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The chairman of the Grady County Board of Education delayed executing a new contract approved by the board last month to extend the tenure of the county school superintendent for an additional three years and then on Tuesday night he requested the meeting minutes of the March 9 meeting be revised to reflect that he…

The following is reprinted with permission from Georgia Outdoor News BY DARYL KIRBY Since opening to the public on Memorial Day weekend in 2018, a 960-acre recreational fishing lake named Tired Creek has been a fishing gem in extreme south Georgia. Big bass always get the attention of anglers, and Tired Creek Lake in Grady…

Reception for her to be held April 13 The new executive director of the Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce is now on the job and says she is looking forward to getting to know her new community. Jennifer Jarvis started Thursday, and says it has been a very welcoming experience. “It is a very hospitable…

County road crews will soon be able to make longer lasting pot hole repairs and do so quickly. Grady County commissioners on Tuesday morning approved the purchase of a tractor mounted four-ton asphalt recycler and hot box to be used in filling pot holes in county roads. “By using hot mix, we can fill the…

Grady County School System personnel are enjoying a week’s vacation this week and they all departed last Friday with some extra green in their pockets. All 627 employees of the school system received $1,000 bonuses on Friday. The state picked up the payment for all teachers and other staff including cafeteria workers, custodians, and bus…

Efforts to get Grady County vaccinated against COVID-19 continued Friday with about 140 people getting their shots during a drive-thru event sponsored by Grady General Hospital. During the two-hour drive-thru, nearly 70 people got their first shots, and more than 70 received their second dose of the vaccine. The hospital has scheduled another community drive-thru…

Grady County Commissioners on Tuesday morning approved a contract to privatize garbage collection and disposal with Taylor Waste Services Inc. of Cairo and authorized Chairman Phillip Drew to execute the contract. Commissioners are anxiously anticipating the completion of the new manned dumpsite west of Whigham on Bunn Lane and once it is operational the county…

Cairo Police are investigating a robbery that took place at a sporting goods store here midday Saturday. Store clerks at Hibbett Sports, located on Eighth Avenue N.E., tell police that the suspect was in the store between 30 and 60 minutes before he ran outside with an armload of merchandise at 12:39 p.m. A store…

It has been exactly one year since the first positive COVID-19 case was announced in Grady County and only a few weeks later that the first death was reported. The first positive test result was discovered March 31, 2020 and reported in the April 1, 2020 issue of The Messenger, just days after local governing…

Cakes decorated in a variety of themes and colors dazzled judges and onlookers at Saturday’s Cake Decorator’s Contest put on by the Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce and Miss Myrt’s. There were 10 entrants who displayed their cakes at Gate 16 Plaza Saturday where judges selected the winners and a people’s choice award was announced…