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According to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network, COVID-19 outbreaks in Georgia long-term care facilities like Quiet Oaks have been rising since July.

According to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network, COVID-19 outbreaks in Georgia long-term care facilities like Quiet Oaks have been rising since July.

COVID cases rise at Quiet Oaks after months without outbreak

Hannah Freeman
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Quiet Oaks Health Care Center’s decision to cancel its Halloween carnival due to a COVID-19 outbreak disheartened residents and community members, but the concern now is how the facility manages the virus in a post-pandemic world.
Children learned about dental hygiene at the Oglethorpe County Library Family Health Resource Fair on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025. Using a toothbrush and a dry-erase marker, participants cleaned drawings of teeth as a visual lesson in proper care. (Photo/Maura Rutledge)

Children learned about dental hygiene at the Oglethorpe County Library Family Health Resource Fair on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025. Using a toothbrush and a dry-erase marker, participants cleaned drawings of teeth as a visual lesson in proper care. (Photo/Maura Rutledge)

Glenn, library help connect residents with resources

Maura Rutledge
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Kendarious Glenn saw the need for health care aid in his hometown and decided to return to Oglethorpe County after furthering his education.
Peyton Lewis attended the HOSA International Leadership Conference in Nashville last month, placing tenth overall in the respiratory therapy category. To be invited to the international competition, she placed first among roughly 30 competitors in Georgia at the state competition in March. (Submitted Photo)

Peyton Lewis attended the HOSA International Leadership Conference in Nashville last month, placing tenth overall in the respiratory therapy category. To be invited to the international competition, she placed first among roughly 30 competitors in Georgia at the state competition in March. (Submitted Photo)

Lewis finishes 10th at HOSA conference

Anna Izquierdo
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Peyton Lewis had a change of heart after initially steering clear of respiratory therapy and trying a “bunch of different things” relating to health care, like CPR and first aid training.
Katie Edwards, a counselor at Oglethorpe County Elementary School, helps third-grader Londyn Wilson with a work- sheet during a guidance lesson last month. The lessons are regularly held to guide students' empathy, emotion regulation, perseverance and more. (Navya Shukla/For The Oglethorpe Echo)

Katie Edwards, a counselor at Oglethorpe County Elementary School, helps third-grader Londyn Wilson with a work- sheet during a guidance lesson last month. The lessons are regularly held to guide students' empathy, emotion regulation, perseverance and more. (Navya Shukla/For The Oglethorpe Echo)

High need, low accessibility: Oglethorpe County residents face barriers to mental health care, even as teens and schools are willing to have the conversation

Navya Shukla and Sydney Rainwater
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Sonja Thompson Roach remembers the moment last year when a photographer took photos and interviewed her son and his friends for a Time magazine story on mental health and teens.