Highlands School 2021 commencement exercises were held outside on the track again this year, but without masks or social distancing, on Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m. Highlands Assistant Principal Sarah Holbrooks said it’s important […]
Summit School students were all smiles for Field Day, or as organizer and teacher Kaylee Neary likes to call it “the Biggest PE Party” held on the soccer field May 28. K-8th-graders played games on […]
The Mountain Garden Club recently held their annual Plant Sale at the ballfield in Highlands over Memorial Day weekend and Club President Ellie Houston said this year had the highest attendance and was the “best […]
This may sound like the beginning of an awesome children’s story, but it’s something the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust does on a regular basis, collaborate with developers to achieve conservation goals. The Divided-leaf ragwort, or Packera […]
It was a season of good days and bad days for many high school golfers on the Plateau this year. The quest to qualify for regionals was on many athletes’ minds with each bogie, sand […]
Blue Ridge Early College held a ‘Prom Not Prom’ at the School on May 23 to give junior and senior students an afternoon of fun before the end of the schoolyear. Prom Not Prom entailed […]
The Lady Highlanders varsity soccer team went undefeated throughout the regular season and clinched the Smoky Mountain Conference 1-A championship and a spot in the state tourney. Highlands Athletic Director Brett Lamb said no Highlands […]
Amazing collector cars are coming to Highlands this summer and there is no admission fee for spectators. The first opportunity is “FreeWheeling-the Allure of the Automobile in Contemporary Art” at The Bascom Center of Visual […]
Ed McCloskey, Commander, American Legion Post 370 spoke to those gathered at a Memorial Day ceremony in Veterans Plaza at the Highlands Police Department. “Ladies and gentlemen and veteran comrades, this day is sacred with […]
Every year the board of the Mountain Findings Thrift Store disburses its proceeds to area nonprofits including the Town of Highlands Scholarship Fund whose total is disbursed among annual graduates. However, this year, in addition […]