Highlands School held an outdoor graduation ceremony on Saturday celebrating the Class of 2020 after a chaotic year cut short due to COVID-19. Graduates and their families were spread out on the end of the […]
Governor Roy Cooper announced yesterday that North Carolina will remain paused in Safer At Home Phase 2 for another 5 weeks as students and staff return to schools, colleges and universities and the state doubles […]
I attended the Transportation Advisory Committee of the Southwestern Commission last Thursday by way of ZOOM. As always, NCDOT Division 14 staff were present, along with county and municipal elected officials. In a previous article […]
Ladies from the Mountain Garden Club developed and maintain a garden behind the Eckerd Living Center on the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital campus much to the delight of ELC residents. MGC Members were able to visit the […]
Students and staff at Cashiers Valley Preschool cheered at a drive-by parade earlier this month in honor of all the “Community Helpers,” including the people and organizations that make this area such a wonderful community […]
Macon County Board of Education approved Plan B for the 2020-21 School Year that entails a mixture of remote and in-person learning. See schedules below. Highlands School: First week: 8/17-21: Mon, 8/17: Elementary only on […]
The Friends of the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library invites area poetry lovers to come together virtually for the popular biennial event, Poetry Night at 7 p.m. on Thursday August 13. The event will be held […]
We are bombarded daily with COVID statistics globally, nationally, statewide and locally. Yet people in Highlands ask, “Does anyone actually know someone with COVID?” The answer of course is yes, as more and more people […]
Every year, before the new school year starts up, school personnel in the Macon County School system name a co-worker Teacher of the Year. This year, Highlands School picked Dave Cashion who is the Vocational and […]
Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Franklin on Saturday for the first annual Back the Blue event. The event, which was organized to show law enforcement and their families support, saw around 1,000 people from […]