File photo/Megan Horn/The Clayton Tribune. Event-goers to Foxfire Heritage Days this year will get to enjoy live, old-time music like last year at the Reeve’s Pavilion.
Family fun is just two weeks away as the 18th annual Foxfire Heritage Days gears up on Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. The event is sponsored by the City of Mountain City. The two-day event will be packed with demonstrators educating the community on…
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Candidates for Rabun County commission and magistrate judge listen to John Bradshaw announce some of the election numbers on Tuesday evening.
The incumbents who faced opposition retained their respective Rabun County seats in Tuesday’s General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election as two county commissioners and a local judge prevailed.Kent Woerner outdistanced two challengers – Marty Kilby and Kasie Hicks Campbell – to advance to…
Rabun County will be well-represented in the statewide races that have June 16 runoffs.Clayton resident Derek Dooley will again oppose Mike Collins for the Republican nomination in the runoff for the opportunity to face Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff for the U.S. Senate post. Ossoff ran unopposed.…
U.S. House of Representatives District 9 Republican incumbent Andrew Clyde easily outdistanced two challengers from his own party in the primary to set up a November race for the seat in Washington, D.C.Clyde claimed 75.39 percent of the overall votes in the district as he collected 59,962 votes…
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. A group of patriotic residents wave American flags at the passing convoy on the Highway 441 sidewalk near the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia.
A parade through Rabun County honored local veterans and celebrated America on Armed Forces Day on May 16 as a convoy rolled through Clayton and Tiger. Also, the holiday Memorial Day comes on Monday, May 25, as a Memorial Day ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. at the Rabun County Courthouse in…
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County head tennis coach Bryan Getty consoles his son and RCHS tennis freshman Jack Getty after the Wildcats’ loss to Brantley County in the state championship game on May 13 at the Rome Tennis Center. Getty played No. 2 singles for the Wildcats this season .
ROME – The Rabun County boys tennis team’s history-making season came to an end with a loss in the state championship match as the Wildcats fell to No. 1-seeded Brantley County, 3-1, on May 13 at the Rome Tennis Center in Rome, Ga. The Wildcats, who ended the season with a 19-3 overall record…
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Clayton Mayor Roy Quilliams presents Rabun County head boys basketball coach David Adcock (far left) with a key to the city as the Wildcats stand in the front of the meeting room in city hall on May 12.
The 2025-2026 school may be nearing its conclusion, but certain achievements deserve to be continually honored.When the Wildcats basketball team defeated Southwest Macon for the Class A Division I state championship on March 13, emotions throughout Wildcat Nation truly were jacked up with…
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County junior linebacker JK Fruster shows off the football to the Wildcat sideline after intercepting a White County pass with 2:01 to play. Fruster’s interception helped set up kicker Bryan Avila’s winning field goal as time expired.
TIGER – The Rabun County football team wrapped up its two-week spring practice period with a dramatic 10-9 win in three quarters of action over visiting AAA opponent White County on Friday, May 15.With just two seconds remaining and a 2-point deficit, the Wildcats called on rising senior kicker…
Submitted Photo. Adam Gadoury has been hired as the next girls varsity basketball head coach at Rabun Gap.
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has hired Adam Gadoury as its next head girls varsity basketball coach, the school announced on social media on May 13. Gadoury, who served as the team’s stat-keeper and an assistant coach for the last four seasons, will take over for 19-year head coach Dale…
Lake Burton Wooden Boat Parade route.
[Clayton, GA] – The Lake Burton Civic Association (LBCA) will host its Seventh Annual Wooden Boat Parade and Show on Sunday, May 24. Rabun County is known as the “Wooden Boat Capital of Georgia” due to its impressive history of wooden boat ownership dating back to the early 1900s. Although the…
