Though the annual Awards Banquet has been postponed due to COVID restrictions, the annual Fireman of the Year was still selected by Highlands Fire & Rescue volunteers. This year the department selected Roger Lee Wilson, […]
It’s taken a few years to orchestrate but work will begin on the new Fire & Rescue Dept. to be located on the old deVille property on US 64 west in the next couple of […]
Information allegedly obtained during the Closed Session of the December Town Board meeting, which was later released and misrepresented to an “outside” interested party, was the subject of the January Town Board Closed Session meeting. […]
What a year for Abby Braswell, MC Tax Administrator to be handed the reins after decades-long Tax Administrator Richard Lightner retired. As all the Realtors® in Highlands have attested, 2020 has been a year like […]
If you want a ‘say’ in the future of Highlands, fill it out Since the state requires municipalities with zoning to have a Comprehensive Plan and to update their Unified Development Ordinance by July 1, […]
The US Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine last Friday to battle the spread of COVID-19, and it’s widely expected to grant EUA to Moderna’s similar vaccine next […]
With COVID on the rise, Highlands’ rental business is booming and the real estate market is changing. Vacationers, short-term renters, and new homeowners have decided to escape quarantine in their home states and make Highlands […]
Every day the Macon County School System sends out an alert about COVID-19 cases in its schools. Just yesterday, Highlands School reported 2 cases, Franklin High School reported 2 cases, Macon Middle School reported 1 […]
Work to begin March 2021 A couple years ago talk about paving Main Street began. The project, which entails milling about two inches of old asphalt, clearing it away, repaving and marking the road was […]
The property on Cherrywood Lane across from the Highlands Fire & Rescue Substation on the Cashiers Road will soon house a Dollar General Store. Pictured below is the construction of a Dollar General Store in […]
The big news out of last week’s November Town Board meeting was two things: the decision to go with Hotwire as the closed system provider on the town’s broadband highway known as Highlands Smart Cities […]
The folks at the Highlands Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center have been working with town staff to come up with a way to orchestrate holiday festivities during the COVID pandemic. Though events planned for […]
The second public input meeting about the formation of the state-mandated Comprehensive Plan was held virtually the evening of Thursday, Nov. 5. The first public input meeting was an in-person meeting at the Community Building […]
At a special called meeting Tuesday night, Highlands Town Board began the process of going over three bids submitted by three companies for the completion and operation of its Smart Cities Project (broadband highway). The […]