City residents, businesses to benefit from lower fire class
Cairo Fire Chief Jim Fielding surprised city councilmen Monday night with the good news that the city’s fire protection classification dropped from a Class 4 to a Class 3. The Insurance Services Office surveys local fire departments to set a fire protection classification that is used by insurance companies when setting rates for fire insurance.…
Read MoreCounty comes close to lowering ISO rating
The results are in from a recent Insurance Services Office (ISO) survey of the Grady County Volunteer Fire Department and the current fire rating class of 6/9 was maintained, Grady County commissioners were told Tuesday. Intern Shelley Kines and Grady County Administrator Carlos Tobar briefed commissioners on the survey results during the first board meeting…
Read MoreFour dead donkeys disposed of along county roads
Over the course of the past two weeks Grady County Road Department crews have buried four donkeys that had been left dead alongside county roads in the Calvary area. During the first county commission meeting of 2014, Dist. 3 Commissioner Charles Norton recommended state officials be contacted to investigate if any more animal carcasses are…
Read MoreNew Year ushered in by Old Man Winter and dangerously cold temperatures
Folks who work and play outside can return to their jobs and routines in relative comfort as the temperature climbs out of the 20s and reaches into the 70s by Saturday. Local nursery employees had to work feverishly on Monday to cover plants and protect them from the cold weather. Temperatures fell throughout the day…
Read MoreSUSPECTS REMAIN AT LARGE
A pair of armed thieves remain on the lam as police investigate their robbery of Cairo’s Piggly Wiggly Thursday night. Minutes before clerks closed for the night, a pair of masked men ran into the store, located on U.S. 84, and yelled, “You know what time it is.” One of the men was armed with…
Read MoreState’s only appointed tax director is retiring
(Editor’s Note: this article originally appeared in The Albany Herald and was written by Carlton Fletcher. Ms. Hooten is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Collins of Grady County) When then-Dougherty County Administrator Alan Reddish initially looked over the 52 applicants for the county’s soon-to-be vacant tax director’s position in 1994,…
Read MorePolice are investigating Christmas Day burglary at Walmart
Just minutes into Christmas Day, a masked intruder broke into Cairo’s Walmart, on the one day of the year that the store, usually open 24 hours, is closed. Off-duty Grady County Sheriff’s Deputies Shawn Poitevint and Kelvin Nixon were working security for the store and were sitting at the front when they heard an alarm…
Read MoreDr. Walden is organizing meeting on healthcare
Cairo physician Linda I. Walden, M.D., has organized an informational meeting for the public to learn more about the Affordable Health Care Act in less than two weeks. The town hall meeting will take place at Dr. Walden’s church, Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee, on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. A panel of healthcare experts is…
Read MoreFuneral services for Graham F. Connell are Thursday
Funeral services for Graham Forest Connell, 85, of Whigham, GA, are at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, December 26, 2013, at Trinity Primitive Baptist Church, Whigham, GA. Elder Dwight Marshall and Elder Franklin Bryant will officiate. Interment will be in Trinity Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Connell passed away at his home on Sunday, December 22, 2013.…
Read MoreCounty renews contract for inmate healthcare
After negotiating with company officials, Grady County Administrator Carlos Tobar last Tuesday night recommended the county commission renew its contract with Innovative Healthcare Solutions to provide inmate health care at the Grady County Detention Center. “We’ve learned a lot about the process, and we have changed our procedures and they have changed theirs, too,” Tobar…
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