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Burn permits won't be required after July 1

News Staff
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Beginning July 1, 2021 the Georgia Forestry Commission no longer requires notification to issue a permit when someone burns hand-piled vegetation and yard debris.  This comes about from changes to Georgia’s Outdoor Burn Notification System, Senate Bill 119.
John Murray is Firefighter of the year, left, Sgt. Riley Owens is Officer of the year, Rotary Club of Clayton President Wayne Knuckles, Sue Darnell receives the Jean Harris Professional Award, Jane Janes receives the Gold R. Award, Dr. Tom Callahan receives the J.C. Dover Wheel Award, Rachel Cowart, chief nursing officer for Mountain Lakes Medical Center, receives the Wheel Award on behalf of Mountain Lakes Medical Center, and Tim Ranney receives the W. Lee Arrendale Award.

John Murray is Firefighter of the year, left, Sgt. Riley Owens is Officer of the year, Rotary Club of Clayton President Wayne Knuckles, Sue Darnell receives the Jean Harris Professional Award, Jane Janes receives the Gold R. Award, Dr. Tom Callahan receives the J.C. Dover Wheel Award, Rachel Cowart, chief nursing officer for Mountain Lakes Medical Center, receives the Wheel Award on behalf of Mountain Lakes Medical Center, and Tim Ranney receives the W. Lee Arrendale Award.

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Rotary honors winners of community service awards

Megan Horn
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
CLAYTON-- The Rotary Club of Clayton announced its 2021 award winners at the club’s meeting held at the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Teaching Kitchen last Thursday.
Photo courtesy of John Bradshaw. The city of Clayton will soon be receiving new playground equipment

Photo courtesy of John Bradshaw. The city of Clayton will soon be receiving new playground equipment

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Playground equipment coming to city

News Staff
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The city of Clayton will soon be receiving new playground equipment. City Council Member John Bradshaw said that Lee Collenback at Pro Turf and Landscape Maintenance had a contract with Rabun County Schools to tear down the fourth grade playground equipment.

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Rhapsody in Rabun now accepting 2022 applications

Megan Horn
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Rhapsody in Rabun is now accepting applicants for its “A Taste of the Mountains” Gala, which is scheduled for August 13, 2022.  Rhapsody in Rabun is a 501(c)(3) established in 1991 that raises money for other nonprofits in the community.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Dr. Tom Callahan, left, Dr. Mollie Winston, Jane Janes, Tim Ranney, Dick Newkirk, Suzanne Newkirk and Dr. Janet Dunwoody stand in front of the new flash sterilizer in the Community Dental Clinic at the Rabun County Health Department.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Dr. Tom Callahan, left, Dr. Mollie Winston, Jane Janes, Tim Ranney, Dick Newkirk, Suzanne Newkirk and Dr. Janet Dunwoody stand in front of the new flash sterilizer in the Community Dental Clinic at the Rabun County Health Department.

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LRF boosts local dental clinic

News Staff
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The Lake Rabun Foundation recently donated $7,500 to Community Dental to purchase a flash sterilizer for dental instruments. This new piece of equipment will allow equipment sterilization to occur faster, better and is easier to use, said Tim Ranney, chairman of the Rotary Foundation.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County EMS paramedic Don White demonstrates how to use the new Stryker Power Load lift system on an ambulance. It’s an automated hydraulic lifting system that lifts patients who are on stretchers into and out of ambulances.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County EMS paramedic Don White demonstrates how to use the new Stryker Power Load lift system on an ambulance. It’s an automated hydraulic lifting system that lifts patients who are on stretchers into and out of ambulances.

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Campaign raising funds to purchase EMS equipment

Megan Horn
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
CLAYTON--A Rabun County man is spearheading a fundraising campaign, dubbed “PROJECT LIFE LYFT 626,”  to raise donations to help Rabun Emergency Medical Services (EMS) obtain automated hydraulic lifting equipment that would lift patients who are on stretchers into and out of ambulances.
Wayne Knuckles/The Clayton Tribune. Volunteers Dick Cinquina, left, and Linda Bardin show some of the exhibits to be featured when the Rabun County Historical Society reopens Friday, June 11.

Wayne Knuckles/The Clayton Tribune. Volunteers Dick Cinquina, left, and Linda Bardin show some of the exhibits to be featured when the Rabun County Historical Society reopens Friday, June 11.

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Historical Society Museum to re-open Friday with new local history exhibits

Wayne Knuckles
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
CLAYTON—Rabun County Historical Society volunteers put their down time during the COVID-19 pandemic to good use. They have remodeled the interior of their 2,300 sq.-ft. museum at 81 North Church Street to accommodate exhibits related to Rabun County’s long and colorful history.

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Sentences handed down in burglary, RICO cases

Megan Horn
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
CLAYTON-- A couple known locally as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus for their work with children at Christmas came home one day in September 2019 to find their house burglarized, ransacked and left all but inhabitable. Trash and human waste were strewn all over the house and property.
Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Eric Neese, engineer for the city of Clayton, gives a presentation to Clayton council members at Tuesday’s meeting to discuss discrepancies in the billing cycle when the RCWSA billed the city twice in their April water bill. The city initially received an April bill of $85,000 and shortly after received a bill for April for an additional $26,000.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Eric Neese, engineer for the city of Clayton, gives a presentation to Clayton council members at Tuesday’s meeting to discuss discrepancies in the billing cycle when the RCWSA billed the city twice in their April water bill. The city initially received an April bill of $85,000 and shortly after received a bill for April for an additional $26,000.

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City disputes April water bill

Megan Horn
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
CLAYTON-- Clayton City Council members discussed a dispute with a $26,000 April water bill from the Rabun County Water and Sewer Authority (RCWSA) at Tuesday’s council work session.  City officials said an initial $85,000 water bill from the RCWSA for the month of April was paid.