Area News

As the flu season continues to unfold, health officials say Grady County is experiencing wide spread activity with some doctors seeing an uptick in diagnoses in recent weeks. The hospital is instituting special visitor limitations in response, schools are monitoring absences and the health department is offering free flu vaccines to people with an inability…

The 2018 MLK Collaborative Annual Scholarship Banquet is Saturday night at the Grady County Agri-Center, and will feature speaker Shaunta Dismuke Sr., performances by the three winners of the “One Voice, One Dream” contest, and entries to the MLK Art Contest. Maria Vasquez will serve as Mistress of Ceremony. Dismuke is a native of Grady…

The Grady County Historical Society will be meeting in Whigham next week and society officials have extended an invitation to the Grady County community to join them. Alice Bond will host the Grady County Historical Society for its monthly meeting at L-Three Gifts, 117 E. Broad Avenue, Whigham, on Tuesday night, Feb. 13, beginning at…

What a difference a date makes. The majority of Grady County employees recently received two paychecks within a matter of days due to an error by Grady County Accounting Manager Donna Johnson. According to county officials, the payroll that was to have been issued on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 was incorrectly coded Monday, Jan. 8,…

A trio of Grady County commissioners held a special called meeting Tuesday morning that included a closed door session to discuss personnel. Attending the meeting were Commission Chairman Ray Prince, Vice Chairman T.D. David and Commissioner June Knight. Absent were commissioners LaFaye Copeland and Keith Moye. Once the meeting was closed to the public and…

Local teen held down until police arrived Cairo Police say entering a pickup truck parked at a local gun and outdoor sports shop turned out to be a bad idea for a local teenager who is now being held in the Grady County jail thanks to store employees. The 17-year-old suspect, Detravonta Tremain Sanders of…

A rare Monday morning public hearing was held by the Grady County Commission this week and not surprisingly not a single member of the public attended the 10 a.m. session. The hearing was held as a requirement of applying for a $750,000 Community Development Block Grant, however minutes of the Grady County Commission do not…

Pay raises for two Grady County department heads that were allegedly omitted from the 2018 operating budget by former administrator Carlos Tobar have been granted and were unanimously approved Monday following a closed door meeting of the Grady County Commission to discuss personnel. Grady County Commissioner Keith Moye requested the closed session to discuss personnel…

Local radio listeners will soon have the opportunity to hear WGRA-AM content on the FM dial. The Federal Communications Commission has granted the local station an FM frequency of 95.9, according to station owner Jeff Lovett. “It won’t be a separate station,” Lovett explains. “We will rebroadcast our same programming on an FM frequency.” WGRA-AM…

It will cost more money for local youth to participate in Grady County Recreation Department activities in 2018. Grady County commissioners last Tuesday night approved rate increases proposed by Recreation Department Director Becky Bracewell. According to Bracewell, the last time registration fees were adjusted was 2007. Mrs. Bracewell is proposing an increase for all activities…