Area News

A new urgent care and primary care clinic is opening on U.S. 84 in Cairo this fall. MainStreet Family Care is opening the walk-in clinic, which will be located in a renovated building that once housed the local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. “We are excited to begin our expansion into Georgia with our new clinics…

Laura Register of Cairo is joining the management team of a public affairs law firm in Atlanta. Register will be a senior policy advisor with Capitol Affairs, Inc., a public affairs and public policy firm. Register, 55, has been active in local politics since she moved to Grady County in 1992. She was elected and…

Get Grady Reading is a new initiative funded by a $5 million grant to the Grady County School System to improve literacy for local children of all ages. To introduce the program, new grant director and literacy coach for Grady County Schools Erin Simpson is organizing a “Stuff the Bus” two-week school supply drive to…

ABM Building Solutions LLC has completed an extensive energy audit of Grady County government facilities and those findings were presented to the Grady County Commission Tuesday night. Jason Anderson of ABM shared the audit findings that revealed the majority of the heating and air conditioning systems are in need of replacement, having in many instances,…

Local radio listeners may now hear WGRA-790-AM broadcasting on a low powered FM signal, 95.9. The Cairo radio station added a new FM signal last week when the equipment was installed and new FM translator put into service. According to Jeff Lovett, WGRA’s owner and general manager, the radio station was granted a construction permit…

The Cairo High School Syrupmaker football team and coaches are on quarantine after several players and one coach tested positive for COVID-19. Tom Fallaw, athletic director and assistant principal for C.H.S., says activities were discontinued on Aug. 12 when the first positive test result was given. “Coaches have called and told players and parents that…

As the number of new cases continues to rise in Grady County two more local residents were listed this week as dying from COVID-19, according to information from state public health. An 88-year-old white female, and 82-year-old white male were added to the list of local residents who have died from the disease caused by…

Grady Electric Membership Corporation, like many other local businesses and organizations, has been working through difficult times related to COVID-19 while at the same time extending an extra effort to better serve its membership. E.M.C. personnel are busying preparing for an unconventional annual meeting in October that will be designed to keep members safe, but…

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate the death of a 68-year-old Cairo man who died while in custody of law enforcement officers after a standoff at his home Sunday. The G.B.I. identified the victim on Tuesday as Paul Charles Guerrero, 365 Beth Page Road. Although an autopsy was performed at…

As more and more Grady County students opt for online schooling during the coming year due to concerns over the pandemic, local educators are reconsidering the best way to make sure all local students get the educational support they need to succeed. To that end, school leaders announced this week an adjustment to school hours…