instrumentals in Cairo early next month. The recipient of the prestigious 2019 Storytelling World Resource Award, Miller will perform at Roddenbery Memorial Library, 320 N. Broad Street in Cairo, at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 7. An artist whose kind has dwindled, Adam Miller is a renowned old-school American troubadour and a natural-born storyteller. A premier…

This weekend, a group of middle school thespians will take audiences down under the sea with their production of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid, Jr.” at the Cairo High School Auditorium. The show is presented by the Washington Middle School/Shiver Drama Club under the direction of Austin Harrell with musical direction by Joshua Moore and choreography…

A man who says he learned the importance of public service, public education and civil public discourse in Grady County has been elected to the state senate in Iowa while sharing the national spotlight with several presidential hopefuls, including Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker. Last night, Cairo native Eric Giddens won a special…

The congregation of the Whigham United Methodist Church is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the local church in 2019 and the first of a series of four community events to be held as part of the celebration takes place this Sunday, March 24 beginning at 3 p.m. The “Celebration of Our History in Art” event…

A 22-year-old Cairo man indicted for the murder of Elijah Denzel Smith, 25, in 2017, pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter Tuesday in Grady County Superior Court. Nicholas Lequinte Perry, 22, pled after a jury was impaneled Tuesday afternoon. Superior Court Judge Heather H. Lanier sentenced Perry to 20 years, 10 to serve in state prison.…

Grady County District 5 voters overwhelmingly favored Phillip Drew over Jesse R. Schober in Tuesday’s special election. Drew was elected as the new District 5 county commissioner to replace the late T.D. David. Drew garnered 225 votes to 62 for Schober in the unofficial vote tally. “I am just thankful for the support of my…

Two weeks before the tornado, Gail and Raymond Sanders had enjoyed the sight of their newly installed metal roof. They had also removed a large tree in the yard that had stood near their brick ranch home on First Street S.W. They had put fresh paint on the walls inside and were planning to pressure…

The Cairo City Council voted 3-0 Monday night to deny the request of a local developer to rezone property in a northwest Cairo neighborhood from R-1A to a less restrictive zone of R-3. Jeremiah Horne of Ethan Jackson Investments, LLC was seeking to rezone multiple parcels on Second Street N.W. to construct four residential units…