Cairo’s Koyo Bearings Company was nominated recently for Georgia’s Manufacturer of the Year competition, a program developed by the Technical College System of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Economic Development. Southwest Georgia Technical College recognized Koyo during a college Board of Director’s meeting where they presented the firm with a plaque to acknowledge their…

SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE (SCAR) held its official grand opening and ribbon cutting on Saturday at the shelter’s new headquarters in the former Cairo Animal Hospital building located at 1960 Highway 84 East. The special event, hosted by the SCAR board of directors and its volunteers, offered the public an opportunity to tour the shelters…

During a special called meeting and budget workshop last Thursday, the Grady County Board of Education voted 4-1 to hire a new assistant principal at Eastside Elementary School. Board member Scott Higginbotham cast the lone nay vote on Superintendent Dr. Tommy Pharis’ recommendation to hire Chiquila Wright as the new assistant principal at Eastside. Eastside…

Grady County commissioners met with a consortium of local surveyors Tuesday to outline a plan to survey the lake bottom of the 960 acre Tired Creek Lake so that timber harvesting can begin later this year. The county is dealing with representatives of Cumberland Land Surveyors, Williams Land Surveying, Joey Brock Land Surveying, LLC, and…

The Cairo Rotary Club celebrated 25 years of honoring Cairo High School’s Top Ten students of each grade Tuesday night with a special keynote speaker, Georgia’s First Lady Sandra Deal. Mrs. Deal congratulated the 40 students who achieved academic success this year and urged them to continue their work. She also encouraged the students to…

Former Grady County Board of Education member Byron Puckett learned his sentence Thursday morning in Federal Court for violations of environmental laws connected to his seafood business in Thomasville. Federal Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Puckett to three years probation and ordered him to pay a $25,000 fine. Puckett and three other defendants pled guilty to…

Qualifying ended at noon Friday, but not before a surprise candidate registered to run for the District 1 Board of Education seat as a Democrat. Just before the noon deadline, Mike Russell, a Grady County businessman and owner of Russell Outdoor Advertising, qualified as a Democratic candidate for the District 1 school board seat. On…

The city of Cairo is beginning to see results from a major initiative begun last May to combat water losses and the city council received an update on the progress Tuesday night. Public Works Director Raymond Stokes and Public Works Superintendent Darin Todd briefed the council on the water losses and outlined the on-going work…

Grady County’s chief economic development official says his recent trip to Las Vegas to attend a real estate convention was an “excellent opportunity” to partner with the Electric Cities of Georgia in an effort to recruit more retail businesses to this community, as well as the state. Chadd Mathis, executive director of the Grady County…

It has been nearly nine months since the city of Cairo has received a bill from Grady County for the fees the city pays for its prisoners to be housed at the Grady County Detention Center and as of Tuesday the city still has not received a bill. City of Cairo Finance Director Miriam Faircloth…