COVID-19 numbers remain low here
An additional local death is reported The number of new cases of COVID-19 affecting Grady County residents remains low for a fifth week, with only three confirmed by public health officials in the last seven days. We did record another death of a Grady County resident from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, bringing…
Read MoreSchool board and superintendent agree to new three-year contract
Three weeks after the Grady County Board of Education unanimously approved a new, three-year contract with School Superintendent Dr. Kermit Gilliard, the document was finally executed by both parties last week. School board Chairman Derrick Majors blamed his work schedule in the delay in signing the document and delivering it to the superintendent for his…
Read MoreOff on spring break with extra green in their pockets
Grady County School System personnel are enjoying a week’s vacation this week and they all departed last Friday with some extra green in their pockets. All 627 employees of the school system received $1,000 bonuses on Friday. The state picked up the payment for all teachers and other staff including cafeteria workers, custodians, and bus…
Read MoreHave you been vaccinated for COVID-19? Another drive-thru clinic planned for April 22
Efforts to get Grady County vaccinated against COVID-19 continued Friday with about 140 people getting their shots during a drive-thru event sponsored by Grady General Hospital. During the two-hour drive-thru, nearly 70 people got their first shots, and more than 70 received their second dose of the vaccine. The hospital has scheduled another community drive-thru…
Read MoreContract to privatize county’s solid waste service is finalized
Grady County Commissioners on Tuesday morning approved a contract to privatize garbage collection and disposal with Taylor Waste Services Inc. of Cairo and authorized Chairman Phillip Drew to execute the contract. Commissioners are anxiously anticipating the completion of the new manned dumpsite west of Whigham on Bunn Lane and once it is operational the county…
Read MoreSuspect sought in daytime robbery of Hibbett Sports
Cairo Police are investigating a robbery that took place at a sporting goods store here midday Saturday. Store clerks at Hibbett Sports, located on Eighth Avenue N.E., tell police that the suspect was in the store between 30 and 60 minutes before he ran outside with an armload of merchandise at 12:39 p.m. A store…
Read MoreTwo Cairo men face gun charges from viral video
Two young Cairo men have been arrested and charged in connection to actions seen on a video once posted on social media that shows people in Cairo firing guns into the air nearly continuously at night. The video also shows a Grady County Deputy at the scene getting into a pickup truck marked with the…
Read MoreA look back over 12 months of sickness and, sadly, death
It has been exactly one year since the first positive COVID-19 case was announced in Grady County and only a few weeks later that the first death was reported. The first positive test result was discovered March 31, 2020 and reported in the April 1, 2020 issue of The Messenger, just days after local governing…
Read MoreBakers show off their talent in chamber cake decorating contest
Cakes decorated in a variety of themes and colors dazzled judges and onlookers at Saturday’s Cake Decorator’s Contest put on by the Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce and Miss Myrt’s. There were 10 entrants who displayed their cakes at Gate 16 Plaza Saturday where judges selected the winners and a people’s choice award was announced…
Read MoreCooper elected president of state School Social Worker Association
The director of Grady County School district’s social services department, Dr. Katina Cooper, is now leading the School Social Workers Association for Georgia. During this spring’s virtual conference for the School Social Workers Association of Georgia (S.S.W.A.G.), Dr. Cooper was elected the association’s state president for the term 2021-2022, effective at the end of the…
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