Area News

A group of employees at Cairo’s Timken plant will be without a job later this month, according to a company spokesperson. Nearly 55 people have been told they will be laid off as of Feb. 27, 51 of those are hourly employees, and three are salaried. After this round of layoffs, the Cairo facility will…

The Grady County Joint Development Authority and Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce have selected the next economic development chief and chamber executive to replace Rick McCaskill, who resigned last year.Brian Marlowe, currently a regional project manager with the Georgia Department of Economic Development in Sylvester, has been hired by the authority and chamber.Marlowe will begin…

See the complete obituary in Wednesday’s edition of The Cairo Messenger.

A team of teachers from Northside Elementary School with the help of Northside school-level spelling bee winner, fifth grader Marcellina Lopez, took the top prize from a determined group of thirteen teams on Tuesday night at the historic Zebulon theater.The other winner of the evening was the Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy/Grady County. They scored…

The man who supervises rangers with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in southwest Georgia, including Grady County, has been selected as tops in the state. Sergeant Rick Sellars is the Wildlife Resources Division Law Enforcement Supervisor of the Year. Sellars is the field supervisor for five counties, Grady, Early, Miller, Decatur and Seminole.This 18-year…

Peanut butter sticks, some granola bars and cookie dough are now part of an ever-expanding list of products being recalled because they have a peanut butter ingredient that came from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Ga. The Blakely plant is the focus of an investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug…

Former Cairo City Manager William R. Whitson and the city council of East Ridge Tennessee agreed to an employment contract Thursday. Whitson begins his new job as city manager on February 12.The East Ridge City Council voted 5-0 on Thursday, Jan. 22, to hire the former Cairo city manager, according to East Ridge Mayor Mike…

Grady County Adult Spelling Bee champs Janet Harrell, Kevin Strickland and T.D. David will return to defend their title at this year’s 2009 annual fundraising event for Grady County’s Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy.The defending champions, representing Eastside School, said the word “trichinosis,” sealed their victory last year and, remarkably, the team never missed a…

A respected national program for young girls and boys is interested in locating a site in Cairo, but could the community afford it? That is the question a core group of local volunteers is tasked to determine in the coming weeks. Those locals met with officials of Boys & Girls Clubs of America at Cairo’s…

In their own words students report on trip to Washington D.C.By Morgan Blough, WMS (Sun., Jan. 18, 2009) We woke up Sunday bright and early, 5:30 A.M. to be exact, to head out for the Tallahassee Airport. We had a flight of about half an hour and later landed in Atlanta to get on our…