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 […]
The Highlands Pool complex at the Rec Park has experienced an exposure from ‘someone’ who has tested positive for COVID-19, said Town Manager Josh Ward on Monday. Staff has been in contact with the Macon […]
Rotary Club of Highlands Scholarship winner recounts her entry into the working world amidst COVID-19 Entry into the working world is always an adjustment, but 2016 Rotary Club of Highlands Scholarship winner Blakely Moore’s entry […]
There are a lot unknowns involved in the proposed Cashiers Hillside development project planned at the southeast corner of the intersection of Highways 64 and 107, better known as the Crossroads. Plans to build the […]
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 […]
Blue Ridge Early College hosted Highlands last week and won, 3-0. BREC Coach Carlton Fowler said the Lady Bobcats started off slow in the first game with some trouble hitting, but regrouped and pulled it […]
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 […]
Summit volleyball team hopped a bus to Highlands last week for the second of four scheduled scrimmages throughout this year’s modified season. Highlands took the win in two sets, 2-0. Highlands Coach Angela Swain getting […]
Here is yet another photo that illustrates trash disposal problems that a small number of residents continue to generate. Yes, I and the board might be viewed as garbage nazis by some with the passage […]
Santa delighted the small number of people who attended the annual Christmas Tree Lighting in Highlands on Nov. 28 at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. Presented by the Highlands Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center and recently […]
Highlands varsity volleyball team took on Franklin at home on Nov. 23 and ended up with a loss, 3-0. Highlands Coach Desiray Schmitt said the final score doesn’t reflect how hard the Lady Highlanders worked […]
Thanksgiving was a different holiday with changes and adjustments due to COVID-19. I have looked back at past pandemics and have noticed some parallels. Boccaccio wrote the Decameron in reaction to the Black Death that […]
Rotary Club of Highlands Mountaintop is helping to raise money for the Emergency Council and the Highlands Food Pantry through the Giving Tree project. The Giving Trees are in Bryson’s Grocery Store and Reeves Hardware. […]
By this time last year, the Macon County Academic Foundation would have approved thousands of dollars in grant money for in-class project materials and field trips. Grant funds are raised at the annual Academic Auction, […]