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Blue Ridge Activity & Tumbling Center joins Chamber

News Staff
Thursday, March 9, 2023
What a fun time everyone had on Saturday, March 4, at the Forward Rabun/Rabun County Chamber of Commerce “Ribbon-Cutting and Open House Event” for Blue Ridge Activity & Tumbling Center and the Mountain City Playhouse, located at 186 Playhouse Drive, Mountain City.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Volunteer Tommy Thompson; Kami Ahrens, curator and director of education for Foxfire; and Barry Stiles, museum director, work to build the Ingram Mule Barn as the newest addition to the Children’s Village at the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center. The scaled-down village for kids, modeled after existing buildings, is being built by hand using traditional tools like those used over 100 years ago.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Volunteer Tommy Thompson; Kami Ahrens, curator and director of education for Foxfire; and Barry Stiles, museum director, work to build the Ingram Mule Barn as the newest addition to the Children’s Village at the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center. The scaled-down village for kids, modeled after existing buildings, is being built by hand using traditional tools like those used over 100 years ago.

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Foxfire Children’s Village keeps growing

Megan Horn
Thursday, March 9, 2023
MOUNTAIN CITY– Appalachian history comes to life at the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center, while the Children’s Village is a way for children to learn and experience that history in a way where they can play and interact.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Black bags were taped on the windows of the Mountain City Post Office as the site was unable to renew its lease for March. Those with Mountain City post office boxes now must travel farther for their mail.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Black bags were taped on the windows of the Mountain City Post Office as the site was unable to renew its lease for March. Those with Mountain City post office boxes now must travel farther for their mail.

Issues ‘mount’ as post office shuttered

News Staff
Friday, March 3, 2023
The Mountain City Post Office was suspended at the close of business Tuesday due to the non-renewal of a lease at the property where the post office is currently housed. A letter dated Feb.

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GBI makes two arrests in drug investigation

Megan Horn
Friday, March 3, 2023
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) recently made two arrests in a drug investigation after the bureau’s Cleveland Office was requested by the Rabun County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) to investigate the circumstances surrounding an arrest made in December by their department.

Lake Rabun Road closed to change culvert

News Staff
Friday, March 3, 2023
The Rabun County Roads Department will shut down Lake Rabun Road by the storage units, 911 Number 323, on Monday, March 6, to change a culvert that has collapsed. The officials from the department said they “will do our best to keep traffic flowing but at some point the road will be closed.
Submitted photo. Pictured (from left) are: FRONT ROW: Hayden Deslich, Itzia Vasquez Ramos, Aliye Coker, Georgia “Dani” Prince, Lacie Scott and Chief Deputy Scott Cheek. BACK ROW: Capt. Beth Darnell, Andrew Whittle, Trent Thompson, Anna Raye Darnell, Savannah Sanchez, Lucy Hood and Sean Zavala.

Submitted photo. Pictured (from left) are: FRONT ROW: Hayden Deslich, Itzia Vasquez Ramos, Aliye Coker, Georgia “Dani” Prince, Lacie Scott and Chief Deputy Scott Cheek. BACK ROW: Capt. Beth Darnell, Andrew Whittle, Trent Thompson, Anna Raye Darnell, Savannah Sanchez, Lucy Hood and Sean Zavala.

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Forward Rabun Youth Leadership visits, tours Rabun County Sheriff’s Office, Detention Center

News Staff
Friday, March 3, 2023
Members of Forward Rabun’s Youth Leadership Team continue to explore local career opportunities and investigate community resources. Last month the group traveled to the Rabun County Sheriff’s Office and Detention Center for a meeting and tour.