Support local theater by attending North Georgia Community Players’ productions

Supporting local theater is important in every community, but especially small towns like Rabun County. We are blessed that our community is home to the North Georgia Community Players, a theater group that performs at the Dillard Theater (inside Dillard City Hall), 892 Franklin Street, Dillard.

Memory-making adventure in Alaska

How long does it take to get from Homer, Georgia, to Homer, Alaska? Well, that depends. Northeast Georgia’s Homer is 33 miles from where I live. And the journey to Alaska took me 76 years, seven months, 27 days, 10 hours and 36 minutes. But why did I wind up 4,578 miles from home anyway?

It’s The Law: It’s a Big Bill

Last month, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Bill), which was approved by the Senate and House.

‘Do Right’ is commonplace in our Rabun community

Do right. This mantra was made famous by Erk Russell, Georgia’s defensive coordinator during the Dawgs’ first national title in 1980 and then Georgia Southern’s iconic head coach for national championships in 1985, 1986 and 1989.

Cars are cars today, but that first one was really special

Do you remember your first car? Of course, you do, if you had one. We all remember our first car and our first kiss. Sometimes they were related. My first car was a real winner. It was a 1951 Mercury, a black one with two doors. Cost $400 cash money.

Getting anxiety and depression from reading about hypochondriacs

  I feel anxious telling you this because I fear you will be depressed when you hear it, but you and I seem to be a bunch of hypochondriacs. I have received a study from MEDvidi.

Georgia’s housing supply isn’t meeting demand

Georgia is adding people faster than it’s adding places for them to live.

We’re in race backwards with coal

From the campaign stump, Donald Trump vowed he could end the Russia-Ukraine War on his Day One in the White House. Months after taking office, he admitted, “That was an exaggeration.” In 2019, Georgia Power announced it was shutting down its coal-fired plants in favor of more solar.

Safety is key as students head back to school

It’s hard to believe that summer break is almost over. August starts on Friday and school will soon be back in session for Rabun County Schools, Tallulah Falls School and Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School students. Classes begin Monday, Aug.

Georgia’s push to zero: Can the state eliminate its income tax?

On July 17, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced the creation of the Georgia Senate Committee on Eliminating Georgia’s Income Tax. Their task: figuring out how the state moves from our current income tax rate of 5.19 percent to zero.