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Month: June 2021

Highlands School celebrates graduating Class of 2021

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 8 Jun 20218 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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Students have a blast at Summit Field Day

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 8 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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Mountain Garden Club’s annual Plant Sale deemed ‘best sale ever’

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 8 Jun 20218 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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HCLT rescues plants on Rock Mountain

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 5 Jun 20215 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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High School golfers wrap up season mixed with highs and lows

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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BREC celebrates ‘Prom Not Prom’

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 4 Jun 20214 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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Undefeated Lady Highlanders take first loss in state tournament

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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People are getting revved up for Highlands Motoring Festival

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 4 Jun 20214 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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Honoring area veterans in Highlands on Memorial Day

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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Mountain Findings gives first ever 4-year scholarship to graduate

  • by Kim Lewicki
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • News

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 […]

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‘Initiative’ uses a visual clue to encourage Highlanders to get vaccinated

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • COVID-19

Vaccination figures are climbing but not fast or high enough. Macon County is the leading region in Western North Carolina’s 19 counties with a vaccination rate of 39.3%.  The Highlands Plateau which for vaccine purposes includes Sapphire, Lake Glenville, Cashiers, […]

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Join HCLT tomorrow for Bountiful Botany: Medicinal Plants of the Plateau

  • by Plateau Daily News
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • News

Here on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau and in the surrounding Southern Appalachians, people are lucky to be amongst an incredible diversity of plants. As spring has progressed with wildflowers popping up and a leafy canopy emerging […]

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Highlands Police Department has litter in its sights

  • by Kim Lewicki
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • News

Though the Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the town holds litter pick-ups a couple times a year, it’s clear twice a year isn’t enough. Highlands’ byways are consistently littered with garbage. At a recent […]

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Mama Bear attacks dog to protect cub

  • by Kim Lewicki
  • Posted on 4 Jun 2021
  • News

Around 10 a.m. on May 21, a dog was attacked by a mama bear when it got too close to her cub. A woman walking her dog on Big Bear Pen Road near the water […]

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