There is a new feature at Highlands School where visitors must be buzzed into the building via a video intercom system. There are two other doors with code card doors, cameras throughout the school and […]
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Summit Charter School’s middle school student council instituted a “Pink Out” day on Friday, October 26. Students and faculty dressed in pink, each class created a poster and the student council […]
Oct. 30 Spooky Botanical Gardens: Celebrate Halloween the natural way. From 6-7:30 p.m. at the Highlands Biological Station, 265 N 6th St., there will be guided tours of the Botanical Gardens will lead you trick-or-treating around […]
Spending $40,000 on aesthetics versus fixing a problem should be an easy decision to make. Aesthetics will not improve anything except maybe what is appealing to someone’s eyes. To my eyes Main Street looks just […]
Let me share some thoughts before the Community Coffee with the Mayor on Friday at the Hudson Library at 11 a.m. The program is on bear control. My candid views are about what the town […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present the National Theatre of London’s production of Julie, Live via Satellite, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 3. An adaptation of August Strindberg’s classic play Miss Julie which was written […]
Chattooga Conservancy calls for concerned citizens to attend a meeting to object to cutting old growth forests in the headwaters of the Chattooga Wild & Scenic River in N.C., near the Ellicott Rock Wilderness Area. […]
Stephanie Shuptrine, owner of The Shuptrine Gallery in Highlands, visited Haiti in September and spent some time at Brit’s Home, a home for 66 less fortunate children in Haiti. During the month she spent in […]
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School crowned its Homecoming royalty on Saturday, October 22 during the Eagles game against Metrolina Christian. Wade Blackburn ‘19 of Cashiers, North Carolina, was named Homecoming King and Gracen Wiggins ‘19 of Franklin, […]
Everyone has seen the devastation from Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle. What is not as widely covered is the devastation through southern Georgia. Highlands has a seasonal resident in Bainbridge, Ga. where the loss […]
Watch the Bear Shadow take shape in the clip above. Visitors clambered up to the guardrails at the Rhodes Big View between Highlands and Cashiers on Hwy 64 to catch a glimpse of the Bear […]
Blue Ridge Early College varsity soccer team took down Hayesville 2-1 at home on Monday earning the Bobcats the title of conference champions. This is the first senior class at Blue Ridge to have won […]
Things got a bit unorthodox in terms of procedure at the recent Board of Commissioners meeting on Oct. 18. It began when improving the aesthetics on Main Street was under discussion. Commissioner Eric Pierson said […]
This Week Oct. 26 Summit Charter School Open House: Summit Charter School is now enrolling K-10 for the 2019-2020 school year! Come walk the beautiful public school campus, tour the classrooms, meet the faculty and learn […]
The Breedlove Collective performed at the Ugly Dog in Highlands, 294 S. 4th Street, on Friday. Lead singer and guitarist Jon Breedlove describes their music as a mixture of folk, blues, funk, classic rock and […]