Loss of loved one to COVID-19 hits home for our family

You can’t see the cause with the naked eye, but the effect hits you in the face every day.  Every time you don a mask to walk into the post office and pray that mail is the only thing you carried in there.

Counting COVID-19 testing cases on county level would be helpful

Is Rabun County incredibly lucky, or is our COVID-19 case count severely underreported? The answer may be that it’s a little bit of both. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Georgia Dept. of Public Health District 2 website was reporting eight confirmed cases of COVID-19 locally, with no fatalities.

COVID-19 a harrowing experience for Rabun resident

What feels like years was just months ago. I remember learning about a virus that was spreading quickly in a faraway town in China. Coronavirus felt so foreign to me at the time. From that moment on, it feels like someone hit the fast-forward button. News was changing by the hour.

Our Opinion: Food Bank challenge brings out our best

If ever there was a time to come together as a community, it’s during the unprecedented health and economic crisis due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. And once again, Rabun County has shown the way.

Holding family and friends in my heart, but a hug will have to wait

Social distancing means keeping six feet apart between yourself and people outside your home, but for me it means being 152 miles from my closest family in Rome, Ga.

Rabun County residents recall 1918 flu epidemic

Back in January, my co-host on the It Still Lives Foxfire podcast, Kami Ahrens, and I thought it relevant to focus our January episode on interviews from Foxfire’s archive about the local response to the 1918 Flu Epidemic.

Rabun County will pull through this together

In this time of great national anxiety, it is reassuring to see and hear the outpouring of support for friends and neighbors here in Rabun County over the past few weeks.

In a crisis, newspaper works to stay ahead of the rumor mill

Having spent my entire adult life working at newspapers across the southeastern United States (and one tropical island), I know that folks count on their hometown paper to keep them a step ahead of the local rumor mill.

Our commitment to Rabun County

COVID-19, known as coronavirus, has struck the United States and Georgia with a vengeance. Since 1897, Rabun County has been reading our pages for news and advertising. We want to thank you for your loyalty and support.  Pearl Harbor’s bombing on Dec. 7, 1941, and the horrific events of Sept.

Conserving forests doesn’t require clearcutting the public

The Chattahoochee National Forest Supervisor recently shared harsh words for those critical of the agency’s Foothills Project.  We have worked on that project—and been upfront about our concerns—since day one.