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The Pro Watercross races begin with a gated start, pitting competitors against each other to race to the first turn. FILE PHOTO

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Watercross returns to Tugaloo State Park

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

They’ll be flying over the water and the water will be flying. The Pro Watercross Tour will return to Tugaloo State Park near Lavonia July 27-28. The Pro Watercross Tour stages personal watercraft lap races all over the country – from Florida to Texas to Wisconsin to Georgia – each summer.

Boats gather on Lake Rabun for boat church, a service of Clayton First United Methodist Church. PHOTO/MEGAN BROOME

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Boat Church

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

When taking the boat out on the lake, people typically spend their time relaxing, grilling or swimming in the water. At Clayton First United Methodist Church, people drive their boats to boat church. Christ’s ministry in the mountains found its way to Lake Rabun in the early 1970s by the Rev.

Shown in this undated photo is a group of men at the Hartwell Dam construction site. Construction of the dam began in 1955, after being authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1950.

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The dam that changed Hartwell forever

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Fog used to settle in the bottomland in the 1940s and hang over the Savannah River as it meandered its way from Hart County to the Atlantic Ocean, blanketing the rolling foothills of Northeast Georgia and the farms that dotted the landscape.