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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.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Carla Kilby, second grade teacher at the Primary School, right, receives a Moderna vaccine from Gwen Stiles, RN in the OR and outpatient services at Mountain Lakes Medical Center, at last Friday’s vaccine clinic held in the Rabun County Schools Fine Arts Building.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Carla Kilby, second grade teacher at the Primary School, right, receives a Moderna vaccine from Gwen Stiles, RN in the OR and outpatient services at Mountain Lakes Medical Center, at last Friday’s vaccine clinic held in the Rabun County Schools Fine Arts Building.

School employees line up for vaccinations

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
TIGER-- Employees in the Rabun County school system received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine at a vaccine clinic held by Mountain Lakes Medical Center (MLMC) at the Rabun County Schools Fine Arts Building last Friday.  Gov.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Althalene Waters spends her days making necklaces and bracelets out of beads and finds pleasure in gifting them to everyone she meets. She was born on March 20, 1920 and turns 101 on Saturday.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Althalene Waters spends her days making necklaces and bracelets out of beads and finds pleasure in gifting them to everyone she meets. She was born on March 20, 1920 and turns 101 on Saturday.

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Cheers to 101 years

Megan Horn
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
The last century has brought about many historic events like the Great Depression, World War II, the Vietnam War and countless other events, and inventions like computers and cars and rockets that shaped the course of history. And Althalene Waters has lived through it all.