Cairo eyes revival for downtown district efforts
Cairo residents discuss reviving the downtown area as commercial, cultural and recreational centers fade due to shopping centers and easier car access drawing traffic away from traditional main streets. The article notes nationwide patterns from ghost towns to urban decline and calls for local action.
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America
New York
Meeks
Toccoa
Social Circle
Cairo
Glenn Pelham
Waters
Cairo High to keep trustees as new vocational building rises
Grady County boards debate abolishing Cairo High School trustees but decide to keep them. A $123,700 vocational agricultural building with a 30 seat classroom will house the FFA and YFA, easing lab crowding and boosting local agriculture education.
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Grady County Board of Education
Cairo High School
Jack Willis
Willis
Georgia
Grady County
Whigham
Shiver
Future Farmers Association
FFA
Grady County Young Farmers Association
YFA
Young Farmers Association
Sixth Street
Pecan Crop Off For Year
Georgia reports a reduced pecan crop with a statewide yield near 65 million pounds and individual county estimates around one third below normal. Experts cite improved farming practices as boosting year to year reliability, while noting an early harvest start and the new Georgia Pop Law to curb low quality nuts.
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Gayle Hayes
Thomas
C. W. McIver
County Extension Service
John Bulloch
Ochlochnee
Bulloch
Georgia
Florida
County government reform proposals urged by citizen panel
A citizen committee urged Georgia county reforms to create a county administrator led system. It proposed merging the tax offices, capping officials’ net incomes, and funding outside studies to overhaul operations. It also recommended a professional county police chief and ceremonial sheriff with reduced pay.
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Small Claims Court
Justice of the
Lerahs
Georgia
Citizen
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School of Environmental Design
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Boston
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T'ville
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Bnd
Bob Parkley
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