The Grady County Commission earlier this year issued a moratorium on chicken houses and other animal feeding operations before subsequently extending the ban until Sept. 1. With that deadline fast approaching, county officials have finally scheduled a workshop to discuss possible revisions to existing ordinances to regulate such land uses or not. A number of…

WANTED TO BUY: approximately two acres of land in or near Whigham, Georgia. Call 229-377-1512. The Grady County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday set a Sept. 1 deadline to identify a suitable location for a new manned garbage site to serve the Whigham area or else proceed with developing the site off State Park Road…

As Grady County Schools prepare to reopen next month another local resident has died from COVID-19 and the number of positive cases continue to increase. For the third week in a row, the number of new Grady County residents testing positive for COVID-19 has been in the 50s, this week there were 59 new cases…