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Submitted photo. Steve Raeber and Buz Stone present Victoria Anderson with the Buz Stone Award and $5,000 grant from the Lake Rabun Foundation.

Submitted photo. Steve Raeber and Buz Stone present Victoria Anderson with the Buz Stone Award and $5,000 grant from the Lake Rabun Foundation.

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Anderson receives 2024 Buz Stone Award

News Staff
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The Buz Stone Award was created in 2012 to recognize Buz for leading the Lake Rabun Foundation for 25 years and for his service to the community. The award is presented each year to an LRA member who, like Buz, “serves the welfare of Rabun County.”
Submitted photo. Crews from Carroll Daniel Construction work to place the iconic Cupola back atop Hodgson Hall.

Submitted photo. Crews from Carroll Daniel Construction work to place the iconic Cupola back atop Hodgson Hall.

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Rabun Gap’s iconic golden cupola returns home

News Staff
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The final phase of the restoration and renovation of Hodgson Hall at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School is complete. The school’s iconic cupola was reset to its original placement atop the historic academic building that faces Highway 441 on Friday, June 14.
Photo courtesy Melissa Elzey. The Ski Patriots on Lake Burton. The Ski Patriots will ski around the lake this year on Sunday, July 7.

Photo courtesy Melissa Elzey. The Ski Patriots on Lake Burton. The Ski Patriots will ski around the lake this year on Sunday, July 7.

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Lake Burton’s Fourth of July Ski Show: A Patriotic Tradition

News Staff
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The annual Fourth of July water ski show on Lake Burton has become a beloved tradition. What started as a small family performance in 2009 has become a spectacular event featuring the Lake Burton Ski Patriots, a team of about 40 skiers ages 9 to 65.
Submitted photo. Patriotic quilts created by the Northeast Georgia Chapter of Quilts of Valor will be presented to Active Duty and Veteran members of the military. Below: Jeanie Whitworth makes a red, white and blue quilt during the “Quilt-a-thon” April 18-20 with the Northeast Georgia Chapter of Quilts of Valor.

Submitted photo. Patriotic quilts created by the Northeast Georgia Chapter of Quilts of Valor will be presented to Active Duty and Veteran members of the military. Below: Jeanie Whitworth makes a red, white and blue quilt during the “Quilt-a-thon” April 18-20 with the Northeast Georgia Chapter of Quilts of Valor.

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Quilts of Valor ‘Quilt-a-thon’

News Staff
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The Northeast Georgia Chapter of “Quilts of Valor” met April 18,19 and 20 at Ebenezer Methodist Church in Hollywood, Ga., to make quilts for active duty and veteran members of our nation’s military.
Katie Hamby/The Clayton Tribune. A crash involving two Jeeps at the intersection of Ga. 15 and Stekoa Falls Road just outside of Clayton city limits June 21 resulted in serious injuries. Pictured is the silver 2014 Jeep Compass Sport involved, which overturned and came to an uncontrolled rest on its passenger side facing southbound.

Katie Hamby/The Clayton Tribune. A crash involving two Jeeps at the intersection of Ga. 15 and Stekoa Falls Road just outside of Clayton city limits June 21 resulted in serious injuries. Pictured is the silver 2014 Jeep Compass Sport involved, which overturned and came to an uncontrolled rest on its passenger side facing southbound.

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Injuries reported in two-vehicle crash just outside Clayton city limits

News Staff
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
A two-vehicle crash on Ga. 15 at its intersection with Stekoa Falls Road on June 21 resulted in suspected serious injuries for two people. The crash occurred at approximately 4:44 p.m., according to the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) motor vehicle crash report.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. A total of 225 paid for Rabun County’s first-ever World UFO Conference that was held at the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia on June 29. Below: Those in attendance even donned springy antenna to salute the visitors from afar.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. A total of 225 paid for Rabun County’s first-ever World UFO Conference that was held at the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia on June 29. Below: Those in attendance even donned springy antenna to salute the visitors from afar.

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Visitors from near & far

Enoch Autry - Publisher
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
While those in Rabun County will have multiple chances to witness illuminating fireworks in the sky over the days surrounding Independence Day, people were able to gaze upward last weekend to catch a glimpse of something eye-catching at Clayton’s first-ever World UFO Conference.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Assistant Director Hannah Cannon and Director Tiffany Prescott check the cribs in The Creative Learning Center’s infant program, set to open Aug. 5.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Assistant Director Hannah Cannon and Director Tiffany Prescott check the cribs in The Creative Learning Center’s infant program, set to open Aug. 5.

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Infant-ly crucial business venture

Enoch Autry - Publisher
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Growth in Rabun County is clearly evident as a wide variety of businesses have sprouted up around the contours of its mountainous terrain. Operation of those businesses takes employees who range from the young to the young at heart.

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City voters to decide on Sunday package alcohol sales on Nov. 5

Megan Horn
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Voters within the City of Clayton will have the opportunity to decide whether they want to allow Sunday package alcohol sales during the Nov. 5 general election. Clayton City Council members voted at the June 18 meeting to approve a Sunday alcohol retail sales referendum be on the ballot.

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Just out of this world

Enoch Autry - Publisher
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Rabun County annually sees an influx of visitors to witness first-hand all Georgia’s most northeastern county has to offer. They come from the home state, nationwide and internationally, but this weekend there may be other galaxies represented.