Mayor on Duty

The beginning of March is when town staff and commissioners begin to look at budget priorities for the coming fiscal year. I am already in general discussions with key staff members. Here is the problem, […]

Highlands-Cashiers Hospital has been recognized by Business North Carolina in its 2019 list of Top Patient Picks. This recognition is determined using patient-satisfaction data from the standardized, nationally administered Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers […]

Highlands girls varsity soccer team hit the road to a cold and windy Smoky Mountain for their season opener. However, it wasn’t meant to be for the Lady Highlanders losing 0-4, but Head Coach Jeff […]

Without enough girls to form a Blue Ridge Middle School softball team this year, and after a suggestion from a student, High School Math Teacher Eli Reece looked into the rules and soon three 8th-grade […]

March 4 March 8 Taco Dinner: On Friday, March 8, the Rotary Club of Highlands Mountaintop will hold the Taco Dinner from 5-8 p.m. at the Highlands Recreation Park to raise funds for Polio eradication […]

Blue Ridge Early College students and teachers laced up their sneakers for a knock-down drag out tournament on the volleyball court in an effort to raise money for prom on Friday. “I think it’s great […]

After hours of toiling away at kitchen tables, turning living rooms into sterile laboratories, and compiling vast amounts of painstakingly-collected data, Highlands students were ready to present their findings at STEM Family Night at Highlands […]

Students at Highlands School spent the week reading about whozits and whatzits and places they can go during the National Education Association’s Read Across America Week. The week-long celebration of Seuss’s works, and reading in […]

Landon and Ashley Clark are no strangers to slinging sweets as they own a Kilwins franchise in Greenville, S.C., but they’ve headed up the mountain and expanded to Kilwins Highlands after purchasing the long-time fixture […]

The inaugural Leadership Cashiers class recently launched its seven-month program with an opening retreat at Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club. The Cashiers Area Chamber’s new community engagement initiative is based on a development model used […]

Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust announced they have earned national re-accreditation through the prestigious Land Trust Accreditation Commission program. “It’s a lot of work but it’s worth the effort because it’s outside validation that we’re operating efficiently, […]

At Highlands-Cashiers Hospital (HCH), we are engaged in a constant quest for quality. In fact, our clinical care team plays a critical role in guiding us to solutions for overall improvement in the patient care […]

Highlands boys varsity basketball team came out on Thursday at home and gave Pine Lake Preparatory a run for their money in the second round of the N.C. High School state playoffs, but it wasn’t […]