Children receive complimentary school supplies
Approximately 700 students will be better equipped to get back to classwork thanks to many local donors who contributed to a huge community school supply giveaway. Normally held inside the gymnasium at Cairo High School, Saturday’s Back to School Blitz was a drive-thru event with bags of paper and pencils, rulers and erasers, given to…
Read MoreSchool system likely to use reserves to avoid tax hike
The Grady County Board of Education began its work on the 2020-2021 operating budget in earnest Thursday night during a budget workshop meeting. The spending plan, as proposed, totals $38,380,986.29, just over $1 million less than the 2019-2020 fiscal year’s budget. Fearing upwards of $4 million in revenue cuts earlier in the year, Dr. Kermit…
Read MoreJDA awarded $500,000 grant for new spec building
A proposed new speculative building to be constructed at Milestone Industrial Park will soon be a reality thanks to a low interest loan from the state of Georgia. Grady County Joint Development Authority executive director Julian Brown announced Friday that the J.D.A. had been awarded a OneGeorgia Equity Fund loan for $500,000, which the authority…
Read MorePaerosol Global Partners’ $17 million expansion will create 140 jobs in Bainbridge
Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that Paerosol Global Partners, LLC, (PGP), a manufacturer of disinfectant solutions and spraying instruments, plans to invest nearly $17 million in building a new facility in Bainbridge, Ga. This brand-new facility in Decatur County will mark the company’s first location in Georgia and create 140 new jobs. “PGP’s disinfectant…
Read MoreSCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO DELAY SCHOOL REOPENING UNTIL SEPT. 8
The Grady County Board of Education voted unanimously this evening, July 23, to delay the reopening of school until the day after Labor Day, Tuesday, Sept. 8, on the recommendation of Public Health officials due to an increase in local cases of COVID-19. Grady County School superintendent Dr. Kermit Gilliard also said that this would…
Read MoreCommissioners approve costly repair to relatively new backhoe
Grady County commissioners met in one of their shortest regularly scheduled meetings, perhaps of all time, on Tuesday evening. Without a 25-minute closed door session to discuss real estate, the meeting might have ended in under 15 minutes. However, commissioners did spend some of taxpayers’ money by approving a $14,827.28 estimate for repairs needed on…
Read MoreLawmen aid Mitchell County authorities in nabbing suspect here Tuesday morning
Several law enforcement agencies converged on a home on Pope Store Road Tuesday morning and took into custody a 17-year-old Mitchell County youth wanted on outstanding warrants. Capt. Roscoe Jones with the Mitchell County Sheriff’s Office notified the Grady County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit that Scott Foster may be located at the residence, according to…
Read MoreRecent Auburn grad killed in farm accident
A 22-year-old Tallahassee man was killed in an accident on his family’s farm in Whigham last week. Robert Carson Buchner was working at the farm when the accident happened Wednesday, July 15, according to information from the Grady County Sheriff’s Office. Buchner was a 2016 graduate of Maclay High School in Tallahassee and a recent…
Read MoreEarly voting underway in race for sheriff
Advance in-person voting in the runoff for the republican nomination for Sheriff of Grady County got underway Monday and as of the close of business Tuesday, a total of 113 votes had been cast. Grady County chief registrar Malinda Butler told The Messenger Tuesday she had anticipated more voters than who had come in during…
Read MoreNew R.O.T.C. facility is being used as final touches are made
The final touches are being made to the new home for the Cairo High School Navy J.R.O.T.C. program and when school reopens next month, the new facility will be open for cadets. Cairo High School College and Career Academy C.E.O. Todd Gainous said this week that only minor work remains to be done on the…
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