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Submitted photo. Headwaters Master Gardeners, Boy Scout Troop 6, Chattooga Conservancy, and other Clayton citizens worked to remove invasive species and clean up Stekoa Creek Park on Sunday, March 2.

Submitted photo. Headwaters Master Gardeners, Boy Scout Troop 6, Chattooga Conservancy, and other Clayton citizens worked to remove invasive species and clean up Stekoa Creek Park on Sunday, March 2.

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Teamwork on Cleanup Day at Stekoa Creek Park

News Staff
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Headwaters Master Gardeners, Boy Scout Troop 6, Chattooga Conservancy and other Clayton citizens who are interested in native plants helped on Cleanup Day workday at Stekoa Creek Park on Sunday, March 2. They continued to remove invasive species including ivy, kudzu, privet, etc.

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Protect yourself, loved ones from measles with a vaccine

News Staff
Thursday, March 13, 2025
We are just at the beginning of March, but as of last week there have already been 222 people with measles in 2025 (an increase of 60 people in one week). In other words, in just the first nine weeks of 2025, the United States has 80 percent of the measles cases that we had for all of 2024.
The Hartwell Sun. Newly hired Rabun County head football coach Rance Gillespie speaks to his former Hart County players after a 2019 game during his time as head coach of the Bulldogs. Gillespie is a native of Rabun County.

The Hartwell Sun. Newly hired Rabun County head football coach Rance Gillespie speaks to his former Hart County players after a 2019 game during his time as head coach of the Bulldogs. Gillespie is a native of Rabun County.

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Superintendent Cole speaks about arrival of veteran coach

Wade Cheek
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Rabun County Superintendent Steven Cole joined the Rabun County Board of Education (BOE) in giving Rance Gillespie an excited welcome back to his hometown on Monday, March 10, as the Rabun native and veteran college and high school football coach was named as the new head coach of the Rabun County...

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Suspect now in custody for murder of former Clayton man

Megan Horn
Thursday, March 6, 2025
A wanted murder suspect and 18-year-old Anderson County, S.C., man is now in custody after an almost week-long search. Detectives have charged Daeshawn Marquize Wilson with the murder of once-missing man Jimmy Allen Ramey, 31, of Seneca, S.C. Ramey is formerly of Clayton.

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Commissioners establish Advisory Council for Opioid Abatement Funds

Megan Horn
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Rabun County Commissioners recently established a resolution to appoint an Advisory Council that would give recommendations on ways to spend Opioid Abatement Funds, which is projected to reach $10 million over 10 years for the county. The five-member Advisory Council appointed during the Feb.
File/Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Local students participated in the 2023 Foxfire Summer Leadership Program, now called “Project Foxfire,” where they helped Foxfire Museum Director Barry Stiles hew logs to build the miniature replica Blacksmith Shop, which is now featured in the Children’s Village. Students pictured from the 2023 program include Luke Thompson, Sam Flaherty, Celton Littrell, Sean Flaherty, Brinn Justice, Gavin Sharpe, Lily Karplus and Olivia Nixon.

File/Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Local students participated in the 2023 Foxfire Summer Leadership Program, now called “Project Foxfire,” where they helped Foxfire Museum Director Barry Stiles hew logs to build the miniature replica Blacksmith Shop, which is now featured in the Children’s Village. Students pictured from the 2023 program include Luke Thompson, Sam Flaherty, Celton Littrell, Sean Flaherty, Brinn Justice, Gavin Sharpe, Lily Karplus and Olivia Nixon.

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‘Project Foxfire’ program now accepting applications from local high school students

Megan Horn
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Education and preservation of Appalachian Heritage are at the heart of the purpose of Foxfire and what better way to keep that tradition alive than encouraging young people to become part of living history.