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Shop small, shop local impacts businesses in a positive way

News Staff

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Holiday shopping on Black Friday will have new meaning for 2020 as shoppers try to find those special gifts while also maintaining safe distances. Why not enjoy shopping close to home and support local businesses at the same time? On Friday and Saturday, Nov.

Clay County Progress / November 24, 2020

Hinton Rural Life Center awarded People in Need grant

News Staff

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Hinton Rural Life Center of Hayesville, has been awarded a People in Need grant of $16,745 from The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina. The funds will be used for Hinton’s WNC Rural Poverty Project, which will create a poverty simulation specific to the unique aspects of rural life.

DA preparing for cancer treatments

News Staff

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch on Monday announced that she has breast cancer and is undergoing medical treatment. “I wanted to publicly share the information to raise awareness about the importance of early detection,” Welch said.

COVID: First hand

Lorrie Ross - staff writer

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

When Karen Rogers was first diagnosed with COVID-19 in April, she never imagined her symptoms would persist seven months later. “I am still coughing, have limited taste, the driest skin ever and my hair is falling out like it never has,” the Hiawassee woman said this weekend.

Clay County Progress / November 19, 2020

Shopping locally more important than ever

News Staff

Thursday, November 19, 2020

The annual Shop Small Shop Local event is more important this year than ever before and local businesses need our help. American Express has an ad campaign promoting Small Business Saturday on Nov. 28 and an additional big day to shop has been added locally.

Primary school opens

Becky Long - publisher

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Children in Pre-K through second grade began their first day in Hayesville’s new primary school on Monday. By all indications, transitioning those students from the elementary building to the new one went well. “We had an excellent first day.

Clay County Progress / November 19, 2020

Few accidents reported in highway construction zone

Lorrie Ross - staff writer

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Improvements to North Carolina Highway 69 started full force a few months ago. While some local residents have complained about the dangers caused by the road construction, others say the work is being done quickly and the highway is not usually busy.

Malisa Karajulles

Wreck claims woman’s life

Becky Long - publisher

Thursday, November 19, 2020

A Clay County woman who died after a single-car accident Wednesday evening is remembered as warm, sweet, a good cook and a Saints football fan. Malisa Karajulles Moffat, 48, was traveling east on Bob Penland Road, about a mile from her home, around 5:30 p.m.

Leonardo Daniel Torres Barios

Charges filed in missing teen case

News Staff

Friday, November 13, 2020

Leonardo Daniel Torres Barios, 25, of Young Harris, has been with charged “interference with custody,” in connection to a missing person investigation involving a local teenager, Towns County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Terry Conner said Friday.

(Lorrie Ross•Clay County Progress) Mayor Harry Baughn and Councilman Joe Slaton discuss the new parking stripes and lights for town

Streets getting make-over, arrows will direct traffic

Lorrie Ross - staff writer

Friday, November 13, 2020

New stripes will soon highlight parking spaces in downtown Hayesville. On Monday, Hayesville Town Council approved the $2,405 project quote for Pro Stripe of Blairsville to paint new stripes in town.