Area News

The Cairo City Council Thursday night approved the groundwork for the formation of a new Cairo-Grady County Airport Committee. Members of the local airport community recently approached the city council about creating a committee that would allow users of the airport to have a voice in its operations and future airport improvements. During Thursday night’s…

The Cairo City Council has given the green light to City Manager Chris Addleton to hire a gas superintendent to manage the day-to-day operations of the city’s gas department.During Thursday’s city council meeting, the council voted to eliminate two approved, but vacant, positions within the gas department and to add the position of gas superintendent.Depending…

This is the fourth and final week of the 2011 “Best of Grady County” Readers Choice Awards contest so you have until Monday, Jan. 31, to cast as many ballots as you wish.Mailed entries must be postmarked by Jan. 31 to be included in this year’s contest.Hundreds and hundreds of ballots have already been cast,…

Cairo attorney Tom Lehman’s new associate is familiar to many in the court system of the South Georgia Judicial Circuit. In 2006, Lawton Heard Jr., clerked for then Superior Court Judge J. Richard Porter, now retired.Heard, a native of Baker County, had just graduated from Florida Coastal School of Law in December 2005 when he…

Cairo Councilman James H. (Jimmy) Douglas received a Certificate of Achievement from the Georgia Municipal Training Institute at the Georgia Municipal Association’s (GMA) Mayors’ Day Conference in Atlanta on Jan. 23. The Georgia Municipal Training Institute, a cooperative effort of GMA and the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, provides a nationally recognized…

Pearline Thompson, a retired educator who is a weekly correspondent of The Cairo Messenger, received special Congressional recognition last week during the Dr. M.L. King Jr. Day service held at Bethlehem A.M.E. Church.The special recognition from Second District Congressman Sanford Bishop was presented on his behalf by his representative Wallace Sholar.Mrs. Thompson was spotlighted in…

Grady County is now officially a party to a law suit filed by Georgia River Network and American Rivers against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.An answer to the suit alleging the Corps should not have issued a 404 permit to Grady County to construct the 960-acre Tired Creek lake was filed by the Corps…

Members of the Grady County Joint Development Authority had the chance to sit down and talk face-to-face with officials of a local business that is suing the authority for damages caused by a leaky roof at the Heritage Industrial Complex. Steve and Dallas Strickland of L&L Business Associates appeared before the authority with photo evidence…

Thomas County School Nutrition Director Karen Green was recently honored with the Silver Special Achievement Award by the National Foodservice Achievement Management Excellence (FAME) Award program.The award was presented to Green during the FAME award ceremony held Jan. 16, 2011 at the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle during the School Nutrition Association’s (SNA) Child…

The local initiative to accurately count those in the community who are homeless kicks off Monday and will run through Jan. 31.Residents who do not have a home of their own are encouraged to take the 10 question survey, which officials say will take less than 10 minutes to complete.If you are sleeping in a…