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The Georgia Board of Natural Resources Tuesday approved nine parks, renovation and land acquisition projects worth about $20 million, the second round of funding through the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Act. Included in the projects approved is $635,620 to purchase a conservation easement at Birdsong Nature Center in south Grady County. Georgia voters overwhelmingly approved a…

Grady County residents are being encouraged to participate in an upcoming Pesticide Clean Day Collection event to be held in two weeks in Camilla. The Georgia Department of Agriculture is sponsoring the event, which will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 10 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Mitchell County Stadium in Camilla, 45…

The final numbers will not be known for several months, but the un-audited and un-amended financial report for 2020 shows that county government ended the year significantly over budget in revenues and under budget in expenses. Finance director Holly Murkerson reviewed the preliminary financial review with the Grady County Commission during their regular meeting Tuesday…

All of the details are yet to be known, but the Grady County Board of Education learned Tuesday night that the system has been awarded $6 million in federal funding in the form of pandemic relief. Last spring, the school system received $1.5 million in federal funds that officials have yet to spend completely, according…

Grady County Schools are continuing to be aggressive in the number of students they send home to quarantine due to potential exposure to the coronavirus, and this week the number reached an all-time high of more than 400 while the number of positive students inched up during the second week of school after Christmas break.…

Legislative leaders are promising to tackle two issues that dominated the news in Georgia and across the nation when the 2021 General Assembly session opened on Monday. Weeks of protests and legal challenges sparked by President-elect Joe Biden’s razor-thin victory over President Donald Trump in Georgia and other battleground states have prompted a call for…

As the end of the year fast approaches, Grady County Tax Commissioner Barbara Darus reports that she and her office have already collected over 75 percent of the property taxes due for 2020. Monday, Dec. 21 was the last day to pay ad valorem taxes without interest and penalty being added to the bill, according…

The Cairo City Council voted 4-0 Monday night to accept a proposal from a local insurance agency for Workers Compensation Insurance, ending a decades long relationship with the Georgia Interlocal Risk Management Agency/Georgia Municipal Association’s self-insured fund. Representatives of Southern Insurance of Cairo Hansell Bearden, Dustin Thomas and Chuck Thomas appeared before the council this…

The Whigham Community Club has announced they are moving the date of the 61st Rattlesnake Roundup two months later than usual next year due to COVID-19 concerns. Traditionally held on the last Saturday of January, the Community Club fund raiser is moving to the first Saturday in March during 2021. In addition to the new…

With very little business to address Tuesday, the Grady County Board of Commissioners spent most of Tuesday morning’s meeting discussing two of the major issues facing the county—sanitation and grass mowing. The county recently solicited proposals from private vendors to perform routine mowing of the county’s rights-of-way. Bids ranged from $226,800 to $300,000 annually. This…