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Cairo

Sunny
Temperature: 55.4 °F

Humidity: 38 %
Wind Speed: 0 mph NNE
Pressure: 29.99 "

Dew Point: 30 °F
Gusts: 29 mph W
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• Park rates could change
  

  Utility customers at the Decatur County Industrial Air Park could soon see changes to their usage rates.

• Memo to A. Don Faulk, President and CEO of the Medical Center of Central Georgia
  

  Here is a photo of Spencer Price, a physician and officer in the Georgia Army National Guard .

• Tip leads to pot find in Grady County
  

  The Grady County Sheriff's Office, Decatur County Sheriff's Office and Southwest Georgia Drug Task Force worked together to apprehend a suspected marijuana seller over the weekend.

• Hail to the queen'
  

  When LaGrange-Troup Chamber of Commerce honors its retiring president at a reception tonight, it will be saluting a woman known far and wide as the "queen of economic development." Jane Fryer is not just a ...

• New telephone service now available
  

  The City of Cairoa s new telephone service is up and running City Manager Chris Addleton reported to members of the mayor and council Monday night.

• Three arrested on Central campus
  

  Thomas County Sheriff's Office deputies who responded to the Thomas County Central High School campus Friday afternoon found a lot more than the wreck to which they were called.

• Police raid boarding home
  

  Police arrested two residents of a local boarding home Wednesday night on drug charges.

• Grady County Sheriff's race could be a close one
  

  A big election in Grady County where the Sheriff is fighting to keep his job. And this race is a re-match of a race four years ago.

• Mule Day is Saturday
  

  DENNIS VICKERS dips the cooler syrup and places it back over the hotter syrup in an effort to regulate the temperature and keep the syrup from burning.

• Jehovaha s Witnesses to hold Assembly this weekend
  

  A two-day Circuit Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses will be held starting at 9:30 a.m. each day Nov.

• Tax bills mailed
  

  Grady County Tax Commissioner Phyllis Gainous and Cairo City Clerk Carolyn Lee both reported this week that tax bills have been placed in the mail and taxpayers should begin receiving them immediately.

• Mayor Harrell: City growing despite downturn
  

  Bainbridge Mayor Mark Harrell expressed optimism after employees of the city's Community Development Division made their annual presentation to the City Council on Tuesday night.

• Courthouse squabble erupts over raises
  

  LEE WILLIAMSON IS THE NEW OWNER OF IGA IN CAIRO. Williamson, center, purchased the business this week from Steve Jenkins, right.

• Cairo teen charged in CHS arson case
  

  An arrest has been made in the arson case of Cairo High School's baseball field concessions stand.

• Seafood Festival to Feature Two Concerts
  

  Excitement is building for the 45th annual Florida Seafood Festival, which will offer twice the entertainment options this year than in the past.

• Cairo man arrested for burglary
  

  A suspected burglar was caught in the act in Cairo. Police say someone spotted 38-year old Benjamin Garbo kicking in the door of a house on First Street yesterday.

• Grady Hall of Fame seeks home
  

  Organizers of the new Grady County Sports Hall of Fame are looking for a place to house it.

• Your Agenda
  

  The Georgia Pines Community Service Board for area mental health, developmental disabilities and addictive disease services has scheduled a meeting to be held on Thursday, Oct.

• Cairo residents charged with cocaine trafficking
  

  Thomas County/Thomas-ville Narcotics/Vice Division agents intercepted a powder cocaine delivery that originated in Cairo and was destined for a Thomasville residence.

City Description

Cairo is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 9,239. The city is the county seat of Grady County. The city was named for Cairo, Egypt, but its name is pronounced /ˈkɛəroʊ/ (listen). Although Cairo is nicknamed the "Syrup City" it has no relationship with the Karo brand of corn syrup, which is pronounced like the city's name. Rather, Cairo earned its nickname by producing cane syrup from the early 1900s through the late 1990s. Of the several companies that produced cane syrup, Roddenbery's was the best known. Reflecting this "syrup" heritage, the Cairo High School football team is nicknamed the Syrupmakers, and the school mascot is the agriculturally based sugar cane farmer/syrupmaker similar to the Cornhusker and Boilermaker. According to local tradition, this began during a rainy football game, when the players wore donated ponchos with "Roddenbury Syrup" printed on them. The most widely accepted tradition and the one with the most supportive evidence claims that a newspaper reporter referred to the Cairo Tigers in print as "the syrupmakers from Cairo." The school's female athletic teams are named "Syrup Maids,"

City Contained By:

• Grady County
• Georgia

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 24.3458882372 km squared

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