Area News

Cairo’s newly refurbished MacIvor Drive water plant is fully operational and water pumping and treatment is now taking place alternately at the new plant and the plant located at Cairo Municipal Airport. Both plants have arsenic treatment capabilities and the city’s supply of drinking water is being treated for arsenic. “This has been a year…

Grady County voters who did not have an opportunity to vote in the presidential preference primary before it was postponed Saturday, will still have that opportunity, local election officials say. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Saturday that the March 24 presidential preference primary (PPP) would be postponed to May 19 due to the…

Posting unauthorized signs on the state’s right of way is a safety hazard and illegal. Whether it’s political, yard sale, real estate, or goods and services, signs on the state highway system – interstates and state routes – must be approved and permitted to be placed on the right of way. Unauthorized signs can create…

The state’s judicial system remains under a Statewide Judicial Emergency that was issued on Saturday by Chief Justice Harold D. Melton of the Supreme Court of Georgia. The court order will terminate on April 13, 2020, unless it extended. The chief justice’s order halted all court activity across the state, including in Grady County, as…

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Monday, in accordance with newly issued federal guidance, ordered all public elementary, secondary, and post-secondary public schools in Georgia closed from March 18 until March 31 in an effort to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. “To keep our students, teachers, and administrators safe and mitigate the spread of…

Sen. Dean Burke has announced that the Southern Terrace Park Trails Program has been selected by the Federal Highway Administration Recreational Trails Program to receive funding for the Georgia Recreational Trails grant. Upon final approval by FHWA, the Southern Terrace Park Trail project will be awarded $200,000. The funds will be available around the fall…

by Todd Butler Nivel Manufacturing  has been designated the Hall-of-Fame Presenting Sponsor for Thomas University’s Casino Night scheduled for Saturday, March 21, 2020, at the Grady Cultural Center. The TU Alumni Association awarded the designation to Nivel because it is the event’s largest single sponsor for this year’s event. “We’re rolling out the red carpet…

Members of the Grady County Board of Education have repeatedly said that they follow the advice of the school system’s finance officer when it comes to spending money and as the board considers priorities for upcoming projects that practice may be put to the test. On Tuesday night, the school board received a report on…

Imagining Cairo’s historic train depot as a future restaurant, museum or welcome center was an exercise in creativity for the more than 50 people who participated in two public idea sessions Thursday. The groups of community members toured the facility, which currently houses the Cairo Police Department, then brainstormed possible uses for it since the…