Area News

By Cale Cloud, Grady County Extension Service Agricultural and Natural Resources Agent Hot and dry. That has been the story here in Grady County and most of south Georgia lately. Thankfully, we did receive a little rain over the weekend for the first time in over two weeks, but it wasn’t enough to stop anyone…

Greenwood and Crestview cemetery in Cairo was the location of a twilight Memorial Day ceremony conducted by the Grady County Veterans Honor Guard Monday. Master of ceremonies John Ulrich described the guard as “the aging warriors of an older generation” who served our country in their youth. “We have never stopped serving and our continuing…

The keynote speakers at Friday night’s commencement exercises for the 258 members of the Cairo High School Class of 2021 made the audience both laugh and cry. The speeches given by Valedictorian Camille Alyssa Dukes and Salutatorian Michelle Jamelid Morales were distinctly different, but no less impactful. Morales, a first generation high school graduate, shared…

By Mary Harrison, intern An unparalleled automobile, recently sold by local collector Wayne Hadden to a prospective Cairo resident, will be the featured vehicle at a central Florida car show later this year. The second annual Gasparilla Concours d’Elegance, French for “competition of elegance,” is slated to be held December 3-5, 2021, at the Tournament…

Travelers in the Pine Park community are safer today thanks to a donation that happened after a chance meeting volunteer firefighter Brian Atkinson had while working at his day job. Atkinson serves as second lieutenant at the volunteer fire department in Pine Park. His paid job is with Cal-Mart Inc. of Cairo. While finishing a…

All of Grady County’s unmanned dumpster sites are now closed, but that is not stopping people from continuing to deposit garbage and debris at those former dumpster locations around the county. With the opening of the new manned site on Bunn Lane, west of Whigham last week, all of the unmanned sites in the western…

Melinda Kay Polk of Grady County won second place in two categories in the recent Rose Show Photography Exhibition in Thomasville. Polk won for her photograph of Fourth of July, Hybrid Modern Climbing Rose with a honey bee and a photo of an About Face Rose, Grandiflora. These rose photos were the first Polk had…

Cairo High School senior Mary Harrison is one of 323 graduating seniors from across Georgia who is a 2021 Georgia Scholar, State School Superintendent Richard Woods announced Thursday. Through the Georgia Scholar program, the Georgia Department of Education identifies and honors high school seniors who have achieved excellence in school and community life. “It is…

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has announced the selection of the 2020-2021 Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program “Conserve Georgia” grants for conservation and outdoor recreation projects. Tall Timbers will receive over $600,000, to purchase a 444-acre conservation easement on Birdsong Nature Center in Grady County, Georgia – the second phase of a conservation easement project…

There was an uptick in the number of Grady County residents testing positive for COVID-19 in the last week and also another death of a local person reported. According to information from the Georgia Department of Public Health, there were 19 new cases in the last seven days, that’s nine more than the last week’s…