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Pictured are 12th Grade Scholars Issac A. Craig and Jalyn L. Fisher. Not pictured are Quetzaly Diaz Ordaz; Molly E. Mazarky; Molly A. Upchurch; Itzia A. Vasquez Ramos.

Pictured are 12th Grade Scholars Issac A. Craig and Jalyn L. Fisher. Not pictured are Quetzaly Diaz Ordaz; Molly E. Mazarky; Molly A. Upchurch; Itzia A. Vasquez Ramos.

Clayton Lions Club recognizes RCHS students at 62nd Scholars Banquet

The Clayton Lions Club recently recognized students at Rabun County High School who are in the Upper five percent of their class.
Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Flintknapping, a skill that has been around for thousands of years, is a term used to describe forming tools and weapons from stone. Jim Enloe will be instructing Heritage Skills Classes at Foxfire over the next several months.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Flintknapping, a skill that has been around for thousands of years, is a term used to describe forming tools and weapons from stone. Jim Enloe will be instructing Heritage Skills Classes at Foxfire over the next several months.

Foxfire offering Heritage Skills Classes to help preserve Appalachian culture

The mission of Foxfire is to preserve Appalachia and Appalachian Heritage and upcoming Heritage Skills Classes allow those interested to learn the skills of our ancestors and keep those traditions alive for generations to come.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Dr. John Stamey cuts the ribbon for Forward Rabun and Rabun County Chamber of Commerce.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Dr. John Stamey cuts the ribbon for Forward Rabun and Rabun County Chamber of Commerce.

Dillard hosts return visit of BIG conference

For two days, believers, skeptics and those who just wanted to know more about the iconic hairy giant gathered for the seventh Georgia Bigfoot Conference at The Dillard House as in excess of 300 convened in the North Georgia mountains, known for its high level of activity for Sasquatch sightings.
Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Adam Bigelow, horticulturist and botanist who has been studying plants and wildflowers of Southern Appalachia for more than 20 years, lectures on Native Plants to over 100 participants in the March 19 “Prelude to Spring” garden symposium hosted by Mountain Ivy Garden Club.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Adam Bigelow, horticulturist and botanist who has been studying plants and wildflowers of Southern Appalachia for more than 20 years, lectures on Native Plants to over 100 participants in the March 19 “Prelude to Spring” garden symposium hosted by Mountain Ivy Garden Club.

Mountain Ivy Garden Club celebrates 30 years with A Garden Symposium

It’s officially Spring and Mountain Ivy Garden Club kicked off the season with “Prelude to Spring: A Garden Symposium” on March 19 celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Mountain Ivy Garden Club. Bess Green, chairman of the organizing committee for the event, said it was “an overwhelming success.