Area News

With the recent school shooting in Parkland, Fla. the anxiety of parents across the nation remains high and that was evidenced here last week following an incident at Cairo High School. According to school officials, last Tuesday afternoon a CHS student made a “verbal threatening statement” to some classmates and the news of the incident…

Grady County taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $60,000 in penalties payable to the Internal Revenue Service unless the Grady County Commission is successful in convincing the federal government to waive the charges. The penalties stem from the Grady County Board of Commissioners’ office failure to timely and accurately file 1099’s for…

Local residents continue to voice complaints about the condition of Open Pond Road and Old 179 North to members of the Grady County Commission. County commissioners heard from Karis Mills, a resident of Old 179 North, and Heather Brinkley, a resident of Spring Hill Road, Tuesday night. Mills said that Old 179 North, in its…

District 2 Grady County Commissioner Ray Prince said this week he will seek a second, four-year term on the Grady County Commission when qualifying opens next month. “We have so many things that need to be addressed in our county. Tired Creek is one of the largest issues. We need to get development started as…

Grady County commissioners are planning to hold a work session next month in order to discuss a variety of items outside of a regular business meeting. Among the agenda items up for discussion is holding all commission meetings in the evening rather than one meeting a month in the morning and the second meeting of…

With the implementation of a School of Fine Arts and a School of Agriculture, Trade and Industry at Cairo High School planned for this fall, a team of local educators spent Monday visiting similar programs in Cobb and Rockdale counties. Cairo High School Principal Chris Lokey and College and Career Academy CEO Todd Gainous led…

A new policy regarding public participation at Grady County Commission meetings was adopted last week based on similar policies used by other counties represented by the Hall Booth Smith law firm. Grady County attorney Jennifer Dorminey Herzog described the policy as a decorum policy or meeting management policy. Herzog said that many of the rules…

Grady County Board of Education member Teresa Gee Harris and School Superintendent Dr. Kermit Gilliard were among over 800 public school advocates from across the country who gathered in Washington, D.C. last week for the National School Boards Association Equity Symposium and Advocacy Institute. Harris and Gilliard took part in programming sessions, panel presentations, and…