Clay County Progress

25/12/2025

23/12/2025

Merry Christmas from all of us at the Clay County Progress!

23/12/2025

Check out our 12-page Greeting Card section and Letters to Santa in the Dec. 25, 2025 issue. Out on streets Tuesday and in the mail on Wednesday! You'll enjoy it.

23/12/2025

State Board Randomly Determines Ballot Order for 2026 Elections


Raleigh, N.C. — With a drawing and a coin flip, the State Board of Elections on Friday, Dec. 19, randomly determined the order of candidates on the ballot for the 2026 primary and general elections in North Carolina.
The 2026 candidate filing period ended at noon Friday. Lists of candidates may be found on the State Board website: Candidate Lists.
Pursuant to Arrangement of official ballots (N.C.G.S. § 163-165.6(c)), the State Board is required to randomly determine the order by last name of candidates on the ballot. The order was determined by a two-step process. First, a ball was selected out of a bingo machine, with the letter on the ball corresponding with the first letter of the last name of the candidate to be listed first on the ballot. Second, a coin was flipped, with the side facing up corresponding to whether the candidates will be listed in alphabetical order (“heads”) or reverse alphabetical order (“tails”).
The letter on the ball selected from the bingo machine was the letter “F,” meaning candidates whose last names begin with the letter “F” will appear first in contests in the primary and general elections. The subsequent coin flip showed “tails” facing up, meaning that additional candidates will follow in alphabetical order as follows: F, E, D, C, B, A, Z, Y, X, W, V, U, T, S, R, Q, P, O, N, M, L, K, J, I, H, G
This ballot order drawing applies to all 2026 primary and general election contests except for municipal contests. Candidates for municipal office are listed in strict alphabetical order beginning with A, according to state law.
The ballot order selection process was streamed live on Webex.
The 2026 primary election is March 3. The general election is Nov. 3.


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19/12/2025

Clay County Schools will be closed for students beginning Monday, December 22nd, through Tuesday, January 6th.
Staff are scheduled to return on Friday, January 2nd.

We hope this time provides our students, families, and staff with an opportunity to rest, recharge, and enjoy time together. We wish everyone a relaxing and joyful vacation and look forward to welcoming everyone back as we begin our 2nd semester!

Enjoy the break, and we’ll see you soon!

19/12/2025

Candidates who have filed for office in Clay County after the close of filing at noon on Friday, Dec. 19.

18/12/2025

Candidates who have filed for office in Clay County as of the morning of 12.18.25, according to the Clay County Board of Elections. Follow the final update in the Clay County Progress.

17/12/2025

SCENES FROM HAYESVILLE CHRISTMAS PARADE 2025

14/12/2025

Congratulations to the winners tonight! Thank you to our judges Mayor Benita England, Lieutenant Tyler Faggard, Deputy Sean Stout and Sergeant Ethan Henderson with the Clay County Sheriffs office. This year we had a special treat with Sunny Sips and Balloons by Nicole making the balloon background for Santa… it all looked so good!Servicemaster pulled Santa this year and went above and beyond on his sleigh.Thank you to everyone who participated and came to watch…this was truly a magical parade and we hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. Merry Christmas!

13/12/2025

We are getting ready! Sunny sip is all set up and so is where SANTA will be sitting make sure to show up for SANTA‘s meet and greet from 4 o’clock to 5 o’clock

13/12/2025

Can’t wait to see everyone tonight!!

We hope everyone has a wonderful and safe time at tonight’s parade!