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Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Tables were decorated with pictures honoring Justin Bowen’s life, candles, model classic cars with trunks filled with tootsie roll candies and lighted display bottles at the BBQ benefit.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Tables were decorated with pictures honoring Justin Bowen’s life, candles, model classic cars with trunks filled with tootsie roll candies and lighted display bottles at the BBQ benefit.

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Justin Bowen family benefit brings in a crowd to The Soda Fountain

Megan Horn
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
The Soda Fountain Restaurant & Catering was packed Friday, March 31,  for a BBQ benefit event honoring the late Justin Bowen. The community showed out to support the Bowen family with food and live entertainment at the restaurant located at 102 South Main Street, Clayton.
File photo Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center recently received $4,464.71 in funding from Clayton Rotary Foundation, Inc., for its picnic revitalization project, which would replace the current wooden picnic tables with metal tables that would withstand the outdoor climate for many years.

File photo Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center recently received $4,464.71 in funding from Clayton Rotary Foundation, Inc., for its picnic revitalization project, which would replace the current wooden picnic tables with metal tables that would withstand the outdoor climate for many years.

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Foxfire receives over $4,400 from Clayton Rotary Foundation, Inc.

Megan Horn
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center recently received $4,464.71 in funding from Clayton Rotary Foundation, Inc. The funding from the foundation of the Rotary Club of Clayton will be used for Foxfire’s picnic table revitalization project at the museum and heritage center.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County Zoning Administrator Shylan Wood speaks to commissioners during Tuesday’s work session about the zoning commission’s recommendation to approve with stipulations a rezoning request for 5 acres in Tiger from Agricultural (A) to Specific Purpose for the purpose of development of a covered storage facility. The vote by commissioners failed to pass due to lack of majority.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County Zoning Administrator Shylan Wood speaks to commissioners during Tuesday’s work session about the zoning commission’s recommendation to approve with stipulations a rezoning request for 5 acres in Tiger from Agricultural (A) to Specific Purpose for the purpose of development of a covered storage facility. The vote by commissioners failed to pass due to lack of majority.

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Tiger rezoning request vote fails for lack of majority

Megan Horn
Thursday, March 30, 2023
A vote by Rabun County commissioners “failed for lack of majority vote” at Tuesday’s meeting for a rezoning request on a property located at the intersection of Davis Gap Road and Bridge Creek Road in Tiger.
Submitted photo. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School’s cast and crew of “Pippin” earned the Spotlight Award, and four nominations from the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards. Students will be honored April 20 at the Shuler Hensley Award Ceremony in Atlanta.

Submitted photo. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School’s cast and crew of “Pippin” earned the Spotlight Award, and four nominations from the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards. Students will be honored April 20 at the Shuler Hensley Award Ceremony in Atlanta.

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Rabun Gap earns state awards for ‘Pippin’ musical

News Staff
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School’s production of “Pippin” has been awarded as one of the top high school musicals in the state of Georgia in the Shuler Hensley Awards/Georgia High School Musical Theater Awards.
Submitted photo. Middle school students from Rabun Gap-Nacoochee visit Maui to learn about beaches and climate zones.

Submitted photo. Middle school students from Rabun Gap-Nacoochee visit Maui to learn about beaches and climate zones.

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RGNS middle schoolers spend their Spring Break in Hawaii

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Thursday, March 30, 2023
Over Spring Break, a group of middle school students from Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School took a trip to Hawaii to learn about “Beaches and Climate Zones of Maui.” Students traveled through the island and visited lost rainforest pools; swam under waterfalls; climbed to the summit of Mt.