The long awaited downtown Cairo streetscape project could finally get underway nearly five years after the city was awarded a $700,000 grant to pay for it. However, the project will cost more than projected and the city received only one bid for the work. According to Cairo City Manager Chris Addleton, five contractors pulled plans…

The Grady County School System has been “Accredited with Quality” by the Georgia Accrediting Commission for the next five years, School Superintendent Dr. Kermit Gilliard reported to the Board of Education Tuesday night. Georgia Accrediting Commission representative W.T. Henry, who most recently represented the Second Congressional District on the Georgia State Board of Education was…

The Cairo City Council finally got its audit Monday night for fiscal year 2015, which ended June 30, 2015, and the report shows significant growth in operating income from the city’s sale of electricity and a reduction in long-term debt. City auditor Tom Carmichael of Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC, presented the audited financial statement…

State Senator Dean Burke is remaining coy as to whether he will support local legislation during the 2016 session of the Georgia General Assembly. The legislation would make Grady County Board of Education posts nonpartisan. Representative Darlene Taylor, who previously said she would only support local legislation approved unanimously, has said she will support the…

Pecans – Georgia grown and local.  This is the subject of the Grady County Historical Society’s monthly meeting next Tuesday night. Mrs. Mollie Cohen, of Pecan Ridge Plantation, will be the guest speaker at the Feb. 9 meeting.  Cohen will tell how her husband, Eric, and brother-in-law, Rob, were raised working in the pecan orchards…

Grady County is being asked to pony up $1.2 million for upgrades to the Decatur-Grady 911 system and purchase of new radios. Three years ago, Grady and Decatur counties voted to invest in a digital VHF radio system, however the system is plagued by interference with other traffic from other agencies outside the Decatur-Grady 911…

In the coming months, volunteer firefighters in Grady County will meet with business owners outside the city limits to gather information for pre-fire plans. Seth Maxwell, training officer for the local volunteer fire department, says having this knowledge will not only help firefighters should they be called to the business, but also help with ISO…

Financially eligible families of Grady County can get free child passenger safety seats from the Grady County Health Department, courtesy of a minigrant from the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Injury Prevention Program. “The car seat minigrant program is a wonderful opportunity to help reduce the number of child deaths from crashes,” said Grady County…

Callers trying to reach any Grady County government offices Tuesday afternoon after approximately 3 p.m. could not get through and received a busy signal. Grady County Administrator Carlos Tobar says the phone system malfunction lasted for approximately four hours. “We could dial out and we never lost Internet service, but the public could not call…