Cairo Councilman James H. (Jimmy) Douglas received a Certificate of Achievement from the Georgia Municipal Training Institute at the Georgia Municipal Association’s (GMA) Mayors’ Day Conference in Atlanta on Jan. 23. The Georgia Municipal Training Institute, a cooperative effort of GMA and the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, provides a nationally recognized…

Pearline Thompson, a retired educator who is a weekly correspondent of The Cairo Messenger, received special Congressional recognition last week during the Dr. M.L. King Jr. Day service held at Bethlehem A.M.E. Church.The special recognition from Second District Congressman Sanford Bishop was presented on his behalf by his representative Wallace Sholar.Mrs. Thompson was spotlighted in…

Grady County is now officially a party to a law suit filed by Georgia River Network and American Rivers against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.An answer to the suit alleging the Corps should not have issued a 404 permit to Grady County to construct the 960-acre Tired Creek lake was filed by the Corps…

Members of the Grady County Joint Development Authority had the chance to sit down and talk face-to-face with officials of a local business that is suing the authority for damages caused by a leaky roof at the Heritage Industrial Complex. Steve and Dallas Strickland of L&L Business Associates appeared before the authority with photo evidence…

Thomas County School Nutrition Director Karen Green was recently honored with the Silver Special Achievement Award by the National Foodservice Achievement Management Excellence (FAME) Award program.The award was presented to Green during the FAME award ceremony held Jan. 16, 2011 at the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle during the School Nutrition Association’s (SNA) Child…

The local initiative to accurately count those in the community who are homeless kicks off Monday and will run through Jan. 31.Residents who do not have a home of their own are encouraged to take the 10 question survey, which officials say will take less than 10 minutes to complete.If you are sleeping in a…

Grady County commissioners are eager to hold a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum election prior to a vote on a penny regional Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. With the passage of House Bill 277, voters in the southwest Georgia region and elsewhere across the state will go to the polls in…

Negotiations are taking place in the CNS Cable theft case involving a former city of Cairo employee and former Cairo fire chief.District Attorney Joe Mulholland confirmed the deliberations but declined to make a comment, saying instead, “it would be premature to talk about the case until it is settled.”Mulholland said the talks may conclude within…

A group of citizens who make up the local community of Cairo Municipal Airport users has been meeting to formulate a plan which would allow them the opportunity to help make decisions concerning the future of the airport.Using the organizational framework of the Donalsonville Airport as a model, the group has developed bylaws for the…

When the Dr. M.L. King Jr. Day parade steps off in downtown Cairo Monday at 11 a.m., it will be led by a well-known citizen who has been named this year’s grand marshal.Pinkie N. Simmons, renown in Grady County for her many years of service as a midwife to the African-American community, has been selected…