On a recent Friday, Summit Charter ninth graders experienced the Outdoor Leadership rotation of Summit’s LEAD program, including a fly fishing expedition led by The Fly Fishing Club of Western Carolina University and Summit teachers […]
Highlands School and Blue Ridge Early College varsity golf teams faced off at Wildcat Cliffs Country Club on April 11 with Highlands shooting 182 and BREC shooting 211. Highlands Head Coach Keven Gabbard said confidence […]
Click HERE and vote for Highlands! USA Today’s 10 Best Readers Choice 2019 contest is underway and the category is “Favorite small town for shopping and antiquing.” Highlands is listed as one of the 20 […]
Summit Charter School’s middle school chorus traveled to Simpsonville, S.C. on April 11 to participate in a statewide competition. They performed two songs, “The Water is Wide” by Ruth Elaine Schram and “The Drunken Sailor” by Emily […]
Two bills have been introduced into the North Carolina House of Representatives addressing the ongoing controversy of redistricting in the state. The House and Senate revise and approve General Assembly and congressional districts based on […]
At the first FY 2019-’20 budget meeting last week, commissioner and staff considered what capital outlay items could be financed this year based on projected revenues across enterprise funds and from property and sales taxes. […]
Saturday is the annual Highlands Plateau Cleanup. Volunteers will be picking up litter on the Gorge Road, NC 28, NC 106 and US 64 between Highlands and Cashiers. I also encourage folks to pick up […]
Highlands girls varsity soccer team took on Tri-County Early College and had the game called at halftime with the Lady Highlanders winning 9-0 last Thursday. Highlands Head Coach Jeff Weller said a game like last […]
The Mountain Garden Club held their monthly meeting last week at the Highlands Nature Center and was treated with a presentation about Plateau’s pollinators by Highlands Biological Foundation Project Coordinator Sonya Carpenter. For starters, Carpenter […]
Highlands Middle and High School cheer teams traveled to Asheville earlier this month and both squads brought home first place at the Spirit Solutions Spring Classic at the US Cellular Center. Middle School won the […]