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Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress Some board members of People of Clay CARE stopped to pose for a picture during their ribbon tying on the Hayesville Square in October 2020. Red Ribbon Week is October 23 through October 31 and the group invites everyone to display a red ribbon on their door or front window. L-R: Board chairmen Daley Tucker, former board member and chair Harold Holbrook, founding member and board member Tanya Long, board member Terri Hager, and board secretary Debbie Tucker.

Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress Some board members of People of Clay CARE stopped to pose for a picture during their ribbon tying on the Hayesville Square in October 2020. Red Ribbon Week is October 23 through October 31 and the group invites everyone to display a red ribbon on their door or front window. L-R: Board chairmen Daley Tucker, former board member and chair Harold Holbrook, founding member and board member Tanya Long, board member Terri Hager, and board secretary Debbie Tucker.

Red Ribbon Week observed Oct. 23-31

News Staff
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Tie a red ribbon. People of Clay CARE-Coalition Allies for Recovery and Education, encourages businesses, churches and civic organizations, as well as individuals, to participate in Red Ribbon Week, Oct. 23- Oct. 31.
Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress People of Clay CARE-Coalition Allies tor Recovery and Education, will be giving free medicine lock boxes and medication disposal pouches from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saturday in front of the Clay County Progress office on Main Street. The local community substance misuse prevention coalition has given away a few hundred medicine lock boxes and medication disposal kits in the last year and a half. In mid 2020, they presented several of each to Clay County Emergency Director Ric

Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress People of Clay CARE-Coalition Allies tor Recovery and Education, will be giving free medicine lock boxes and medication disposal pouches from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saturday in front of the Clay County Progress office on Main Street. The local community substance misuse prevention coalition has given away a few hundred medicine lock boxes and medication disposal kits in the last year and a half. In mid 2020, they presented several of each to Clay County Emergency Director Ric

Free medicine lock boxes distribution Saturday

News Staff
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
One in five young adults has misused a prescription drug, according to StopMedicineAbuse.org. In addition, many small children have been poisoned by ingesting medicines which can look like candy or other goodies to them.
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Image by Bernadette Wurzinger from Pixabay

T Bird’s Nest gift shop and honey baked ham

News Staff
Thursday, October 14, 2021
This past July I had the distinct privilege of meeting Teri Fortner and Jordan Long at a Friday morning Movers and Shakers’ breakfast meeting at Sundance Grill in Hiawassee.
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Image by torstensimon from Pixabay

COVID numbers plummet after deadly 2-month period

News Staff
Thursday, October 14, 2021
COVID-19 numbers continue to decline in Clay County, but the latest surge affected Clay County unlike any other. Clay County Health Department reported the 39th and 40th COVID-19-related deaths of county residents on October 8. The county's COVID-19 death toll stood at 20 as of Aug.
Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress Hayesville Town Council gets down to business at Monday evening’s meeting. Council members are, from left, Mayor Harry Baughn, Councilman Joe Slaton, Councilwoman Lauren Tiger and Councilman Austin Hedden.

Lorrie Ross • Clay County Progress Hayesville Town Council gets down to business at Monday evening’s meeting. Council members are, from left, Mayor Harry Baughn, Councilman Joe Slaton, Councilwoman Lauren Tiger and Councilman Austin Hedden.

Some town residents take advantage of offer of cash for proof of vaccination

News Staff
Thursday, October 14, 2021
So far, 88 Hayesville town residents have taken advantage of the town council’s offer last month to receive a $100 “token of appreciation” for offering proof they have been vaccinated against the Covic-19 virus.
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YHC to host Tri-State Community Band

News Staff
Thursday, October 14, 2021
The Tri-State Community Band will present a fall concert at 3:00 PM on Sunday, October 24, 2022 in the Glenn-McGinnis Hall on the campus of Young Harris College. The concert is free and open to the public. Conductors for this concert will be Dr.
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Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay

County set to receive $80,000 per year from opioid settlement

News Staff
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
For more than two decades, Clay County and other rural areas of the United States have been hit hard by an opioid epidemic. The epidemic is estimated to have taken the lives of more than 16,500 North Carolinians since 1999. In 2020 alone, 29.