Whigham News

Climax Mayor Elizabeth Sheddy Phillips is recovering in a Thomasville hospital after she was injured in an auto accident on Monday, according to the Grady County Sheriffa s Office.

Grady County Schools Superintendent Dr. Tommy Pharis says there have been a few "isolated incidents" of alcohol brought on a school campuses this year but it is not "an ongoing problem." "It is not an ongoing problem but, unfortunately, we do have kids who bring alcohol to school," he said Tuesday.

The Climax Community Club's 35th annual Swine Time Festival Friday night and Saturday in Climax featured something for everyone.

Prepare to usher in the holiday cheer with two local Christmas parades next week.

Personnel of Jones Country Meats, a 29-year Climax family business, will be grand marshals of the 35th annual Swine Time Festival Parade on Nov.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 Services for Pauline Harrison Broome, 87, of Cairo, Georgia, are at 2:00 p.m., Friday, November 13, 2009, at Reno Baptist Church, Cairo, Georgia, with the Rev.

Creating New Zealand flags online at Wakari School on Wednesday are Harper Rovi , Nick Laughton , University of Otago website designer Associate Prof Peter Whigham, Georgia Walsh , Maia Koen , Courtney Duff , Paige Thomson and website designer Dr Colin Aldridge.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 Services for Opal Sadler Lee, 89, of Cairo, Georgia, will be held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, October 18, 2009, at the Chapel of Clark Funeral Home.

Melanie Knight of Whigham, Georgia, was babysitting for her three-year-old niece, Elizabeth Cohen, one afternoon when the perfect picture moment happened.

The Decatur County Pine Seedling Pageant will be Saturday, September 26th at 3 p.m. in Whigham, Georgia.

A Grady County Sheriff's Office investigator was returning to Cairo from Thomasville Wednesday night when he learned a suspect in a drug case, a Whigham man, was leaving Grady County and headed for Thomas County, possibly Ochlocknee.

The general election is more than two months away, but those who want to seek offices in Thomas County's small towns must qualify this week.

A Decatur County woman has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection with a fatal wreck last Friday night, Aug.

A Decatur County woman has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection with a fatal wreck last Friday night, Aug.

The Grady County Sheriff's Office, after more than 10 years with the Southwest Georgia Drug Task Force, has branched out on its own to combat illegal substances, Sheriff Harry Young said.

Around 10:30 Saturday morning a crop duster clipped a main power line which provides electricity to many residents and businesses in Cairo, Whigham and other pockets of Grady County.

Around 10:30 Saturday morning a crop duster clipped a main power line which provides electricity to many residents and businesses in Cairo, Whigham and other pockets of Grady County.

Motorists in Grady County can expect to see frequent road blocks in the future, Grady County Sheriff Harry Young said Wednesday.

Two accomplished students have won a 2009 contest sponsored by the Beverly Lewis Foundation for their essays on the federal monetary policy.

The first methamphetamine arrests in Grady County in several months were made over the weekend, officials said.