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Tallulah Falls School announces 2022 STAR Student and Teacher

News Staff
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Each year, an academic highlight for the senior class is the announcement of the Tallulah Falls School STAR Student and STAR Teacher. Jingyi “Jason” Sang of Shangai, China earned the highest score on the SAT and is currently in the top five percent of this year’s graduating class.
Submitted photo. Sky Valley hemlock treatment crew: Save Georgia’s Hemlocks (SGH) facilitators are in yellow vests. Standing, left to right: Jon Jones, Larry Randolph, Marie Dunkle, Tom Zimmerlink, Pat Hickey, Al Battle, SGH chair and project leader Buz Stone, Jim Curtis, Carl Lynn, Reggie Davis, Howard Beckert, SGH director Donna Shearer, Lena Petersen, Jody Webb and Bruce Gant. Kneeling, left to right: Debbie Davis, Lou MacNaughton and Jon Tiamno.

Submitted photo. Sky Valley hemlock treatment crew: Save Georgia’s Hemlocks (SGH) facilitators are in yellow vests. Standing, left to right: Jon Jones, Larry Randolph, Marie Dunkle, Tom Zimmerlink, Pat Hickey, Al Battle, SGH chair and project leader Buz Stone, Jim Curtis, Carl Lynn, Reggie Davis, Howard Beckert, SGH director Donna Shearer, Lena Petersen, Jody Webb and Bruce Gant. Kneeling, left to right: Debbie Davis, Lou MacNaughton and Jon Tiamno.

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Save Georgia’s Hemlocks treats Sky Valley trees

News Staff
Thursday, February 3, 2022
A group of 19 facilitators and volunteers treated the hemlocks along the Mud Creek waterfall trail in Sky Valley against an invasive insect on a chilly day in December.
Photo courtesy of Conner Horn. Tractor Supply Co., is set to open in Clayton in May with a greenhouse and dog washing station.

Photo courtesy of Conner Horn. Tractor Supply Co., is set to open in Clayton in May with a greenhouse and dog washing station.

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Tractor Supply Co. plows forward into Clayton

Megan Horn
Thursday, February 3, 2022
CLAYTON– If you’ve traveled down Highway 441 in Clayton lately, you’ve probably noticed the new “Coming Soon: Tractor Supply, Co.” sign up on the hill near The Home Depot. Site development is underway and the business is set to open around May, according to Larry Powell, superintendent, from W.R.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Parents of Courtney Faith Zajdowicz, David Cross and Crystal Zajdowicz Cross, wear buttons and display a picture of Zajdowicz at the Rabun County Courthouse Tuesday, following the decision by Superior Court Judge B. Chan Caudell to grant the State’s motion to revoke bond for Jaime Avila Reyes in regard to the crash that killed Zajdowicz. Cross stated that the family is happy with Judge Caudell’s decision.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Parents of Courtney Faith Zajdowicz, David Cross and Crystal Zajdowicz Cross, wear buttons and display a picture of Zajdowicz at the Rabun County Courthouse Tuesday, following the decision by Superior Court Judge B. Chan Caudell to grant the State’s motion to revoke bond for Jaime Avila Reyes in regard to the crash that killed Zajdowicz. Cross stated that the family is happy with Judge Caudell’s decision.

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Judge grants motion to revoke bond in homicide by vehicle case

Megan Horn
Thursday, January 27, 2022
A motion by the State to revoke bond for Jaime Avila Reyes in a case of Homicide by Vehicle in the First Degree was granted by Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge B. Chan Caudell at a hearing Tuesday.

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Commissioners discuss larger building for new sheriff’s office

Megan Horn
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Plans to build a larger building for the Rabun County Sheriff’s Office to store evidence and training equipment was discussed among commissioners Tuesday. Commissioners passed a “motion to begin steps for developing this project to pursue this building.” The building would be 2,400 sq. ft.
Submitted photo. Community Service -- Donations to Book Box at Tiger, Post Office Shown with the books location is FBLA member Emily Dugas.

Submitted photo. Community Service -- Donations to Book Box at Tiger, Post Office Shown with the books location is FBLA member Emily Dugas.

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Rabun County Schools FBLA is on the Move

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Thursday, January 27, 2022
During the month of August 2021: -Donated to the book drop at the Tiger Post Office. During the month of October 2021: -Students participated in the Stock Market Challenge which gave them a fictional sum of money and allowed them to trade and buy stocks.

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On Campus magazine cover features student artwork

News Staff
Thursday, January 27, 2022
The release of the Fall 2021 issue of On Campus magazine delivered a surprise to Tallulah Falls School senior Chloe Kahwach of Cleveland. Kahwach created the artwork for the cover in Tina Cheek’s art class. The seasonal scene evokes the beauty of the mountains surrounding Tallulah Falls School.
Rabun County Public Library. James Brim, manager of the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Mountain Branch, left, receives a donation of food items from Kim Cannon, youth services, outreach and programming coordinator, collected from the Food for Fines program held by the library during December. Brim said 683 pounds of food were donated from the event.

Rabun County Public Library. James Brim, manager of the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Mountain Branch, left, receives a donation of food items from Kim Cannon, youth services, outreach and programming coordinator, collected from the Food for Fines program held by the library during December. Brim said 683 pounds of food were donated from the event.

Library Food for Fines program successful

News Staff
Thursday, January 27, 2022
The Food for Fines program at the Rabun County Public Library during December was a successful event, according to Library Manager Dyana Costello Banks. “With the success of Food for Fines, we plan on doing it again next year,” Banks said. “[It’s] to support our local community.