Mayor on Duty

On Thursday night, Feb. 15, the Highlands Town Board of Commissioners will meet at the Highlands Recreation Center. The proceedings can also be accessed by a YouTube link, which is located on the town website. […]

North Carolina Representative Karl Gillespie was joined by Senator Kevin Corbin and other leaders across Western North Carolina last Monday afternoon to host newly appointed DMV Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and members of his staff to […]

Before accepting the February Town Board agenda as written which was item #3 – Review and Approve the Agenda – Commissioner Marc Hehn asked to move item #15 – Request for Reimbursement for Attorney Fees […]

At the February Town Board meeting, the Board of Commissioners again considered two items regarding document requests Commissioner Marc Hehn has made of the town. His requests involved copies of the red-line version of the […]

This afternoon the public hearing concerning the Highlands Planning Board STR recommendations will begin at 5 p.m. at the Highlands Community Center. A signup list will be at the door for folks wishing to speak. […]

Monday night, the Planning Board put the finishing touches on its Unified Development Code amendments in regards to short-term rentals. The ball is now in the Town Board’s court and will be reviewed at a […]

They ask commissioners to rescind hasty decision to ban STRs in R1 Unlike most of the public comments made at the August Highlands Town Board meeting against short-term rentals in the R1 zone, at the […]

There are two sides to every story and Short-term Rentals are no exception. Here and across the country people are vehemently for or against them for a myriad of reasons. Though on the agenda as […]

At a special called Town Board meeting Monday, commissioners voted unanimously to require masks be worn by employees and visitors inside any town facility, effective immediately. Those facilities include: Town Hall, the Community Building, the […]

Residents in Highlands will be determining new leadership for the town this November as several candidates ended up filing for the upcoming municipal election just before Friday’s deadline. During odd-numbered years (so as to alternate […]

by Kim Lewicki
Posted on 1 Jul 2021
News

Very little has changed since the FY ’21-’22 budget was finalized in early May and again in late May when commissioners voted to hold the required public hearing prior to passage at the June Town […]

At the January Town Board meeting, Commissioner Marc Hehn, after alluding to a verbal run-in with another commissioner, asked for information about the town’s Code of Ethics, indeed if the town had such a code. […]

Highlands Board of Commissioners unanimously approved an amendment to the Town’s Emergency Ordinance that mandates everyone wear face coverings on commercial sidewalks and inside businesses at yesterday’s monthly board meeting. The amendment went into effect […]

Jackson County Commissioners lifted some restrictions by rescinding two previous declarations in accordance with Governor Roy Cooper’s phased plan to reopen the state. Commissioners lifted the restrictions with a Superseding Supplemental Declaration on May 7. […]