Five city firemen test positive for COVID-19
COVID-19 has made its way into the Cairo Fire Department in recent days with five firefighters testing positive. “The first case was confirmed on Aug. 22, and then the rest were confirmed yesterday (Aug. 24),” states Bill Schafer, chief of the Cairo Fire Department. “One shift had three firefighters test positive and two others on…
Read MoreSoftball team in quarantine
While Cairo High School Syrupmaker football is cleared to get back to the practice field today, the school’s softball team remains out of commission due to the pandemic. The softball team was last together on Wednesday, Aug. 19, and that is when one of the coaches had to enter quarantine for possible exposure. An Aug.…
Read MoreNew business is coming to Grady County
A new business will soon be opening shop in Cairo and it will be a big boost to an existing employer, according to Grady Count Joint Development Authority executive director Julian Brown. Brown reports that Penske Logistics will be opening a branch in Milestone Industrial Park to exclusively service and maintain tractor trailer trucks operated…
Read MoreFootball tickets go on sale Monday
Cairo High School has announced that football tickets for the Sept. 4 Cairo-Fitzgerald game will go on sale next week. Due to COVID-19 precautions, there will be no season tickets sold this year and tickets for Syrupmaker home games will be sold on a game-by-game basis and will be limited. Tickets are $10 each and…
Read MoreNew walk-in clinic to open later this year
A new urgent care and primary care clinic is opening on U.S. 84 in Cairo this fall. MainStreet Family Care is opening the walk-in clinic, which will be located in a renovated building that once housed the local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. “We are excited to begin our expansion into Georgia with our new clinics…
Read MoreRegister joining team of Capitol Affairs, Inc.
Laura Register of Cairo is joining the management team of a public affairs law firm in Atlanta. Register will be a senior policy advisor with Capitol Affairs, Inc., a public affairs and public policy firm. Register, 55, has been active in local politics since she moved to Grady County in 1992. She was elected and…
Read MoreNeed help filling out Census? No problem, local assistance offered
The Census Bureau’s Non-response Follow-up Operation is well underway as census takers are knocking on doors of households that haven’t responded yet to the 2020 Census, and a group of local volunteers is trying to make sure everyone in Grady County responds to the national population count. The group is calling itself the Grady Counts…
Read MoreBoys & Girls Club reopening Sept. 14
After being closed for six months due to the pandemic, the Jackie Robinson Boys & Girls Club is planning a phased reopening of its after-school program starting in mid-September. The doors to the club building, located at Cairo’s Holder Park, will open on Monday, Sept. 14 for the first day of its 2020-2021 After School…
Read MoreWith less state transportation dollars to work with city to pool resources
A major upgrade of about 1.5 miles of South Broad Street from the intersection with Fourth Avenue will get underway in late 2021 and the Cairo City Council voted Monday night to pool its state resources in 2021 and 2022 to finance the project. Cairo city manager Chris Addleton recommended this week the council pool…
Read MoreCommunity urged to back the “Stuff the Bus” campaign
Get Grady Reading is a new initiative funded by a $5 million grant to the Grady County School System to improve literacy for local children of all ages. To introduce the program, new grant director and literacy coach for Grady County Schools Erin Simpson is organizing a “Stuff the Bus” two-week school supply drive to…
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