Today is national signing day
Several members of Cairo High School’s 2008 state championship football team are set to sign Letters of Intent to attend college and play football. The event will be this Wednesday at the largest National Signing Day ceremony ever held at Cairo High School.The program will begin at 2 p.m. in the Cairo High gym as…
Read MoreLew Oliver is keynote speaker at chamber banquet
An award-winning architect and Cairo native will be the featured guest speaker at next Monday night’s 83rd annual membership meeting of the Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce.Lew Oliver of Lew Oliver, Inc., son of the Rev. Billy and Naomi Oliver, formerly of Cairo, will be the keynote speaker.Oliver is the winner of numerous national and…
Read MoreMore Timken employees to be idled
A group of employees at Cairo’s Timken plant will be without a job later this month, according to a company spokesperson. Nearly 55 people have been told they will be laid off as of Feb. 27, 51 of those are hourly employees, and three are salaried. After this round of layoffs, the Cairo facility will…
Read MoreNew development chief named
The Grady County Joint Development Authority and Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce have selected the next economic development chief and chamber executive to replace Rick McCaskill, who resigned last year.Brian Marlowe, currently a regional project manager with the Georgia Department of Economic Development in Sylvester, has been hired by the authority and chamber.Marlowe will begin…
Read MoreServices planned for James W. Powe
See the complete obituary in Wednesday’s edition of The Cairo Messenger.
Read MoreCHS swimmers are region champs!
The Cairo High School swim teams brought home second place finishes in the region 1-AAA swim meet held Tuesday at Albany State University. The Makers were just 4.5 points behind region winner Westover, and the Syrupmaids finished second tied with Perry High School and were named runners up by virtue of a coin toss. The…
Read MoreBoth Cairo teams won Tuesday night
The Cairo Syrupmaids and Syrupmakers picked up two big region wins on the road Tuesday night at Crisp County in Cordele. The Syrupmaids beat the Lady Cougars 56-53 while the Makers defeated Crisp County 67-62. Cairo’s JaCourtney Alexander led all scorers with 17 points, while Lakisha Simon scored eight of her 11 points in the…
Read MoreNew spelling champs!
A team of teachers from Northside Elementary School with the help of Northside school-level spelling bee winner, fifth grader Marcellina Lopez, took the top prize from a determined group of thirteen teams on Tuesday night at the historic Zebulon theater.The other winner of the evening was the Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy/Grady County. They scored…
Read MoreSgt. Rick Sellars is honored
The man who supervises rangers with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in southwest Georgia, including Grady County, has been selected as tops in the state. Sergeant Rick Sellars is the Wildlife Resources Division Law Enforcement Supervisor of the Year. Sellars is the field supervisor for five counties, Grady, Early, Miller, Decatur and Seminole.This 18-year…
Read MoreProducts containing peanut butter are recalled
Peanut butter sticks, some granola bars and cookie dough are now part of an ever-expanding list of products being recalled because they have a peanut butter ingredient that came from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Ga. The Blakely plant is the focus of an investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug…
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