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Photo courtesy Peter McIntosh. The mountain landscape of Rabun County turns to vibrant yellows, reds and oranges during the Fall. Peak leaf-looking season is usually around the end of October and first of November.

Photo courtesy Peter McIntosh. The mountain landscape of Rabun County turns to vibrant yellows, reds and oranges during the Fall. Peak leaf-looking season is usually around the end of October and first of November.

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Leaf looking season is here

Megan Horn
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
It’s officially autumn and that means cooler weather, pumpkin spice lattes, apple cider and pumpkin patches are among us. It also marks the start of the changing of the leaves.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Sisters Holly Cabe and Robin Billingsley are both breast cancer survivors and were both diagnosed at age 40. They advocate it's important to get yearly mammograms because they are the key for early detection.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Sisters Holly Cabe and Robin Billingsley are both breast cancer survivors and were both diagnosed at age 40. They advocate it's important to get yearly mammograms because they are the key for early detection.

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Cancer survivors share more than the bond of sisterhood

Megan Horn
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Sometimes it’s the little things in life that mean the most. For sisters Robin Billingsley and Holly Cabe, every moment filled with laughter and prayers and words of encouragement became meaningful blessings in times of hardship.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune.

Fire destroys Cobb Lane home

News Staff
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The cause of a fire at 130 Cobb Ln. on Wednesday, Sept. 23 is undetermined, according to officials. A call was dispatched at 11:08 a.m. and Rabun County Fire Services Stations 1,2 and 8 responded, said Justin Upchurch, assistant chief of Rabun County Fire Services.

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GBI: Henry 'not truthful' during probe

News Staff
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
CLAYTON—Former Clayton City Manager Sylvia Elaine “Cissy” Henry faces two misdemeanor counts of obstructing law enforcement officers during an investigation into the disappearance of $56,035 in signed checks belonging to the city of Clayton Enterprise Fund and Water Reserve Fund, according to law...
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Elaine Lawson, absentee ballot clerk for the Rabun County Board of Elections Office, right, hands a stack of completed absentee ballots to poll worker Ann D’Agostino for processing at the Board of Elections Office Tuesday.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Elaine Lawson, absentee ballot clerk for the Rabun County Board of Elections Office, right, hands a stack of completed absentee ballots to poll worker Ann D’Agostino for processing at the Board of Elections Office Tuesday.

Absentee ballot requests surge due to COVID-19

Megan Horn
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
CLAYTON— The Rabun County Board of Elections Office is gearing up for the Nov. 3 election amidst the coronavirus pandemic and has received an influx of absentee ballot requests as a result.

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Events to bring attention to domestic violence problem

Megan Horn
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the nonprofit organization Fight Abuse In The Home (FAITH) is planning events to bring attention to the problem of domestic violence locally and help combat it in our own community.
Photo from Unsplash.

Photo from Unsplash.

Jury trials can resume in Rabun County beginning in October

News Staff
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Harold Melton, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, in his Sixth Order Extending Declaration of Statewide Judicial Emergency, provides that jury trials, which have been prohibited since March 14, 2020, will be permitted to resume in October 2020.