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File/Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Crowds of people dance and sing to the music of Scott Low & The Blue Bouillon during last June’s Ramshackle event in downtown Clayton. This year’s June 7, 2025, second annual event features a lineup of different music genres.

File/Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Crowds of people dance and sing to the music of Scott Low & The Blue Bouillon during last June’s Ramshackle event in downtown Clayton. This year’s June 7, 2025, second annual event features a lineup of different music genres.

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Kickoff your summer with the 2025 Ramshackle Street Festival

Megan Horn
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The 2025 Ramshackle Street Festival is less than a month from its triumphic return to downtown Clayton on Saturday, June 7. The second annual free event is produced by the City of Clayton and Clayton Merchants and Business Association (CMBA).
Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Third Grader Lucy Arnett was announced as the Young Georgia Authors Pioneer RESA District winner for writing titled “The Life of a Pencil.” Arnett will go on to compete at the state level. She was recognized at the April 28 Rabun County Board of Education meeting where board members, school administrators and fellow students clapped and congratulated her on her recognition.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Third Grader Lucy Arnett was announced as the Young Georgia Authors Pioneer RESA District winner for writing titled “The Life of a Pencil.” Arnett will go on to compete at the state level. She was recognized at the April 28 Rabun County Board of Education meeting where board members, school administrators and fellow students clapped and congratulated her on her recognition.

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Rabun County students are Young Georgia Authors winners

Megan Horn
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Excitement for creative writing can be fostered in youth beginning at a young age and develop overtime. Encouraging students to celebrate their writing is a very important concept.
Photos courtesy TFS. TFS middle school students sing together as part of the 2025 Madrigal. Students bring acting, music, art, dance, and more to the yearly show.

Photos courtesy TFS. TFS middle school students sing together as part of the 2025 Madrigal. Students bring acting, music, art, dance, and more to the yearly show.

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TFS entertains with annual middle school ‘Madrigal’

News Staff
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The 2025 Tallulah Falls School Middle School “Madrigal” provided entertainment reminiscent of a royal court, featuring singing, sword fighting, jousting, dancing, feasting, joking, scheming, capturing scoundrels, playing tricks, and much more.
Submitted. Ninth graders honored by the Clayton Lions Club are Silas Stockton (left), Levi Stockton, Ava Sharpe, Mollie Istre, Lydia Gergeni, Colter Cannon and Graham Anderson pictured with Rabun County High School Principal Justin Spillers.

Submitted. Ninth graders honored by the Clayton Lions Club are Silas Stockton (left), Levi Stockton, Ava Sharpe, Mollie Istre, Lydia Gergeni, Colter Cannon and Graham Anderson pictured with Rabun County High School Principal Justin Spillers.

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Clayton Lions Club proudly presents Upper 5% Scholars

News Staff
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Clayton Lions Club would like to congratulate the 2024-2025 Upper 5 percent recipients of Rabun County High School. The Lions Club sponsored a banquet on Thursday, April 17, for the students who maintained the highest academic averages in their grade level. At the banquet, Rev.
Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Acclaimed artist and poet Laurence Holden was honored at the Hambidge Center Open House event on Saturday, April 26, with his works on display. Holden is a fine artist working in mixed media, oils, watercolor, intaglio and monoprint printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and drawing.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Acclaimed artist and poet Laurence Holden was honored at the Hambidge Center Open House event on Saturday, April 26, with his works on display. Holden is a fine artist working in mixed media, oils, watercolor, intaglio and monoprint printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and drawing.

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The Hambidge Center holds Open House

Megan Horn
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Hambidge Center is a place for creative arts and a sanctuary for people to work on those creative arts in a peaceful environment. Crowds of people attended the Open House on Saturday, April 26.
Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. The 2025 Dillard Family Association Reunion was held on Saturday, April 26. Pictured are generations of Dillard family members including back row: Ed Gillespie and Helen Gillespie. Front row: Dorothy Hopper O’Quinn, left; Bill Coldren; Kelly Coldren; Maurgarite McDole; Lynn Wansley; Henrietta Roberts; Betty Dillard; Maya Weldon holding Cedar Weldon; John E. Dillard; and Trey Weldon holding Ford Weldon.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. The 2025 Dillard Family Association Reunion was held on Saturday, April 26. Pictured are generations of Dillard family members including back row: Ed Gillespie and Helen Gillespie. Front row: Dorothy Hopper O’Quinn, left; Bill Coldren; Kelly Coldren; Maurgarite McDole; Lynn Wansley; Henrietta Roberts; Betty Dillard; Maya Weldon holding Cedar Weldon; John E. Dillard; and Trey Weldon holding Ford Weldon.

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Blending history & tradition with the future

Megan Horn
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Dillard House has been a staple in Rabun County for over a century with its rich culture and longtime family traditions. Those traditions continue and that history will be preserved as the cherished landmark is renovated under new ownership Legacy Ventures.
Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Scholarship students include Zuri Renken at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School; Matthew Rivera at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School; Raegan Duncan at Tallulah Falls School; Marina Dumas at Tallulah Falls School; Samantha Cedillo at Rabun County High School; and Jaimee Scott at Habersham Central High School. Scholarship Committee members include Chairman Penny Bradley, Kathy Beehler, Dietrich Hoecht, and Helen Rogers.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Scholarship students include Zuri Renken at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School; Matthew Rivera at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School; Raegan Duncan at Tallulah Falls School; Marina Dumas at Tallulah Falls School; Samantha Cedillo at Rabun County High School; and Jaimee Scott at Habersham Central High School. Scholarship Committee members include Chairman Penny Bradley, Kathy Beehler, Dietrich Hoecht, and Helen Rogers.

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Creating the way to successful futures

Megan Horn
Thursday, May 1, 2025
The North Georgia Arts Guild introduced its 2025 scholarship recipients during the April 17 meeting. The 501(c)3 nonprofit awarded six $1,000 scholarships to area high school students. Each student presented their artwork and college plans during the Scholarship Program at the meeting.

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June 17 Special Election for Probate judge cancelled

Megan Horn
Thursday, May 1, 2025
The Rabun County Probate Judge Special Election originally scheduled for June 17 has been cancelled, according to a Notice of Election Cancellation legal sent for publication in The Clayton Tribune by Election Director Tammy Whitmire on April 23.
Submitted photo. Two historic buildings in Northeast Georgia received statewide preservation awards from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation at a ceremony in Brunswick April 26. Winners from Northeast Georgia were the F.R. Terrell House in Toccoa and Hodgson Hall (above) at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap.

Submitted photo. Two historic buildings in Northeast Georgia received statewide preservation awards from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation at a ceremony in Brunswick April 26. Winners from Northeast Georgia were the F.R. Terrell House in Toccoa and Hodgson Hall (above) at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap.

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Two Northeast Georgia buildings earn statewide awards from Historic Preservation

News Staff
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Two historic buildings in Northeast Georgia received statewide preservation awards from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation at a ceremony in Brunswick April 26. Winners from Northeast Georgia were Hodgson Hall at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap and the F.R.