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Grady County Administrator Carlos Tobar was on the hot seat Tuesday night for his alleged actions involving Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice officials housed at the Grady County Recreation Department headquarters, which is the former Grady County Sheriff’s Office. Grady County Commission Chairman LaFaye Copeland took Tobar to task for his actions. Tobar had reported…

For three consecutive weeks, the Grady County Commission has gone behind closed doors to discuss personnel issues. Coimmissioners met for over an hour during the most recent closed-door session Tuesday night. During a majority of the session, the board met without County Administrator Carlos Tobar. Commissioners met with county auditor Tom Carmichael, Grady County Attorney…

University of Georgia researchers have begun surveying landowners in parts of Georgia to assess how much economic damage feral swine are causing throughout the state. A new survey, “Feral Swine on Private Lands in Georgia,” has been mailed to 3,000 landowners across Georgia and is being conducted by Michael Mengak and students in UGA’s Warnell…

Grady County has been without an accounting manager for over a month, but on Tuesday night the county commission instructed County Administrator Carlos Tobar to begin advertising for the position. Connie Blackman resigned the post on Jan. 12 and the effective date of her resignation was Jan. 23, but she never returned to work after…

Grady County commissioners last Tuesday instructed the county administrator to back off a plan that would require Juvenile Court to pay rent for office space they occupy at the former Grady County Sheriff’s Office, now home to the Grady County Recreation Department. County Administrator Carlos Tobar told commissioners last week he had been discussing with…

Lights! Camera! Action! Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts students are planning to return to Cairo’s Zebulon Theater to film another production. “Frankenstein’s Light” is slated to be filmed here beginning Thursday, with two more days of production next week. The film, produced by Erica Chan, is the story about a girl who…

Cairo High School will return to the 4 x 4 block schedule when school reopens for the new term in August. The Grady County Board of Education unanimously approved the recommendation of Superintendent Lee M. Bailey to shift to the new schedule for the 2015-2016 school term, but monitor through the next scheduled charter school…

A recent poll indicates less than one in five Georgians supports the proposed Georgia transportation funding legislation recently introduced in the legislature and you can add all members of the Cairo City Council and the Grady County Board of Education to that number. Both bodies this week unanimously adopted resolutions in opposition to the reallocation…

A memorial 5K Run and Walk in the name of late educator Lateesha Faulk Clinton takes place Saturday at Southside Elementary School in Cairo. The run/walk will benefit an educational scholarship fund for projects and opportunities for students at Southside, where Clinton was principal when she passed away suddenly in February 2013. Registration is now…

With the dam for the Tired Creek Lake now complete Grady County officials are seeking to determine the best approach moving forward to complete the project and how best to manage it. Grady County Administrator Carlos Tobar, who recently recommended the county commission nix its plans to issue $10 million in bonds to cover the…