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Before the middle school baseball game on March 4, Whigham School had a special ceremony to honor former student athlete, Emerson Hancock. Hancock’s #11 baseball jersey was officially retired and will hang in the school gym. Hancock attended Whigham School and played baseball, as well as football and basketball, during his middle school years. Hancock…

The Cairo High School Syrupmaids punched their ticket to the AAAA State Championship game today, March 10, at 5 p.m. at the Macon Centreplex, with a win Friday night over Troup County 55-51. Cairo has hosted all four playoff games in the tournament, making the Final Four for the first time since the Syrupmaids won…

Just before Friday afternoon’s Final Four match up with Troup County, Cairo’s Teresa Edwards visited by Zoom with the Syrupmaids to offer some encouragement and advice. “The work is in, you are ready, now go out there and have some fun,” Edwards told the team. The four-time Olympic Gold Medal champion, former Syrupmaid and University…

For the first time since 1999, the end of the school year will fall in June and not in May based on the 2021-2022 school calendar adopted by the Grady County Board of Education Tuesday night. The school board tabled the approval of the calendar at their February meeting and asked school superintendent, Dr. Kermit…

As the year anniversary of the first reported cases in Grady County inches closer, the numbers related to COVID-19 here have improved dramatically, although one more local resident was reported as dying from the disease in the last week. A total of 44 Grady countians have died from COVID-19 in the pandemic to date, according…

The Grady County Board of Education is taking a cautious approach to major facilities improvements at West Thomas Stadium. During Tuesday night’s regular meeting of the Grady County Board of Education, school superintendent Dr. Kermit Gilliard, finance officer Dan Broome and maintenance director Dave Mitchell shared information with the board concerning additional projects that are…

The vaccination effort in Grady County is ramping up this week with Grady County educators getting their shot at getting inoculated against COVID-19 Friday. That news comes as the Grady County Health Department reports it is administering an average of 300 doses per week to the community and had given 2,982 shots so far, as…

It has been 39 years since the Cairo High School Syrupmaids have played in the final four of the state basketball championship playoffs, but here we go. In dramatic fashion, the Cairo High School Syrupmaids improved to 17-1 with a 51-49 win over Pickens County Tuesday night at Cairo High School. Both teams were tied…

A project that has caused heartburn for county officials for some time continues to be problematic as well as costly. Grady County Commissioners voted Tuesday morning to accept the low bid from The Scruggs Company of Valdosta to complete the road and drainage improvements to Johnson Road, Pine Lakes Drive and Pine Hill Lakes Drive…

Georgia School Superintendent Richard Woods recognized Cairo High School last week for increasing the number of students participating in Advanced Placement classes, naming it to the list of A.P. Honor Schools. To be recognized as an A.P. Expansion School, schools must experience 25 percent growth in A.P. student participation from May 2019 to May 2020…