Students have a blast at Summit Field Day

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

by Kim Lewicki
Posted on 4 Jun 2021
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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 […]

by Kim Lewicki
Posted on 4 Jun 2021
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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 […]

The summer season is off to a great start. Concerts, car shows, movies, shrimp boils, art shows, farmers markets are all back in full operation, not to mention the wonderful restaurants and shops that are […]

by Kim Lewicki
Posted on 4 Jun 2021
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Thanks once again to Art and Angela Williams, owners of the Old Edwards Hospitality Group, Highlands has another feather in its “Recreation Facilities” hat. The pool house has been completely renovated and is open for […]