Major Gift from Linda and Mark Quick Bolsters Scholarship Aid for the Class of 2022 to $214,000 The Summit Charter School Foundation, which raises vital funds to support Summit Charter School–a tuition-free K-12 public school is announced it has received $214,000 […]
Staff from The Literacy & Learning Center (TL&LC), formerly The Literacy Council, spent Monday afternoon visiting schools throughout Highlands dropping off gift bags and wrapped presents full of books for students. Books were age-appropriate, ranging […]
Blue Ridge Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) are still getting their groove on while adhering to COVID-19 restrictions by holding weekly socially-distanced strumming sessions at The Village Green. JAM is an educational and instructional nonprofit that […]
Time to go outside and explore! Join the Highlands Biological Foundation’s Education Specialist, Paige Engelbrektsson, every Friday morning in October as she leads you and your little ones in the Knee-High Naturalists Outdoor Educational Program […]
People are swarming back to the mountains, and that means more problems with bears. Well, more accurately, more problems with people who cause problems with bears. Bears have already destroyed at least one car and […]
Instructor and Creative Director at Yoga Highlands, Rachel Kinback (pictured above), visited The Literacy Council last week for a monthly after-school session of yoga. This includes stretching, breathing and stress management techniques; and of course, […]
“Now, something crazy just happened. Do y’all want to hear about it?” Those were words from Josh Crawford, the father of Summit Charter School student Chloe Crawford, on Aug. 30 at a special version of […]
Each summer, the Highlands Biological Foundation hosts free evening lectures at the Nature Center on Thursdays focused on the theme of natural history and conservation, a tradition that began in the 1930s. Today, these lectures […]