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Get ready for ‘Back to School’

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Thursday, August 15, 2024
Monday, Aug. 26 - First day of school Monday, Sept. 2 - Labor Day Friday, Sept. 27 - Remote learning day Monday, Oct. 21 - Teacher work day Friday, Nov. 1 - Remote learning day Monday, Nov. 11 - Veterans Day Wednesday, Nov. 27 - Teacher work day Thursday-Friday, Nov.

Four Square plays major role in county

News Staff
Thursday, August 8, 2024
By Marcia Barnes Staff Writer   Clay County Commissioners met on Thursday, Aug. 1 for a regular meeting of the board. Immediately following opening formalities and the public comment segment, Dr.
Evidence seized during the investigation includes methamphetamine and mushrooms.

Evidence seized during the investigation includes methamphetamine and mushrooms.

‘Shroons,’ meth seized here during two-county investigation

News Staff
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Staff Reports   An investigation was opened by Clay and Cherokee County narcotics units resulted in the arrest of Kenneth Charles Smith in Cherokee County on July 31 by units of the Clay and Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.

Free OTC medicine distribution set locally

News Staff
Thursday, August 8, 2024
By Megan Reid Guest Writer   NC MedAssist is holding a Mobile Free Pharmacy Event in partnership with Vaya Health and Southwestern Commission- Region A, in Clay County from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16. The event will be held at the Clay County Sports Complex, 89 Valley Hideaway Dr.
PeeWees prepping for season

PeeWees prepping for season

PeeWees prepping for season

News Staff
Monday, August 5, 2024
Fall is not in the air yet, but it’s time to turn an eye toward football and the Hayesville Youth League PeeWees are among those preparing for the upcoming season.
Press photo • Thomas Sherrill LBJ Job Corp instructor William Gibbs, center, with his masonry students who worked on the Wayah Bald tower and Wilson Lick Ranger Station chimney for two weeks in July. From left, Erriyonna Neal, Kevon McMillan, Gibbs, Antanneya Belton and Amenia Neal.

Press photo • Thomas Sherrill LBJ Job Corp instructor William Gibbs, center, with his masonry students who worked on the Wayah Bald tower and Wilson Lick Ranger Station chimney for two weeks in July. From left, Erriyonna Neal, Kevon McMillan, Gibbs, Antanneya Belton and Amenia Neal.

Job Corps restores Wayah Bald tower

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Monday, August 5, 2024
Thomas Sherrill The Franklin Press   More than two weeks in July, a group of students from the LBJ Job Corps center in Franklin drove up to Wayah Bald to beautify and preserve the tower and the Wilson Lick Ranger Station.
Photos from Clay County Global Studies Facebook page Global Studies students with bagpiper. Nineteen Clay County students traveled to Scotland in June with several adult chaperone’s. The Global Studies program participants visited Ben Nevis Mountain in Scotland as one of many sites on their trip.

Photos from Clay County Global Studies Facebook page Global Studies students with bagpiper. Nineteen Clay County students traveled to Scotland in June with several adult chaperone’s. The Global Studies program participants visited Ben Nevis Mountain in Scotland as one of many sites on their trip.

Local students share Scotland experience

News Staff
Monday, August 5, 2024
By Lorrie Ross Staff Writer   A group of Clay County students had the opportunity for the trip of a lifetime this summer.
Marcia Barnes • Clay County Progress

Marcia Barnes • Clay County Progress

Intermediate school holds ground breaking

News Staff
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Those attending the official ground breaking for the new Hayesville Intermediate School included LS3P architects, Wells and West contractors and Clay County School employees amid a few rain drops on Wednesday morning, July 24.

Potent peanut butter sandwich Hayesville?

News Staff
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Staff Reports   A search of a Murphy man about to enter the Clay County Detention Center yielded 2.2 grams of methamphetamine which had been folded into a peanut butter sandwich he brought with him. Around 6:44 a.m.