Local grad named UGA chief of staff By Blake Spurney
Editor
Rabun County High School graduate Kathy Rogers Pharr has been named chief of staff of University of Georgia President-elect Jere Morehead.
Pharr said her hometown held a ...
Artist and gallery owner Broderick Crawford has earned another career honor, winning a design contest for the new Georgia wildlife Trout Unlimited license plate.
Along with two other winne...
By Trevor Metcalfe
Staff Writer
Rabun County veterinarians have noticed an increase in poisonous snake bites this year, including from the toxic timber rattlesnake.
“We’ve probably seen a dozen ...
Clayton and Rabun County may boast the slogan “where spring spends the summer,” but for local whitewater rafting outfitters it has this year felt more like the place where winter spent the spring.
...
Barbara Woodall of Rabun Gap has a saying about her more than 60 years of life in the Appalachian Mountains.
“I’m just an old chunk of coal from the embers long ago,” she said.
Woodall, author o...
At sunrise they were students. They had struggled together, shared triumph and suffered defeat. They had completed 13 years of academic instruction and shortly after sunset, the 165 member...
Loaded with more than 20,000 pounds of relief supplies, Tubby Zachary, Michael Chastain and Steve Hicks departed on the 18-hour, 1,000-plus mile drive to Oklahoma early Monday morning.
The three ...
Whether it be from playing music, acting or just making good grades, Rabun County High School students made their mark this past year, claiming statewide and national recognition in more than a ha...
Hearts from Rabun County and Scaly Mountain, N.C., are stretching across the continent with a relief effort for those affected by the May 20 tornado that devastated Moore, Okla.
Twenty-four people...
Former mayor Tom Ramey Sr., a man who may have brought more change to Rabun County than any other person in modern times, died late Monday at the age of 82.
Ramey served two different periods as C...
For nearly 68 years, a piece of Clayton history has been sitting on the corner of Main and East Savannah streets.
The Rock House was built in 1935 as a community gathering place and still beckons ...
Rabun County residents will be having a ball this weekend in support of local pets at the inaugual Paws 4 Life Fur Ball.
The ball, which starts at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Rabun County Civic Center, i...
University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban and his partner are selling the $11 million house they co-own on Lake Burton at a June 6 live auction.
Concierge Auctions is holding the auction for...
Dozens of Rabun County residents have a more polished smile after receiving free dental services last week from the Baptist Mobile Health Ministry.
The ministry is a nonprofit organization that pr...
Farm owner Terri Jagger-Blincoe is eager to share her farming techniques with others now that Ladybug Farms has been recognized as a Natural Resources Conservation Services partner by the U.S. Depa...
Rabun County’s high school and middle school bands were shining in Atlanta’s spotlight this month while participating in the Southern Star Music Festival.
Rabun County Middle School and Rabun Coun...
Cloudy skies and recurring downpours put a damper on the 14th annual Celebrate Clayton festivities last weekend.
Carl Butler, Celebrate Clayton chairman, said the event started off with a large cr...
Celebrate Clayton is returning to Main Street this weekend, bringing with it plenty of food, music and art displays that have been drawing big crowds for 14 years.
The downtown festival kicks off ...
Celebrate Clayton is returning to Main Street again this year, bringing with it the same artsy, musical festivities that have been attracting large crowds for 14 years.
The downtown festival kicks...
If Friday morning’s beaming sun didn’t warm the hearts of the 2013 Rabun County Special Olympics crowd, making dozens of athletes feel like champions surely did.
Everyone felt like a winner Friday...
Clayton artist’s wildlife tag design wins Artist and gallery owner Broderick Crawford has earned another career honor, winning a design contest for the new Georgia wildlife Trout Unlimited license plate.
Along with two other winne...
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