Above are Clear Creek Middle School’s top performing MathCon participants with teachers Darcie Pritchett and Allison Speece.

Volunteers team up to make a rock-lined pathway through a new wildflower meadow at Harrison Park. The flowers should be in bloom this summer.

Keep Gilmer Beautiful Recycling Event

Gilmer Fire Battalion Chief Jason Bryant, right, observes the progress of recruits in training as they work toward donning their protective gear in two minutes or less.

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The Gilmer County Beekeepers, members of which are seen above tending to hives at their apiary, are among the environmentally-conscious groups scheduled to participate in the first Earth Day Fair presented by Coosawattee River Resort.

Rev. Monica Ledford

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Keith and Ella Schwartz

U.S. Forest Service Pictured are recent prescribed burns in the U.S. Forest Service’s Chattahoochee-Oconee district near Blue Ridge, above, and Helen, below.