Area News

After hours of searching the murky Ochlockonee River, divers finally found the body of a man who slipped off a sand bar and drowned in southern Grady County. Felton Leon Moore, 36, was socializing with family and friends near Dickey Ferry Landing Sunday when the accident happened around 7 p.m. Moore’s 21-year-old daughter told authorities…

The City of Cairo has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) earmarked for the Boys and Girls Club of Cairo/Grady County. City Manager Chris Addleton learned Monday the grant had been approved just in time him to inform the council of the…

Discovery of contaminated roast beef from a sandwich kit in a Walmart Super Center has led to the recall of some 380,000 pounds of deli meat products from a plant in New York.  The roast beef was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Georgia Department of Agriculture food scientists discovered the Listeria monocytogenes in roast beef found…

Following a meeting being described as a “city-county partnership meeting” Monday morning, the city of Cairo is no closer to having its ad valorem taxes collected by the Grady County tax commissioner, but Mayor Richard VanLandingham says it is not a dead issue.“We discussed the tax issue, but no final decision has been made. We…

The Grady County commission continues to move forward with the construction of the 960-acre Tired Creek Lake and on Tuesday night some major votes were cast.The board unanimously approved a bid of $1,144,000 from Schnabel Engineering for the design of the dam for the new lake.“This will cover everything up to dam construction,” County Administrator…

A recent analysis of math test data for students taking the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) in the fifth and eighth grade is prompting a revamping of promotion and retention procedures for fifth and eighth graders and the delivery model used for math remediation.Student test data for those taking the math section of the CRCT in…

The Grady County commission would like to examine the possibility and feasibility of combining some of the inferior courts in the county. Tuesday night the board instructed County Attorney Kevin S. Cauley to study a possible consolidation of courts and report back to the board. District 3 Commissioner Charles Norton broached the subject and said…

Former Cairo fire chief Don Towne is without a job following a unanimous vote of the Barrow County Board of Commissioners Tuesday night to terminate him.Towne resigned his position here in June to accept the position of chief of Barrow County Emergency Services after having served as fire chief since October 2007.Since leaving Towne, his…

The Cairo City Council met for the very first time in their new quarters in the former Roddenbery Hardware Co. building next door to City Hall  on Monday night.Also housed in the building is the Grady County Museum & History Center annex.Renovations of the downtown fixture are now complete and Pastor Johnny H. Moore of…

Still chafed by the Grady County Board of Commissioners rejection of a proposal that would allow Tax Commissioner Phyllis Gainous to collect city ad valorem taxes, the Cairo City Council decided it is time to have a heart-to-heart talk with county leaders about the importance of working together.Cairo Mayor Richard VanLandingham will take that message…