Syrupmakers open with win
The Cairo Syrupmakers opened the 2011 season with a win in a hard fought battle with Drew High School Friday night at West Thomas Stadium 7-6. The Drew squad featured players that had played together for three years and was much approved over last season. See a complete wrap up Wednesday in the The Cairo…
Read MoreBetty Mountain has died
Mrs. Betty Bryant Mountain, 82, of Reno, Ga. passed away Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. Services are being handled by Clark Funeral Home of Cairo, Ga., but were incomplete Tuesday.
Read MoreSyrupmakers and Titans to clash Friday
The Cairo Syrupmakers are set to open the 2011 football season this Friday night hosting the Drew High School Titans of Riverdale, Ga. The Titans were 2-8 last year, its first season playing a full varsity schedule. Highlighting that season was a 14-7 win at Eastside, a team the Makers met in the second round…
Read MoreFoursome charged in alleged robbery
Four local high school students, one a 16-year-old girl, are accused of using force to rob a man walking along GA Highway 188 Sunday. According to the Grady County Sheriff’s Office, it was at 2:45 p.m., when an SUV driven by the girl stopped near Long Branch Road and all four suspects got out of…
Read MoreWilliams’ plans approved
Chiquita Williams, owner of the dilapidated property at 1100 M.L. King Jr. Ave. S.W., presented city building officials with final and complete plans for her project to develop the property into a combination banquet hall and museum. According to city officials, Ms. Williams presented her plans last Wednesday, Aug. 17, and Building Official Brian Hayes…
Read MoreTexas jury convicts man nabbed here
A jury in Houston, Texas, convicted a man of murder Friday, two years after he was caught in Grady County by alert deputies. Grady County Sheriff’s Chief Investigator Steve Clark and Cpl. Jeff Riggins traveled to Texas earlier this month to testify on behalf of the prosecution in the case of defendant Lee Carl Banks…
Read MoreWill city and county team up to fight saggy britches?
City of Cairo officials may decide to team up with Grady County commissioners in the fight against those who wear their pants below the natural waist. Grady County commissioners had a discussion last week at the urging of Vice Chairman Elwyn Childs to consider adopting an ordinance prohibiting saggy or baggy britches that fall below…
Read MoreMayor urges council to get involved in cost of gas
Mayor Richard VanLandingham is afraid if Cairo is known as the home of higher gas prices then the city will lose out on valuable sales tax dollars. The mayor told city councilmen Monday night he had received a number of complaints recently about the cost of gasoline in Cairo compared to neighboring communities. He also…
Read MoreJDA to more aggressively market inventory of vacant industrial space
The Grady County Joint Development Authority is getting tough in its marketing of vacant industrial properties and is prepared to invest $10,000 in an advertising campaign. JDA member Chuck Thomas lamented Tuesday the authority’s laissez-faire position on marketing empty industrial space such as that inside the Heritage Industrial Complex, the former Roddenbery pickle plant. “I’ve…
Read MoreCourt deadline looms for Williams
The owner of a decades old blighted property in southwest Cairo has until next Friday to resubmit engineering plans for a proposed restoration project at 1100 M.L. King Jr. Ave. S.W. or violate a court order issued by Cairo Municipal Court Judge Joshua C. Bell. Chiquita Williams testified in Municipal Court last month about her…
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