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Fall break is eliminated from new school calendar
The 2020-2021 school calendar is being revised and officials say this may not be the final version depending on what may happen in the future. “We will try this for the third time, but remember we must be flexible,” Grady County school superintendent Dr. Kermit Gilliard told members of the Board of Education Tuesday night.…
Read MoreMasks may be required when local schools reopen
Grady County school officials are considering a school reopening plan that would require the use of facial masks by all school personnel as well as students in common areas and in crowded hallways, but how such a mandate, if put in place, would be enforced is still an on-going debate amongst school administrators. Grady County…
Read MoreGot two acres to sell near Whigham?
WANTED TO BUY: approximately two acres of land in or near Whigham, Georgia. Call 229-377-1512. The Grady County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday set a Sept. 1 deadline to identify a suitable location for a new manned garbage site to serve the Whigham area or else proceed with developing the site off State Park Road…
Read MoreAnother COVID-19 death recorded here as cases grow
As Grady County Schools prepare to reopen next month another local resident has died from COVID-19 and the number of positive cases continue to increase. For the third week in a row, the number of new Grady County residents testing positive for COVID-19 has been in the 50s, this week there were 59 new cases…
Read MoreSchool system likely to use reserves to avoid tax hike
The Grady County Board of Education began its work on the 2020-2021 operating budget in earnest Thursday night during a budget workshop meeting. The spending plan, as proposed, totals $38,380,986.29, just over $1 million less than the 2019-2020 fiscal year’s budget. Fearing upwards of $4 million in revenue cuts earlier in the year, Dr. Kermit…
Read MoreJDA awarded $500,000 grant for new spec building
A proposed new speculative building to be constructed at Milestone Industrial Park will soon be a reality thanks to a low interest loan from the state of Georgia. Grady County Joint Development Authority executive director Julian Brown announced Friday that the J.D.A. had been awarded a OneGeorgia Equity Fund loan for $500,000, which the authority…
Read MorePaerosol Global Partners’ $17 million expansion will create 140 jobs in Bainbridge
Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that Paerosol Global Partners, LLC, (PGP), a manufacturer of disinfectant solutions and spraying instruments, plans to invest nearly $17 million in building a new facility in Bainbridge, Ga. This brand-new facility in Decatur County will mark the company’s first location in Georgia and create 140 new jobs. “PGP’s disinfectant…
Read MoreCommissioners approve costly repair to relatively new backhoe
Grady County commissioners met in one of their shortest regularly scheduled meetings, perhaps of all time, on Tuesday evening. Without a 25-minute closed door session to discuss real estate, the meeting might have ended in under 15 minutes. However, commissioners did spend some of taxpayers’ money by approving a $14,827.28 estimate for repairs needed on…
Read MoreLawmen aid Mitchell County authorities in nabbing suspect here Tuesday morning
Several law enforcement agencies converged on a home on Pope Store Road Tuesday morning and took into custody a 17-year-old Mitchell County youth wanted on outstanding warrants. Capt. Roscoe Jones with the Mitchell County Sheriff’s Office notified the Grady County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit that Scott Foster may be located at the residence, according to…
Read MoreRecent Auburn grad killed in farm accident
A 22-year-old Tallahassee man was killed in an accident on his family’s farm in Whigham last week. Robert Carson Buchner was working at the farm when the accident happened Wednesday, July 15, according to information from the Grady County Sheriff’s Office. Buchner was a 2016 graduate of Maclay High School in Tallahassee and a recent…
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