Highlands junior varsity girls basketball team hosted Cherokee on Wednesday and while maintaining an undefeated record throughout the season, took their first loss in their last game with a final 32-30 after Cherokee drained a […]
Blue Ridge Early College boys varsity basketball team hosted Hiwassee Dam last Tuesday and lost a tough game with a final of 56-42. “I thought they played really good and played really hard, we had […]
Blue Ridge Early College girls varsity basketball team took on Hiwassee Dam at home on Tuesday and it came down to the wire, but the Lady Bobcats pulled off the win ending with a final […]
Just off Highway 107 lies an epic oasis with an incredible waterfall and swimming hole approx. 4 miles south of Cashiers. The quarter-mile hike to Silver Run Falls is level, easy-breazy, and is all-age friendly. […]
Highlands High and Middle School cheerleaders have been training hard for months to prepare for several competitions, the most recent comp in Greenville, S.C. scheduled for Feb. 8 wasn’t meant to be due to snowy […]
Last week I had the honor of meeting with students from Anne Porter’s Hospitality and Tourism high school class. After giving the students a town hall tour, we discussed the tourist industry here on the […]
Blue Ridge Early College girls varsity basketball team hit the road on Wednesday and beat Swain in an epic battle down to the wire with a final 87-82. BREC Coach Tim Mayse said the girls […]
Blue Ridge Early College boys varsity basketball team hopped on Wednesday a bus to take on Swain, but winning wasn’t in the cards with a final of 85-46. BREC Coach Cristian Mireles said the Bobcats […]
This winter, fewer of our Cashiers neighbors will face the cold unprepared. And it’s thanks entirely to the generosity of the greater Cashiers community. Pictured at the top of the article: Cashiers Rotary drops off […]
Highlands boys varsity basketball team played away against Nantahala on Tuesday but didn’t pull off the win with a final of 67-64. “We had some great moments on the defensive and offensive ends, but a few […]
The Lady Highlanders varsity basketball team hit the road on Tuesday to take on Nantahala and won 73-36, clinching the regular season conference championship. The win over Nantahala put Highlands at a 5-0 conference record […]
The snow came on hard Friday morning and based on the flood of incoming information, Blue Ridge School and Early College staff made the decision to call it a snow day. Three buses tasked with […]
Every year the Highlands Fire & Rescue Department enjoys a little down time to recognize its own for the year-long work it does and to announce the Firefighter of the Year. The Firefighter of the […]
Monday, Jan. 27 was the first Planning Board meeting for the three new appointees. Present were, Assistant Planning Director Michael Mathis and Dennis DeWolf, Rich Trevathan, Brad Armstrong and new appointees, Helene Siegel and Darren […]