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Election superintendent prepares for new voting machines
The 2020 election cycle will likely be one election officials in Georgia will not soon forget. Next year is not only a presidential election year, but locally there is the possibility of a referendum for a Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax in addition to the election of local constitutional officers. All of the…
Read MoreGrady Countian killed in tragic accident Tuesday
Authorities are investigating a tragic accident that claimed the life of a Grady County man Tuesday morning. Details of the investigation were not available at presstime, but according to authorities on the scene the victim has been identified as William B. (Billy) Davis, a resident of Pierce Chapel Road. Officials say that Davis was operating…
Read MoreVehicular homicide case to go back to the Grand Jury
District Attorney Joe Mulholland says a vehicular homicide case involving two Grady County teenagers will have to go back before a grand jury next month. Mulholland says his office plans to dismiss an original indictment against Anna McBride, but tighten the language in the warrant. He said the updated case will then be presented to…
Read MoreEconomic development bus tour to make stop here
The 2019 South Georgia Economic Development Bus Tour will roll into Cairo on Thursday with an 8 a.m. stop at the historic Zebulon Theater. Grady County Joint Development Authority executive director Julian Brown says the community-owned theater would be a unique venue to host the 26 statewide project managers and economic development officials participating in…
Read MoreSale of book benefits local animal sanctuary
When author VieVie Baird was recovering from breast cancer, she often visited Frog Song Farm Sanctuary in Grady County. Baird says she labeled it as one of her “happy places” during her treatments. On many visits, she was captivated by the relationships created among all the different species. All the animals seemed to get along…
Read MoreCairo Fire Department joins elite group
Both the City of Cairo and Grady County Volunteer fire departments join Whigham in celebrating improved ISO fire ratings following new findings by the company that issues the classifications. The ISO for Cairo improved from a Class 3 to a Class 2 rating, a classification shared by only 1,597 other fire departments in the nation,…
Read MoreSenatorial candidate seeks support in southwest Georgia
Teresa Tomlinson, 2020 Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, brought her campaign to Cairo this week, touring Grady General Hospital, holding a “meet and greet” with voters and visiting neighboring communities. Tomlinson, an attorney, is former mayor of Columbus, Georgia’s second largest city, the candidate points out. Although she was raised in Atlanta, Tomlinson…
Read MoreUnexpected visitor at CHS caused a stir on opening day of school
The reopening of school would have been mostly uneventful if not for an unexpected visitor who made his/her way onto the campus of Cairo High School Friday morning. Just as school had gotten underway at CHS, a raccoon who seemed out of sorts was discovered on the north end of the campus. “We were not…
Read MoreWashington students talked with NASA specialists Monday
Some Grady County middle schoolers had a special start to the new school year, a video conference with NASA aerospace engineers. The sixth grade Honors Academy students at Washington Middle School spoke via Skype with the engineers from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. “Today, we learned that the newest manned mission back…
Read MoreCHS alumna completes internship at GGH
For the last several weeks, University of Georgia masters degree student Sombal Bari has worked at Grady General Hospital where she has learned about the workings of such a medical facility. Bari, 23, says the experience has been “amazing.” She says, “The staff was extremely welcoming, and I learned so much on how every employee…
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