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Pam Roman • Submitted A small cast allows the costumers to provide more individual attention to the actors. From left front, Deborah Meigs and Ben Stephens; center, Janice Minette and Ashley Eller; back, Meredith Legg-Grady, Joshua Inglima and Landi Marrella.

Pam Roman • Submitted A small cast allows the costumers to provide more individual attention to the actors. From left front, Deborah Meigs and Ben Stephens; center, Janice Minette and Ashley Eller; back, Meredith Legg-Grady, Joshua Inglima and Landi Marrella.

New Peacock comedy makes audience and God laugh

News Staff
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Family. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. The season opener at Hayesville’s Peacock Performing Arts Center, Sean Grennan’s comedy-drama, “Making God Laugh,” follows one family over the course of 30 years' worth of holidays.
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Fidget pad demonstration hosted by quilters' guild

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Thursday, February 17, 2022
From 1-3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, the Heart 2 Heart outreach group of the Misty Mountain Quilters Guild will be demonstrating how to create fidget pads. Barbara O’Brien will share her method for making these placemat-sized activity centers with a variety of visual and tactile items.
Submitted by Historic Hayesville Inc. This photo of then “Hill Top,” appeared in the 1966 Hayesville High School annual. The store stood for decades and was known in recent history as Big D. The building was taken down in November to make way for a large, modern convenience store.

Submitted by Historic Hayesville Inc. This photo of then “Hill Top,” appeared in the 1966 Hayesville High School annual. The store stood for decades and was known in recent history as Big D. The building was taken down in November to make way for a large, modern convenience store.

New stores opening along Highway 64

News Staff
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Clay County will soon have more options when it comes to shopping. Two chain discount stores are expected to open by summer and a convenience store with ties to the 1960s is reopening in a new two-story building.
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15 arrested in "Operation Ice Mtn."

News Staff
Thursday, February 17, 2022
A  nearly three months long undercover investigation conducted by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office culminated Feb. 15 in a slew of arrests and drug charges including trafficking in heroin and methamphetamine.
A youth mission team from Woodland United Methodist Church in Rock Hill, SC, completed a wheelchair ramp last summer as part of Hinton Rural Life Center’s 10 weeks of summer mission outreach, which works with volunteer teams to provide Safe & Healthy Home Repairs needed by residents in Clay, Cherokee, and Towns counties.

A youth mission team from Woodland United Methodist Church in Rock Hill, SC, completed a wheelchair ramp last summer as part of Hinton Rural Life Center’s 10 weeks of summer mission outreach, which works with volunteer teams to provide Safe & Healthy Home Repairs needed by residents in Clay, Cherokee, and Towns counties.

Hinton Celebrates Success with Their Quality of Life Study

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
        Channah VanRegenmorter In 2016 Hinton Rural Life Center embarked on an adventure, with no destination in mind. For two years leading up to that time, Hinton had been evaluating their decades-long home repair and home building programs in Clay County and the surrounding area.
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Three N.C. congressmen among 38 seeking cognitive test from Biden

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Thursday, February 10, 2022
Three N.C. congressmen have joined 35 Republican colleagues signing on to a letter asking President Biden to take a cognitive test. "We again write to you to express concern with your current cognitive state," reads the letter sent Tuesday to the 79-year-old Biden. Its author, Rep.
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Big names for concert at the Beal for a night out

News Staff
Thursday, February 10, 2022
In need of a date night? Girls’ night out? Just want out of the house? Join Clay County Communities Revitalization Association at the Historic Clay County Courthouse/Beal Center from 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Feb.12 for “Want You More Than a Melody” Songwriters concert.