File/Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Josh Bleckley, Rabun County Fire Services Station 2 Captain, operates Ladder 1 for a brush fire on Clayburne Street in Clayton on March 25. This happened around the same time as United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service crews battled a fire burning in the Warwoman Wildlife Management Area between Sarah’s Creek and Walnut Fork, north of Warwoman Creek in Rabun County.

Rabun Youth Educational Support, Inc., (RabunYES), donated over $10,000 to the Summer Project Foxfire youth program. Tom Buckridge, RabunYES treasurer, had the chance to speak to program students and present the check to Foxfire Executive Director Todd Faircloth. The donation was made in honor of Buckridge’s late wife, Jean, whose passion was to help young people. Pictured are Jaden Shurtliff, left, Caden Watt, Sean Flaherty, Faircloth, Buckridge, Wyatt Arbitter, Tara Shyrock, Abby Streetman and Sunny Lin.

Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Event-goers to a “Mountain City Christmas” on Thursday, Dec. 18, got the opportunity to hear caroling by First Christian Church of Mountain City.

Submitted photo. Representing the senior class, Charlotte Stafford lights one of the candles at the TFS Candlelight service. Class members decide on the student who best represents their class in character and intellect.

Photo courtesy of Forward Rabun/Rabun County Chamber of Commerce.

Photo courtesy of TFS. Senior Carsyn Griffis of Tallulah Falls and eighth-grader West Ridlehoover stand with President and Head of School Dr. Larry A. Peevy. Griffis was named as Upper School Outstanding Student of the Year and Ridlehoover was named as Middle School Outstanding Student of the Year.

Josh Bryson/The Highlander. The Highlands Police Department, Macon County Sheriff’s Department and Highlands Fire and Rescue respond to the swatting incident at the Church of the Incarnation on Dec. 11.

Submitted photo. The LBCA holds an annual Cleanup Day every year in May. The organization works with Georgia Power Company and citizen volunteers for a lake-wide cleanup to help remove debris from Lake Burton.