department.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan Centre On Pace To Open In Early June
What started as a dream is slowly becoming a reality as Newnan Convention Center Authority members held their first official tour of the city’s nearly completed multi-use meeting facility.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Public Safety Complex On Newnan Agenda
At Tuesday’s meeting, Newnan City Council is expected to approve a final contract with the company that will build the city’s new $8.5 million public safety complex.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan Wants To Speed Up Process To Secure Dilapidated Homes
Fed up with its inability to swiftly board up dilapidated and abandoned houses, Newnan City Council directed staff to come up with a resolution to present to state legislators to speed up the process.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

No Plan Yet For Old Warner Building
The Newnan City Council-appointed committee working to develop the old Howard Warner School buildings on Savannah Street has determined it has not found any suitable uses for the complex.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan Marking Georgia Cities Week With Movie Screening
Newnan will celebrate Georgia Cities Week coming up in April on the theme “Where the Action is,” including a special movie screening and the spring edition of the “Taste of Newnan” food festival.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan looking ahead to multi-million building projects
Newnan city officials and staff probably would prefer not to see another year like 2012. That's not a negative, but rather several major projects, far-reaching financial negotiations and tax votes, and even voting changes added up to a massive workload.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

SPLOST to fund Newnan public safety complex
Thanks to passage of a special one-cent sales tax extension, the city of Newnan will be getting a new public safety complex.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Landing UWG Newnan campus at old hospital mammonth task
Yank out about a quarter of the names in the Newnan phone book and you'd be close to the number who've been involved in developing a downtown university campus.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Governor signs legislation on Newnan redistricting
Gov. Nathan Deal has signed House Bill 72, which will set up new city council districts and voting procedures for Newnan.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Committee reconvenes to decide former school's fate
The volunteer citizen committee charged with determining the best use for the old Howard Warner School building on Newnan’s Savannah Street is back in business after a group chosen last April to develop the property abandoned the effort.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Citizens again look at future of Warner building
The volunteer citizen committee charged with determining the best use for the former Howard Warner School on Newnan’s Savannah Street is back in business after the group chosen to develop the property abandoned the effort.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan gets $120,000 to study redevelopment
Newnan has won a $120,000 grant to study redevelopment opportunities near the old Newnan Hospital and other industrial properties.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

UWG: New campus downtown is creating excitement
Plans are moving forward for the new Newnan campus of the University of West Georgia, and a lot of people are excited about that project – state leaders and university administrators, as well as Newnan officials.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan to consider actions for UWG campus on Tuesday
Major contracts relating to a downtown university campus are on Tuesday’s agenda for the Newnan City Council.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Local artist will design maps for downtown Newnan kiosks
Newnan’s Downtown Development Authority hired a local artist to design maps of downtown for area shoppers that will be installed in two kiosks.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan launches redevelopment incentive program
Newnan last week announced the launch of an economic development incentive program that targets redevelopment projects.
Source: Fayette Citizen

Newnan Council to approve 2013 budget
Newnan City Council is expected to approve its 2013 operating budget during its first meeting of the year on Tuesday.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Downtown Newnan: Some trees on Jackson, Madison cut down
Workers with Valley Crest Tree Care Services were back in downtown Newnan this week, removing overgrown trees. City officials arranged for removal of the trees, which some downtown business owners complained are interfering with utilities and blocking signs.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Public can speak out on downtown 2-hour parking
Those interested in the ongoing downtown Newnan parking debate will get a chance tonight to hear about recommendations from a new parking study, and also to give their input. Two-hour parking limits would return to specific areas of downtown based on the study by John D. Edwards Transportation Consultants Inc.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Warner School project on hold until next year
The effort to preserve and reopen the Howard Warner School in Newnan as a center of community activity is on hold following word that Shelllie Hardee, whose group was selected to lead the renovation project, has left town and will not be able to continue the work.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Safety complex on City of Newnan agenda
Newnan City Council is expected to approve a construction manager for its proposed new public safety complex, as well as finalize a new sanitation contract, during Tuesday’s regular meeting.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Legislators fill council's shoes for Hometown Connection
For an hour or so, members of Coweta's legislative delegation, a Cobb County representative and a member of the governor's staff became members of the Newnan City Council.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Senoia looking forward to another season of 'Walking Dead' filming
The streets of Senoia will be covered with undead “walkers” next year as season four of AMC TV’s smash hit “The Walking Dead” cranks up again. The news was announced at Monday’s meeting of the Senoia Mayor and City Council by Mike Riley, of Stalwart Films, which produces the series.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan to oversee hospital conversion into college campus
Newnan City Council approved an agreement to oversee a $15 million renovation of the old Newnan Hospital on Jackson Street into a new college campus.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald

Newnan to consider $1 million move to digital radio
Newnan City Council will consider spending more than $1 million to move the city’s old public safety communications system over to Coweta County’s new digital radio system during its regular meeting Tuesday.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald