remembers participating in the High Rock Lake Clean Sweep — a day where lake residents and stakeholders combine forces to pick up litter and trash that has polluted the lake’s waters.

The annual High Rock Lake CleanSweep is set for ... Shane Graham and Barry Childers both grew up on the lake wanted to revive the clean sweep community effort that was held annually.

The project went on for years but suddenly stopped and no one really knows why. A group is restarting the efforts for a community clean-up, this time called High Rock Lake Clean Sweep.

Two-hundred years later, the two counties’ residents and businesses come together annually to clean High Rock Lake, which binds the two with more than 300 miles of shoreline. Jill Doss-Raines is The ...