January 28, 2012
Timothy Butler, Rhapsody of Rabun president, from left, signs a contract with Helen Kleiber, Sid Weber Memorial Cancer Fund president, and Margaret Dunn, coordinator of the Rabun County Civic Center. Proceeds from the gala event in September will help cancer patients and their families with nonmedical expenses.
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The applications are in, and three nonprofit organizations have been narrowed down to one, making the Sid Weber Memorial Cancer Fund the 2012 Rhapsody beneficiary for the second time in five years.
Mark Perdue, Rabun County High School Teacher of the Year, quizzes students Monday in his Advanced Placement U.S. history class.
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After devoting 12 years to his students, Mark Perdue has been recognized as the Rabun County High School Teacher of the Year for 2011, a title his students have always known he deserved.
Brian Rickman
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Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Brian Rickman has been appointed to the Georgia Board of Public Safety.
Penny Ramey reads her newly published book ‘Rosey the Nosey Basset Hound’ to a group of 3- and 4-year-olds Friday at the Creative Learning Center.
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For Penny Ramey, writing a successful children’s book is as simple as remembering an old furry friend.
Brian Hunnicutt, Rabun County Middle School Teacher of the Year, helps his seventh-grade student Dawson Henricks with a riddle during English class Friday.
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While some people know that they are meant to stand in front of a classroom their whole lives, Brian Hunnicutt, the Rabun County Middle School Teacher of the Year, had no clue it was for him.
Kelley Curtis, the Rabun County Elementary School Teacher of the Year, speaks with fourth-grade students Latoya Singer, left, and Stephanie Mendieta.
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For Kelley Curtis, Rabun County Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year for 2011, helping children is a way of life.
Obolon Baptist Church music minister, Vladimir, far right, leads the church in a song as part of one of the church’s numerous praise bands.
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As the Ukrainian people have been through much since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and a subsequent economic recession that lasted through most of the ‘90s, many of that nation’s popu...
‘Mama Charlie’ Gragg stands with Eli Brewer, left, and Brayar Coalley while looking at one of the bracelets the boys have been selling for $3 to raise money for Gragg’s chemotherapy bills.
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For almost 12 years, “Mama Charlie” Gragg has brought smiles to the faces of Walmart customers and their children, but now it’s her turn to wear the smile.
Ed Dibble, an American Red Cross volunteer of five years, fills out paperwork for some clients at the disaster recovery center in Rabun County after Hurricane Ivan struck in 2005. Dibble said he handled a total of 73 client cases that year.
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For many years, the Northeast Georgia Chapter of the American Red Cross has remained on call for residents in need, even though the organization has been struggling for local support.
Construction workers at the future Rabun County Primary School site work Monday to install a 60-inch pipe into an underground storm water detention pond. The pond is designed to hold runoff for the storm water system. The school site has five detention ponds that catch, filter and release storm water runoff. Site work began in July 2011.
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Though construction for the future Rabun County Primary School began in July 2011, workers have just begun preparing the foundation of the building.
Universal Joint bartender Tom Glaze serves Julie Andrews of Tiger a $3 bloody mary Sunday during its pajama party, which celebrated the first day of legal Sunday sales. Andrews wore sock monkey pajamas to receive a discount on bloody marys.
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The Universal Joint in downtown Clayton kicked off the new year and first day of Sunday sales with discounted bloody marys, mimosas and flannel pajamas.
Tammy Childress holds a get-well card her 7-year-old daughter Lindsey wrote to her older brother, Justin, who remains in intensive care at Greenville Memorial (S.C.) Hospital. She spent the Christmas weekend going back and forth between the rooms of her husband, Stephen, and Justin.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — Santa Claus came and went this past weekend, but the Childress family still hasn’t celebrated Christmas.
An 800-yard section of Moccasin Creek Road along Lake Burton has become a safety hazard for residents after the April 27 tornado debris was cleared, leaving a steep gap on the edge of the road.
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A segment of Moccasin Creek Road along Lake Burton has become the worry of several residents after a road cleanup cleared an opening on the edge of a steep hill.
Rabun County Lady Wildcats junior Bryleigh Bleckley applies defensive pressure along the baseline during a 74-44 win Friday at home against Walhalla, S.C.
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Rabun County Lady Wildcats starting seniors are making their presence felt this season, helping their team secure three more recent wins to remain perfect in 2011-12.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Brandon Callahan, far right, stands with former Marine Corps members Ivy Stiles, from right, Mike Hopkins, with the Georgia State Patrol, and Randy Hughes during a Toys for Tots event earlier this month at Walmart.
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“It was like tearing my heart out,” said Mildred Callahan of Clayton when asked about dropping off her 21-year-old son Brandon Callahan at basic training in 2010.
Pictured is the wreckage of two vehicles involved in a head-on collision Dec. 14 on Highway 441 at George Eller Circle. Four people in the Ford F-150 to the left were injured. Stephen and Tammy Childress of Mountain City and their 8-year-old son were airlifted to Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital. Their 7-year-old daughter, Lindsey, suffered a broken leg.
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A local family of four was heading home to change clothes for the evening church service Dec. 14 when a van crossed the center line at George Eller Circle and hit its pickup head on.
Calley Ward, 5, left, and her sister, Bailey, 6, visit with Santa Claus on Dec. 15 at the Clayton Municipal Complex. Local children had the opportunity to meet Santa and relay to him their Christmas wishes. Photographs of children with Santa also were made available.
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Calley Ward, 5, left, and her sister, Bailey, 6, visit with Santa Claus on Dec. 15 at the Clayton Municipal Complex. Local children had the opportunity to meet Santa and relay to him their Christma...
Fifth-grader Natalie Jump begins painting a picture while sitting in art class at Rabun County Elementary School. Jump recently won a wrapping paper design contest held by the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press.
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Rabun County Elementary School fifth-grader Natalie Jump recently won a wrapping paper design contest held by the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press.
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More than 200 Rabun County residents filled The Dillard House Conference...
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