With the end of the 2008 session of the Georgia Legislature coming tonight, lawmakers have been hammering out last-minute details to get their bills passed. Two bills that supporters are trying to get passed by the end of the session would overhaul the state’s firearms laws.

Sometimes you just have to take what you can get. When courts get tired of waiting for offenders to pay fines and keeping their paperwork on file, they offer amnesty on the fees incurred from not paying the fine in the first place. In Villa Rica, the municipal court’s warrant amnesty program has earned statewide recognition.

Villa Rica’s fiscal year 2008-09 budget is larger than last year, but by only 2.8 percent, a much lower growth rate than in recent history.

The next time you fry some chicken, do the city of Carrollton a favor and pour the grease in a can.

A grand jury decided Carroll County is doing well with two out of the three buildings jurors toured this week. Not surprisingly, the building that got low marks was the courthouse.

On the heels of Temple’s first ethics complaint since its Code of Ethics was adopted in 2006, separate complaints have been filed with the city’s Ethics Committee charging Mayor Rick Ford and Councilman Larry Mann with alleged wrongdoing.

If one didn’t know any better, it would have looked as if after three years of work and planning, the Pine Mountain Gold Museum in Villa Rica was open Saturday.

While Carrollton, Carroll County and other water authorities in the area have decided to relax water restrictions this spring, Bowdon has yet to make a decision on the direction local water restrictions are headed.

WSBTV reports that “a popular Carroll County dentist has been indicted for hitting some of his patients at his dental office. The indictment alleges Dr. Gordon Austin hit some of his patients in the head with his hand or a metal object.”

Diners on Adamson Square have two new choices to satisfy their hunger.