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Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Inger Smith, Teaching Kitchen manager, works with Food Bank staff and volunteers in the kitchen to prepare meals for first responders and healthcare personnel on Wednesday.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Inger Smith, Teaching Kitchen manager, works with Food Bank staff and volunteers in the kitchen to prepare meals for first responders and healthcare personnel on Wednesday.

Food Bank providing meals again Friday for first responders, healthcare personnel

News Staff
Thursday, March 19, 2020
The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Teaching Kitchen will be distributing freshly made meals to all first responders and healthcare personnel on Friday, March 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.  The Teaching Kitchen distributed meals on Wednesday, March 18.
Photo courtesy Kristin Schupp Rabun County Primary, Elementary, and High School cafeteria staff come together to prepare 4,000 meals that fed 400 children for 5 days Monday. Director of School Nutrition Kristin Schupp said the Board of Education will continue this service as long as schools are closed for any child in our community.

Photo courtesy Kristin Schupp Rabun County Primary, Elementary, and High School cafeteria staff come together to prepare 4,000 meals that fed 400 children for 5 days Monday. Director of School Nutrition Kristin Schupp said the Board of Education will continue this service as long as schools are closed for any child in our community.

COVID-19

News Staff
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Schools, public events and some services have been shut down or altered in Rabun County due to the COVID-19 national emergency. The Clayton Tribune has compiled the following list of Rabun County resources that have been affected.
Wayne Knuckles/The Clayton Tribune County commissioners Will Nichols, left, and Kent Woerner at Friday’s emergency meeting of the Rabun County Board of Commissioners.

Wayne Knuckles/The Clayton Tribune County commissioners Will Nichols, left, and Kent Woerner at Friday’s emergency meeting of the Rabun County Board of Commissioners.

County closes most public venues, courthouse open

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
CLAYTON— Meeting in emergency session Friday, March 13, the Rabun County Board of Commissioners agreed to cancel public events at all county venues and halt some services due to COVID-19 concerns.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune Sky Valley Chief of Police Vaughn Estes, left, and Lt. David Edwards stand in front of their police vehicles to show the new car the department is getting after council members approved the purchase of a 2020 Dodge Durango and Ram 1500. Shown on the right is one of the Subarus the police officers are currently driving.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune Sky Valley Chief of Police Vaughn Estes, left, and Lt. David Edwards stand in front of their police vehicles to show the new car the department is getting after council members approved the purchase of a 2020 Dodge Durango and Ram 1500. Shown on the right is one of the Subarus the police officers are currently driving.

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Sky Valley buys new police vehicles

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
SKY VALLEY— The Sky Valley Police Department will finally be getting new vehicles after city council members unanimously passed a motion to approve the purchase at their city council meeting on Tuesday.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune Elisa Tate, cafeteria worker at Rabun County Schools, left, and Reneta “Skeet” Hollifield, cafeteria manager at Rabun County Primary School (RCPS), pass out sack lunch meals at RCPS on Monday so that students have food to eat while school is closed due to COVID-19 concerns.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune Elisa Tate, cafeteria worker at Rabun County Schools, left, and Reneta “Skeet” Hollifield, cafeteria manager at Rabun County Primary School (RCPS), pass out sack lunch meals at RCPS on Monday so that students have food to eat while school is closed due to COVID-19 concerns.

Schools to distribute food twice weekly starting next week

News Staff
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Rabun County School Nutrition will provide meals at NO COST for all children ages 2-18 while schools are closed. Children do not have to be Rabun County students.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune Mountain Lakes Medical Center staff members Kim Ingram, Chief Nursing Officer, Rachel Cowart, Infections Control Nurse and Tammy Coll, CEO, discuss the hospitals preparations for the COVID-19 outbreak.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune Mountain Lakes Medical Center staff members Kim Ingram, Chief Nursing Officer, Rachel Cowart, Infections Control Nurse and Tammy Coll, CEO, discuss the hospitals preparations for the COVID-19 outbreak.

No COVID-19 cases reported in Rabun County so far, but hospitals say they’re prepared to serve public

Wayne Knuckles
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
CLAYTON—Four people have been tested for the COVID-19 virus in Rabun County, but there are no confirmed cases of the virus locally, Mountain Lakes Medical Center officials said Monday.
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TruVista to provide 60 days of free internet service to students

News Staff
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
TruVista released this statement Tuesday afternoon about providing free internet service to students:  As our communities are affected by the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we recognize that our company plays an important role in customers stay connected to their loved ones, workplaces and schools...