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TCCC Names Academic Excellence Award Winners
      Tri-County Community College has named Tonia Dobbs and David Lovingood as its 2008 Academic Excellence Award winners. Dobbs is a Healthcare Management major and Lovingood is an Information Systems major. Each year, the state recognizes two students from each community college with an Academic Exc...
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Local Student Tiffani Lyvers receives National Honor
      The National Honor Society of High School Scholars announced that Hayesville High School student Tiffani Lyvers from Warne, NC has been selected for membership. The Society recognizes top scholars and invites only those students who have achieved superior academic excellence.
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Dr. Andrews Speaks to MOAA
      Dr. Ellen Andrews spoke to the Blue Ridge Mountains Chapter of the MIlitary Officers Association of America at the monthly meeting on Monday March 10th at Crossroads Restaurant. Dr.
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Crime Stoppers with Sheriff Joe Shook
      During the past several weeks I have stressed the importance of what information you put out on the Internet. A trend that is making a strong headway is posting pictures and video on the web. With the wonderful invention of digital cameras we can take pictures and develop them ourselves.
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Cookie of the week
Surprise Cookies
      Ingredients Makes about 2 dozen • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour • 3/4 cup cocoa powder • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter,
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Green Mountain Recycling
      It ain't easy being GREEN these days!!! Relax, we are here to help. You are helping too, by helping us. Green Mountain is now offering FREE curbside pick up for Towns, Union, Clay and Cherokee Counties. We take all: plastics, papers, cardboards, glass, aluminum, tin cans, cell phones, batteries, ...
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Outdoor Extravaganza
      Outdoor Extravaganza April 12th from 1:00p - 8:30p at Snowbird Camp in Andrews. Activities for the whole family. 3D archery contest, Skeet shooting contest, Horseshoes contest. Basic gun safety for first time shooters. Youth and children bow and pellet gun shooting. Climbing tower and 3 man swing.
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      The "Extension Master Gardeners Search for Excellence" was recently awarded to the Clay County Master Gardener Volunteer Association. This award was presented in recognition of the Hayesville Elementary School Butterfly Garden, which was officially completed May 2006.
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2nd Annual Relay for Life Poker Run
      Brasstown Valley Resort's Relay for Life team will be hosting the 2nd Annual Relay for Life Poker Run on Sunday, April 13th. Registration will begin at 1 p.m. in the Brasstown Valley Stables parking lot, located just off the main resort entrance. Riders will leave at 1:45 p.m.
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"Nuisance Wildlife Seminar"
      Are the bears getting into your garbage? Deer eating your Hostas? Bunnies terrorizing your garden? Most people enjoy watching wildlife. We put out nest boxes for butterflies, birds and bats and we feed the deer, squirrels, and birds. However, when animals dig in our gardens, ruin our plants, or ma...
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Moss Memorial Library's April Speaker
Growth and Success of the Valley River Humane Society
      On Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 2 p.m. Debbie Graham, one of Tri-County's most loyal domestic pet advocates, will discuss the Valley River Humane Society. She will describe the tremendous strides the Society Volunteers have made in the past few years. What is " The Big Fix"?
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Ruegge claims first Pacesetter Invitational title
      Young Harris, Ga. On Saturday, March 22, Bill Ruegge of Blairsville, Georgia battled high winds and some tough competition to claim the first Pacesetters Invitational Championship in a sudden death playoff against well known Murphy, NC golfer Tim (Rat) Hughes.
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Hayesville First Graders Learn About Birds
      The members of the Education Committee from the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center went into the classrooms of Hayesville Elementary School last week. They were there to teach lessons on the subjects of hummingbirds, bird identification and how to make a bird feeder.
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Journal of a living lady
SPRING
By Nancy White Kelly #318
      Spring is springing, but don't be fooled. Blackberry winter is a reality in these parts. Buddy and I moved from South L.A. in 1994. (That is lower Atlanta for those of you who moved here from somewhere yonder.) New to the mountains, we quickly learned not to put our cold-weather clothes away too s...
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Cooking with Barbara
By Barbara Walker-Huff
      This recipe is from the kitchen Of Charlotte and Robert Harper, the previous owners of Hawg Heaven B.B,Q in Hiawassee. Charlotte and Robert lived in Naples. Italy in the late eighties and early nineties where Robert was in the Army and assigned to NATO South. Charlotte worked for the UNiversity of...
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Student-produced Cosmic Concert premieres at Rollins Planetarium
      Beginning on March 28th, the new Friday night public show at the Rollins Planetarium will be Cosmic Concert 59. Experience the thrill of spinning stars, computer animations, laser graphics and more, all synchronized to the latest music with a few old favorites in the mix.
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Barefoot Creek in Concert at the Folk School, March 28
      Country harmony duo Barefoot Creek will be featured in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28 in the Keith house Community Room of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. Admission is free. With an early Grand Ole Opry sound, Barefoot Creek is the closest you can get to sister harmony with...
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