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Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Friends and family of former Satolah Fire Department Chief Steve Wilson gathered at the Satolah Fire Station Tuesday to welcome him home after a months-long battle being hospitalized with COVID-19. Jimmy Nix stands beside the homemade sign and cheers for Wilson along with other friends and family members.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Friends and family of former Satolah Fire Department Chief Steve Wilson gathered at the Satolah Fire Station Tuesday to welcome him home after a months-long battle being hospitalized with COVID-19. Jimmy Nix stands beside the homemade sign and cheers for Wilson along with other friends and family members.

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Former fire chief home after COVID battle

Megan Horn
Thursday, April 1, 2021
SATOLAH-- The Satolah Fire Station welcomed home former Chief Steve Wilson Tuesday after his months-long battle being hospitalized with COVID-19.  "You can't describe something like that," Wilson said about how he felt with the surprise homecoming welcome.

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Former police chief pleads to lesser charge

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
CLAYTON-- Former Dillard Police Chief Jeremy Welch--who currently works as a police officer for the Mountain City Police Department--pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving and an additional count of open container at arraignment on March 17.

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Land deeded for future wastewater treatment plant

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
CLAYTON-- The Rabun County Board of Commissioners deeded 23-acres of land it recently acquired to the Rabun County Water and Sewer Authority (RCWSA) as the future site of a wastewater treatment plant, at Tuesday’s commission meeting.  Commissioner Scott Crane was not in attendance.
Wayne Knuckles/The Clayton Tribune. Doug Nassaur looks over expansion work currently underway at Moonrise Distillery in Clayton.

Wayne Knuckles/The Clayton Tribune. Doug Nassaur looks over expansion work currently underway at Moonrise Distillery in Clayton.

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With awards and expansion, distillery is gaining attention

Wayne Knuckles
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
CLAYTON—Rabun County’s Moonrise Distillery is off to a roaring start in 2021, winning a basket full of awards while expanding both their product line and local facilities.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. David Rogers, associate pastor of youth and ministry at Clayton Baptist Church, preaches a sermon about church membership to the youth group last Wednesday. Rogers has served at the church for 35 years.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. David Rogers, associate pastor of youth and ministry at Clayton Baptist Church, preaches a sermon about church membership to the youth group last Wednesday. Rogers has served at the church for 35 years.

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Rogers marks 35 years of ministering to local youth

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
David Rogers has served as Associate Pastor of Youth and Ministry at Clayton Baptist Church for 35 years, and said that he's right where he's meant to be.  "For me, it's about calling," Rogers said. "To be a youth minister, that's a calling. And that's what I feel like my calling is.

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Evans rescues woman from structure fire

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
LAKEMONT-- An elderly, non-ambulatory woman was rescued from a structure fire in Lakemont by a Hospice CNA on Monday.  Habersham resident Hayley Evans works for PruittHealth Hospice of Gainesville and has been a CNA for 10 years. She’s served the Rabun County area for about two-and-a-half years.

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Suspect sought in Rabun Gap armed robbery

News Staff
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
RABUN GAP-- No arrests have been made in an ongoing investigation into an assault and armed robbery of approximately $775 at an Exxon gas station in Rabun Gap on March 8, according to the Rabun County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday.  “At approximately 4:27 p.m.